Fox TV Hits A New Low In Low

‘Secret Millionaire’ set for Fox
The network is set to announce “Secret Millionaire,” a new series from RDF USA in which wealthy benefactors go undercover in impoverished neighborhoods. For about 10 days, a multimillionaire meets financially destitute locals and experiences what it’s like to live on a meager budget for the first time in their lives. [...]

Windows XP SP3 Verdict

Eh.
I don’t know what I really expected.
I’m experiencing some of the same crap I did with SP2.
All of it is probably due to the fact this frikkin cheapass PC — bought several years ago — cannot have more than 1GB of RAM (in fact, just a little over 3/4ths of a GB!).
Always go for the [...]

Blogging In Stereo

Since I started simulposting both here and at Blogger, all the Incoming Links in my WordPress Dashboard are now from that damned backup blog.
Feh.

The Quote That Didn’t Happen

mj at his eponymous blog quoted from a post I did yesterday in which I quoted him.
Reading his new post, I was going to use a quote from it today.
However, while taking a sip of soda, I nearly choked to death when my eye wandered to the side of his blog and saw its tag [...]

Paging Apple Legal: FreeStyl = WinMob iPhone!

The URL is lawsuit fodder by itself: whoneedsaniphone,com

Q: Are you guys just trying to copy the iPhone interface?
A: Not at all. While it is true that the release of Apple’s iPhone provided the inspiration to launch the FreeStyl project, the focus of FreeStyl is to provide a sleek, stylish interface to the Windows [...]

The Original Thunderbirds Atrocity

Thunderbirds IR
In September 2005, a QuickTime video file titled Thunderbirds IR was released on several P2P networks. It opens with music by Barry Gray and a few clips of the classic Thunderbirds 1 through 4 launching, then shows several scenes from an intended new Thunderbirds series from Carlton Television. The trailer made with a combination [...]

Someone At Carlton Must Pay For This Atrocity

They own the rights to Thunderbirds.
And they’re apparently a pack of whores.
This is an atrocity.
Brains from Thunderbirds takes centre stage in drench ad

Gerry Anderson had better be cringing. I am.

New Captain Scarlet Rarities

Captain Scarlet - Audiomotion CGI Test
This was a small test created by Audiomotion in 2001, to pitch work for the yet to be produced Captain Scarlet CGI series. It was rejected after Gerry had decided to form his own CGI production team.

Captain Scarlet - Abandoned PC Game Promo
A promo for the abandoned Captain Scarlet PC [...]

Asus EeePC e900 Vs. Everex Cloudbook: XP

VIA C7-M V.S Celeron-M 900 MHz

It’s not just the VIA CPU. The Cloudbook is loading XP from a slow hard drive, while the EeePC is using solid state storage.

Matthew St. Amand Does It Damned Good

The Turner Diaries — a review
I can just see a person in the group beautifying his home in some way that makes the rest of the stunted commune accuse him of having “Jew blood” somewhere back in his family. Who proceed to stone the guy to death just because he painted his front door a [...]