I’d go the extra mile and dip them in chocolate a la buckeyes.

So it’s going to go from Fox, which touted “limited commercial interruptions” during Orville’s airings, is moving to Hulu, which is more commercials than programming. Yay.

Nearly twenty years ago, Macross VFX-2 was dubbed, but got lawyered out of existence at the last minute.

Fines are already factored into the cost of doing business. They’re considered part of the businesses’ overhead, so they have absolutely zero deterrence value. *Actual prison time* for people in expensive suits, however, *that* gets their attention.

Seeing Nicole Beharie above re-ups my annoyance at the raw deal she got in Sleepy Hollow.

“Opposition party”! Hah! That’s a good one!

Uh, the stress *does* go on the second syllable in demonetization... (Unless you’re putting monetized -- MON-eh-tized -- and demonetized together as a pair for emphasis, in which case you’d stress the DE.)

She’s seriously claiming that that ol’ evil turtle has been thwarting the noble plans of Good Emperor Donald? *Seriously*? Drain the swamp? He’s doubled the depth by pumping in raw sewage and hanging a For Sale sign on the door of the White House. Did McConnell make him fill his cabinet with grifters, scammers,…

“Luz, the festival hit concerning a taxi driver stalked by a demonically possessed woman.”

Says the site whose sister site io9 had a MASSIVE spoiler for the final episode of Game of Thrones in a fucking autoplaying video on its main page, making it unavoidable...

I jumped ship from Comcast to a local ISP last fall and am still using the same comcast.net address. They told me that their addresses remain active as long as you use it at least every six months. I’ve used it as my primary contact address for 15 years, so migrating it elsewhere would have been a huge pain. The…

And shockingly, states where abstinence-only sex ed programs are mandated, teen pregnancies and STD rates are astronomically higher than states that push, y’know, education. Who’d have guessed?

My German Lit From 750-1450 professor back in 1991 regaled us with tales of hacking flatbed scanners to do an early version of this (to scan manuscript pages via infrared rather than visible light). He’d be happy to see how far it’s progressed. 

“Never Again (to Us)”

Wow, that’s some wild synchronicity. A Norwegian musician named Leo Moracchioli who does metal covers of unlikely songs (Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” to name a recent example) just posted a cover of The Sign to Youtube today. It’ll crowd out the bad ear worm.

To say nothing of the fact that the guy’s name is “Namihei”...

How do you “rerelease” something that’s still in the theaters? I *just* saw it for the first time last Friday.

I just wish the CGI artists would give a little consideration to mass. There’s that scene early on where Qui-gon and Annakin drop down into a hangar bay full of droids. They just ... slide from point A to point B with no acceleration from gravity. And don’t give me any Force-related handwaving, that just looks fake as…

I think I have three of varying sizes. Can style, mechanical calculators are cool, too. I used to have one of those, but lost it at some point.

Uh, yes, that’s exactly what journalism is supposed to be doing. Contrary to the modern “I’ll just collate their press releases and talking points and call it a day,” actual journalists dig to uncover things that need fixing and then report their findings to focus public attention on it, and that pressure is what gets…