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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…
• Justice League: Comfort & Joy Christmas Special…

And at least one most of us would like to forget:

• The Star Wars Holiday Special (starring Harvey Korman! and Boba Fett’s first appearance!)

And that’s just in the 2006 list!

The Christmas Spot - Watch 101 Classic Christmas Videos Online - Fanpop (2006)

See even more in the 2007 list (He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special?! McHale’s Navy - The Day They Captured Santa?! Where the heck does he find this stuff?!)

There is some completely great stuff on both lists (including “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” the one with the mice and the clock, one of my all time favorites), but seriously, how can you not spend hour after hour watching the Welcome Back, Kotter Christmas episode, or Gumby’s, or Pinky and the Brain’s?

The guy that created those lists obviously has waaaaaay too much time on his hands, and I love him for it. Thanks, Greedo!!

Merry Christmas, everybody!!! 

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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

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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 it was gearing up for a killer season, based on last season’s finale. That was one show that I carved out time to watch live almost every week!

Journeyman…. I’m so annoyed about that it’s not even funny. The decision to axe the other shows is, in my opinion, incredibly stupid, but at least they had a chance and gave it a good run. Journeyman was slashed with virtually no support at all.

To be fair, Heroes is still around, and despite a less than stellar season, I think that’s a good decision. That was probably right on the edge of the chopping block, too, though.

Network executives need to get a clue about supporting stories that take more than 30 minutes to develop. All of these shows had overarching plots that were headed for some serious revelations and need time to set up (or resolve, in the case of DZ and 4400).

SG-1 is gone… 4400 is gone… Battlestar is almost gone… what the heck am I supposed to watch this year?

Slice of SciFi has a good post about this:

From the way NBC Universal has been operating of late by cancelling “The Dresden Files,” “Journeyman,” “The 4400,” and now “Dead Zone,” it almost looks like upper management at the company is seeing genre-related products as harbingers of leprosy or some other highly dreaded disease. Their other owned and operated cable station, The SCI FI Channel has even begun showing less sci-fi and has leaned more heavily on the fantasy and horror genre, or non-genre programming such as wrestling, and so-called reality programming such as “Ghost Hunters,” “Who Wants To Be a Superhero” and “Destination Truth.”

Currently the only SF shows that have survived NBC Universal’s axe are “Medium,” “Chuck,” “Heroes,” and possibly “Bionic Woman,” however, it wouldn’t be too surprising to not see “Bionic” make a return trip to the NBC network.

IMO, Medium is really a detective show, not so much a sci-fi show. In the same sense, Chuck is only a sci-fi show in that it’s main character has a gimmick (good show, but only tangentially sci-fi). Bionic Woman, sadly, probably deserves to be axed. They’re trying, but it’s not coming together, honestly. I give them credit though, in that they are attempting to show the effect of having this new ability and role on her life and her family.

We had a couple good years lately of some pretty high-quality sci-fi shows, but it looks like that’s all going down the tubes pretty quickly. It’s back to crap-TV apparently, for the foreseeable future.

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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…

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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 extension and it’s a no-brainer.

Use del.icio.us to track gift ideas | Parent Hacks

1) As I’m surfing, if I see something that might make a good gift for someone, I tag it with the following: their name, “giftidea”, and the upcoming occasion (if I have one in mind). Later when I’m ready to buy I can browse or search my tags and find ideas easily.

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