Be one of the first to see the mid-season finale of Battlestar Galactica on the Big Screen.

Catch the Mid season Finale on the Big Screen.

In Six major markets free screenings for this event ... Nice.

Ewoks... in HD!

This November, on HBO/Cinemax - all six Star Wars films, in order, IN HD! Kiss the free space on your DVR goodbye. If you don't have enough space to store all of this SciFi goodness, you might want to subscribe to the IceBurrg Method (TM): skip the movies with ewoks and Jar-Jar. C'mon - we all know the only movies that mattered were made before Lucas discovered plush toys.

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Save Lucky Louie Campaign Now Active | Dead-Frog - A Comedy Blog

Update to previous post show was officially not renewed, those who love it try to save it, worked for family guy:)

Save Lucky Louie Campaign Now Active | Dead-Frog - A Comedy Blog: "Save Lucky Louie Campaign Now Active"

Gimme some paw

SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel: "12:00 AM, 21-SEPTEMBER-06


G4 To Air Spaceballs Series

MGM TV has commissioned an animated series based on Mel Brooks' 1987 Spaceballs movie and sold exclusive rights in the U.S. to Comcast's G4 cable network, Variety reported.

Encompassing a one-hour pilot and 13 half-hour episodes, the project represents the first scripted series green-lighted by the new TV division at MGM, led by Jim Packer, president of the worldwide TV distribution group. The series kicks off on G4 in fall 2007, the trade paper reported.

Although the movie grossed only $38.1 million in the United States, the Star Wars satire has become a successful franchise on DVD and in cable and pay TV reruns.

Brooks and Thomas Meehan, who co-wrote the movie with Ronnie Graham, have written the one-hour pilot, and Meehan will supervise the writing of the 13 half-hours. Brooks will do two of the voices, President Skroob and Yogurt. Germany's Berliner Film Companie will provide the animation.
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Keep LUCKY LOUIE on HBO Next Season

Log on to the LUCKY LOUIE Survey to help keep Lil Jimmy employed :)

Shatner... in HD!

Star Trek Gets Upgraded: " The original 1960s Star Trek series will receive a high-tech makeover and return to broadcast syndication for the first time in 16 years with digitally remastered episodes, Paramount announced." StarTrek.com has more details, and a link to a picture of the updated enterprise. Further proof that in HD, everything is better.

It's Christmas in September

I just found the perfect Christmas gift for Jarn at Thinkgeek. And no, it's not a Lords of the Rhymes CD...

Writely is Ready!

ARS Technica is reporting that Google's Writely is now back open to the public. If you've been waiting (I have), now is your chance to get an account. After a quick review, it seems fairly effective for simple documents - especially if collaboration is required. In fact, I wrote and published this blog post using Writely.

At least it's not Asimov...

According to SciFi.com, Will Smith is set to ruin another classic science fiction story. This time, it's Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend". Personally, I'm rooting for the vampires.

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The Doctor is IN

The Sci-Fi channel has acquired the rights to air season 2 of the new Doctor Who series. Much to my surprise, I rather enjoyed the first season. It's more like a B-movie than the usual end of the (world, universe, humanity - pick one) variety that is so prevalent. I'd encourage everyone to check it out when it's released on September 29th.

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We have them just where they want us

It seems like a banner week for James T. Kirk updates. This time, it appears that he will do voice work for an upcoming game that will let you play as commander of more than 60 starships from any of the live-action series. I'd buy this game just to see Kirk show that weenie Picard how a real man beats up on the Borg: double-fisted punches, improvised gunpowder, and stealing of all attractive alien women.

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So you want to be James T. Kirk?

Scifi.com is reporting that Shatner is sponsoring an online contest to find the most talented SF personality in the United States. The grand-prize winner will receive a large cash award and will be named the official spokesperson for the William Shatner Science Fiction DVD Club. Oh, and be eligible to hook up with all the alien women they can find. Plus +7 geekery points if you enter.

Release early, release often

SourceForge is dead, long live Google Code Project Hosting. While Google Code Project Hosting doesn't have quite the same ring to it as SourceForge does, it does have a better slogan: "Release early, release often". I got chills when I read it (those of you who know me personally know how much I love alpha and beta software). In the announcement, Google said they are being careful not to stomp on SourceForge, but it's hard to see that actually playing out.

The Analogy Too Far

Here's a article from the San Fransico Gate describing sex with a Windows machine compared to the sexual fantasy of Mac computing. Let me tease you with a snippet:

"That's it, baby," Windows coos, stroking your calves, working its way up to your hard drive. "Just relax, don't worry about a thing." Then come the magic words, the line Windows knows you secretly want to hear, the one guaranteed to send you into OS orbit: "Baby, I'll do it so good you'll think you're using a new MacBook Pro in a wireless cafe in Paris."

Mark Morford tries to make the typical "Windoze suxx, Mac rules!" article into something creative. Can't say I'm hot on the theme, but then again, I'm pretty Puritan when it comes to hardware pr0n.

technorati tags:windowsxp, windows, hardware, mac, apple, osx, hardwarepr0n

Kissing the gadget budget goodbye

CNet has a story about how women make up an ever-growing percentage of the gadget market. This is very, very bad news for married men who like their gadgets. It's tough enough to find cash for that new iPod, MacBook, Treo, and HD Tivo... now just imagine buying two of everything. It's almost enough to make a grown geek cry. Beware of spousal gadget envy! I've learned (the hard way of course) that there is no acceptable justification for giving the wife a hand-me-down iPod so you can buy a shiny new Nano.

Got plans for the holiday weekend?

The new teaser trailer for Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers movie has gone live at the film's official Web site, a few days before its expected July 4 launch, and is linked through SCI FI Wire's Trailers page.

SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel

Commence Operation Deceptigirl. Primary Goal: Convincing wife/girlfriend that seeing a live-action Transformers movie is the perfect holiday activity.

technorati tags:geekery, toys, adults_who_refuse_to_grow_up

Y2J hits the Small Screen on Scifi

SCIFI.COM | Android Apocalypse

Just noticed this Gem being advertised on Sci-fi, guess this is why he isn't on Raw?

Face/Off

Yahoo news is reporting that, "In the latest edition of the Marvel comic "Civil War" on sale, Spiderman does the unthinkable and removes his Spidey mask to publicly reveal his hidden identity." In related news, John Woo has already started writing the script for the next Spiderman movie. I'll go ahead and spoil the end of the movie by telling you that after removing the Spiderman mask, the Peter Parker Mask, and the Mary Jane mask you find out that Spidey is really... J. Jonah Jameson!


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You've Got The Touch, You've Got The Power

Well, it looks like it's time to save the world through well-placed product placement and toy advertising again! Gizmodo is reporting:

According to a leaked script, three of our favorite consumer electronics are going to do a little “transforming in the new Transformers live action movie courtesy of Michael Bay. The Xbox 360 game console, iPod music player, and plasma televisions are going shape-shift to become, well, we donÂ’t know what yet. Maybe the Xbox 360 will turn into a PS3, the plasma into an LCD, and an iPod into Steve Jobs.

As long as they are adding new bots, they should really consider allowing the fan base to submit ideas. Not that anyone cares, but here are mine:

Microsoft Evil Live 2006 Professional Edition Bot (Decepticon of course) - Largest Decepticon of them all, bent on world domination through forced software assurance licensing.

Apple iBot - stylish and effective, but the black sheet metal adds $200 to monthly fuel costs.

You've got better? I'm looking forward to the comments...

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The 4th Law

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is working on a new set of safety guidelines for next-generation robots. This set of regulations would constitute a first attempt at a formal version of the first of Asimov's science-fictional Laws of Robotics, or at least the portion that states that humans shall not be harmed by robots.

I suggest adding a 4th law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow Will Smith to create any more Asimov movies, thus allowing human beings to come to harm when watching the film.

LiveScience.com - Asimov's First Law: Japan Sets Rules for Robots

Yes, for the record, I'm still bitter.

technorati tags:scifi, willsmithsucks

The Battlestar Comic Book!

Sneak Peek: The Battlestar Comic Book!: "The Battlestar Comic Book!"

BSG is rising in popularity, crossing into other mediums. Anyone else have that humungous comicbook version of the original pilot in the 70's. It was like the size of an area rug, wish I still had that now :)

Create AJAX from Java, Then Face West and Bow 4 Times

Our Good Company has released the Web ToolKit. It allows you to build AJAX applications using their special Java framework, and they claim its what they use for Google Maps and other things. This looks very interesting; I hope I can get some time to play around with it.

Wonder Woman

Breaking News: Whedon considering women, men, and gerbils for the lead role in his upcoming Wonder Woman movie. Funny stuff for your Monday morning via YouTube.

IceBurrg...Ask and you shall recieve :)

Four 2 Has Silver Surfer?:

Variety reported that Marvel Comics' cult superhero Silver Surfer will make an appearance in the upcoming sequel film Fantastic Four 2. The character, a shiny alien who plies intergalactic space on his metallic board, is on course to becoming a linchpin in the sequel Fox is readying for a July 4, 2007, premiere, the trade paper reported.

Silver Surfer has evolved into one of Marvel's more sophisticated comic-book heroes, and a Surfer feature has been in Fox's arsenal for a decade.

A Fantastic Four 2 storyline is being finalized, with the studio about to choose between a script by X2 writer Mark Frost and another by Don Payne, who scripted Fox/New Regency's Super-Ex Girlfriend.

Sources told the trade paper that Payne's script has the nod, and the Surfer. But a studio spokesman denied to the trade paper that anything was set and added that the Surfer was one of several plot possibilities."

Many more Comic Book Movies in production

Favreau Helming Iron Man

Jon Favreau is set to direct Marvel Studios' live-action movie Iron Man, which will now be distributed by Paramount, part of a slate of directing and writing deals Marvel announced, Variety reported. Marvel is developing the titles, which it will independently finance out of a $525 million fund from Merrill Lynch.

All of the films will be distributed by Paramount under an existing service agreement, except for The Incredible Hulk, a sequel to 2003's Hulk.

Iron Man is Marvel's top priority and will be written by Arthur Marcum and Matt Hollaway (Convoy).

The second Hulk movie, meanwhile, is proceeding despite the first film's lackluster performance at the box office. Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand) will pen the script. Universal, which handled the first Hulk, would distribute the follow-up.

David Self (Road to Perdition) has been tapped to pen the long-awaited feature version of Captain America.

Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) will direct and co-write with Joe Cornish the feature film Ant Man, with a comedic twist.

Andrew Marlowe (Hollow Man) will write the script for Nick Fury, based on Marvel's military super spy.

Mark Protosevich (Poseidon) will pen Thor.

Marvel hasn't committed to put any of the films into production yet, though it's hoping to release the first one by 2008.

Universal is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.

More than meets the Eye

Voight Up For Transformers?

Jon Voight told SCI FI Wire that nothing is finalized, but it looks likely that he'll be joining the cast of director Michael Bay's upcoming big-budget Transformers: The Movie. "I'm playing this ... well, we haven't signed the papers yet," Voight said in an interview. "But it looks like I'm going to play the secretary of state."

Transformers: The Movie will star Shia LaBeouf (Constantine) as the unlikely hero, Sam, in a story based on the comic book, cartoon and Hasbro toy lines that were popular in the 1980s. The movie will center on the central saga of the Autobots vs. the Decepticons.

The film will mark Voight's second collaboration with Bay, following Pearl Harbor. The Oscar-winning actor, whose genre credits include the Manchurian Candidate update and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, said that Transformers will no doubt be one of the largest-scale movies he's ever worked on, and he said he was intrigued by the notion of working on such an F/X-heavy feature.

"Well, of course, this one is going to have a lot of special effects, a lot of computer graphics and stuff like that, so it seems," Voight said. "So the actors will be tested. Their patience will be tested with lots of different things. But it's going to be interesting, too. When you do something like that—when you do a lot of computer graphics in a movie, lots of technical stuff—it's quite intriguing. It's a lot of fun, you know? It brings you back to your childhood, and you want to see how things work." Production on Transformers: The Movie is set to begin soon, with an eye toward a July 4, 2007, release date.

Smith is no Legend

Smith Is Legend


Will Smith will star in I Am Legend, the long-gestating Warner Brothers adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic SF novel, to be directed by Constantine helmer Francis Lawrence, Variety reported. Smith has a pay-or-play deal to make Legend his next project, after he completes Tonight, He Comes at Sony.

Akiva Goldsman rewrote an original script by Mark Protosevich. An early 2007 start date is planned for the movie, which will be shot in New York.

The film moves the story from Los Angeles to a post-apocalyptic New York and will center on the last healthy man following the release of a virus that decimates the population. To survive, he must battle mutants that wreak havoc during the night.

Legend came closest to getting made back in 1997 with Ridley Scott directing Arnold Schwarzenegger. Warner applied the brakes because the budget hovered around $108 million, a figure considered high at the time. Michael Bay and Smith then aligned to have a go at the film in 2002, but the pairing didn't advance.

Matheson's book was the basis of previous movie adaptations, including the Vincent Price movie The Last Man on Earth and the Charlton Heston vehicle The Omega Man.
To paraphrase Heston "You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God... damn you all to hell!" Will Smith Does not = Sci-Fi He has regained his Tool of the day mantle in my eyes.

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yet another Trek Bomb in the waiting

Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Abrams Talks Trek 11 Reports -i like Abrams work but not sure if this idea would fly.

It's about time

SCI FI Tech
Watch one show while TiVo'ing another… finally

Yesterday TiVo announced the launch of the Series2 DT DVR, TiVo's first standalone dual-tuner (that's what the "DT" stands for!) digital video recorder. Being able to record two channels at once is a nice convenience, especially for anyone living in a Daily Show/Charlie Rose household, not to mention being able to watch one thing — or more likely surf around the cable spectrum — while saving something else for later. But I'd like to know whether TiVo expects me to install a cable box under my TV in addition to my DT recorder, as there's no mention of the DT being CableCARD-compatible, which would eliminate the need for that extra box. Still, provided setup is simple, this definitely trumps my cable company's DVR offerings, at least until I can get an DVR that actually records high-definition programming. The TiVo Series2 DT DVR also features the TiVoToGo functionality, so you can transfer recordings to some portable video players, and connects to the Internet for networking and remote scheduling. It will go on sale May 1; the 80-hour TiVo DT will sell for $100 after rebate and service activation. TiVo service is $19.95 a month with a one-year commitment. — Matt Schneiderman

Galactica Season 3 plus spoilers

Now Playing Magazine: "Galactica Producer Talks Season Three"

I like the concept of more Cylon story time :)

Battlestar Spin-off Announced

Battlestar Spin-off Goes Frak in Time

Sci Fi Channel has announced its plans for Caprica, a Battlestar Galactica spin-off set 50 years prior to its original series. Battlestar's Ronald D. Moore and David Eick will executive-produce the new venture, and Remi Aubuchon (24) is penning the script, Variety reports. Sci Fi is also developing Chariots of the Gods, a miniseries based on Erich von Daniken's best-seller, and Destination Truth, a reality series investigating otherworldly mysteriesTV Guide Community: Entertainment News

Free Up FireFox Memory

Not sure if this will help others or not, but I saw a cool post on Life Hacker about how to Reduce Ram use in FireFox

In a Nutshell:

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.


2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.


3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.


4. Now select True and then press Enter.


5. Restart Firefox.

I think LH has a link to a utility that you can use to do all that for you, but come on... its just a few keystrokes.

I was able to drop from 50 Meg of Memory in use with a few tabs running java applets down to 2 meg and the applets didn't seem to mind.

I have seen complaints that this stops FF from performing other tasks, so YMMV.

-jrj

Up Next?

Now that he's unemployed, or at least has less on his table, what would you like Joss Whedon to work on next? Sci Fi Wire has a poll up and lists the following choices: More Serenity, More Spike, and Wonder Woman. I'd really like an Other box on this poll so I could put in "A Star Trek that doesn't suck". Given the choice, what would you have Whedon work on? Link via Whedonesque.

Unnecessary Dock Icons

Do you have an icon in your Mac OS X dock that you'd like to get rid of? I had one in particular that was a background service, and the dock icon added absolutely no functionality. After some fierce googling, I found this nice little hack. Happy icon killing! (note: tested and verified working on Tiger)