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9 Podcasts for 2009
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Although these all like to the iTunes Store, they shouldn’t be hard at all to find them on other Podcasting services by entering the same name.
Scene Unseen Movie Reviews is a new podcast that offers a unique spin on the movie review process. The catch? Every week one of our reviews sees a new release… the other does not. Also featured - “Letterboxing” banter, DVD picks and special guest appearances from professionals in the film industry.
Vancouver’s top comedy podcast? Hosted by Graham Clark and Dave Shmka, with weekly guests. Hilarious weekly guests? Yup.
EPIC FU is what happens when tech and culture get it on. It’s your weekly geek-out to the coolest art, tech, and music from the online and offline world. Subscribe to get a fresh new episode each week!
Mars Hill Church: Mark Driscoll -
Mars Hill Church in Seattle lives, breathes and is generally OCD about Jesus. Pastor Mark Driscoll is the lead preaching pastor for Mars Hill and regularly distribures video content via this channel, including sermons, event teaching and the occasional one-off video created for our internet audience. You can find more content like this by visiting our web site at www.marshillchurch.org
By Tech Fans, For Tech Fan! Product reviews, tech tips, viewer questions, gaming and great guests, all brought to you by Robert Heron and the DL.TV crew. We go live every Thursday, then we encode and make available for download.
Diggnation is a weekly tech/ web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.
The Totally Rad Show is the summer blockbuster of geek news shows. Every week, hosts Alex Albrecht, Dan Trachtenberg and Jeff Cannata rip into the world of movies, video games, tv, comics, and more and pull out what’s rad.
Embrace digital technology. Join the Tekzilla cew and make your tech work better for you. Or you can go live in the woods with an axe. Every Saturday, Patrick Norton and Veronica Belont deliver product reviews, computer help, tech tips on everything from Ipod to camcorders, HD to the Internet, plus do it yourself projects.
The Hour with George Stroumboulopolous
Want a different look at the news? Watch to The Hour. The Hour isnt your average newscast, its more lik hanging out with someone whos really interested in the world. The Hour - a current affairs show hosted by George Stroumnoulopoulos. Watch new video clipos every weekday.
X-men Origins: Wolverine
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“Mr. Jackman, what do you think of the Wolverine Origins movie rumors?” asked a reporter, who’s name has now been forgotten.
“What do I think? Hell, I started them.”
X-men Origins: Wolverine
This is a transcription of an interview, by whom, on what and when I do not remember, and I am most certain that is not exactly how it went, come on, it was years ago! But I digress, how it was said does not matter because, as has been well known for ages before, and was reminded by featured video, it is really coming. And my nerdboner is, quite appropriately, as stiff as a damn Adamantium claw.
I do admit, I never noticed much of Hugh Jackman before his role in the first X-men movie. I liked that movie a fair bit and I thought he did the role very well (although a bit tall for Logan) but still left a final judgment on his talents until I saw his latter films. And I really do damn like the dude.
So what do we get in this sucker? What did these unadulterated 2:23 of pure nergasm give us?
As a child, Logan was named James Howlett, he lived in a mansion in Alberta, Canada, with two parents (John and Elizabeth Howlett), his unnamed grandfather and an adoptee named Rose. Before his birth, is parents begot another son, John II, who died early on due to a sickness. James was also a very sickly child, but managed to survive his earliest years. James’ parents also employed Thomas Logan and his son, “Dog”, as gardeners. In the first scene of this trailer, James (Wolverine) is shown seeing his father, John, being shot dead by Thomas Logan (0:15); it is when crying over his fathers body (0:17) that his powers evolve right into the chest of Thomas Logan (1:38). What you don’t see is that it is right in front of Thomas’ son, Dog, thus enticing a years long grudge towards James.
This has been out for years, anyone following that paragraph properly is, presumably, a Wolverine fan, and anyone who is as thus has probably already read that stuff up.
One of the, if not the very, most popular co-star in this movie would be Gambit, Remmie LeBeau (1:30) - bitches love him. But through analyzing this trailer astutely (and the cast listing) we have a young Storm (1:53) and, who I believe to be, Emma Frost (1:57). Although not the clearest shot, Deadpool can also be seen doing a flippy-flip (1:56).
IMDb is handy, but not the most accurate of souces. Although Storm is in the trailer, she is not in the cast records, but a younger Scott Summers is cast by a certain Tom Pocock. Storm and Cyclops were two of the original X-men (along with Iceman, Angel and Beast), so seeing two of them cast in the same movie is too coincidental to not mean anything more. With this in mind, there is a high chance that cameos of other members will show up as well.
Two and a Half Faces
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I ruffled a few feathers, the week The Dark Knight’s release, when on my message boards I seemed to be the only person not convinced that Two-Face had not died. I have not even been reading comics steady for a year now. Is it the poetic, metaphoric side of me? Or was I the only one that picked up the subtleties in Eckhart’s performance? I don’t even know if I did, I guess they were too subtle. Either way, I was convinced that he as alive. Besides the fact that it was a comic book movie, and death is a key part of one of the media’s Golden Rules.
Save for the T1000 look, Eckhart’s role was flawlessley given. I could have lived with a death of Dent more so if Two-face was never introduced. I mean, Dent without the second face is pretty out of canon, but it would have worked, temporarily. If Scarecrow’s scene in the beginning of the movie proved anything, it is how much the Nolan brothers love continuity. Where in that logic, then, does it make sense to kill such an amazingly developed character, who is the anti-thesis of Batman himself, die so early? Although he was not as fit as Bruce Wayne was when he fell, Batman got back to his feet pretty quickly, too soon to give the assumption that the other half of that falling duo did not make it either. Besides the Golden Rule of comic books (that no one dies) there was also Bruce Wayne’s Golden Rule. This was the one that Joker was talking about in the interrogation scene. The rule that he will not kill anyone. So why would he have killed, although not directly, Harvey Dent?
I spent weeks trying to convince people of my truths, but alas, few believed in me. They hardly even believed in Harvey Dent.
Regarding Batman 3 rumors, we’re not going to guess if the next super villain is the Riddler (Johnny Depp) or the Penguin (Philip Seymour Hoffman). That’s all speculation at this point. But we do know two facts, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart signed on for two Bat-pictures. We’re not going to talk The Dark Knight spoilers, but hmmm. Nine lives indeed. Our source close to Maggie Gyllenhaal confirmed that she’s excited about the next movie, “why else would she, or Katie Holmes for that matter, take on the thankless roll of Rachel Dawes? After Katie left the roll, they could’ve create a new character. But that wasn’t part of Nolan’s plan. This is the trajectory he’s planned for Rachel since the first movie. Not only is Maggie contractually obligated, but she’s already getting in shape for Batman 3.”
Source: http://www.hollywood-newsroom.com/rumors/angelina-jolie-is-not-catwoman-in-batman-3-its-maggie-gyllenhaal/
No one ever believes me, where clearly they should, I clearly have a mind for these matters.
‘Zombie’ Aint The Term I Would Have Used… (RE: Cracked)
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I must admit something, I do take fondness in laughter and hilarity. Wit is also up there as well. For the past while Cracked has been Digging (its a website, I am not trying to be hip) out some good “Top #” lists, and I generally agree with the points made. I, a nerdXcore to the maxXcore (to the power of hXc), even finds it odd that I have a few comments-worth-blogging about the negateness that tech has apparently swallowed traditional media with.
#6. Phone Books
There really is nothing to say about this, it is the one that I fully agree with. My phone book at home is never actually opened. We have our dentist, doctor, lawyer and church phone number written on the front. The book is big enough that you really cant lose it. But it really is a waste of a few hundred pages for a few numbers that should be in my cell any ways…
#5. MP3 Players
My first comment on this is on the use of example by the apparent decreasing MP3 player sales. You know why I first bought an MP3 player? Because my MP3 CD player was bonk and held only ~200 songs. You know why I got my second one? Because I filled up 40GB real fast. You know why I still have my 80GB iPod Video? Simply put, I don’t have enough to fill it up. Mind you, I got rid of a good 35GB of music (from a 90GB) and then had my entire HDD crash and had to re-download it all… but the point remains: no one will ever need more than 80GB, never mind 160GB.
I like having all my music on my iPod, it is convenient when my mood changes on the bus. But then people ask about video. You can store your entire compressed DVD collection on that thing and still have all of your CDs. Flat out, we really do not need more room. I am banking on the 160GB iPod video to be the biggest one we will see in a long time. I mean, look at the new Nano and iPod Touch? You can see where their efforts are headed to now.
The second argument is the whole cell-phone thing. My answer is this: my iPod is a better and bigger player and has a better battery than my cell-phone. And I mean, I shelled out a few hundred for this baby (never mind my rad skin), I have no reason to toss it.
#4. DVDs
The HD war between HD-DVD and the BR ended a few months ago. Sony praised itself for its amazing new Blu-Ray format and expected, in the wake of their win, sales to spark. They went up 2%. Thing is, we really don’t care that much.
There is a growing-age of all technology, of course. When you buy a HD/ BR disc you are getting some great picture, right then, right there. When you buy a Plasma/ LCD/ any TV you get a generally crappy picture that gets better over years.
That’s were we are at. Until we all get all new TVs, the DVD really is not going to be much worse than its HD counter part, not until we upgrade properly. Even Kevin Smith thought the DVD was a gong-show, but has also admitted to its amazingness. The DVD is where we first saw series of TV shows come home in boxes, and especially in old/cartoon television, and HD set up is not going to help much.
Give it time, Luke.
#3. Magazines, Catalogs and Newspapers
I do not think that the amount of money a company makes from magazines alone is enough to pay for the money spent printing them. I am no expert on the topic, and actually am entirely writing this opinion of imaginary facts, but we can all pretend. I mean, I do like flipping through a $10 magazine every month or so and, about once every 3 issues, going out to buy a product that cost me $5.
I am not that mentally deranged that, however, I am the only person here today that just… feels better reading from recycled paper than an LCD (or CLR, if you are a loser) screen. I mean, I pre-paid and pre-ordered the last Harry Potter book, … and the Deathly Hallows, a good 6 months ahead of time. I downloaded the .pdf a good 2 days before the book arrived. Do not tell me that there was not a good damn reason I never read that file beforehand.
I muchly agree with this Digg user in this quote;
I was waiting for them to say books, and was so glad when it didn’t come up.
I like books.
#2. Video Games on Disc
Because hard drives crash and DRM is a whore.
#1. Cash
I am not being lazy for cutting this last one short, but I agree with this man on every account. I mean, I better manage my monies when in cash, but that is just because I am horrible with monies.
Comic-Con 2008 - “The Golden Age of Superhero Movies”
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If Jesus, Odin, Zeus and the Dhali Llama all took a poo in a cup, had Hitler swirl it all around in his mouth, throw it up, let it harden and then Bruce Willis took an Uzi to it… it would still not suffice to the amount of “Holy crap” that was uttered in this first day of the SDCC. Nor would, in the case of another carefully crafted pun, be as “Holy [a] crap” as that seen today in San Diego. Some say E3 died, at least the E3 I grew up with. No, it did not, it split itself into two beings; the keynote’s were trimmed into the new ‘E3′. Wherein the energy and vigeur once wetting the floors of the Los Angeles Convention Centre has been moved to the San Diego Convention Centre. That is where nerds Hulk it out, hXc.
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