Anything related to the various media, like radio & TV, and other entertainment.
Comedian Dan Antopolski has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe) is the world’s largest arts festival. It takes place in Scotland’s capital during three weeks every August together with several other arts and cultural festivals, collectively known as the Edinburgh Festival. The funnyman, […]
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To quote Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Good news, everyone! 🙂 It has been confirmed. Next year the award-winning animated sci-fi sitcom will return. Futurama is being resurrected on Comedy Central, and we can expect at least 26 spanking-new episodes. Airing begins in 2010.
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A friend of mine brought the latest product of Bill-soft (aka Microsoft) to my attention: Microsoft Songsmith. Songsmith immediately generates a musical accompaniment after a voice is recorded. The user can either go with the choices of Songsmith, or the user can adjust tempo, genre (such as pop, R&B, hip-hop, rock, jazz, or reggae), and
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I just watched Futurama: Bender’s Game on DVD. A delightful mixture of many great movies, series and even a board game! The idea was to spoof Dungeons and Dragons. That the execution of this idea happened to coincide with its creator, Ernest Gary Gygax, is just a… well… coincidence! 😉 The movie producers have managed
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Just as I wondered a couple of years ago about Mark Harmon & Gregory Smith, I noticed recently a remarkable resemblance between Jewel Staite (known as Dr Jennifer Keller in Stargate Atlantis) and Rupert Grint (known as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter series). It’s (of course!) not the bodies, but more the facial expressions.
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Hell, explained by a Chemistry student The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was so ‘profound’ that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :
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