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Giveaway Monday: Greek - Chapter One {TV Squad}
Mar 17th 2008 10:30AM I work on a college campus and, even though the show isn't really representative of reality of what goes on at a university and in greek life, it is a lot of fun.
Ranking the Top 12 Idols {TV Squad}
Mar 11th 2008 3:22PM I really don't get Archieboy's appeal. He's just cute-ish and so very pageanty that he makes me tired. Ignoring the gasping for breath and constant lip-licking (Hey Blistex - are you looking for a spokesmodel?? seriously, send this boy several boxes of DCT and LipMedex before it's too late! If you don't get him, one of the asthma inhalers will snap him up.), just the fact that his MOM got on stage and completed a song for him during a live performance should demonstrate that he's basically a male version of Jon Benet Ramsey with an obsessed parent living through her child (is it true that Mommy-Archie was trolling the Idol boards telling his fans to call themselves the ArchAngels?).
In general, though, I find myself uninterested in the contestants this season. In honor of Danny, N. I will root for his BFF Ramiele and I'll enjoy the VoteForTheWorst.com fun that Amanda adds to the show. Stripper Hernandez has already become tiresome with his Celine Dion drag shows (he may not have the dress and wig, but he sure has the eyebrows going), and I'm not even going to discuss how annoying the "front runners" (read "plants") Carly and Michael Johns are.
American Idol: Top 12 Boys Perform {TV Squad}
Feb 20th 2008 9:38AM Noriega is definitely what Sanjaya wants to be and VoteForTheWorst.com should keep him in the competition for a while.
David A. is this year's Jordin with Randy pulling that "You're only 16??!!??" right from the start. Jordin, however, started small and grew - David A. is being uber-pimped from the get-go and he might crash and burn before the end. He did win on Star Search, though, so perhaps he can keep it going.
Over all, i liked the two Jasons the most. Yeager's song choice might have been strange and he really did corn it up in a very Disney-theme-park kinda way, but he came off as real/sincere. Castro's much better than his dumb hair would lead you to think, so I'm hoping that he'll show up totally cleaned up with good hair one week to change things up big time - but not in a dumb just-for-attention-to-distract-from-an-awful-voice way like Sanjaya did.
Speaking of hair and last year's freak, is the mess we saw last night thanks to Sanjaya? Noriega's new emo cut is a 180 degree turn from the short cut he wore last year and is very, very Sanjaya-esque. David Cook's hair HAS to be designed to make you stop thinking about how badly he sings. Boy-Band-Brittneys-Beau guy is trying to pretend to be a rocker with his long locks. C'mon guys... stop with the posing and try to entertain us with some actual singing, ok?
Slew of retailers to carry TV converter boxes; coupon requests open in 2008 {Engadget}
Feb 11th 2008 12:29PM In my entire life, I've only had cable television when it was included in my rent for a few years.
What did you think of Lost's enhanced season three finale? {TV Squad}
Jan 31st 2008 10:16AM I'm a LOST fan and I, too, was hoping for something more like pop-up video or DVD commentary with behind-the-scenes info or pointing out goofs. While I was disappointed, I actually thought it was a nice tool for catching people up on the action of pretty much everything that happened in season 3.
I didn't catch the first bit where they blew the cover of Jack's LA scenes being a flash forward, though. THAT was dumb because that was a big deal that would be cleared up soon enough. They also exposed it by mentioning that the letters in the name of the funeral parlor could be rearranged to form "flash forward" and I think I would have been OK with that exposition coming there, but not in the first 30 seconds of the episode.
What I wanted more of were the character retrospective promos like Sawyer and Locke got. I heard Paul Oakenfield's "Faster Kill Pussycat" this morning during my drive to work and I thought how that would work nicely for a Kate-centric promo. Jack's could be set to the tune of "Doctor, Doctor" by the Thompson Twins :-) (search YouTube to hear both of those).
Black Friday Giveaways (part 16): T-Mobile Shadow {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 23rd 2007 8:55PM this looks nice - would love to win it
Amazon Kindle gets official {Engadget}
Nov 18th 2007 7:49PM Sounds great - so make smartphones with e-ink displays and we can all just use those.
Amazon Kindle gets official {Engadget}
Nov 18th 2007 7:32PM Actually, New York libraries have had ebooks for a couple of years already:
http://ebooks.nypl.org/
... so it is possible and has been done.
Amazon Kindle gets official {Engadget}
Nov 18th 2007 7:28PM As for ebooks vs. "real" books, I like the comfort of being able to read in bed using just my thumb to advance pages. I can lie down comfortably flat on my back with no lamp shining in my face (thanks to the backlight, which I consider a requirement for ebook readers), simply holding my phone in one hand with my thumb advancing the page using the scroll-wheel on the side. I have my phone with me most of the time so I can read books on it whenever I have time to do that.
I was one of those people who did not believe I would like to read off of a screen, but it really isn't any kind of big deal. Mine (Mobipocket running on a Sony Ericsson p910i) lets me change the colors of both the background and the letters (at night I prefer red letters on black). Since I can't sleep in my RGP contacts and glasses are fairly useless for me, it is great that I can bring up the size of the letters when I read in bed.
I don't think paper books are on their way out, but if everyone could read books on the gadgets we already have in our pockets all the time anyway, why not ebooks?
Amazon Kindle gets official {Engadget}
Nov 18th 2007 7:17PM I'm going to repeat what a few others have said and wonder out loud, "Why no backlight??" Seriously, that's the reason I like ebooks on my symbian smartphone - no need for an external light. If the designers thought for an instant that people wouldn't miss that, I would be very frightened about what other flaws they built in to the gadget.
Amazon really should just skip this stupidity and get people to publish all of thei books in mobipocket format (Amazon owns mobipocket, right?). Tons of people have mobipocket-ready handhelds and phones (Palm, Symbian, Windows Mobile - all ready to go - Blackberry phones can run it too I believe). I guess DRM problems are probably the the biggest issue but that has to be workable.
