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Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-FreeQuestion: is there anyone out there who still thinks that Robin Williams is funny?I ask this because he's the very first guest (well, after the adorable niece and her drawings) on The Bonnie Hunt Show, the new talk show from the veteran…
Posted 6mins 9secs ago by TV Squad.
Beakman’s World was a kids’ science show in the nineties. Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests how well you remember the show. I am shocked that I scored 82%, since I never saw the show! Sometimes common sense (and a bit of TV production knowledge) comes in handy. Link
Posted 1hr 54mins ago by Neatorama.
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Fortune cookies are a strange, unfamiliar food in China. They were developed in Japan and popularized in the US. Nana Shi began selling them online in China and found that she needed to include instructions! Link -via Dark Roasted Blend
Posted 2hrs 7mins ago by Neatorama.
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Reality-FreeIt looks like the Muppets will be back again for Christmas. The NBC television special will star Whoopi Goldberg, "The Sopranos" alums Tony Sirico and Steve Schirripa, "Harry Potter" regular Richard Griffiths and Madison Pettis as well as your favorite…
Posted 2hrs 8mins ago by TV Squad.
I’m not familiar with a vegetable called a marrow (it seems to be some kind of squash), but this one is apparently the biggest ever at 113 pounds! There were lots of huge vegetables at a giant vegetable show in England. The skin is craggy and dark, indicating it might not make the best offering…
Posted 2hrs 10mins ago by Neatorama.
Now that you've been enjoying Google Chrome's headliner features and speed for almost a week now, it's time to dig into the less obvious functionality and options you don't already know about. Become a keyboard shortcut master, take a peek under the hood, and customize its behavior and skin with some…
Posted 2hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
Any of these prison escape stories would make an exciting movie (and some of them already have). Not all of the escapees were hardened criminals; some were prisoners of war, and Alfréd Wetzler (pictured) along with his partner Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz by hiding inside a wood pile for four…
Posted 2hrs 12mins ago by Neatorama.
I am the Bat!
Posted 2hrs 20mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Local social events community Meetup launches a new "Unplug your friends" ad campaign with an email "intervention" you can send to the screen addicts in your life. Fill out the fill-in-the-blank email form (i.e., "I'm worried that you're going to"—"become a LOLcat lady," "develop enormous thumbs",…
Posted 2hrs 41mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Reality-FreeStephen Colbert will live forever. At least, this is what he hopes. He's giving a digitized copy of his DNA to video game designer Richard Garriott who will take it to the International Space Station for storage."I am thrilled to have my DNA shot into space,…
Posted 2hrs 43mins ago by TV Squad.
Free site-search service Buildasearch does exactly what it purports to—combine a bunch of site:whatever.com commands into a single search box. Beyond just bookmarking a long Google URL, however, Buildasearch offers customized logos, colors, and layouts, and seems to return results pretty quickly.…
Posted 3hrs 6mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-FreeThat line between web content and traditional television just continues to get blurrier. ABC has ordered 13 episodes of In The Motherhood. In case you missed it, the show didn't start out with the traditional pilot formula. It's a web-based…
Posted 3hrs 9mins ago by TV Squad.
Gigi kills the toothbrush @ Yahoo! Video
Well maybe not that angry but she sure is playful when it comes to electric toothbrushes. Cute!
Link: Video.Yahoo
Posted 3hrs 25mins ago by Neatorama.
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Army Wives(S02E12) There were too many story lines in this episode, too many threads pulled from the fabric. It felt like they were setting up the show for the end of the season and building suspense. For that reason, it felt very disjointed to me.Claudia…
Posted 3hrs 30mins ago by TV Squad.
Windows only: Just when you thought a simple shutdown button was all you needed to turn off your computer, Slawdog's free Smart Shutdown utility offers so many more useful options. If you're always forgetting to turn off the old PC before you wander off to do other things, Smart Shutdown can automatically…
Posted 3hrs 41mins ago by Lifehacker.
Release the kraken
Posted 3hrs 42mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals, Casting, Reality-FreeI've been waiting for Crash the TV series to materialize ever since I heard about it shortly after the movie premiered in May, 2005. The Starz/Lionsgate series will feature 13 episodes with a different…
Posted 3hrs 47mins ago by TV Squad.
The official election prediction (sort of) from the Maker's Mark News Network brings John McCain's age, Sarah Palin's experience and Joe Biden's boredom .
Posted 3hrs 50mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Filed under: TV on DVD, Smallville, Contests and Giveaways, Reality-FreeHello again, everyone! This time we've got three copies of Smallville - Season Seven on DVD for three lucky, random commenters. The DVD is available in stores starting tomorrow.To enter, leave a comment below before 5:00PM Eastern,…
Posted 4hrs 10mins ago by TV Squad.
The Windows-to-Linux translator WINE has updated to 1.1.4, with a lot of fixes aimed at making running Google Chrome in Linux more work-able. For a deeper look at setting up Linux systems with WINE, check out our complete walkthrough. [via]
Posted 4hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Reality-FreeOur Monday morning roundup of a half dozen things TV Squad readers - and TV fans in general - will be talking about this week. 1. Fringe series premiere. It's from the guys behind Lost and the pilot cost $10 million. I think a few people are…
Posted 4hrs 33mins ago by TV Squad.
New York Times writer Joe Nocera argues that the Windows operating system doesn't matter any more, because webapps are rendering all operating system irrelevant. He asks: Do you really care anymore which operating system you use? I don’t. For years, I owned both a PC and a Mac. I could use Microsoft’s…
Posted 4hrs 41mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: OpEd, Entourage, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free(S05E01) "Our next film is Medellin - the ultra-violent story of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar starring Vincent Chase in a fat-suit in bad make-up that makes him look like the love child of Jiminy Glick and a case of Twinkies." - Richard…
Posted 4hrs 49mins ago by TV Squad.
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Celebrities, Reality-FreePapa Bear bless the No Fact Zone for pointing out this gem, just as Colbert Report fans prepared for yet another week of reruns and the accompanying nights of non-stop sobbing. Those tired of trying to scour the Comedy…
Posted 5hrs 9mins ago by TV Squad.
The Asylum blog compiles some solid advice on how to call in sick, even if you don't meet the traditional definition of "sick"—take that how you will. One of the best bits of advice involves the timing of your sick day, as noted by the editor of the Save the Assistants blog: Pick a random Tuesday…
Posted 5hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
Low-cost airline JetBlue is auctioning off more than 300 round-trip flights at their eBay store and, as of this posting, some still have opening bids of five or 10 cents. The flights mostly connect to and from major metro areas (NYC, Boston, Chicago) and vacation destinations (Northern/Southern California,…
Posted 5hrs 41mins ago by Lifehacker.
Windows only: Google has been cranking out updates and nightly builds of their new browser (that you just might have heard of) to fix bugs and improve stability. One programmer at the ever-helpful Donation Coder forums has released a free utility that makes it easy to check your Chrome build against…
Posted 6hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
Wondering if you should take an umbrella with you on the way out the door today? Pop your U.S. zip code (sorry international users) into new webapp Umbrella Today? and get a quick yes or no answer. If stopping at your computer before you leave is just too inconvenient, Umbrella Today? can text message…
Posted 7hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
Using time-lapse photography and real-time digital video, plant biologist Roger Hangarter and undergrad filmmaker Samuel Orr captured this remarkable life cycle
Posted 7hrs 55mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Blogs is spreading all over the web, almost all online business owners are jumping on the blogging craze; even if they already own a website. Lately, blogs have become very popular among businesses as a promotion tool than websites. Blogs are very effecti
Posted 11hrs 51mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Mad Men(S02E07) "You're not like everyone else around here." - Ken, to SalSo Don Draper used to be a car salesman?I guess it fits with the career path of an advertising guy, and ties in nicely with the plot of Don getting a new car because he's…
Posted 12hrs 49mins ago by TV Squad.
How do we put to use our blogs' domain names and hosting to improve our rankings? This Blog SEO Tips episode will explain a few important things you should consider.
Posted 12hrs 56mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
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Why did I spent so much time trying to make a raisin milkshake when I could’ve been doing something fun like this? It turns out that you can make raisins dance in any kind of carbonated beverage. Link to an explanation. -via YesButNoButYes
Posted 14hrs 25mins ago by Neatorama.
(Flickr link) If you’ve ever wondered what your dog does while you are at work, this may enlighten you. Flickr user Bill Binns made a video of what his dog did from 8AM to 5PM. Relax, the time-lapse video is only about a minute long. Now I know the meaning of the phrase “It’s a dog’s…
Posted 14hrs 48mins ago by Neatorama.
One of the biggest reasons most Windows users are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is Adblock Plus. If annoying web site advertisements are the only thing holding you back from using Chrome, a user…
Posted 14hrs 50mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US), Episode Reviews, Episode Recaps(S10E24) Aftermath of Renny's EvictionKeesha was obviously the most effected by the Renny's absence. She cried in the Diary Room saying, "It's just really hard to watch her walk out the door." Later she lamented that Renny's picture…
Posted 15hrs 9mins ago by TV Squad.
Artist Tisha DeShields and her company Original Belly Works make decorative fiberglass shells from the protruding bellies of pregnant women. There’s something especially beautiful about a very pregnant woman. But as my wife’s nine months pregnant, I’m partial. Link via Yahoo News,…
Posted 15hrs 50mins ago by Neatorama.
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)I just came to the realization that almost everything I was going to start this latest Big Brother 10 live feeds with is a spoiler. Yikes! A lot has happened since the live show. Alas, today is a bit more as depicted in this image of Memphis. Yes, it's time for the…
Posted 16hrs 39mins ago by TV Squad.
[pic courtesy of Sausagefest] The Fresno Bee reports: A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed spices over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man on the face and head before running out of the house, Fresno County…
Posted 17hrs 12mins ago by Neatorama.
Windows only: Less than a week since Google Chrome's release and hackers are already hard at work releasing tools to tweak the minimalistic browser, and the Automatic Theme Switcher is one of those ways. Install the beta theme switcher on your PC running Chrome to choose one of three skins for Chrome—black,…
Posted 18hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
Some fuel saving advices to help reduce the cost of driving and lower utility bills. Good for the environment and good for pocket.
Posted 19hrs 29mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
There are not many companies whose trade names have become verbs. And there must be even fewer who would view this as a cause for concern. But when Google entered the dictionary in 2006, the directors seemed furious.
Posted 19hrs 56mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Tatango, a free (but ad-supported) group SMS-messaging service, has opened its doors after private beta. The service is simple to use, and prevents spammers by requiring contacts to opt into receiving messages from you. That makes it ideal for sports teams and social groups, small businesses, and other…
Posted 20hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 7 (or after the Men's U.S. Open Men's Semi-Final), CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of Big Brother and the U.S. Open Women's Final). NBC has a new Football Night in America at 7, followed by the Bears vs. the Colts. At…
Posted 21hrs 9mins ago by TV Squad.
The Photocritic blog posts a cheap and clever DIY project for digital SLR camera owners who want to take seriously crisp shots of tremendously tiny surfaces, using a Pringles potato chip can as the main component. By hollowing out the can, wrapping a standard lens in dark fabric, and putting the lens…
Posted 22hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
A tale of two famous football stars Vinnie Jones and Ilhan Mansiz moving to television.
Posted 22hrs 24mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Find out how much money you're wasting monthly with Quicken''s Spare Change Challenge. The detailed, 42-question quiz asks about your electricity consumption, purchasing habits, loan payments, leisure spending, and more. Then it estimates how much money you could save with better habits in 13 categories,…
Posted 23hrs 11mins ago by Lifehacker.
What do you get when you mash up Star Wars with Pink Floyd? Here’s a neat wallpaper, titled "I’ll Never Join the Dark Side of the Moon" by James Lillis.
Link: Wallpaper size (1600×1200, png format, 74KB) | More of James’ designs at RedBubble - Thanks James!
Posted 23hrs 29mins ago by Neatorama.
Thes bears aren’t early for St. Patrick’s Day - it got its fur stained by algae: Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae. High temperatures in July and August…
Posted 23hrs 30mins ago by Neatorama.
Think that you can only get great gas mileage if you buy a hybrid car? Here’s Jay Leno talking about the 1959 Fiat Millecento, who got a whopping 40 MPG - the same as a Prius! This car was bought by a gentleman in Pennsylvania in 1959. In 1962 for whatever reason he put it in his living room -…
Posted 23hrs 30mins ago by Neatorama.
Photo: Rosemary Travale [Flickr] Neatorama reader Rosemary Travale spotted this creative graffiti (technically graffito, I think) near the corner of Iriquois Shore on Trafalgar road in Oakville, Ontario, Canada: Some very creative person noticed the shadow the crosswalk box made resembled Batman’s…
Posted 23hrs 31mins ago by Neatorama.
Seventeen-year-old Orangeville, Ontario, Canada high school senior Sean Waring is fearful for his safety. So much so that he has taken different routes home every day so his followers won’t know where he lives. Why? He said he’s singled out because of the eye make-up he wears: “I’m…
Posted 23hrs 32mins ago by Neatorama.
Photo: matteo86photonature [Flickr] Birds do it, bees do it, and the blue-tailed damselflies do it with the nimbleness of acrobats! Scienceray blog has an interesting gallery of mating insects: The incredibly elegant creature pictured above is the Ischnura elegans or the Blue-Tailed Damselfly and is…
Posted 23hrs 34mins ago by Neatorama.
Marco Altini makes Cubeecraft (or also lovingly called "cubees") papercraft based on TV series characters. He has characters from 24, Alias, Dexter, Heroes, and many more TV series for you to download, print, cut, and fold for free.
Link - Thanks Marco!
Posted 23hrs 35mins ago by Neatorama.
The International Society of Supervillains blog has the list of the 11 lamest supervillains in comic book history. For example, here’s Asbestos Man: History:Chemist Orson Kasloff became a criminal after years of being a respected scientist failed to pay off the way he expected. He envied his fellow…
Posted 23hrs 35mins ago by Neatorama.
A big congrats to Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers book. It has won the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the past 30 years: In The Bookseller’s online poll to find the "Diagram of Diagrams", Derek Willan’s comprehensive record of a sector of Greece’s…
Posted 23hrs 36mins ago by Neatorama.
Linux enthusiasts never stop hearing about how the open-source operating system lacks support for popular games. That's often true, but that doesn't mean there aren't good games to be found. Playdeb, a custom repository for Ubuntu systems, makes it easy to find and install up-to-date games, some with…
Posted 1 day ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Dexter, WGA Strike, Reality-FreeI'm always fascinated by the ad campaigns that the networks come up with to sell or promote TV shows. I remember in 2004 when Fox debuted House, they created a magazine insert DVD of the pilot. It was a great way to get TV fans to try the show, and I -- for…
Posted 1 day 2hrs ago by TV Squad.
DIY weblog Make points out a very cool design idea: the Enter key doorbell. It's a no-brainer DIY project; a little glue and and old keyboard ought to do it. This simple DIY also has an unusually high geek quotient, but it's oh-so-fun.
Posted 1 day 2hrs ago by Lifehacker.
The problem with Saturday night is Sunday morning. Yes, I'm talking about the hangover. I'm talking about fuzz in your mouth and ringing in your ears. I'm talking about that "did I really say that?" feeling and that "OMFG, I did" reaction. The solution to Sunday morning (or at least those Sunday mornings…
Posted 1 day 4hrs ago by Lifehacker.
PureText Strips Formatting from Your Clipboard When You Paste (Windows)"Free system tray utility PureText adds a global keyboard shortcut to your system to paste text into any application without formatting."Plex XBMC Fork Updates with New Skin (Mac)"XBMC for Mac—the open source media center software…
Posted 1 day 18hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)It may be raining on the East Coast, but everything is always sunny and hunky-dory in the Big Brother 10 house. They're such a kind and loving group of hamsters, right? Well, if I made the comparison with the group we endured last season during the final four, I prefer…
Posted 1 day 18hrs ago by TV Squad.
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, The Daily Show, Reality-FreeAlthough fake news hosts and correspondents are super wonderful and the folks running the equipment do marvelous jobs, there's a great amount of talent that often goes tragically unnoticed. Well, now is the time to adjust the limelight…
Posted 1 day 20hrs ago by TV Squad.
You can spend a good chunk of time searching the web for an ecard that isn't annoying, cheesy, ad-ridden, or some combination of all three. Or you can grab a picture, choose a song, and send a super-clean, customized ecard through Postcard.fm. Simply upload an image file and MP3 to the free, no-registration-required…
Posted 1 day 20hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 7:30, ABC has the Sprint Cup Chevy Rock & Roll 400 race. At 8, FOX has the season premiere of Cops at 8, followed by another new episodes and a new America's Most Wanted. Food Network has the special Kitchen Gadgets of the Future at…
Posted 1 day 21hrs ago by TV Squad.
Filed under: OpEd, 24, Reality-FreeFox's 24 is taking a break from filming so producers can rethink the storylines for the upcoming season. The two-hour special for November is still in the can and shouldn't be affected by this.This could be an example of analysis paralysis. Due to the writers' strike,…
Posted 1 day 22hrs ago by TV Squad.
Jewelry cleaner works great for restoring luster to your precious-metal accessories, and it can even take that awful, funky metal-gone-bad smell off of not-quite-precious objects. But paying for the stuff is surrendering to huge markup. Over at RecipeZaar, one helpful user posts a recipe for homemade…
Posted 1 day 22hrs ago by Lifehacker.
We've already shown you several ways to streamline your keys with a DIY flair, but reader Oliver writes in with his own inventive method for lightening his pockets by combining his keys with his money clip. I've recently enjoyed having a money clip rather than a wallet for trips out of the house because…
Posted 2 days ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Monk, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free(S07E07) Too often when a show reaches an anniversary, like say 100 episodes, the producers feel the need to mark the occasion with an extraordinary entry. That was what happened with Monk. To commemorate the 100th episode, they created Mr. Monk's 100th…
Posted 2 days ago by TV Squad.
Are men today losing their DIY skills? Glenn Harlan Reynolds wrote a really interesting piece for Popular Mechanics on how Americans are losing their ability to deal with every day real-world problems: Even the simplest of automotive tasks, changing a tire, seems to be beyond the ken of many people.…
Posted 2 days ago by Neatorama.
In 1998, the UK government introduced a law designed to deter harassment called the Anti Social Behaviour Order or ASBO. The law has been controversial - some hailed it as a great way to deal with wayward punks whereas in other instances, something like this happens: Daniel Cope, 13, was devastated…
Posted 2 days ago by Neatorama.
Sean A. Jennings wanted to get rid of his wife, but didn’t want to go through all the hassles of divorce (plus that pesky alimony thing). So he devised a clever plan to kill her. Here’s the bizarre story of the haunted house attempted murder: On the 7th of October, 2007, Sean Jennings started…
Posted 2 days ago by Neatorama.
(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Hypnotizing AnimalsEver seen pigeons in trance? How about a hypnotized alligator? Turns out humans aren’t the only ones that can be hypnotized - some animals can be put in a weird trance-like state. Now if only they’d talk about their mothers ……
Posted 2 days ago by Neatorama.
Paul Preece’s Desktop Tower Defense is an insanely addictive Flash game that inspired tons of clones (which is kind of funny, since DTD itself was a "remake" of StarCraft’s Turret Defense). Here’s one funny clone: Bloons Tower Defense, the perfect combo of Bloons and DTD…
Posted 2 days ago by Neatorama.
Wide receiver Chad Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals wanted to put his nickname Ocho Cinco (his jersey number "eight five" in Spanish) on the back of his uniform, but strict NFL rules only allow for real surnames. So what did Chad do? He got his name legally changed to Chad Ocho Cinco! So…
Posted 2 days ago by Neatorama.
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. Often we think of desktop icons as the cause of a cluttered, ugly desktop, but as Windows user ryanst24 demonstrates, when laid out properly with the right skin, your icons can really spice up your desktop. Using the free Blossom icon…
Posted 2 days ago by Lifehacker.
by Claudine Zap The new "it" accessory for fall could be cool-weather practical as well as stylish. We're talking the hat, which may be restored from mere head-covering to the status of fashion statement. Searches for fanciful "hats"