-
They’re *again* delaying the rollout of Tivo software onto Comcast STBs? I guess it’s reasonable that they need more time, considering they announced it a scant twenty-eight months ago.
-
Buy a pound of fudge brownies for only a buck! Also, watch out for diabetes!
Categories: Photos, Health, Funny
Comments (1)
Microsoft made a big splash with their Surface platform today. This is pretty slick.
I’ll take two of every display shown in the video, please.
Categories: Check this out!, Technobabble
Comments (0)
-
Whose dollars does eBay value more, advertisers’ or sellers’? And how many sellers could they afford to use before this becomes a losing strategy?
-
I’m nowhere near 100% on these…
-
Somehow, the story of the Geico Cavemen getting a sitcom deal on ABC flew around the blogosphere under my radar last week. So, when Heather clued me in while we were on vacation in Florida over the weekend, I absolutely didn’t believe her. No way, I protested; despite the nagging feeling that we live in a time where originality is at an all-time low on television, I still couldn’t believe that a major network would seriously discuss airing a half-hour sitcom based on the cavemen from the Geico commercials.
Yet here I sit eating lunch, watching the teaser for Cavemen, actually set to air this fall, in which the Cro-Magnon lead characters will “struggle with prejudice on a daily basis [and] strive to live the lives of normal thirty-somethings in 2007 Atlanta.”
I suppose that the mixed reactions around the web indicate that I’m wrong to imagine that a show like this should be universally panned before it even makes it to air. For example, as far as I can tell, one film blogger seems to be totally serious when she calls the premise “can’t-miss-funny“. Still, Ain’t It Cool News called the yet-to-be-leaked pilot episode “astoundingly awful”, and there are those who even find the concept quasi-racist.
I know I’ll be on the edge of my seat this fall, if only to see how the caveman prosthetics hold up in high definition.
Categories: TV, In the news, WTF
Comments (1)
-
The Marine Corps comes to its senses and allows 18-year-old+ service members to have a drink on special occasions.
-
-
Attention: There are now only two states with sub-$3 gasoline. Congratulations, NH and NJ, you’re our big winners!
-
Um, this is one of those situations where if you have to explain it, it’s not funny anymore.
-
- Halo 3 - I’m in the multiplayer beta. It’s loads of fun. The mercilessly short beta period means that I’ll probably be online most nights between now and June 10th.
- I’m reading Radical Evolution, which I saw on Cool Tools and recommended to my dad. The book is chock full of exciting tidbits about the frenetic pace of technological progression, and it makes me wish my trip on MARTA were a little longer every morning. Garreau excels at framing concepts in an almost breathless, excitable voice that marvels at many of the important changes we’ll see in the next century and beyond.
We live in remarkable times. Who could have imagined at the end of the 20th century that a human augmentation substance that does what Viagra does would sponsor the NBC Nightly News?
- I had barely closed the book this morning when I read about a related development, the release of the first consumer hard drive with a capacity of one terabyte. For $399, you can (probably) store in a single 3.5 inch device more data than all the computers in the world could hold on the day I was born. I remember going with my dad to pick up an 800MB hard drive for the same price in the late 90s, and I’m pretty sure that’s about what we paid for a 30MB drive back in 1989, though the latter was 5.25″ in size.
Categories: Check this out!, Technobabble
Comments (2)
