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  1. Re:Where do you get all the cool gadgets... on Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Good Eats Fan page (www.goodeatsfanpage.com) has a lot of information about the show, including the equipment Alton uses on the show. The url for the page is http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/References/TheEquip ment.htm

    From there there are different pages for various types of items, including cook/bake ware, everyday equip., etc.

    Since www.goodeatsfanpage.com is going slow right now, you might try using this google search url (http://www.google.com/search?query=equipment%20si te%3Awww.goodeatsfanpage.com&num=10) and what you are looking for are the first few links.

  2. Re:Star Wars Teaser? on Review: Monsters, Inc. · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't generally get previews attached to a print. They arrive as separate reels and can be mixed and matched as desired. If previews were actually part of the movie, it would be difficult for projectionists to insert the theater chain's traditional "turn off your cell phone/enjoy our concessions stand" spiel right before the movie itself.

    You are right that trailers usually come separate from the film itself, but I believe that in this case Lucas decided that he really liked MI and Pixar, and created the special teaser trailer just for the film. I haven't actully seen MI reel, but I believe the Star Wars trailer actually came on the MI reel 1.

    If a theater wanted to put their instructional trailer in, they could splice it in. It's really not much extra work, since a film comes in several reels (probably 5 for MI) and most theaters splice the whole thing together into one long piece of film to show it. In doing so they have to take the header and footer off of each reel and then splice the end of one reel to the beginning of the next.

    I don't remember if the theater I saw MI in usually adds instructional trailers, but there wasn't one for MI last night, and they did show the Star Wars trailer.

  3. Re:Disposable... at $450 a pop. HMOs will hate thi on FDA Approves Swallowable Camera · · Score: 1
    I'm sure some enterprising young snot nosed HMO executive will decide that at his company thay'll recycle the cameras, requiring patients to scavenge through their feces to collect the camera, under penalty of non-couverage of the procedure.

    I'm sure that the camera pills are only approved as being disposable, and so reuse wouldn't be allowed. But in either case, endoscopic procedures are pretty darn expensive, and I'd be surprised if this camera pill, even at $450, is more expensive than an endoscopic procedure. However, the article mentioned that these cameras could not be used alone, but in conjunction with the standard endoscope.