1 – Taking a cue from the old days of television, the CW network has actually sold off the 3-hour primetime block of Sunday night to a media company, which will then pair up with an advertising company to develop and produce content. The commercials will actually own that block of time. I’m thinking we’re in for a mega-block-variety show featuring all the amazing things we can do the cup holders in the new Kia Sophia. Or something equally inane. [via Variety]
2 – This is one way to get rid of that pesky carpel tunnel syndrome, but on the down side, typing in UP+UP+DOWN+DOWN+LEFT+RIGHT+LEFT+RIGHT+B+A+START really fast is so much harder than it used to be. [via GorillaMask via Gizmodo]
3 – Those are the mornings when I crawl back under the covers all day. [via Garfield Minus Garfield]
4 – If the board game Life actually told the truth about your future, it might sound a little more like this. [via CollegeHumor]
5 – As if you needed another reason to want to see Wall-E, this years undoubted award winner for most adorable movie ever made, you can trek on over to the Wall-E website and build your own little cutesy creature. I swear, if this movie is as good as I think it will be, I might just marry it. I’m sure there’s a state I can do that legally in… [via ComingSoon]
6 – Even with the already predicted crushing win for Clinton in West Virginia last night, high ranking Democrats are getting louder about Clinton bowing out gracefully before June. I think they should point her to this website where wishes and dreams of the masses are shown for what will happen when Obama wins in November. Admittedly these are all said in jest, but the tone is legit. [via Tcritic via kottke]
7 – Nintendo is opening the doors to independent developers to add to their little wonder platform in the unveiling of WiiWare. This could definitely give Nintendo and edge since they will have constantly fresh and new content that will very likely be way outside the box. With that said, who gonna buy me one now? [via Starpulse]
8 – David Byrne, the wacky genius behind the band Talking Heads, is getting ready to take musical instrumentation to another level as he retrofits an entire building to play music. Knowing my luck, his premier musical interlude will happen when I am on a long winded customer service call with some dude on the seventh floor. [via Starpulse]
10 – For the Battlestar Galactica fans out there, of which I am certainly one, get yourselves excited for the upcoming Caprica TV show because the indie-film icon himself, Eric Stoltz, has signed on. This is raising the bar, my friends. I smell Emmy nominations…[via ComingSoon]
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Posted 3 years, 8 months ago at 9:12 am. Add a comment
1 – In an interesting move to test the claim that the internet is killing TV ratings, the CW network has removed the ability to watch new episodes of their tawdry teen smash Gossip Girl. They were seeing hundreds of thousands of streams from their website and they want to see if they can push those people back to the airwaves, where the ad revenues I imagine are significantly higher. Truth be told, they keep planting billboards around town showing what looks to be something from Skin-a-max (see below), people are going to watch where ever they can find a seat and some privacy. [via IMDB via Hollywood Reporter]
2 – You might have heard from various news outlets that an art student at Yale was planning a senoir project in which she artificially inseminated herself and then manufactured forced miscarriages as a statement between art and a womans body. There has been widespread debate over whether this is real, a planned hoax, a continuing battle between the student and the university, or just another person trying to prove how quickly the media jumps all over new and shocking topics. In my opinion, she’s bluffing about the whole thing. I’m in total agreement that there is no way she could handle the continued mental and physical trauma that would come from numerous miscarriages. I also agree that she has stepped over that line between expressionist art and blatant emotional manipulation. Congratulations, you have now taken art expressionism one more step backwards in the eyes of the public. [via Perez]
3 – After the tantalizing preview pic of Scarlett from the live action G.I.Joe flick, now we can ogle at the rubber and neoprene clothing covering the entire main cast. We can feel pretty sure no one will die in this movie because I don’t even think air can get through these outfits. [via WWTDD]
4 – The heart wrenching and destructive legal battle is over, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. Pinkberry is now officially a frozen yogurt. Saints be praised! [via Defamer via laeater]
5 – (Countdown clock started until George Lucas decides to sue the makers of this film). [via Defamer via YouTube]
6 – This is the sequel we have all been waiting for, clamoring for, begging the studios and the independants alike to tackle and bring out to the masses. Feast your eyes on the wonderment of Hamlet 2. The true key to this is the appearance of Sexy Jesus. No film is really complete without it. [via Film School Rejects]
7 – There is a great fear in humanity, one that I share on a deep level, that we will leave this world and not be remembered. One reporter has taken it upon herself to try and ease that fear, even if in a small way. Jill Leovy started The Homicide Report which actually documents each and every homicide in Los Angeles, but she goes into more detail, family lives and remembered moments about those people no even mentioned in the daily news or paper since they were determined to be “not newsworthy”. Albeit a depressing and tortured venture, I think her motivation and passion for making sure these people are known, are remembered, are thought of as more than just a statistic, that idea is worth more than many can possibly imagine. Kudos to that brave woman. [via CNN]
8 – There are those who say none of the things MacGyver does actually work in the real world. You know what I say to that? Phbttttt!!!. [via GorillaMask via Cracked]
9 – Let the floodgates open wide. Rock Band is set to begin the full album downloads with a classic from Judas Priest, Screaming for Vengeance, which has on it the uber-rock-classic You Got Another Thing Comin’, which showed a dude in the music video having his head spontaneously combust. This effect will soon be replicated by my own head if I don’t find a way to purchase my own XBox 360 and Rock Band set-up. [via Yahoo]
10 – Office Dare of the Day (from yesterday since it was funnier): Demand that your superior instruct you on office procedure for a meteor strike. [via Loncraine Broxton]
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