dack comments:
Battlefield Earth
Budget: $73 million. Gross through June 4th: $21 million. Watching Scientologist John Travolta’s pet project go down in flames: priceless.
m$ goes to appeals court. phroggy summarizes:
If they lose all appeals and the Supreme Court upholds Jackson’s ruling, then then MS-OS (a.k.a. Windows, Inc.) is pretty much stuck with just selling, supporting and developing Windows on a vaguely even level with Linux and other operating systems (Apple may be persuaded to release an Intel port of Mac OS X; who knows). However, MS-AP (a.k.a. Microsoft, Inc.) will take everything else, including Office, Internet Explorer, Media Player, Direct X, Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS), the X-Box, whole shebang – and will have nothing to stop them from being completely and totally evil.
wow, some impressive eye technology going on at the university of rochester.
awesome, gray’s anatomy online. for free. other fun stuff online too. tres cool.
the clouds outside were really striking. unfortunately, my shots didn’t come out that great (too much dynamic range) and i got half eaten alive by mosquitoes for the 5 minutes that i was outside.
if i played around w/ photoshop a little i could probably get something decently good out of it, at least slightly resembling what the scene actually felt like. (surprisingly bright at 8pm, slightly hazy, luminous clouds rising from the horizon.
funky capitalization aside, i’m element 104. thanks nikolai
i am easily amused – poke an abc executive repeatedly in the eye
things are looking good for the new gene roddenberry show andromeda. looking forward to this more than any new star trek show (berman can’t take a long walk off a short pier).
SC: Do you have a “Planet Hell” set [the crew nickname given to the standing guest planet set on Star Trek soundstages]?
RHW: Yep but we haven’t named it. We call it “the corner of the stage with the rocks in it.” [LAUGHS] We also discovered that in the Andromeda universe humans use Lodge Pole Pines as one of their primary terraforming plants. So a lot of planets have pine trees in our universe whereas a lot of planets were desert and scrub vegetation in the Star Trek universe. [LAUGHS] My reasoning is that if you are terraforming a planet and you want a large oxygen producing plant that is hearty and can survive in a wide variety of climates, what better plant than a pine tree?
SC: And it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you’re shooting in Vancouver?
RHW: Oh nothing. It has nothing to do with the fact that we have several million acres of pine forest readily accessible from here.
SC: Which you moved in at great expense.
RHW: Yeah. They planted them special just for us. [LAUGHS]
SC: So you’re the first show to actually do terraforming here on Earth.
RHW: Exactly and I have to thank the BC Film Board for their willingness to plant large expanses of pine forest for our convenience.
really been diggin groove armada recently.
their site also has two of their videos online. yummy.
i think i’ll be getting a pair of er-25s before i lose too much more of my hearing. precision labs incorporates a snap ring to the earmolds for the filters, which might come in handy, but unfortunately, their ordering instructions aren’t that friendly (no price online, and their earmold order form for non affiliated audiologists doesn’t seems to have check boxes for the er plugs).