This video clip was getting posted to some sites last week, and it reminded me of how I used to watch the UK version of Whose Line all the time. And here's a great example of why - one of the comedians, Ryan Stiles, was playing a character in a sketch and ended up breaking a neon sign with his head during it. But he managed not to break character (after confirming he wasn't bleeding):
"When deciding which tragedies deserve the most prominent coverage, use this simple math: 10,000 foreigners = one cute white American chick."
"If the President of the United States is accused of violating the law on the same day that an African country erupts into civil war and an especially gloomy economic report is released, and you must decide which one is your lead story, ask yourself this: Did the local sports team just win a big game?"
"When working at the New York Post, make sure your story includes all six W's: Who, What, When, Where, Why and With What Kind of Lubricant."
"When appearing on television, insinuate that all newspaper reporters are biased. When writing for a newspaper, imply that all television people are boobs with no credibility."
"When threatening to kill other human beings, make sure they do not live in your coverage area."
This week's episode was a bit haphazard, but it was the "finale" of Season 3 despite the fact that there is only a one-week break before Season 4 starts. It was just strange that little has been going on in the last few episodes, and suddenly this episode had something like 3 or 4 significant storylines.
First off they're finally moving out of their mansion since they sold it to buy the Medellin script. So now Drama's looking for a small place but then gets talked into getting a really expensive place just because of the "Iron Chef" kitchen. Pretty nonsensical, but isn't every Turtle and Drama adventure?
The previous comments made in the last few reviews about Sloan were right. There's nothing interesting going on with her and E anymore, and at least E showed that he could pretty much care less if Medellin ends up ending their relationship. Apparently he's not all that committed.
Of course Billy Walsh is nothing but trouble. Trouble with E, trouble with Nicky Rubenstein, trouble with Ari, and now he wants to make the movie in Spanish? Is it too late to find a different director? He's probably going to destroy their movie. Sure Queen's Boulevard was gold, but this sounds like it is not going to get so lucky.
Ari pretty much played a back seat to all the action, though I did like seeing him drop his food and chopsticks when Billy made a ridiculous comment about leaving to take a dump in the middle of the meal. "Now I'm gonna go dump, you let me know."
In general a pretty good episode to wrap up the season. It'll be interesting to see if Season 4 picks up where this left off, or further into the future. It seems like they would have a storyline about tension with Billy if they picked up in the same spot, and they do like that tension. But as far as seasons go it may make more sense to jump to where the movie's nearly finished.
Hot houseguest Emma Cornell, a model from Adelaide, is unaware that her dad, Raymond Cornell, died earlier this month after battling cancer. Father and daughter were estranged until recently.
News that Emma was being kept in the dark surfaced last week but the pressure on producers to do something about it is mounting - not least because they worry that word will get to her by some other means. The show's producers have so far refused to break the traditional "BB" ban on letting contestants hear any news from the outside world - including the death of a family member.
Two studio-audience members this week held up a sign reading, "Emma, Your Dad is Dead," before being hustled out and barred for good.
From this point it seems pretty ridiculous that they wouldn't tell her. If anything, it would probably create more drama and ratings from the show's perspective. But it doesn't seem so ridiculous when you get the whole story, and Fox News only has half of it. The rest of the article at the NYPost elaborates (with my emphasis):
Emma didn't see the sign but, according to a recent online survey, over 80 percent of Australian TV viewers still believe she should be told about her dad's death.
Her family, though, says that Emma was aware her dad could die while she was in the "BB" house. They also say it was her dad's dying wish that Emma - to whom he had not spoken in several years - not be disturbed while competing on the show. "He made us promise him that no one would notify Emma of his death," Emma's brother, Matt Cornell, told the Australian press.
"I personally spent the last week of Dad's life by his side and one thing he was absolutely certain about was the fact that he didn't want to impose . . . on Emma's 'Big Brother' experience."
Producers say they'll tell Emma about her dad's death once she's out of the "BB" house. "It will be off-camera . . . it will not be televised, and we will tell her well before she goes out on stage," says co-executive producer Kris Noble.
The incident is eerily reminiscent of what happened here [in the U.S.] in 2001, when CBS' "Big Brother 2" was still airing on Sept. 11. The three remaining houseguests were only given scant details of the attacks - even though contestant Monica Bailey, a candy-store manager from Brooklyn, had a cousin who was killed in the Twin Towers that day.
That's all well and good, but it still seems like a stupid idea not to tell someone news like this. It may affect how the show plays out, but isn't that the whole point anyways? And while she was allright with not hearing any news, that doesn't mean everyone else would be fine with it too, so it shouldn't be a blanket rule.
The fax from a marketing group about a Bank of America small business promotion contained images of a lighted match and a bomb with a fuse, bank spokesman Ernesto Anguilla said. But words explaining the promotion did not transmit.
"The fax machine malfunctioned, so a partial image came through that looked somewhat suspicious," Anguilla said.
The missing text included the phrases "The countdown begins" and "Small business commitment week June 4-8," according to a copy circulated by police.
"It was an internal communication designed only for our employees," Anguilla said. The fax was sent to the bank's branches in parts of New England as well as New York and New Jersey. The bank's Ashland branch manager called police Wednesday morning.
Fears also arose because the branch received a suspicious package delivered by a customer around the same time, police said. A State Police bomb squad searched the bank branch and checked out the package, which was a delivery of documents.
About 15 small businesses in a shopping plaza were evacuated for about three hours, including a day care center with about 30 children, Police Chief Scott Rohmer said.
There's not a lot of crazy stuff going on today. Or most Fridays for that matter. So how to pass the time? Try out the new "Random Story" feature! Just click on the little dice icon up in the navigation bar () and you'll get flung to some random story posted on this site. And with 569 stories and counting, there's plenty of good stuff. In fact, I had found I've forgotten many of the stories I myself have posted, and it's fun to check them out. This just makes the whole thing easier than hitting the "Older articles" link at the bottom of the main page repeatedly.
So if you're ready for some craziness, you can go back in time!
This is seriously awesome. And unbelievably funny. Someone mashed up the audio from 300 with the fight scene (and some other clips) from Anchorman to create this hilarious video:
If you're a fan of Family Feud, you might like to know that you can own the set of the show! That's right, it's up on eBay. And the best part is at the moment you'd only have to pay $336 for it. How is it such a steal? Well, it will cost you about $5,000 to move it anywhere because the set is 2,500 square feet. Hope you've got a big backyard.
Microsoft has released video of an extremely cool upcoming product that only has had concepts demonstrated before. While they show it used in both home as well as hotel and bar environments, it's likely to only appear in the latter because of it's cost, at least in the near future. The product is a touchscreen table which allows you to touch multiple points at the same time. That's already been seen though, even on this very site at the beginning of last year.
What's different about this is the way it's being used. Put a music player on the surface and suddenly a circle appears around it. Then open a music player and drag tracks directly to the circle, and the file gets transferred to the player! Or in a different scenario, 4 people in a bar are about to leave and want to split the check. They each put down their credit cards and they can split the check, without complicating things for a waiter/waitress.
Of course you can imagine that latter case will cause plenty of privacy concerns considering how rampant credit card fraud is. But even without that, you can easily manipulate photos, movies, and maps, and easily drop the information/data you want from those things to mobile devices. This is definitely the direction things in the mobile and computing world are moving. No more wires, no more complicated interface. Take a look for yourself:
Myself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially. (all 4133 of them) We then nailed each "shot" of 50-100 posters to various structures and posts. Then using a digital SLR camera with a long exposure we frame by frame shot each poster. Oh, and theres a little video projection (again, frame by frame on the SLR) just to mix it up. There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!
