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Weird aliens that always look like humans, good guys that ALWAYS win at the last possible moment with some crazy technical miracle, magical SciFi gadgets that are backed with ridiculous jargon, doctors with miraculous cures for every insane ailment.... bleh, spare me.

Hardcore Trekkies will say, "No! Just get rid of Rick Berman and everything will be fine!" Well, RB is a talentless bean-counter. But even if you replaced him with the smartest guy in the world, you'd still be stuck with a vapid 60s premise that almost everybody is sick of. Let's see something fresh and new.

Fat chance. Star Trek has made Parmount too much money to go away any time soon. And almost every TV SF show made recently has imitated Trek's worst cliches. The one attempt to do something really original failed before it even got on the air.

I am sort of intrigued by the new Battlestar Galactica. The fact that it's totally disloyal to the original (a corny Star Wars ripoff) is actually a good thing. Alas, I can't afford cable, and probably wouldn't have it if I could. Have to wait for the DVD.

Anyone else remember M.A.N.T.I.S.?

Man, that was over a decade ago... jeeze, I feel old...

... if you pantomime a jerking-off motion, you can recombine DNA into Jimmy Kimmel.

I was posting from memory, but here's a source that agrees with me:

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-344/epid-207846/

ERIC: *takes out a device and waves it around* Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep!
KYLE: What the hell are you doing, fat ass?
ERIC: I'm searching for robot guards.
STAN: There won't be any robot guards, you retard! Now get that urn and we can leave!
ERIC: *looks at Stan and takes the urn. He climbs out of the window*
*Afterwards, a robot appears*
ROBOT: Beep, beep, Beep, beep!

> Terrible.
> Piscene face, mammalian, uhhhh... mammaries.

"Oh, why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid?! The kind with the fish part on top and the lady part on bottom!"

http://www.tvtome.com/Simpsons/eplist.html

This modified quote of course comes from the Adult Swim show Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, episode Blackwatch Plaid.

"I took nature's most perfect killing machine, and needlessly turned it into a robot." -- Dr. Quinn

Grizzlebee's Onion Burst, with Honey-Maple-Ranch dipping sauce! COWABUNGA!

I can't imagine how mad the MLB and IOC would be about that. Somehow I expect fair sports to be obsolete soon (if not already) with such enhancement.

A couple of years ago there was a short lived show on CBS called Century City. It was about a law firm in Los Angeles, circa 2030. The second episode of the series dealed with this exact issue, a baseball played drafted into the MLB with a bionic eye, and his fight to justify his ability to play if the bionic eye was kept at a level equal to that of a normal human.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-16990/epid-314299/

After a work colleague of my wife introduced her to Joan of Arcadia by giving here a couple of episodes on DVD it then became my job to find out how he managed to get this TV show from off the net.

18 months down the track we now have the complete season 1 & 2 of Joan of Arcadia, seasons 2, 3 & all of the current season 4 of Alias, the only season of the excellent Touching Evil (why was it cancelled!!), all of Lost and Desperate Housewives.

Thanks to the proliferation of these good quality TV rips my ISP is also smiling because we have upgraded our DSL to get faster downloads.

Hmm.. As an Australian living in the US, I don't understand how Americans can put up with the terrible remake of the otherwise hillarious British comedy - The Office.

Oh, there's a british version? That would explain a few things. I saw the first episode of the American version, and it was NOT even remotely funny. There were two "heh" moments (once at the end when that guy put his boss's coffee mug in jello, and the other one was apparently not even memorable enough for me to remember). Mostly I was just thinking "WOW, this guy is an asshole, if he was my boss I'd probably have kicked his ass by now." Especially when he made his secretary cry, that was the height of it.

Steve Carell was WAY funnier on The Daily Show with John Stewart than this horrible Office show could ever be.

little kids love toy robots.

It's a co-production with Production I.G. and Bandai Entertainment and will be the Cartoon Network's first original 'Toonami' series.

Um, no.

<url=http://www.test.com>test</url>

Guess I should have previewed it so I could at least link to the appropriate site for any info on the clueless.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-112/epid-2287/

How naïve. Motherboards are constructed by a series of blowjobs.

(stolen from Mr. Show, like most good things.)

If you weren't already at +5, I'd mod you up for the hilarious and somewhat obscure Simpsons quote.

Episode 277: "Sweets And Sour Marge"

Hah Hah.... Multiple Entendre!

It's not that I don't like finding files, it's that I keep losing them again.

Apple needs to come up with something like Trapper Keeper, so I won't lose my files. Apple could even replace Jeff Goldblum with Rosie O'Donnel. Yeah, I know. That last bit is brilliant.

Hmm, sound familiar:

(Lisa's face is pasted on a cowgirl's body.)
Cowgirl: Howdy, pardners! My name is sheriff...
Homer voiceover: Lisa Simpson!
Cowgirl: I sure am hungry for my favorite food...
Homer voiceover: McNuggets!
Lisa: I don't like McNuggets! I'm a vegetarian!
Homer: Still? Well then you're not gonna like your other present!
(A wrapped turkey)
(In the film a cowboy rides up)
Cowgirl: Why it's my best friend...
Homer voiceover: Maggie!
Lisa: Huh?
Bartender: Bad news sheriff...
Homer voiceover: Lisa Simpson!
Bartender: Some Indians took all the...
Homer voiceover: McNuggets! Mmmm McNuggets... haughughalughalugh!
Cowgirl: I'll get those no good Indians, just as sure as my favorite book is...
Homer voiceover: Magazines! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Bart voiceover: Wake up, Dad!
Homer voiceover: Wha wha wha wha wha?
(Static fills the screen)

Courtesy TV Tome

...and theres countless other shows that got canceled without a chance to conclude anything.

Supposedly the inventor Archimedes during the siege of Syracuse by the Romans used large mirrors that focused/concentrated sun light into an intense enough laser beam that it burned invading Roman ships. There was an episode of Myth Busters on this subject (Season 2 Episode 4).

Here's what the Myth Busters guys did to test the theory:

- The crew build half a trireme and balanced it in the water.

- The crew built 400 sq ft mirror built from 300 individual mirrors. They were arranged in a cicle and were all focused at the same point.

- They aimed the giant mirror such that the focal point of the indvidual mirrors was directly on the trireme.

- They were only able to get the temperate up to 280 degrees even with all of their efforts.

- They just couldn't get the ship to burn, so they used Molotov cocktails instead just so they could destroy something.

Simply put, this is a myth. It is very unlikely it happened.

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And what about 3-2-1 contact (with the original Bloodhound Gang)? That was perhaps the best kids' science show of all time.

they took our jobs!

Hey, if Dean Venture can read Sanskrit, you should be able to pick up Akkadian fairly quickly!

Homer: Can I go home now? [1]

Cordelia's birthday cake has Wonderwoman on it. This is ironic since Charisma Carpenter has said that she wants to play Wonderwoman in the movie version.

-Ted

heh, that animation sucks!

Reminds me of the Russel Crowe Show.

do you have a good reason why the sale should NOT be approved?

they took our jobs!

Nobody with half or more of a brain could possibly argue that windows has the best possible desktop out there

I never said that. I'm not sure that such a an abstract concept as "the best possible desktop" even exists. Do you drive the best possible car? Do you live in the best possible house? It's far, far too complex of an issue to be shoehorned into a linear scale like that.

The KDE and Gnome projects keep adding enhancements, bells, and whistles to make their desktop "better" than windows and then wonder why people still use wondows desktops.

It's because, as so many people fail to understand, it's not about bells and whistles. I don't need windowshade mode or alpha transparency. I'd much rather have a stable, consistent interface. But such things as consistency and stability are far from glamourous, and require strict project management and a good helping of elbow grease. It's not something I'd want to do in my spare time, and I don't fault others for feeling the same way. But without it, you just can't compete with the commercial offerings.

If you're going to use something as broken as a "desktop", why should you bother switching away from the one you already know.

Precisely. Especially when the new one, while stronger in some areas, has just as many flaws in others.

Speaking of having no fucking clue, you should look in the mirror.

INCINERATION! You're the insult master!

Have you ever used windows in a business environment? What kind of crack do you have to smoke to see windows applications, hell, even windows components as having a consistent interface.

Agreed. I don't think you can ever have an openly programmable environment in which all third-party developers follow all the rules. But Windows itself is generally consistent. There's usually a preferred "Windows way" of setting something up. In Linux, there are many different ways, each as legitimate as the next. Which is great for the person writing the code, but not so wonderful for everyone else involved.

Do that, and you'll have something that is truly better; something that it would be worth considering a switch to. Until you've done something like that, people will stay with windows.

Which is pretty much what I'm saying. Linux, as a desktop OS, offers no incentive for people to switch at the moment. And with the advent of Win2000/XP, Windows is stable enough to be tolerable. I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, but OS X notwithstanding, I think they offer the best current solution for a vast majority of people.

Why are people so obsessed with pushing Linux onto mainstream desktops, anyway? It seems to me that doing so would require eliminating a lot of what the geek community values in it in the first place.

Remember the cartoon, Hammerman? Neither do most people. MC Hammer was a superhero. It didn't last long. Neither will this.

but you are no Wikipedian.

(and, for /.'ers who don't see nearly endless opportunities to relate "real" life to "Seinfeld", the reference)

Funny this got posted now but lastnight i was watching an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. The episode focus was on Safety Hysteria. One of the items they mentioned was our fear of Brain Cancer from a Cellphone. Anyway the jist of the experts was that the waves produced from the cellphone where two big to damage DNA. Hench no damaged DNA then no cancer.

A bit like this?

Maybe this was caused by the elderly who had problems parsing all these pixels

Maybe they shouldn't of been showing seizure inducing cartoons

It reminds me of Robositter from ATHF.. let's just hope it doesn't come equipped with rotary saws for hands.

MC Pee Pants is a child rapper in the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, later found out to be a giant spider wearing a diaper. His voice is done by Chris Ward IV, also known as mc chris.

Chris Ward IV on TV Tome

Man, first I quit taking methamphetamines, and now this... If it wasn't for my talking sofa and the giant fat men, I don't think I'd make it through some days...

Oh, so you live in Japan now? Oh, wait, you didn't say talking toilet or talking toaster... (^^;)

Unfortunately, there is currently a titanium shortage which has been variously attributed to either increased demand from China (JapanMetalBulletin - your source for today's breaking non-ferrous metal news!) or the Iraq War (IIRC Car & Driver Jan '05 dead tree version reported Chevrolet discontinued use of Titanium in '06 Corvette mufflers due to Iraq War-induced shortages).

Let's hope the shortage doesn't return Nixon's head to office.

[JasperFromSimpsons] Postin' a lot of pictures, that's a slashdottin' [/JasperFromSimpsons]

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-146/epid-1409/

http://www.tvtome.com/BattlestarGalactica_2004/

Lots more info there along with episode list and synopsis of the entire first season...

I distincly remember seeing that kind of shooting in the first series of "NYPD Blue", in which I really liked it, as it added a lot of mood and "violence" to the show.

Another reader mentioned "Law and Order" which is 3 years older than NYPD, but I actually can't remember that technique in the early series.

I distincly remember seeing that kind of shooting in the first series of "NYPD Blue", in which I really liked it, as it added a lot of mood and "violence" to the show.

Another reader mentioned "Law and Order" which is 3 years older than NYPD, but I actually can't remember that technique in the early series.

You have a problem with love triangles with Grace Park?

Her interview is also interesting.

You should have gone with the AIDS joke instead...it hasn't been 22.3 years since HST died yet.

...And you've also missed shows like Highlander, Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, 24, Deadwood, Farscape, South Park, Lost, Simpsons (I don't watch it), yada yada... (And I know I'm still missing some noteworthy entertainment...)

...But were spared the heartbreak of seeing Cupid (1999) and Firefly killed, or see Ally McBeal or Dawson's Creek crater after the first season...

...And miss being informed by programs like Frontline, 60 Minutes, NOW, those documentary channels (Discovery, History), and primary sources like CSPAN... (Didn't realize how close Canada came to breaking up until I watched it live...)

I honestly don't envy their ability to keep track of the latest shows.

...and why admire someone who can name all the US senators, or the Periodic Table of Elements, or the moons of Jupiter & Saturn (all 93?), or the capitals of all the nations of a continent? If you can't directly apply it, its no different than being able to recall sports statistics, or TV episodes. TV entertainment can be a form of cultural enhancement, just like novels and plays. The trick is finding the worthwhile stuff.

For me, I haven't had cable for years. But as long as I have the Internet and recappers, I'll always be able to enjoy the best of what little TV has to offer...

Here may be a cool topic. What TV episodes actually changed your perspective on how you view or approach life?

For myself, I found ST:TNG Tapestry, Stargate SG-1 Absolute Power left an impression, as did ST:TOS Let This be your Last Battlefield if only that some people really think there's a difference whether you're black on the left side or the right side...

Come to think of it, Americans might have something to learn from ST:TOS Squire of Gothos (Its maturity in action, not absolute power that defines character or refinement), and ST:TOS Devil in the Dark (Think of different cultures as different races; stop looking to destroy or dominate the other).

...And you've also missed shows like Highlander, Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, 24, Deadwood, Farscape, South Park, Lost, Simpsons (I don't watch it), yada yada... (And I know I'm still missing some noteworthy entertainment...)

...But were spared the heartbreak of seeing Cupid (1999) and Firefly killed, or see Ally McBeal or Dawson's Creek crater after the first season...

...And miss being informed by programs like Frontline, 60 Minutes, NOW, those documentary channels (Discovery, History), and primary sources like CSPAN... (Didn't realize how close Canada came to breaking up until I watched it live...)

I honestly don't envy their ability to keep track of the latest shows.

...and why admire someone who can name all the US senators, or the Periodic Table of Elements, or the moons of Jupiter & Saturn (all 93?), or the capitals of all the nations of a continent? If you can't directly apply it, its no different than being able to recall sports statistics, or TV episodes. TV entertainment can be a form of cultural enhancement, just like novels and plays. The trick is finding the worthwhile stuff.

For me, I haven't had cable for years. But as long as I have the Internet and recappers, I'll always be able to enjoy the best of what little TV has to offer...

Here may be a cool topic. What TV episodes actually changed your perspective on how you view or approach life?

For myself, I found ST:TNG Tapestry, Stargate SG-1 Absolute Power left an impression, as did ST:TOS Let This be your Last Battlefield if only that some people really think there's a difference whether you're black on the left side or the right side...

Come to think of it, Americans might have something to learn from ST:TOS Squire of Gothos (Its maturity in action, not absolute power that defines character or refinement), and ST:TOS Devil in the Dark (Think of different cultures as different races; stop looking to destroy or dominate the other).

...And you've also missed shows like Highlander, Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, 24, Deadwood, Farscape, South Park, Lost, Simpsons (I don't watch it), yada yada... (And I know I'm still missing some noteworthy entertainment...)

...But were spared the heartbreak of seeing Cupid (1999) and Firefly killed, or see Ally McBeal or Dawson's Creek crater after the first season...

...And miss being informed by programs like Frontline, 60 Minutes, NOW, those documentary channels (Discovery, History), and primary sources like CSPAN... (Didn't realize how close Canada came to breaking up until I watched it live...)

I honestly don't envy their ability to keep track of the latest shows.

...and why admire someone who can name all the US senators, or the Periodic Table of Elements, or the moons of Jupiter & Saturn (all 93?), or the capitals of all the nations of a continent? If you can't directly apply it, its no different than being able to recall sports statistics, or TV episodes. TV entertainment can be a form of cultural enhancement, just like novels and plays. The trick is finding the worthwhile stuff.

For me, I haven't had cable for years. But as long as I have the Internet and recappers, I'll always be able to enjoy the best of what little TV has to offer...

Here may be a cool topic. What TV episodes actually changed your perspective on how you view or approach life?

For myself, I found ST:TNG Tapestry, Stargate SG-1 Absolute Power left an impression, as did ST:TOS Let This be your Last Battlefield if only that some people really think there's a difference whether you're black on the left side or the right side...

Come to think of it, Americans might have something to learn from ST:TOS Squire of Gothos (Its maturity in action, not absolute power that defines character or refinement), and ST:TOS Devil in the Dark (Think of different cultures as different races; stop looking to destroy or dominate the other).