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Who Put the ‘Wrong’ in Doctor Who?
Wink and a nod: Is there a coded message behind actor Christopher Eccleston’s explanation why he quit Doctor Who after just one season? He says he “didn’t enjoy the environment and the culture” of the show. And the media is just leaving it at that.
Time to eScape: Kids’ Adventure Series Comes to the Web this Summer
What if you woke up one day at summer camp to discover all the adults had disappeared? That’s how our new kids’ adventure series, eScape, begins when it comes to the Web this summer. You can check out the trailer right now!
Sizing Up the Oscar Noms
It’s Oscar season, with the first 10-nominee Best Picture category ever. Here’s my take on the competition in all but the technical categories as we leave the starting gate.
‘Precious’ Both More and Less Than You Expect
Precious is so much more than the depression fest you expect. It provides a shocking and enlightening view of life in the inner city, where faith in the power of literacy and creativity can wring some small bit of hope from the crude morass of poverty and abuse.
Help Make Sense of Haiti
Refusing to be paralyzed by Haiti’s tragedy or overwhelmed by the jumble of information spurting forth in the quake’s aftermath, Kellie Walsh is sorting through the noise to find some signal. You can help.
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Celebrated Jumping Frog Leaps Again (Electronically)
Though long in the public domain, there’s no complete electronic version of Mark Twain’s debut book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, and Amazon’s Kindle store and iPhone app proved disappointing. So I took matters into my own hands.
Pic of the Day: What a Bunch of B.S.
From a bulletin board for the Communication and Media program at the University of Minnesota. The funny part is that the “B.S.” bit was taped onto the Scientific & Technical Communication label — someone went out of their way to let you know.
My ‘Blood and Fire’ Wins TrekMovie’s Best of Year
TrekMovie.com awarded the Star Trek: Phase II episode I co-authored with noted scifi author David Gerrold the Best Fan Production of 2009. “Blood and Fire, Part 2″ is based on a script Gerrold wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation but was never produced because producers deemed it too controversial.
Random Things
Catchphrases that have jumped the shark (hasn’t ‘jumping the shark’ become a bit tired as well?), a holiday commercial that worked for me, leftie whining about commercials, how do you pronounce ‘niche’? And are Leonardo DiCaprio and Julia Stiles the same person?
Blame Adam Lambert
Why Peggy Noonan’s recent Wall Street Journal article casts about for a scapegoat to blame for what’s wrong with America and (shocker!) comes upon homosexual singer Adam Lambert.
