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What idiot came up with the code name “Windows 8?” (Via Gizmodo)

(Via Gawker)

My youngest daughter Jade, who is six, recently said that she didn’t understand why the TV remote has numbers on it. Surely it should have letters, she said, because that way you can tell it which program you want to watch.

How I gave Oprah her start : Roger Ebert 

Yes, it is true, I persuaded Oprah to become the most successful and famous woman in the world. I was also the person who suggested that Jerry Springer not go into syndication, for which I have received too little credit.

(via Troy Holden)

Patrick Hosmer deconstructs the Avatar preview. Great stuff:

  1. Harley Davidson is still a company that makes motorcycles or at the very least t-shirts. If it’s vintage, it must’ve cost like 6,000 Space Bucks. Speaking of vintage, nice manual wheel chair in the future. Clearly our hero is a technophobe. Look at his hair. That’s classic Act 1 Technophobe Hair.
  2. Co-ed Military! In the same vein as Starship Troopers and Battlestar and AliensAvatar will have Privates with all kinds of privates.
  3. Soccer is still a sport in the fyootch. This means there is still some kind of living international community back on Earth. I bet it’s Future Soccer with wacky sci-fi helmets and all kinds of animated Tostitos graphics on the field. Like football in 2009.
  4. The Douche Dragon Shirt is also still around. Come on, Cameron. Oh wait. Maybe it’s foreshadowing. Remember that guy.
  5. Girls Only.

Wake me when we’re done talking about twitter apps.

Oprah Makes It Official: To Leave Syndicated Show in September 

Oprah ends a 25 year run that puts hers up with Fidel Castro and Muammar al-Gaddafi as one of the most durable dictatorships of our age. (Via Gawker)

I can’t even begin to wrap my head around this digital photo frame that prints photos. Think about it. (Via CrunchGear)

The characters in this movie should be arrested for loitering with intent to moan. Never have teenagers been in greater need of a jump-start. Granted some of them are more than 100 years old, but still: their charisma is by Madame Tussaud.

Roger Ebert reviews New Moon

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