Aiming at Nothing

Argh, maties. Thar be spoilers below for the Battlestar Galactica episode called “Collaborators.” **** SPOILERS **** Stay off the (Ronald) Moores!

Allen tries out MySpace for the first time. All over again. Oops, I did it again. This time fo reals though. I created a MySpace page because all the other kids are doing it. This excuse worked very well for me in early childhood and, given that I have failed to properly adapt to the [...]

I. Can’t. Get. This. Tune. Out. Of. My. Head. Just thought I’d share. The commercial didn’t induce me to buy car insurance but I did end up spending 99 cents at iTunes for the Röyksopp song, “Remind Me (Radio Edit).”

I’m sure this item has been featured on other blogs but, hey, thompsonian*NET blog isn’t “other blogs,” bro. We’re the blog with 12 readers. Our appeal is more selective than those other so-called “mass appeal” offerings. New York Magazine (not to be confused with The New Yorker or the New York Times Magazine) has a [...]

Troy Patterson at Slate watched one episode of “Battlestar Galactica” and declared that the show was “Humans vs. Robots, Round 15″ and that it was too dark. That’s like saying “Lost” is about a plane crash. I’ve never watched “Lost,” so maybe that should be my review of that show. I’ll have my agent call [...]

Ikea product or Lord of the Rings character? Take the quiz. I got two of them right. Everyone knows a Frodo is some kind of appliance. h/t: jeff

Shocking but obvious research indicates that men would rather bleed to death than miss a moment of the game. When is a man’s medical emergency not all that urgent? Apparently when sports are on the tube. A drop in the number of men going to the emergency room during sports broadcasts on TV is followed [...]

There’s a fascinating story at Wired about the efforts of Ask.com, Google and even Microsoft to build ever-larger information “clouds” out of massively parallel computer networks. Author George Gilder also describes the difficulty of building, powering and cooling these behemoth systems. Fair warning: This is a long article (five pages); if you suffer from the [...]

Today is October 6th — the day many of us have been patiently waiting for since Battlestar Galactica season 2.5 ended back in… oh, it’s just too painful to recall. Season 3.0 begins this evening on the Sci-Fi Channel. 9 P.M. in many U.S. time zones. I’ll watch the show, download the director’s podcast (as [...]

Is the music too loud? Sorry about that. I’ve been entertaining the neighborhood all afternoon with “The Open Door” by Amy Lee and the band currently known as Evanescence. Sarah Rodman of the Boston Globe says: So, like previous hits “Bring Me to Life” and “Going Under,” the songs on “The Open Door” are a [...]