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Stuck in the office (or your in-laws’ house) during Christmas week?

Here’s the cure to boredom! Over 200 Christmas specials on Fanpop! Yes, this includes all the old favorites you’ve come to know and love:

A Charlie Brown Christmas… Frosty the Snowman… The Year Without a Santa Claus (the one with Heat Miser and Cold Miser – best Christmas special song ever)…

And a few you’d probably never expect to see:

Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration (the one with the California Raisins!)… Mr. Bean: Christmas Sketches… . . . → Read More: Stuck in the office (or your in-laws’ house) during Christmas week?

Blue Skin, and movie trailers

How could anyone be stupid enough to let his skin turn blue?

Slice of Sci-Fi has a two lists of movie trailers. Here are my favorites from their lists.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Get Smart

10,000 B.C.

Speed Racer

Cloverfield

Rambo

Batman: The Dark Knight

[tags]movie trailers, odd people[/tags]

. . . → Read More: Blue Skin, and movie trailers

NBC Universal nailing the coffin shut on Sci-Fi

I don’t understand. NBC Universal is canceling three of the best Sci-Fi shows in recent memory. Journeyman, The 4400, and The Dead Zone are all goners.

What’s the deal?! All three of those shows were good and getting better!

The last I heard, there was talk of giving The Dead Zone a final 7th season to wrap everything up, and it certainly looked like the stories were headed in that direction.

The 4400 looked like . . . → Read More: NBC Universal nailing the coffin shut on Sci-Fi

Trailer: Hancock

Quicktime trailerI post this in remembrance of a hapless rabbit in a very early Simpsons episode. (Mike, you’ll know exactly the scene I’m talking about when you reach the end of this trailer.)

Click through the link above and watch the trailer for Will Smith’s new superhero comedy, due out in summer 2008.

I feel bad for the guys in that boat…

[tags]Will Smith, The Simpsons, Greenpeace, superheroes, Jason Bateman[/tags]

. . . → Read More: Trailer: Hancock

Keep gift ideas on del.icio.us

I can’t believe this didn’t occur to me before. I’ve been trying to come up with a good system of sharing gift ideas with my family for quite a while. I wrote a static page to do that at one point, but it’s proven to be a bit of a pain to keep updated. This idea fits much more easily into the “stream of work” as I surf the web. Combine it with Firefox’s del.icio.us . . . → Read More: Keep gift ideas on del.icio.us