Just came across this hilariously bad anti piracy ad on Google Video: Back in 1992, piracy was rampant. What could possibly stop it? An ad that you would swear was from the 80s? A horrible rap song? If the current atmosphere of easy piracy thanks to p2p networks and bit torrent sites is any answer, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'TV'
Ultimate Star Trek Collection Now For Sale
November 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, TV
It appears that Star Trek nerds can now lick their lips in anticipation, as the ULTIMATE boxed set has now been released: Here’s the ultimate collection for the ultimate fan. This 212-disc behemoth encompasses five broadcast series and 10 feature films and is, with a few exceptions, all the Trek a Trekker could want. Start [...]
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The Simpsons Ported To Arabic
October 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Middle East, TV
The Independent reports that the Simpsons has now been remade for Arabic TV: With Omar as Homer, and Badr substituted for Bart, The Simpsons is now playing on Arab television. But in order not to risk offending an Arab audience, the characters in Al Shamshoon, as the show is now called, have modified some of [...]
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Methods The Corporate Media use To Mind Fuck You
July 29th, 2005 · No Comments · Psychology, TV
Kuro5hin has an excellent piece where they analyze how the corporate media works in the US: Thus we have a system that encourages lowest common denominator stories that appeal to the Jerry Springer in all of us, stories about missing teens in Aruba that we can all get concerned about. This is also why we [...]
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James Doohan (Scotty From Star Trek) Dies
July 20th, 2005 · 1 Comment · TV
In a sad piece of news it seem that James Doohan (Scotty of Star Trek fame) has died today: LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command “Beam me up, Scotty,” died [...]
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Transmit TV With Your VGA Card!
June 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, TV
In what must be one of the coolest hacks I’ve seen so far this year, someone has written a howto on transmitting TV with your VGA card: How does it work ? Every VGA card contains high speed Digital to Analog Converters (DACs), one for each Red, Blue and Green component. Here we use only [...]
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Woohoo! Simpsons Movie Is A Go
June 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Movies, TV
Yahoo Movies reports that The Simpsons movie is definately coming: Get ready to toast your Flaming Moes to some excellent news. The Simpsons movie is off the drawing board and in preproduction. “You know what? We’ve just done the table read for The Simpsons movie, so although we’ve been promoting that we’re going to do [...]
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Simpsons Quote Of The Day
April 18th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Humor, Middle East, Quotes, TV
I’ve just watched The Simpsons 16×15 (Future-Drama) and came across another excellent Simpsons quote I thought I’d like to share: “Sex on prom night is as American as our 51st state, Saudi-Israelia” Script writing at it’s best. This portrays the feelings of many Arabs towards America’s relationship with the Middle East at the current time.
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Harrods To Sell Holographic Television System
February 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Cool Geeky Stuff, Mobiles & Gadgets, TV
Harrods is now selling a sweet Holographic Television, called the CLARO. Excerpt: The CLARO represents the latest innovation in TV and display technology combined with a visual design aesthetic to introduce the TV system of the future – a transparent glass TV and media system utilising holographic technology. The Holoscreen is a revolutionary holographic film [...]
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