No Intellignet Life...

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Published on Friday, 10 October 2008 00:00

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First off, I have to disclaim that I didn't bother watching the US version of Life on Mars.  I saw a clip of it, and it made me cringe.  I've seen the original (even did a review here) and the clip was a near shot for shot remake of the original's scene.  The last time I saw this done was with Coupling (again, reviewed here) and it didn't work.  It would have worked if they had kept in the interesting bits, but in the need for commercial time and broad American appeal (ie, relatively clean content) they were edited out.  So, coupled with this painful clip that ABC put out, and the fact that every episode will have to be neutered by 25%, I avoided it.

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This Just In (Or Soon to Be Out...)

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Published on Friday, 08 August 2008 00:00

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Quark is coming to DVD!!!

I remember watching this silly Sci-Fi show back in the 70s, at the height of Star Wars mania (actually the pilot was aired before Star Wars came out) came the adventures of Adam Quark (most likely a pun for Atom Quark...) and his crew of misfits - the logical alien plant/animal named Ficus, the gender challenged Gene/Jean, the Betty clones, and Andy the Android.

Created by Buck Henry, who was one of the co-conspirators behind the highly popular Get Smart, this sereis only managed to last 8 episodes.  For many years, collectors traded videos (sometimes many generations down) just to watch these episodes. Sometime in the 90s the Sci-Fi channel repeated the episodes, but some how the series still failed to get any release on video or later on DVD.

The really funny thing is that in the next issue of Raspberry World, I had contributed to an article of what DVDs I like to see released in the US.  Number one on my list was Quark, and now it's coming out.  Oddly enough, I was also going to include Birds of Prey as well - and that was released as I was putting together the article (though it didn't take 30 years to come out...)

The Story of Stuff...

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Published on Tuesday, 05 August 2008 00:00

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This is the story of where our stuff comes from and where it goes to when we are done with it.  It's not a happy tale, but a cautionary one.  Watch it, and absorb the information. (click the logo to watch it...)

The B**b is saved!

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Published on Tuesday, 22 July 2008 00:00

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Ok, I kind of have a vested interest in this recent ruling regarding the FCC's fining of Viacom for the wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 Super Bowl half time show (being in the broadcasting industry, as it were.)  The court decided that the FCC had not warned broadcasters of a change in policy regarding "fleeting" instances, and suddenly fining them for such an istance - when the precedent from the commission was not to do so - was wrong.