"Long-distance callers have some money coming - MarketWatch Make any long distance calls in the last three years? Claim your cash in 2007! The repeal of the Federal excise tax (initiated in 1898 to fund the Spanish-American war) means the government is"
Claim some long-distance cash!

"In any Highlander movie, it's expected: heads will roll. In this case, though, it should have been heads of the film's creators. Why would you go and make a movie, probably the last one the Highlander series will ever see, that"
Review: Highlander: The Source

"What is the fascination people have with completely non-descriptive buzzwords? And buzzwords with version numbers?! What the heck is the point of that? That is completely faddish and just plain lazy. Learning 2.0; Web 2.0 . . . I don't"
Learning 2.0: useless buzzword

"After a troubled history with Disney, 20th Century Fox has picked up the Narnia series and is moving forward. This December we'll be treated to the next installment in the series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  The first trailer"
Back to Narnia with a new trailer, and a 2010 movie update

"This post is going to be like throwing spaghetti on the wall: I'm just gonna toss a lot of stuff up here and see what sticks. It worked for Oscar Madison (okay, that was linguini - work with me). Movie prices According"
Throwing spaghetti on the wall

"How should I spend my economic stimulus rebate? Over at Gather Little by Little (link above), Glblguy reviews his decision with his wife about what to do with his economic stimulus rebate. All of us (in the US, anyway) have the"
My economic stimulus rebate is going to...

"[caption id="attachment_795" align="alignright" width="227" caption="Is Watchmen unfilmable?"][/caption] I've seen the trailers. I've seen a bunch of clips. It looks good. The visuals are great. Hard to say much else about it, though, so far. I'm also reading the book for the first"
Quick thoughts on Watchmen: unfilmable?

"It's over. For four years of my life (which, oddly enough, took six years), I've been watching Battlestar Galactica weekly. This redesigned joy from my childhood became an engaging, exciting, and dramatic story in my adulthood. As with any other TV"
Review: Battlestar Galactica finale

"In the last month or so, it seems like Murphy is camped on my front step. Computer - dead. Motherboard, presumably, is fried, based on research. Car inspection - over $500 more than expected in repairs. VCR - dead.  Yes, I still had"
Unexpected costs, things that have broken lately, and lessons learned

"GateWorld - SCI FI confirms Atlantis cancellation, TV movie Stargate: Atlantis has been cancelled. The show will run through its 100th episode in January 2009 and end on a cliffhanger, which will be resolved by a 2-hour movie. So basically, this is"
Stargate to die a slow, painful death

"The networks released their schedules for next year this week. No surprise: Smallville and 24 are both reappearing in the schedules. However, there has been surprising news/rumors about both shows... 24 Jack is back, and as an appeasement from the long wait"
TV updates: 24 and Smallville (w/spoilers)

"Okay, after my last post I got sucked into the world of lightsabers on YouTube and ran across these two series: Three in the Afternoon (and the upcoming sequel, Six in the Morning) is a funny take on what you might"
More Jedi Fighting

"I read somewhere recently that comic books do superhero fights better than movies because things happen too fast in the movies. I understand where that's coming from, but I'm not sure I buy it completely. Spider-man's fights were pretty cool"
Review: Superman: Doomsday

"I've been holding off on posting my thoughts until I felt I had a real grasp for quality of the show. Well, I can now say that I firmly believe this to be the best new show of this year."
Review: Heroes Ep 1-3

"Warner will follow Marvel model to develop new superhero films : Slice of SciFi [caption id="attachment_488" align="alignright" width="288" caption="Superman Returns darker"][/caption] Ever since Superman Returns was released, rumors were flying about the sequel. Would it happen? Would Bryan Singer return to helm"
Superman Returns, but not as expected