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- Build a real Bender robot that brews beer, talks
- Truly it is a momentous occasion when a beloved television show wrongfully canceled by the notorious morons at FOX is resurrected, as is the case with this week's release of Futurama: Bender's Big Score. This direct-to-video feature-length movie is a vanguard for a revived Futurama TV...
- Tags: Robot, Replica, Episode, Bender, Robots, Quality, Processors, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Geek Trivia: Cheaper by the d'oh-zen
- In a recent paper titled "Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking," a group of Stanford physicists introduced a new word to the string theory lexicon: Embiggen. Quoth the paper: "We could argue that there is a competing effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely...
- Tags: Catchphrase, Episode, Simpsons, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- The Simpsons Movie: Groening's ultimate triumph or Homer's last gasp?
- The Simpsons Movie opens tomorrow preview above, and I'm left asking myself an impossible question: Will this be the greatest Simpsons event ever or simply the last flicker from a hilariously dying flame? I haven't watched new Simpsons episodes more than very occasionally in years, and those...
- Tags: Episode, Simpsons Movie, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Video: Stargate Puppet Theater
- Here's a little highlight from the Stargate SG-1 in-joke-o-rama episode "200"--as in the 200th episode of the series. While quaintly humorous, it also serves as a Public Service Announcement to warn off any marionettes who haven't properly thought out the dangers of wormhole travel. Plus, it proves that puppets can't...
- Tags: Video, Episode, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Watch Isaac Asimov's TV show
- Found via SFSignal: "You know you can watch the 2-hour premiere episode of Probe on YouTube? (We love you YouTube!) It has been uploaded in 5-minute pieces. Start with part 1 and follow the 'related' links for the other parts. "What is Probe, you say?...
- Tags: Isaac Asimov, TV, Episode, Science Fiction, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- Geek Trivia: The (cartoon) show must go on
- What's the only American cartoon to boast more episodes than The Simpsons? This Saturday marks the 16th anniversary of what many would argue was the most pivotal American cultural moment of the 20th century, wherein the nation and the world set upon a path that would forever...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Simpson, Simpsons Christmas Special, cartoon, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Theory, TV, Episode, Simpsons, Combustion, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Technical articles 2005-12-13
Additional Resources
- Video: MST3K vs. Episode II
- The mad geniuses behind Mystery Science Theater 3000 have begun releasing video clips of their newest endeavor -- RiffTrax, wherein they provide MP3 audio commentaries for mainstream, contemporary movies -- via YouTube. Here's about 90 seconds of Mike, Crow, and Tom Servo ripping apart Episode II. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Video, Commentary, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Webcomic: Irrational iPhone exuberance
- There's a crazy amount of prerelease demand for the iPhone -- a lot like there was for Episode I. PvP expresses the underlying fear found in this similarity. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Video: John Cleese meets Dr. Who
- In a moment of 1970s BBC solidarity, John Cleese took time out of his busy Fawlty Towers schedule to make a brief comic appearance in the Dr. Who episode "City of Death" -- as an art critic! Found via SFSignal. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Dr., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Aug. 12, 2008
- This week's quibble comes from the July 29, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "A body shop in space." TechRepublic member hcwjr disputed Jay Garmon labeling Harrison Schmitt as the penultimate man to walk on the moon. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Sept. 16, 2008
- This week's quibble comes from the Sept. 3, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "Put your money where your mouse is." TechRepublic member ITV_Allan nailed Jay Garmon for a top-level domain gaffe. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for Aug. 26, 2008
- This week's quibble comes from the Aug. 19, 2008 edition of Geek Trivia, "To live in compound interesting times." TechRepublic member RealGem dinged Jay Garmon for poor use of fiduciary nomenclature regarding profits illustrated by the Dow Jones Industrial Average. by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Quibble, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Video: Who's on first--Yoda or Jar Jar?
- For your viewing terror pleasure, a mashup of the seminally classic "Who's On First" comedy routine by Abbott & Costello, remixed with "retro" footage of Yoda and Jar Jar Binks from Episode I. Unsurprisingly, Jar Jar really works as a histrionic straight man. If only the actual movie were this...
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Video: RC USS Enterprise glider... from Canada
- Forty-two years ago today -- Sept. 8, 1966 -- the first episode of Star Trek aired on television. So, out of the many ways to mark this occasion, we have inexplicably chosen this: A video of two Canadian Trekkie-techies showing off their homebuilt remote-controller glider shaped like the USS Enterprise-D....
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Episode III: Tying Up Loose Ends
- Okay, so we just got back from seeing Episode III as a company field trip we have a great workplace and even got free lunch from the VP as a surprise bonus (Thanks, Bob), so by all rights, I should be in a great mood.But I'm not. I'm not in...
- Tags: Film, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-05-19
- Vader to Palpatine: "About that Death Star..."
- Absolute milk-out-the-nose hilarious quote of the week, Emperor Palpatine berating Darth Vader: "You got an ATM on that torso Lite Brite?" Once again, I am in awe of Robot Chicken, which does a gut-bustingly funny video send-up of Vader calling home to explain how he kinda sorta...
- Tags: Death, Robots, ATM, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- I've got to admit
- I've got to admitso would I, but it would be difficult now from the point of continuity, to produce another three episodes.Geek Trivia: Episode 0: The Unseen Influencearticle rootThe last episode?This is probably the last episode that Ge
- Tags: career, Lucas, New Hope, richard_pearsall@..., Star Wars
- Discussion threads 2005-05-18
- Video Mashup: Star Wars vs. Monty Python
- Some genius has remixed the audio from the Black Knight duel scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail, with Darth Vader standing in for the aforementioned Black Knight. Is it sad that watching King Arthur comically dismember the Dark Lord of the Sith is more entertaining than pretty much all of...
- Tags: Audio, Star Wars, Python, YouTube Video, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-07-12
- Comic: The best part about getting older...
- From xkcd: by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Pluto replies to its planetary demotion
- From ThinkGeek: by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Pluto, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
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