I would love to see another Muppets series, what in the day of American Idol, and all the other real(ly awful)ity TV that’s out there, how cool would it be to see everyone again? Plus, the idea sounds funny: “…a brand new pilot for a Muppet mini-series is being passed around Disney, a spoof [...]

“The Daily Show is much funnier than traditional newscasts, but a new study from Indiana University says it has the same amount of meat on its bones when it comes to coverage of the news. The brand of news coverage Jon Stewart and the rest of The Daily Show’s staff brings to the airwaves is [...]

Good news everyone! After the rumors and false Billy West statements, Futurama *really* is coming back, with the same cast to boot! “Futurama” star Katey Sagal confirmed the return of the show on Comedy Central Tuesday night during an appearance on Craig Ferguson’s “Late Late Show. … The quirky animated show from [...]

I love that people have so much more creative options these days, what with things like digital cameras, and easy apps like iPhoto and iMovie to exploit for artistic reasons. Here’s a great short film about nothing in particular, but it’s a stop action film built out of 580 digital images, all glued together [...]

Here’s a nicely done overview of the great new features you can expect from Windows Vista, whenever it’s released that is. A really nicely done comparison of what is new, and what is borrowed.

Looks like the merits of prayer on under fire again, “A recent study conducted by the Duke University Medical Center on 700 patients, found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery. Researchers emphasized their work does not address whether God exists or answers prayers made on another’s [...]

Not much to say on this, one, so here’s the article. ”Well, that didn’t take long. It seems that Windows’ crash-tastic tendencies aren’t limited to PCs. Check out this post by Deal Catcher forum user dbaxter. He writes that after installing Boot Camp, things were going swimmingly…for thirty minutes. While browsing USB devices, Windows [...]

There’s trouble going down in Oahu as the frequency of banana thefts is increasing, to the chagrin of local authorites. ”Kailua police are looking into a flurry of banana thefts within the last several weeks at Windward Oahu farms. Though agricultural thefts happen often, investigators said thefts at banana farms in particular have escalated from [...]

Over at The Inquirer.net, they have a great article about the fact that flame wars are often sparked by misread emails, or if not misread, misinterpreted! Hmmm…this hits home since I know some disagreements have started over similar circumstances. ”According to a new study published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, [...]

UPDATE: eek! That page has gone away, but never fear, the Shockwave file is still out there to enjoy, just do a Google search for smb_super_synth.swf. I found it here, here and here.
Someone has made a Flash page where you can replay all the audio from the NES (Nintendo 8-bit console) game, [...]

David Pogue of the New York Times has written a great piece titled How to Be a Curmudgeon on the Internet which covers how rude and arrogant people are in their criticisms when sent via email. It’s so true, the autonomy gives authors a “right to speed” as it were. People think they’re [...]

Here’s another example of people being afraid of what they don’t know about; Student accused of trying to crash school’s computer system. ”A Stark County high school senior has been arrested and charged for allegedly trying to crash his school’s computer system. Police say the student, created a website which connected to the school’s [...]

In what would be a cool trend, Futurama could come back from the dead, ala Family guy. ”Nearly four years after it was cancelled, the popularity of Futurama on DVD could breathe life back into the animated television series. On the subject of a rumoured resurrection, creator Matt Groening, best known for his other [...]

We’re big on phone meetings at the big company I work for; I guess when there’s over 10,000 folks in the company they think it’s a good idea. Anyway I had some more bizspeak spouted out yesterday on a call that just made my jaw drop. The speaker used the phrase tribal knowledge [...]