Category Archives: Entertainment

Pastafarian song

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Eric

What if God Wanted Pasta Sauce

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Get your kids ready for Weasel Stomping Day!

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Eric

As we’re told by Weird Al Yankovic: Put your Viking helmet on, Spread that mayonnaise on the lawn, Don’t you know, it’s Weasel Stomping Day! Make your kids knitted Viking helmets, and start indoctrinating them while they’re young! [h/t Boing … Continue reading →

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R.I.P. Don Herbert AKA Mr. Wizard, 10 July 1917 — 12 June 2007

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Eric

Timmy: “Are we gonna discover the secret of life, Mr. Wizard?” Mr. Wizard: “We will if we’re not careful, Timmy!” —”Mr. Wizard and Timmy” parody by Stevens & Grdnic I’m not old enough to have seen the original “Watch Mr. … Continue reading →

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Videodrome revisited?

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Eric

On Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow writes about the novel The Execution Channel by Ken Macleod, a thriller that includes as a plot element an internet video feed of people being tortured and killed. No one knows where the signal originates. … Continue reading →

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With apologies to The Who

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Eric

Yet another great xkcd strip.

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An interesting and potentially useful hexadecimal number

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Eric

The AACS LA doesn’t want you to have the number 45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2.  They can bite my computer’s shiny metal ass.  [h/t Boing Boing]

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Shrek the Third

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Eric

I saw Shrek the Third with friends this evening.  It was fairly entertaining, but not up to the standard set by the first two films.  The story is weaker and consequently less engaging for adults.  For me, the highlight was … Continue reading →

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Viva Zapata!

Posted on May 20, 2007 by anonymous

On Friday night we watched Viva Zapata, Elia Kazan’s 1953 biopic, starring Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn. It is well thought of (IMDB 7.6), but I found it an uneven collection of performances that were within themselves jewels. Once such … Continue reading →

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Television watching habits, with or without a DVR

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Eric

Hanford Lemoore and I were both early employees of ReplayTV.  Hanford writes about how he became a DVR user more than a year before any were available commercially, and how he has now gone DVRless for over year. I watched … Continue reading →

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Pink Floyd’s members play at Syd Barrett tribute

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Eric

As reported by the BBC, it wasn’t a reunion.  David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Rick Wright played together, and Roger Waters played solo. Shine on, you crazy diamond!

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