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Archives for 2006

YouTube of the Week: Secret Origin Edition

August 1, 2006 by Dave

Filed Under: Comics, Movies, YouTube Tuesday

Not a "Lost" Opportunity

July 27, 2006 by Dave

Yes, it was bound to happen. The hit TV show “Lost” will soon be a board game. The scary thing is, it might actually be a good game. About.com just posted a feature about it that has a description of the rules and an interview with the game’s designer.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Television

They'll Never Understand

July 25, 2006 by Bartoneus

Nearly word-for-word, this is exactly how it happened. To this day I am uncertain as to what I heard in my friend’s voice that day, but I believe it was along the lines of unbridled terror. A primal fear that these feminine robots might actually have been sent back in time to end his life, […]

Filed Under: The Architect DM, Video Games

YouTube of the Week: It's Only a Model Edition

July 25, 2006 by Dave

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Television, YouTube Tuesday

YouTubes of the Week: Presidential Debate Edition

July 18, 2006 by Dave

Filed Under: YouTube Tuesday

Bridge Troll stopped by Police, LSD

July 14, 2006 by Dave

Modern day monsters do exist. Police arrested a man who was demanding $1 from passerbys to cross over his bridge, and when they refused to pay, he used his club against them (a broken golf club.) A man with the “troll” claimed that he was acting that way due to LSD. What’s great is that […]

Filed Under: News

So Foxy It Hurts

July 14, 2006 by Bartoneus

Sure, he may not have any coils named after him, but he still gets a birthday! That’s right ladies (and guys?) that stellar specimen of sheer ruggedness and “hotter-then-the-f-ing-sun-itself” good looks turns 40 today. Most famous these days for his leading role as the confused, puppy-dog-esque, and “I’m going to tell Locke what he can’t […]

Filed Under: News, Television

Nikola Tesla is 150 Today

July 11, 2006 by Dave

“He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene” –Nikola Tesla, about Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla, my favorite scientist and the guy who really defined “mad scientist”, had his 150th birthday today. (No doubt, of course, that he is […]

Filed Under: Comics, Movies, News

YouTubes of the Week: More than Meets the Eye

July 11, 2006 by Dave

From… to…

Filed Under: Movies, Television, YouTube Tuesday

Fantastic Planet

July 7, 2006 by spankleberry

Take a french psychedelic 70’s scifi animation, infuse a fresh mental electronica soundtrack. 1hr:11min of bliss on Google Video.  Truely a spankledelic experience.

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

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