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Did you catch this episode?

I started to play this and it was so bad that a fight broke out about who was to blame for it.

Did you see the episode of Lexx where they blew up the CRTC (and the rest of Ottawa)?

CRTC: "Protecting Canadians from themselves"

(I think that the producers of Lexx had some run-ins with the CRTC.)

For those unfamiler with the A.W.E.S.O.M.-O 4000, a picture of it undergoing stress testing by the U.S. military can be found here.

And yes, it's the same Farnsworth that invented the TV

As opposed to the Farnsworth that is ON TV...

Personally, I think the Finglonger is a slightly more likely commercial product in the near term (or at least the "next 5 years" near term that desktop fusion researchers always seem fond of, but are incapable of meeting).

Russ %-)

Anyone watch the Futurama episode entitled A Big Piece of Garbage?

In it, the Professor uses his invention, the Smelloscope, to locate a huge meteor composed of garbage (produced by New New York and launched into space because the landfills were full) that threatens to destroy the planet (spoofing the movie, Armageddon). This leads to quotes like these:

Fry: Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. (laughs)
Leela: I don't get it.
Professor: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor: Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: Hehe, no, no, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.

Ahh... Futurama, it was ahead of its time.

Hibbert: Homer, I'm afraid you'll have to undergo a coronary bypass operation.
Homer: Say it in English, Doc.
Hibbert: You're going to need open heart surgery.
Homer: Spare me your medical mumbo jumbo.
Hibbert: We're going to cut you open and tinker with your ticker.
Homer: Could you dumb it down a shade?

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-146/epid-1355/

You forget all the Pokemon/Digimon movies and TV series too... And for the record, Beyblade started out with video game first, before someone started writing comics and later the TV series. And yes, Beyblade movie does exist.

Anton is back in This ol' Box, this time handing out D.I.Y. lessons on making that all important extension for your cardboard house.

Last week's Westwing, The Dover Test basically mentioned the Bhopal incident in their storyline where Leo McGarry was offered a board position with a chemical company and his Indian nurse became upset.

In 10 years, you'll either be able to d/l it through the either, or make a "crippled" DVD that only works on PCs that can verify your subscription as you watch it.

Alternatively, you'll be able to burn a time-bombed or player-specific version, one that will work FOR 2 DAYS ONLY or one that will work ON YOUR LAPTOP ONLY.

Of course, someday, they'll just beam it straight into your head complete with commercials, a la Futurama.

Approaching a problem from a "as cheap as possible" DYI angle will often lead to technological improvements, too. If you're on a budget you tend to make sure things just work and in order for them to just work (ie. not break) you have to keep things simple.

After watching last week's "CSI: New York" episode (click here for a synopsis), I was pretty impressed with the idea of having a robot lift prints from an explosive ordinance before detonating it. Turns out that robot really exists and was build as a DYI project by a Canadian law enforcement officer.

"First off it's COPPER, not cooper. Cooper is a guy who makes barrels, copper is a fairly non-reactive element. Surely you see the difference. Other options for cooper are Alice Cooper, Hanging With Mr Cooper, D. B. Cooper, etc."

In this case, I'd go with Cooper Hawkes...

See the TV Tome writeup. I'd never heard of it before TFSS, so I can't say anything about TV Tome's accuracy.

No. You can send them to the planet Marklar if you have spaceships!

:-)

the accidental creation of The Littles, in which case someone should alert the Bigg family about them living in their walls.

Someone also might want to alert the Fitzgibbon's that they should keep an eye on the Rats living under their rosebush as they might be up to no good.

C'mon, wouldn't you like to see Casablanca with the original alternate ending?

I'm pretty sure there already is a cartoon - a cell animation one, not 3d.

Yep they did but not all of their cartoons sucked. They've done mediocre cartoons without the big screen voices.

I'm pretty sure there already is a cartoon - a cell animation one, not 3d.

Yep they did but not all of their cartoons sucked. They've done mediocre cartoons without the big screen voices.

I'm pretty sure there already is a cartoon - a cell animation one, not 3d.

Yep they did but not all of their cartoons sucked. They've done mediocre cartoons without the big screen voices.

What I'm saying is it's already started.

I know some have already made the connection of the Star Trek : TOS episode and the arming of space, but this also reminds me of a particular episode of Stargate SG1 called "Absolute Power"

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-185/epid-7401/

"Don't worry, there's no threat of residual radiation. It's quick and clean--like cutting your enemy's heart out with a scalpel."

'Lot' and 'Little' are not opposites but rather variations in quantity. True opposites tend to retain their contrast through linguistic forms (true, false, hot, cold, positive, negative etc..) Note the fundamental difference in meaning between the plural forms:

lots
littles

Littles are diminutive hominids with a penchant for thievery. Lots are of course piles of cheap junk piled onto pallets and sold on ebay.

Quotes from here.

--

Lyrics:

Puff Daddy "Vote Or Die!"

Vote Or Die, mutha F***, mutha f***, Vote Or Die!

Rock the vote or else
I'm gonna stick a knife through your eye
Democracy is founded on one simple rule
Get out there and vote or I'm a mutha f****** kill you (yeah)

I like it when you vote bitch
shake them t**** when you vote bitch
I'll shove a jimmy through your mouth root
Now get your big ass in the valet booth

I said vote bitch,
or I'ma gonna mutha f****** kill you

Vote or Die, mutha f***, mutha f***, Vote Or Die

Can't run from a .38, go ahead and try
let your opinion be heard,
you gotta make a choice
Cuz after I slit your throat,
you won't have a f****** voice

Vote Or Die, Vote Or Die!

--

Puff Daddy: Haven't you heard of my campaign 'Vote or Die'?
Stan: What does that mean, anyway?
[Puff Daddy and his posse pull their guns on Stan]
Puff Daddy: What you think it means!

--

Stan: So my vote didn't matter after all?
Randy: Of course not Stan.
Mr. Garrison: Hey everyone! All the PETA members are dead!
Clyde: Now we can go back to being the Cows!
[everyone cheers]
Randy (to Stan): Okay, now your vote doesn't matter

There was a very short-lived TV series on FOX in 1996 called Profit. There was one episode where the main character took a polygraph test. Before the test, he put a tack in his shoe and stomped it into his foot. They showed him bearing down on that foot for certain questions of the test. He lied his ass off, but he passed. :)

I always figured there was some truth to that. But it was, after all, only a TV show. :)

But what about Simon and Theodore?

You obviously never watched Gilligan's Island.

GERMS!!!

Nah, it's a CrocoStimpy! http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-3536/epid-56644/

...software to render pen-and-ink style drawings...

Thousands of Londoners/Sweeney fans[1] and ex-pat Londoners around the world are wondering exactly what makes it stink[2]



[1] The Sweeney - a 1970's UK tv drama
[2] Pen-and-ink.... stink.... no? See Cockney Rhyming Slang

Conjoined Fetus Lady

Kyle is injured playing dodgeball and must go to see the school nurse. He's terrified because of the stories he's heard. When he sees the nurse, she looks fairly normal, except for the dead fetus sticking out the side of her head. Kyle's mother educates the boys on Nurse Gollum's affliction and then decides that everyone in South Park should be made aware of the condition. Meanwhile, the South Park Cows dodgeball team goes to the state, national and finally the international finals in China, thanks to the vicious balls thrown by Pip. Kenny dies when a Chinese thrown dodgeball sends him flying into the back wall.

It just astounds me that people cling to such an abortion of a language, while rejecting Python for such a shallow reason as white space indentation. Most people who complain about that problem haven't actually tried programming in Python, and they come back later and say that it doesn't bother them at all once they get used to it. If your real complaint is just that you don't like being forced to indent your code, then you should go get a job at McDonalds instead of programming.

The reason COBOL and FORTRAN "should have been thrown out" has nothing to do with "white space parser tokens". The problem is that there are enormous amounts of legacy code written in COBOL and FORTRAN, which is extremely expensive and difficult to maintain or upgrade, because its behavior is impossible to untangle thanks to the language's lack of modularity and support for programming in the large. And that's exactly the same problem that Perl has, and the reason that Perl should be thrown out, but never will be.

People are finally beginning to wake up to the problems of Perl. Perl is like DDT and Asbestos: It's been used for far too long without considering its long term side-effects, and now it's everywhere polluting the environment. DDT was the ultimate "DWIM" pesticide, as Perl is the ultimate "DWIM" language. Just as the Asbestos Abatement Industry removes hazardous material from buildings, and the Cobol Abatement Industry removed Y2K bugs from code, the Perl Abatement Industry rewrites the code of failed dot-com companies whose intellectual property has been bought up by bigger dot-com companies. Not nice work, but it pays well because it's working with hazardous materials.

Python is no less expressive or powerful, and no more complicated or harder to learn, because of white space indentation. It was a well thought out trade-off, whose upside vastly outweighs its downside. White space indentation makes code easy to read, and it forces sloppy people to clean up their act, which is a good thing.

If you accept Perl's abortion of an OO system, then why do you reject Python's white space indentation? Learning another language would give you a better sense of perspective.

-Don

You could always use the one-wheeled version from South Park...

the great grape ape!
Now THAT was one big GORILLILLA!

Kwyjibo

This is what happens.

Here's a couple links below about the mid-90s Fantastic Four series. I recall watching them on FOX, back to back with Iron Man. IMHO, the early/mid-90s Marvel animated series (X-Men, Spiderman, Iron Man, Fantastic Four) were the best that Marvel has pushed out so far, at least in my lifetime.

http://hometown.aol.com/drg4/ffx.html?f=fs

http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour/

http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour/ (circa 1994)

And maybe once more before that???

http://www.tvtome.com/NewFantasticFour/ (circa 1978)

But wait, there's more!

http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour_1967/ (circa 1967)

http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour/ (circa 1994)

And maybe once more before that???

http://www.tvtome.com/NewFantasticFour/ (circa 1978)

But wait, there's more!

http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour_1967/ (circa 1967)

http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour/ (circa 1994)

And maybe once more before that???

http://www.tvtome.com/NewFantasticFour/ (circa 1978)

But wait, there's more!

http://www.tvtome.com/FantasticFour_1967/ (circa 1967)

No matter what they do, the show won't be as cool as the spoof of the Fantastic Four on The Venture Brothers. Here's a thought: ever wonder what it would be like to be constantly on fire? They did. It'd suck.

Release some content for it.

On a good day, a popular tv show (for example yesterday's 'Lost') will get no more than 50000 downloads.. This is nothing compared to the viewers they from broadcasting (wich are measured in millons). If done right (put up torrents of their interesting shows in at least NTSC (or PAL ;) quality), it will get a lot of eyeballs on their codec.

Release some content for it.

On a good day, a popular tv show (for example yesterday's 'Lost') will get no more than 50000 downloads.. This is nothing compared to the viewers they from broadcasting (wich are measured in millons). If done right (put up torrents of their interesting shows in at least NTSC (or PAL ;) quality), it will get a lot of eyeballs on their codec.

The actress Wendy Hoopes who did the voice for "Mona Sax" in Max Payne 2, is currently doing LAX.

I found suspicious that nobody was mentioning Buzz Beer in the top-rated posts...

Here's for whoever don't know about Buzz Beer:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-133/epid-2006/

Google cache:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:XnZaNc6rh8kJ: www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/sho wid-133/epid-2006/+%22buzz+beer%22+coffee&hl=e n

Which brewing equipment they used on the set:
http://www.probrewer.com/vbulletin/showthread.php? s=cdfc8a114171041a54c5a87b9895fb2e&postid=3795#pos t3795

I remember it! It was in 1989.

Go here for details. Yahooligans has the episodes online. Sheesh!

So are we at Blackwatch Plaid or Moving Pictures?

So are we at Blackwatch Plaid or Moving Pictures?

It could be set up like Tales from the Crypt. You could have Yoda instead of the Cryptkeeper and have a tale about a different Jedi for each show. Throw in a couple of guest appearances by big actors and some T&A (it would have to be on HBO). The only thing left would be to have some episode with a Jedi and his mutant little brother that's still attached to his hand.

Hosted by Neil de Grasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City

For years now we've been hearing that increased production volumes and market competition would drive down prices (oh, like the compact disc market?). Needless to say that the price drops have been less than phenomenal.

As a funny aside, a recent episode of the hilarious Scottish TV comedy Still Game had Winston shopping for LCD televisions. After finding that they cost about £2000 more than the £80 he expected, he mail-orders one of those DIY projection TV kits, which summarily sets his living room on fire.