Everyone’s favorite Monkee has passed away from a heart attack in Indiantown, Florida. He was 66 and way too young. The Monkey’s only played for two years, but lived on in our collective after school memory and in reruns for years. We ALL grew up with Davy and the gang. Hey, hey, we’re the […]
Gary Carter, Baseball Hall of Famer Passes Away at 57
Gary Carter, a Hall of Fame catcher from Fullerton who helped the New York Mets to a dramatic victory over the Boston Red Sox in the 1986 World Series, died Thursday in Florida. He was 57. Carter was an 11-time All-Star who hit .262 with 324 home runs and 1,225 runs batted in during 18 […]
Idiocracy: The MPAA, RIAA, Supervillains, Homeland Security, and the law. Where are we headed?
It’s a strange world we internet denizens are living in today, one in which it is perfectly legal for Chris Dodd to threaten to end the bribes to politicians if they do not act as he and the MPAA wish. Dodd actually appeared on Fox News to warn Obama and senators that if they did […]
Martin Luther King–I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King’s Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews […]
Apple Stores in China under siege
You thought we were a bunch of idiot hipsters waiting in line for the latest crack from Apple, well over in China they are basically rioting over the iPhone 4s. Apple has halted sales of the iPhone 4S in China due to these gangs apparently made up mostly of scalpers who are trying to buy […]
CES Opening Thoughts
Wow Ballmer can talk a lot and say absolutely nothing. That was the biggest take from the keynote to open CES. Not everything at CES was boring today though as there were some great new products from Samsung, Intel, and Nokia today…. more on ComputerNutz
Arrested Development resurrection on Netflix
Last month it was announced that Arrested Development would be returning to television. What we didn’t know was that it would be by way of Netflix, not a network. Netflix has basically fixed all of its wrongs over the last year with one big deal. Suddenly Netflix is going to be as important to have […]
Berenice Marlohe and Naomie Harris are the new Bond Girls
The cast of the brand new James Bond film Skyfall was revealed this week, including the Bond beauties Bérénice Marlohe and Naomie Harris Everyone knows Naomie Harris from her work in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies as well as a wealth of work in movies like 28 days later and Miami Vice, but Berenice […]
The award for best Steven Jobs Obituary goes to The Onion
The Onion had a great short article memorializing Steve Jobs today and it says it all while still being funny as hell. Epic win.