Jul

26

Who wants to be a superhero, season 2

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Yep. Your read the title right. It’s back. The worst reality show in history is back for another season.

Who wants to be a superhero? I do, however, I don’t want to look like a total dork in public. Some may argue I do that anyway, though. ;)
Ms. Limelight, Braid, Hyper-Strike, Mindset, Mr. Mitzvah, Basura, The Defuser, Whip-Snap, Parthenon and Hygena are the ten finalists.

We’ll be blogging about the shows, unfortunately. It’s an obsession.

Check out The Tonight Show’s Ross interviewing folks hoping to get on the show. Classic.

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=BaIgJqf8XaE]

Jun

8

Video: 30 Rock — The Source Awards

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Another one of my favorite 30 Rock episodes. Tracey Jordan runs from “Ridiculous”.

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Jun

8

Video: 30 Rock — Kenneth and Tracey Jordan harmonize

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Jun

8

Video: Wheelchair gets lodged in truck grille

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Wheelchair gets lodged in truck grille
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May

28

Video: Jonathan Coulton: Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise Crazy

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If you aren’t singing this song by the end, then something is wrong with you.

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Feb

26

Jesus’ Tomb?

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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/16789186.htm

Biblical experts and archaeologists who are familiar with the central evidence instantly discounted the claim, which Discovery Channel has touted as possibly “the greatest archaeological find in history,” as an ill-informed, recycled publicity grab.

The chances that the findings in “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” are real “are more than remote,” Israel Museum curator David Mevorah said. “They are closer to fantasy.”

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=171237&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29344

WASHINGTON: The burial site of Jesus has been found and suggests he had a wife and son, according to highly sensitive claims in a documentary by Titanic director James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici. The claims inject controversy into the issue of resurrection central to Christianity and, if accurate, could reignite questions about Jesus’ earthy family life popularised in the book The Da Vinci Code.

Cameron and Jacobovici, an award-winning documentary director, said their research suggested Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a son, Judah.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5070886

If you listen to the researchers, they’ll tell you they may have uncovered the greatest archeological find in history. Talk to the critics, however, and it’s a different viewpoint regarding the news. They say it’s a massive publicity stunt for a soon-to-air TV documentary. Either way, the central finding of this research appears to discredit a bedrock belief of the Christian faith.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070226-jesus-tomb.html

Inscriptions on the boxes, in addition to DNA tests of tiny bits of tissue found inside, suggest that the cave was the final resting place of Jesus, his disciple Mary Magdalene, and their son, the filmmakers said.

The claims, if verified, could threaten key tenets of the Christian faith, most notably that Jesus never married or had children and that he was resurrected three days after his death.

“The evidence is compelling,” said Jane Root, president of Discovery Channel, which will air the film on Sunday. “The consequences are enormous.”

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1593893,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner

Meet the Jesuses! Cameron told the press that when Jacobovici, who has been working on the project for years, laid it out for him in detail, he thought, “I’m not a biblical scholar, but it seemed pretty darned compelling.” He added, “I said, this is the biggest achaeology story of the century. And I still believe that to be true.”

If true, of course, it is more than that. If true, it is a contradiction, in the most earthy, concrete way, of the Bible, which claims that Jesus was taken up bodily into heaven.

But as its creators have revealed more and more of it over the last two days, key parts of it seem increasingly like debatable conjecture.

Feb

10

BetaNews | Viacom to Promote YouTube-like Features on Sites

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BetaNews | Viacom to Promote YouTube-like Features on Sites
Viacom is wasting no time in moving on from dealing with YouTube, as the company is planning to aggressively promote new functionality on ComedyCentral.com in the coming months, and others in the future.

Functionality will be provided directly from the site itself that allows users to embed and share videos much like the popular social video site. Users will be permitted to show the video for a period of one month after it is posted.

Big media sites are starting to buckle-down and demand their content be taken off of YouTube because they’ve seen just how lucrative it can be. I know that in the last month, most of the clips I tagged as favorites on YouTube have been taken off, making that site nearly useless for me. I don’t really care about user generated content — I want to see professional content in bursts. There are a few scenes in every show that you’d like to see again… too bad you couldn’t tag scenes with keywords so you could jump straight to that section, (maybe you can someplace and I just don’t know about it).