Month: April 2010

Thomas Wagner managed to escape from East Germany in 1979. His incredible story is online. It’s a true story full of dead drops, secret passages, forged documents, and encrypted shortwave radio transmissions. Werner opened the small latch and pulled a small bundle from the wooden plank. Tightly wrapped in plastic, to protect it form the…

Two minutes of funny- Season 6 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres September 16th. That gives you a little under five months to watch the first five if you haven’t already – easy!

The BlueLine PowerCost Monitor is a simple device that you snap on to the glass dome of your home’s energy meter. It wirelessly transmits information about your current electricity usage to a handheld display that you can carry around your home to see exactly how much money it’s costing you to run certain appliances. It’s…

Here’s a quick summary of something outrageous: A lesbian girl at a Mississippi high school, Constance McMillen, wanted to bring her girlfriend to her prom as her date. The school district said no. The ACLU took up her case and a judge ruled the school had to let them attend. So the school district canceled…

There’s a lot to like about Anaheim’s mayor, Curt Pringle. Here are my top three reasons! He opposed that crazy re-zoning thing they tried to pull around Disneyland and the convention center a few years back. He’s chairman of the board for the California High-Speed Rail Authority and wants to see a three-hour train route…

I bet we’ll be hearing a lot more about Gelesis and their upcoming anti-obesity supplement, Attiva pretty soon. Attiva is not a drug.  It’s a pill composed of food-based polymers, so it’s basically a natural supplement. You take Attiva with a glass of water before eating a normal meal.  When the pill hits your stomach…

I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but Old Spice has really upped their game with TV commercials lately.

Wii Media Center has been released. It lets you consume your movies, music, and photos all in less-than-glorious standard definition. It’s unlike many console-based media players in that it’s been written from scratch and is not based on the mature XBMC platform. The one thing it won’t let you do is play games. You’ll need…

This is a short film. It should be a long film. Because I need to know what happens next. — UPDATE 4/9 – This IS being made into a feature film! The script is ready and the major studios are in a bidding war for it right now. Read more at Slashfilm

If you’re as old as I am you’re old enough to remember waking up at 6 AM on Saturdays to watch Nickelodeon’s Mysterious Cities of Gold / Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea power hour. Well MCG has gotten cleaned up, special-featured, deleted-scened, and all dressed up for its DVD box set debut. It’s…