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Worst. Ending. Ever.
Just a tip to whoever wrote the ending to Vampire Bloodlines: the Indiana Jones box up the evil artifact and store it away in a warehouse only works if we already know what's inside!
For me, Radio Shack had the answer to my Radio Shark reception woes.
Ask them for their 20' Stereo Headphone Extension Cord and plug it in, you don't need any actual headphones since it's just serving as an antenna. I haven't heard any static since.
Finally a quote from my favorite scene in the entire Futurama run!
Leela: Invaders! Possibly from space!
[Cut to: Outside Lrrr's Ship. He opens a window and pokes his head out.]
Lrrr: People of Earth, I am Lrrr of the planet Nintendu 64. Tremble in fear at our three different kinds of ships!
[Cut to: Outside Planet Express.]
Fry: Alright, its Saturday night. I have no date, a two litre bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mix tape! Let's rock!
[Scene: Player's Ship. Fry stands at an arcade console listening to Rush's Tom Sawyer (editors comment: YES!). He uses the console to control his ship and attack the Space Invaders. He shoots and destroys a few ships.]
[Cut to: Lrrr's Ship.]
Nd-Nd: We're losing ships sir. What are your orders?
Lrrr: Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!
[And they do.]
[Cut to: Player's Ship. Fry gulps down some Shasta.]
Fry: I've still got a trick or two up my sleeve. Watch as I fire up through our own shields.
[Everyone gasps.]
Bender: He's a madman! A madman!!
[Fry fires up through the shield and destroys several more ships.]
Scene: Enterprise Bridge. Archer occupies the captain's chair, his crew working busily around him. Archer suddenly sits bolt upright, and then sags as if exhausted.
'I am a full-blooded Luxan, and ladies, I have so much cash in my pocket that I can assure you that the three of us will crawl out of here on our hands and knees come sunrise tomorrow morning. I've been arrested for saying exactly the same thing on four different planets.' D'Argo
'I don't think Pilot's in a Leviathan for Dummies mood right now..' Crichton
I may be small but allow me to remind you that only serves to put me at castration level.' Rygel
Scorpius: Kill her! Then we can have some pizza and some margarita shooters. Kill her John! Do it..Do it.. John: (laughing) Nobody has margaritas with pizza!
Can "Farscape" fans reinvent TV? When the Sci Fi Channel canceled "Farscape," angry fans launched the usual protest movement. Now they're dreaming of a rebellion that could overthrow TV empires. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Adrienne Crew
March 13, 2003 | Like so many stories, this one begins with an ending. Or, rather, the announcement of an ending.
Early last September, thousands of fans of the science fiction television series "Farscape" logged in to a chat room maintained by the Sci Fi Channel, which distributes the series in the United States. The Jim Henson Co. actually produces the series, mainly with licensing fees paid by Sci Fi, although Henson also syndicates the show in Britain, Germany and other countries.
"Farscape's" fans (and I'm among them) consider it one of the most innovative and best-written things on TV. The show follows the adventures of astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder), who is marooned in space after an aeronautical accident. Buff, brainy and kinda goofy, John allies himself with a band of outlaw aliens aboard a sentient spaceship that's being pursued by the military arm of a totalitarian regime.
When fans logged on in September, Sci Fi had just broadcast the first 11 episodes of the show's fourth season, with the balance to come in the spring after a short break. "Farscape's" staffers and actors celebrate the end of each season's production schedule by communicating online with the fans -- from Australia, where the show is produced -- to discuss upcoming episodes and drop "spoilers" about the season finale.
The fans received more than spoilers this session. Immediately following a phone conference with Sci Fi programming executives, "Farscape" executive producer David Kemper, along with actor Ben Browder and co-executive producer Richard Manning, informed the "Farscape" faithful (known as "'Scapers") that Sci Fi Channel had just reneged on its commitment to purchase the fifth and final season of the series. Effectively, the show had just been canceled, leaving the audience with a series finale that ends in a cliffhanger.
Predictably, within hours of the cancellation announcement fans had gathered on message boards and in chat rooms to create strategies for protesting Sci Fi's decision. What began as a collective of fans bemoaning the loss of their favorite show has become the Save "Farscape" campaign, one of the largest and most sophisticated fan campaigns in television history.
The Save "Farscape" campaign is hardly the first grass-roots effort to save a television series. In 1968 NBC would never have realized that people were watching "Star Trek" if superfan Bjo Trimble hadn't encouraged other viewers to protest the series' imminent cancellation. Dorothy Swanson organized a successful letter-writing campaign in 1983 to save "Cagney and Lacey," and subsequently founded Viewers for Quality Television to assist other worthy but ratings-deprived shows, such as "Designing Women." Fans of the late-night cult classic "Mystery Science Theater 3000" brought fan-based campaigns into the Internet age when they launched a Web site to find a new home for the series after Sci Fi canned it in 1999. (The site continues to bring "MSTies" together, although efforts to relaunch the show were long ago abandoned.)
In the '90s, grassroots efforts to save canceled shows have gained momentum. Fans protesting the cancellation of the ABC drama "Once and Again" persuaded the network to finance enough episodes to conclude open-ended storylines. Creative "Roswell" fans caught the attention of WB programmers and bought their show more time by sending them bottles of hot sauce as a reminder of the condiment favored by the aliens on the series. Each successive campaign absorbs and improves upon lessons learned during previous protests. 'Scapers have taken the best from all of them; they sent Sci Fi executives packages of crackers, in homage to the title of a favorite "Farscape" episode, "Crackers Don't Matter."
Let me preface this by saying that I know next to nothing about this band, but did anybody catch this article in the New York Times last week? It makes this Phish fans sound like addicted cult members. What struck me particularly odd was this quote:
"The band takes over a crowd," said Megan Leff, 28, who works in advertising in Manhattan. "They throw everyone into a fury. You cannot move or shake quickly enough. Then, suddenly, they will have everyone fall and pretend they are dead."
Does this article conform with anybody's experiences with this band or is it just a hoakey sensationalistic headlining?
I think that Dr. Zoidberg said it best when he emoted:
"As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wonderous thing happened, why not? They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets - including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them - Earth. So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could've been happier, unless it would've also been Valentine's Day. What? It was? Hooray!"
is to cut my commute in half by buying loads of second-hand cell phones and packing them into a fleet of station wagons strategically driven by hired teenagers.
Let me start off with the fact the I really, really want to read this book. However, are the descriptions of it's origin leaving a bad taste in anybody's mouth but me?
"The publication will reportedly be edited but remain unfinished following its recovery from files on the novelist's computer.... We have pored over Douglas's hard drive. There were so many different versions of the novel. "
Sounds like Adams felt this novel wasn't ready for publication but people close to him believed otherwise after his death. What could be their motivation?
Here I am, brain the size of a planet and I'm worrying about what a deceased author would think of me reading his book.
Yes, it's probably true that online petitions aren't worth the server space their stored on which is why Futurama fans might want to consider writing a good old USPS letter. Rumor has it that big-wig studio execs are greatly swayed by your willingness to waste paper, time, and tax dollars. Here's their addresses at the Fox network:
Ms. Gail Berman President Building 100 Room 4450 10201 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 United States of America
Mr. Sandy Grushow Chairman Building 100 Room 5110 10201 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 United States of America
I don't want to give you a script but you might want to focus on Futurama's poor and frequently changing time slot and it's abundance of critical praise.
Telling a studio exec to bite any part of your anatomy (shiny or otherwise) is generally a bad idea.
All though Spacewar often gets credit as the first video game in 1962, William Higinbotham an employee at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY had a working Pong-like game in 1958.
Designed from an analog computer hooked up to an oscilloscope, Brookhaven Lab was promptly besieged by players who waited on line for hours to get their chance to play.
This article has an interesting sidebar in the paper edition regarding the Altair which chose "a classy powder blue exterior" instead of beige as the color for it's pc's.
Best quote: "..the company chose blue because of the blue mainframe computers used by IBM, as if to suggest that the inexpensive, general-purpose Altair microcomputer was also a real computer"
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Worst. Ending. Ever.
Just a tip to whoever wrote the ending to Vampire Bloodlines: the Indiana Jones box up the evil artifact and store it away in a warehouse only works if we already know what's inside!
For me, Radio Shack had the answer to my Radio Shark reception woes.
Ask them for their 20' Stereo Headphone Extension Cord and plug it in, you don't need any actual headphones since it's just serving as an antenna. I haven't heard any static since.
here. Free registration is, of course, required.
Every Simpson's watcher knows that the most extreme punishment Austraila can dole out is "just a little kick in the bum"!
Finally a quote from my favorite scene in the entire Futurama run!
Leela: Invaders! Possibly from space!
[Cut to: Outside Lrrr's Ship. He opens a window and pokes his head out.]
Lrrr: People of Earth, I am Lrrr of the planet Nintendu 64. Tremble in fear at our three different kinds of ships!
[Cut to: Outside Planet Express.]
Fry: Alright, its Saturday night. I have no date, a two litre bottle of Shasta, and my all Rush mix tape! Let's rock!
[Scene: Player's Ship. Fry stands at an arcade console listening to Rush's Tom Sawyer (editors comment: YES!). He uses the console to control his ship and attack the Space Invaders. He shoots and destroys a few ships.]
[Cut to: Lrrr's Ship.]
Nd-Nd: We're losing ships sir. What are your orders?
Lrrr: Increase speed, drop down and reverse direction!
[And they do.]
[Cut to: Player's Ship. Fry gulps down some Shasta.]
Fry: I've still got a trick or two up my sleeve. Watch as I fire up through our own shields.
[Everyone gasps.]
Bender: He's a madman! A madman!!
[Fry fires up through the shield and destroys several more ships.]
Guess you had to be there....
Scene:
Enterprise Bridge. Archer occupies the captain's chair, his crew working busily around him. Archer suddenly sits bolt upright, and then sags as if exhausted.
Archer: I feel a great disturbance in the force.
Crew: The whaa?
'I am a full-blooded Luxan, and ladies, I have so much cash in my pocket that I can assure you that the three of us will crawl out of here on our hands and knees come sunrise tomorrow morning. I've been arrested for saying exactly the same thing on four different planets.' D'Argo
'I don't think Pilot's in a Leviathan for Dummies mood right now..' Crichton
I may be small but allow me to remind you that only serves to put me at castration level.' Rygel
Scorpius: Kill her! Then we can have some pizza and some margarita shooters. Kill her John! Do it..Do it..
John: (laughing) Nobody has margaritas with pizza!
Can "Farscape" fans reinvent TV?
When the Sci Fi Channel canceled "Farscape," angry fans launched the usual protest movement. Now they're dreaming of a rebellion that could overthrow TV empires.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Adrienne Crew
March 13, 2003 | Like so many stories, this one begins with an ending. Or, rather, the announcement of an ending.
Early last September, thousands of fans of the science fiction television series "Farscape" logged in to a chat room maintained by the Sci Fi Channel, which distributes the series in the United States. The Jim Henson Co. actually produces the series, mainly with licensing fees paid by Sci Fi, although Henson also syndicates the show in Britain, Germany and other countries.
"Farscape's" fans (and I'm among them) consider it one of the most innovative and best-written things on TV. The show follows the adventures of astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder), who is marooned in space after an aeronautical accident. Buff, brainy and kinda goofy, John allies himself with a band of outlaw aliens aboard a sentient spaceship that's being pursued by the military arm of a totalitarian regime.
When fans logged on in September, Sci Fi had just broadcast the first 11 episodes of the show's fourth season, with the balance to come in the spring after a short break. "Farscape's" staffers and actors celebrate the end of each season's production schedule by communicating online with the fans -- from Australia, where the show is produced -- to discuss upcoming episodes and drop "spoilers" about the season finale.
The fans received more than spoilers this session. Immediately following a phone conference with Sci Fi programming executives, "Farscape" executive producer David Kemper, along with actor Ben Browder and co-executive producer Richard Manning, informed the "Farscape" faithful (known as "'Scapers") that Sci Fi Channel had just reneged on its commitment to purchase the fifth and final season of the series. Effectively, the show had just been canceled, leaving the audience with a series finale that ends in a cliffhanger.
Predictably, within hours of the cancellation announcement fans had gathered on message boards and in chat rooms to create strategies for protesting Sci Fi's decision. What began as a collective of fans bemoaning the loss of their favorite show has become the Save "Farscape" campaign, one of the largest and most sophisticated fan campaigns in television history.
The Save "Farscape" campaign is hardly the first grass-roots effort to save a television series. In 1968 NBC would never have realized that people were watching "Star Trek" if superfan Bjo Trimble hadn't encouraged other viewers to protest the series' imminent cancellation. Dorothy Swanson organized a successful letter-writing campaign in 1983 to save "Cagney and Lacey," and subsequently founded Viewers for Quality Television to assist other worthy but ratings-deprived shows, such as "Designing Women." Fans of the late-night cult classic "Mystery Science Theater 3000" brought fan-based campaigns into the Internet age when they launched a Web site to find a new home for the series after Sci Fi canned it in 1999. (The site continues to bring "MSTies" together, although efforts to relaunch the show were long ago abandoned.)
In the '90s, grassroots efforts to save canceled shows have gained momentum. Fans protesting the cancellation of the ABC drama "Once and Again" persuaded the network to finance enough episodes to conclude open-ended storylines. Creative "Roswell" fans caught the attention of WB programmers and bought their show more time by sending them bottles of hot sauce as a reminder of the condiment favored by the aliens on the series.
Each successive campaign absorbs and improves upon lessons learned during previous protests. 'Scapers have taken the best from all of them; they sent Sci Fi executives packages of crackers, in homage to the title of a favorite "Farscape" episode, "Crackers Don't Matter."
But protests are perhaps also
some of us actually go out and do social activity on the Weekends
Whoa! What's that like!?
Not new episodes, according to the press release.
Cartoon Network has acquired rights to air all 72 episodes of FUTURAMA, which recently won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.
Let me preface this by saying that I know next to nothing about this band, but did anybody catch this article in the New York Times last week? It makes this Phish fans sound like addicted cult members. What struck me particularly odd was this quote:
"The band takes over a crowd," said Megan Leff, 28, who works in advertising in Manhattan. "They throw everyone into a fury. You cannot move or shake quickly enough. Then, suddenly, they will have everyone fall and pretend they are dead."
Does this article conform with anybody's experiences with this band or is it just a hoakey sensationalistic headlining?
"a NYT story about "
What? No obligatory "Registration required blah, blah, blah"? Is nothing sacred? If this goes, what's next, FP?
People, you've got to stick to the script!
.. I doubt it -- have they given any thought at all to that historically mirror-challenged group, the vampires?
Is it just me or do talking rabbits creep anybody else out after seeing Donnie Darko?
I can only hope I still feel the same way Harvey and Bugs!
I think that Dr. Zoidberg said it best when he emoted:
"As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wonderous thing happened, why not? They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets - including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them - Earth. So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could've been happier, unless it would've also been Valentine's Day. What? It was? Hooray!"
... the first time I use my TiVo to fast forward through a show so I can watch the commercials.
Wow, so you actualy watched the Superbowl?
is to cut my commute in half by buying loads of second-hand cell phones and packing them into a fleet of station wagons strategically driven by hired teenagers.
Stupid Mozilla, if only I was using Opera I would've been first post!
See, some people only see the negative. I see the ink cartritge as half full.
Let me start off with the fact the I really, really want to read this book. However, are the descriptions of it's origin leaving a bad taste in anybody's mouth but me?
... We have pored over Douglas's hard drive. There were so many different versions of the novel. "
From the BBC :
"The publication will reportedly be edited but remain unfinished following its recovery from files on the novelist's computer.
Sounds like Adams felt this novel wasn't ready for publication but people close to him believed otherwise after his death. What could be their motivation?
Here I am, brain the size of a planet and I'm worrying about what a deceased author would think of me reading his book.
Yes, it's probably true that online petitions aren't worth the server space their stored on which is why Futurama fans might want to consider writing a good old USPS letter. Rumor has it that big-wig studio execs are greatly swayed by your willingness to waste paper, time, and tax dollars. Here's their addresses at the Fox network:
Ms. Gail Berman
President
Building 100 Room 4450
10201 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
United States of America
Mr. Sandy Grushow
Chairman
Building 100 Room 5110
10201 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
United States of America
I don't want to give you a script but you might want to focus on Futurama's poor and frequently changing time slot and it's abundance of critical praise.
Telling a studio exec to bite any part of your anatomy (shiny or otherwise) is generally a bad idea.
All though Spacewar often gets credit as the first video game in 1962, William Higinbotham an employee at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY had a working Pong-like game in 1958.
Designed from an analog computer hooked up to an oscilloscope, Brookhaven Lab was promptly besieged by players who waited on line for hours to get their chance to play.
Higinbotham never patented his device.
This article has an interesting sidebar in the paper edition regarding the Altair which chose "a classy powder blue exterior" instead of beige as the color for it's pc's.
Best quote: "..the company chose blue because of the blue mainframe computers used by IBM, as if to suggest that the inexpensive, general-purpose Altair microcomputer was also a real computer"
We're talking about bots who can simulate human interaction just well enough to fool - or at least confuse - our kids...
Hah! Take that Alan Turning! Oh, wait he wasn't taking about teeneagers... Ooops.
I never saw her Google Ads;
I never hope to see Any;
But I can Tell you, Anyhow,
Her poetry's not worth a penny.