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question of the day: Is a streaming Super Bowl a nail in the coffin for...
Headline I missed yesterday being offline most of the day: In New-Media First, Super Bowl to Be Streamed Online That’s from Advertising Age, which continues: The next Super Bowl will be streamed...
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FlickFilosopher.com will join the SOPA protest on Wednesday, January 18
This coming Wednesday, January 18, the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act, which I wrote about last month. Here’s some more background: PROTECT IP / SOPA...
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watch it: “Conspiracy Theory Rock By Robert Smigel”
I can’t believe this actually aired on Saturday Night Live, even if it was way back in 1998. Probably would never make it to air today. And in fact, this clip was edited out of future airings of this...
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how much coverage of SOPA have you seen in the mainstream American media?
bronxbee emailed me today to say, about the SOPA Web strike: it’s really amazing how little news media coverage there is about this event. the NYTimes does have a front page article about it, but...
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Doctor Who thing of the day: Inspector Spacetime gets real
Back in September, readers Teenygozer and Lisa (and soon after Ide Cyan) alerted me to the Doctor Who stand-in/parody on the NBC sitcom Community. I never got around to posting anything about it, so...
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Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch yakking at TV BAFTAs (and other...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch yakking at TV BAFTAs. Bunk. I’ll be in it. What could Matt Smith & Benedict Cumberbatch be...
View Articlea celebration of London, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (and other adventures...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • This is the crap that assaults little girls and warps our brains. As explained by the brilliant Everywhereist. WTF Weds: Dream Bride...
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Sherlock Holmes meets steampunk Iron Man (and other adventures in social...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Worst part of the Jonah Lehrer fiasco: Everyone keeps using the term “fabulist,” which sounds so awesome, like a fey...
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what Batman thinks about (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • I’ve been asked to sign an embargo form for an upcoming screening that forbids, among other things, talking about said film “in public...
View Articleis this really a collection of Terry Gilliam’s notes and sketches? (and other...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • My critical colleague Scott Renshaw unravels the tangled issue of how critics should — and actually do — see movies. The Wisdom of...
View Articleis NBC’s Revolution a *complete* theft of S.M. Stirling’s Dies the Fire? (and...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Oh dear god no please someone make it stop. ‘ALF’ Movie Lands at Sony Animation With ‘Smurfs’ Producer (Exclusive) • There’s a lot of...
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Darth Vader meets Batman, on the subway (and other adventures in social...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Ooo. I’m a little bit dreading and a little bit excited. Mostly to see how Keanu Reeves deals with Ted Logan today… ‘Bill And Ted 3’...
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are we being overzealous with the spoiler warnings? (and other adventures in...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • NBC: still keepin’ it classy. NBC uses song about penis to promote fall programming • And because girls can’t play videogames, natch....
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Revolution: Pilot (review)
We really need to thank NBC for allowing us to view, on the Web, the pilot for its new faux science-fiction series Revolution in advance of its over-the-air debut this coming Monday, September 17....
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corporate journalmalism at its finest (and other adventures in social...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Corporate journalmalism at its finest. Every Tech Journalist’s Worst Nightmare. Editors at CNET were forced to rescind a product award...
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Which That Mitchell & Webb Look sketch is now thought to be prophetic? I originally posted this on September 29th, 2010. *sigh* My new favorite British comedians… Also, excellent unintended...
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