[scifinoir2] Robo-Geisha
They are showing the movie RoboGeisha at the Seattle International film festival! Here is some info on the film fest and the trailer: *http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=38514FID=166 *
[scifinoir2] article: A Star is Born, Cryogenically
Sperm bank says that you can have kids that looks like a celebrity. A Star is Born, Cryogenically Designer babies going celeb route By HASANI GITTENShttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/results/?keywords=%22HASANI+GITTENS%22author=ysort=date Updated 3:00 PM PDT, Thu, Jan 7, 2010 Print javascript:void(0); Share javascript:void(0); Buzz up!http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=nbc_bay_area378guid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.htmltargetUrl= retweethttp://button.topsy.com/retweet?nick=nbcbayareaurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.htmlshorturl=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa0xf5Dtitle=A%20Star%20is%20Born%2C%20Cryogenically 0diggsdigg FACEBOOK javascript:void(0); Getty Images Want a baby with the body of Adam Brodyhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Adam+Brody, the face of Bill Gates http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Bill+Gates, or the handsomeness of Tom Hankshttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Tom+Hanks ? Now you can have it, for a price... kind of. A Los Angeles http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Los+Angeles sperm bank announced today that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors to give prospective clients a better idea of what their potential offspring might look like. The number one client question we get is: 'Who does this donor look like?' said Scott Brown http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Scott+Brown of California Cryobank http://www.cryobank.com/Donor-Search/Look-A-Likes/. We decided this would be a great way to give thorough and consistent answers. Clients love it. Look-a-Likes has only been available for a week and our website traffic is up 50 percent. Brown said the sperm bank is choosy, accepting fewer than 1 percent of people who apply to be donors. The screening process includes genetic testing, regular blood tests, a three-generation family medical history, and a sperm count/quality in the top 15 percent of the population, he said. A group of employees spent six months putting together the photos and matching them to donors. Clients can search for attributes such as height or eye and hair color, and the database will return a list of donors who each have two or three celebrity look-alikes. Users also can choose from an existing library of celebrities to generate a list of matching donors, according to California Cyrobank, which was started in 1977. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies
iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies by Leslie Katz http://www.cnet.com/profile/Leslie+Katz/ - Font size - Print - E-mail - Share - 27 commentshttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html#comments - Yahoo! Buzzhttp://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=cnet_crave854guid=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html%3Ftag%3Dyahoobuzz Share503http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.htmlt=iRobot%27s%20oozy%20ChemBot%20amazes%20and%20terrifies%20%7C%20Crave%20-%20CNETsrc=sp For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, and it can't stop inflating? (Credit: YouTube screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting ChemBothttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-9970345-72.htmlwe first told you about last year, and well, it looks like the love child of a beating heart and a wad of Silly Putty. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conferencehttp://www.iros09.mtu.edu/index.php/IROS_2009:_The_2009_IEEE/RSJ_International_Conference_on_Intelligent_RObots_and_Systems(the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in St. Louis this week. DARPA envisions the palm-size ChemBot as a mobile robot that can traverse soft terrain and navigate through small openings, such as tiny wall cracks, during reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions. It gets around by way of a process called jamming, in which material can transition between semiliquid and solid states with only a slight change in volume. In ChemBot's case, a flexible silicone skin encapsulates a series of pockets containing a mix of air and loosely packed particles. When air is removed from the compartments, the skin attempts to equalize the pressure differential by constricting the particles, which shift slightly to fill the void left by the evacuated air. In that way, the weird little blob inflates and deflates parts of its body, changing size and shape--and scaring the living daylights out of us. We don't know exactly when ChemBot will join the Armed Forces, but we can only beg: please, oh please, keep it away from us. *(Via IEEE Spectrumhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot) *
[scifinoir2] Robot the musical
The link below is to a small set of pictures from the musical called Robot. The play is about a man that is living with three robots in his home who receives a visit from a woman that is his last link to society. http://in.reuters.com/news/pictures/rpSlideshows?articleId=INRTXE9P9#a=1
Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be
Keith, I didn't want to, but after he let me down by mentally tanking on Alias... On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: i'd never considered this view of Abrams... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:36:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be Keith, he has this track record of launching something that's spectacular and soul-grabbing, that takes over your life entirely (Felicity, Alias and Lost), and then walking away from it for the next shiny new project. I think I posted something this morning, about some new genre shows coming down the pike. One's called Undercovers, with Boris Kodjoe (breathe, ladies!) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and any fans of Fringe here (which I now reluctantly admit to being one of) will be heartbroken to know that JJ's executive producer on it. And your utterly valid reasons for disliking his work are strong factors in my book as well. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: No wonder you refuse to watch the new Trek film! Why do you loathe Abrams? I actually like his work, but only on original properties. I haven't cared for his stamp on existing things like MI-3 or Star Trek, because his need to add more action over the drama is more obvious, and slightly taints the franchise's core makeup, in my opinion. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:47:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be I STILL loathe JJ with a passion, but I thought you folks might enjoy this. -- Forwarded message -- From: martin_baxter...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM Subject: Check out this site I found on StumbleUpon! To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com [image: StumbleUpon | Discover Your Web.] Discoverhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fdiscover%2Ftoprated%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Favoriteshttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Ffavorites%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Stumblershttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fstumblers%2Fonlinenow%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Hi, Fun stuff to think about... Is Fringe's Alternate Universe The Same Earth As I Am Lege..http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 io9.com/5536897/is-fringes-alt...http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 - Truthseeker013 View now! http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 *About StumbleUpon* Discover great web content recommended by your friends and like-minded stumblers just by clicking the Stumble! button - learn morehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo.php . If you do not wish to receive emails sent by your friends via StumbleUpon, please click click herehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fnotifications.php%3Femailcode%3D3w2z80576ve5lsa9l=7c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be
Mr Worf, IMO, the idea he had with Alias did develop, and he still tanked on it. he's like a kid in a room with a toy. He's okay playing with it until the door opens, and a shiny newer toy is placed inside. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I think that he has too many oars in the water and suffers from genius syndrome. He is such a genius that he gets tired of an idea if it takes too long to develop it. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Keith, he has this track record of launching something that's spectacular and soul-grabbing, that takes over your life entirely (Felicity, Alias and Lost), and then walking away from it for the next shiny new project. I think I posted something this morning, about some new genre shows coming down the pike. One's called Undercovers, with Boris Kodjoe (breathe, ladies!) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and any fans of Fringe here (which I now reluctantly admit to being one of) will be heartbroken to know that JJ's executive producer on it. And your utterly valid reasons for disliking his work are strong factors in my book as well. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: No wonder you refuse to watch the new Trek film! Why do you loathe Abrams? I actually like his work, but only on original properties. I haven't cared for his stamp on existing things like MI-3 or Star Trek, because his need to add more action over the drama is more obvious, and slightly taints the franchise's core makeup, in my opinion. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:47:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be I STILL loathe JJ with a passion, but I thought you folks might enjoy this. -- Forwarded message -- From: martin_baxter...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM Subject: Check out this site I found on StumbleUpon! To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com [image: StumbleUpon | Discover Your Web.] Discoverhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fdiscover%2Ftoprated%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Favoriteshttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Ffavorites%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Stumblershttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fstumblers%2Fonlinenow%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Hi, Fun stuff to think about... Is Fringe's Alternate Universe The Same Earth As I Am Lege..http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 io9.com/5536897/is-fringes-alt...http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 - Truthseeker013 View now! http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 *About StumbleUpon* Discover great web content recommended by your friends and like-minded stumblers just by clicking the Stumble! button - learn morehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo.php . If you do not wish to receive emails sent by your friends via StumbleUpon, please click click herehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fnotifications.php%3Femailcode%3D3w2z80576ve5lsa9l=7c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be
Justin, all the great talent in the world doesn't matter if the captain walks away from the tiller. You mentioned the great talents A___s had on Lost, and yet the show still got, if you'll pardon the unintentional pun, lost. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Justin Mohareb justinmoha...@gmail.comwrote: What's amusing is how narrow minded and disrespectful it is of the people who work on the show. A tv show is a lot more of a team effort than a film can be. Hell, the massively talented writers room on Lost alone is great, much less the great guidance given by Damon Lindelof (with the show since the beginning) and Carlton Cuse (with it since season one). But, you know, it's not surprising to hear that opinion. Justin On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: i'd never considered this view of Abrams... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:36:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be Keith, he has this track record of launching something that's spectacular and soul-grabbing, that takes over your life entirely (Felicity, Alias and Lost), and then walking away from it for the next shiny new project. I think I posted something this morning, about some new genre shows coming down the pike. One's called Undercovers, with Boris Kodjoe (breathe, ladies!) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and any fans of Fringe here (which I now reluctantly admit to being one of) will be heartbroken to know that JJ's executive producer on it. And your utterly valid reasons for disliking his work are strong factors in my book as well. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: No wonder you refuse to watch the new Trek film! Why do you loathe Abrams? I actually like his work, but only on original properties. I haven't cared for his stamp on existing things like MI-3 or Star Trek, because his need to add more action over the drama is more obvious, and slightly taints the franchise's core makeup, in my opinion. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:47:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be I STILL loathe JJ with a passion, but I thought you folks might enjoy this. -- Forwarded message -- From: martin_baxter...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM Subject: Check out this site I found on StumbleUpon! To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Discover Favorites Stumblers Hi, Fun stuff to think about... Is Fringe's Alternate Universe The Same Earth As I Am Lege.. io9.com/5536897/is-fringes-alt... - Truthseeker013 View now! About StumbleUpon Discover great web content recommended by your friends and like-minded stumblers just by clicking the Stumble! button - learn more. If you do not wish to receive emails sent by your friends via StumbleUpon, please click click here. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Read the Bitter Guide to the Bitter Guy. http://thebitterguy.livejournal.com Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies
It can also be used as a weapon, after a fashion. Just looking at it makes my stomach do slow rolls... On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies by Leslie Katz http://www.cnet.com/profile/Leslie+Katz/ - Font size - Print - E-mail - Share - 27 commentshttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html#comments - Yahoo! Buzzhttp://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=cnet_crave854guid=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html%3Ftag%3Dyahoobuzz Share503http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.htmlt=iRobot%27s%20oozy%20ChemBot%20amazes%20and%20terrifies%20%7C%20Crave%20-%20CNETsrc=sp For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, and it can't stop inflating? (Credit: YouTube screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting ChemBothttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-9970345-72.htmlwe first told you about last year, and well, it looks like the love child of a beating heart and a wad of Silly Putty. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conferencehttp://www.iros09.mtu.edu/index.php/IROS_2009:_The_2009_IEEE/RSJ_International_Conference_on_Intelligent_RObots_and_Systems(the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in St. Louis this week. DARPA envisions the palm-size ChemBot as a mobile robot that can traverse soft terrain and navigate through small openings, such as tiny wall cracks, during reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions. It gets around by way of a process called jamming, in which material can transition between semiliquid and solid states with only a slight change in volume. In ChemBot's case, a flexible silicone skin encapsulates a series of pockets containing a mix of air and loosely packed particles. When air is removed from the compartments, the skin attempts to equalize the pressure differential by constricting the particles, which shift slightly to fill the void left by the evacuated air. In that way, the weird little blob inflates and deflates parts of its body, changing size and shape--and scaring the living daylights out of us. We don't know exactly when ChemBot will join the Armed Forces, but we can only beg: please, oh please, keep it away from us. *(Via IEEE Spectrumhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot) * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] article: A Star is Born, Cryogenically
Mr Worf, this'll put us a step closer to Star Trek's Eugenics Wars. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Sperm bank says that you can have kids that looks like a celebrity. A Star is Born, Cryogenically Designer babies going celeb route By HASANI GITTENShttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/results/?keywords=%22HASANI+GITTENS%22author=ysort=date Updated 3:00 PM PDT, Thu, Jan 7, 2010 Print Share Buzz up!http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=nbc_bay_area378guid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.htmltargetUrl= retweethttp://button.topsy.com/retweet?nick=nbcbayareaurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.htmlshorturl=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa0xf5Dtitle=A%20Star%20is%20Born%2C%20Cryogenically 0diggsdigg FACEBOOK Getty Images Want a baby with the body of Adam Brodyhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Adam+Brody, the face of Bill Gates http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Bill+Gates, or the handsomeness of Tom Hankshttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Tom+Hanks ? Now you can have it, for a price... kind of. A Los Angeles http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Los+Angeles sperm bank announced today that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors to give prospective clients a better idea of what their potential offspring might look like. The number one client question we get is: 'Who does this donor look like?' said Scott Brown http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Scott+Brown of California Cryobank http://www.cryobank.com/Donor-Search/Look-A-Likes/. We decided this would be a great way to give thorough and consistent answers. Clients love it. Look-a-Likes has only been available for a week and our website traffic is up 50 percent. Brown said the sperm bank is choosy, accepting fewer than 1 percent of people who apply to be donors. The screening process includes genetic testing, regular blood tests, a three-generation family medical history, and a sperm count/quality in the top 15 percent of the population, he said. A group of employees spent six months putting together the photos and matching them to donors. Clients can search for attributes such as height or eye and hair color, and the database will return a list of donors who each have two or three celebrity look-alikes. Users also can choose from an existing library of celebrities to generate a list of matching donors, according to California Cyrobank, which was started in 1977. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Robo-Geisha
I'd attend just to see that. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They are showing the movie RoboGeisha at the Seattle International film festival! Here is some info on the film fest and the trailer: *http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=38514FID=166 * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Tumbleweed tiny homes
That is so cool, Mr Worf. And I could manage in one of those. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: At first glance these diminutive homes look like they were made for wealthy children or for little people, but after looking further you will notice that these homes offer all the comforts of home. Can you imagine living in a fully furnished home that costs less than $50,000? What if that home was only 400 sq ft? Take a look at this: http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Maker faire coming near you this summer!
More cool stuff, Mr Worf. Thanks. Maybe the Inventor Spirit is still in America. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This year the Maker faire is coming to Detroit and NYC this summer! If you are not familiar with the Maker faire. The Maker faire was created by the people of Make magazine. The magazine for the hackers, DIY people that make this country great! Think of the faire as the Macworld for the DIY set. Lots of gadgets and whatnot will be on display. Where else can you take soldering lessons and see a demo of a rocket powered skateboard? Check it out here: http://www.makerfaire.com/ Also check out Make magazine at makezine.com -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Robo-Geisha
ahar...@earthlink.net There is a screening here in NYC Tues. May 18th at Japan Society and it's sold out. I already have my ticket and can't wait! I just love this kind of wackiness! Cheers! Amy Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Robo-Geisha I'd attend just to see that. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They are showing the movie RoboGeisha at the Seattle International film festival! Here is some info on the film fest and the trailer: http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=38514FID=166 -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: Cable Company Makes a Move on Internet Video
Mr Worf, everyone I know who might have some pull in this is too busy trying to get rich before 40. [?][?] On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is the direction that comscum was talking about going in at CES a couple of years ago when they were started talking about a programmable set top box. I still would like to see everything ever made available to me online at high speed at a low cost. Can you talk to someone to make that happen? :) On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:54 PM Subject: Cable Company Makes a Move on Internet Video To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com This sounds interesting... = Four hundred eighty channels and nothing to watch on TV? Liberty Global, one of the largest cable service providers in Europe, is adding a few more options for its customers. The company will soon introduce a set-top box that will marry traditional cable content with apps, widgets and access to web-based video, Wired has learned. “It’s a set-top box on steroids,” Balan Nair, chief technology officer for Liberty Global, told Wired.com. “The interface will be very intuitive and advanced and include features such as search and recommendation that will tie in a seamless way the experience of a using a DVR and a web search engine.” Think of it as a Boxee or Roku-like service living on the cable digital video recorder. For instance, a search for *Batman* will show what channel is broadcasting it, if is available through video on demand, where on the web you can find it and even if it is available through some peer-to-peer networks. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/liberty-cable-internet-video/ -- Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live. (About little moments of happiness) If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. -- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik 323.gif320.gif
[scifinoir2] Fly Me to the Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project
Fly Me to the Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Projecthttp://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/05/fly_me_to_the_life-size_eva-01_construction_projec.php By Rob Bricken in Anime http://www.toplessrobot.com/anime/ Wednesday, May. 12 2010 @ 9:47AM [image: 0596160d3e5cbfe1b42100de1596c048.jpg.jpg]http://www.toplessrobot.com/0596160d3e5cbfe1b42100de1596c048.jpg.jpg Looks like *Evangelion* wants into the giant robot statue game -- there's going to be a life-size Eva Unit constructed at the base of Mount Fuji. Unfortunately... well, I'll just let ANN tell ithttp://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-05-12/life-size-evangelion-bust-built-at-foot-of-mt-fuji : Japan's Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park has announcedhttp://www.fujikyu.co.jp/data/news_pdf/20100512143846_HL_EVANGERIONWORLD_20100512.pdfon Wednesday that it will open a new pavilion called Evangelion: World - Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project on July 23. The pavilion will house the world's first life-size recreation of the scene where the Evangelion anime's main character Shinji Ikari encounters the Eva-01 unit for the first time. The recreation will have a mockup of the Evangelion unit from the bust up. The pavilion will also have a life-size cockpit of an Evangelion unit (from where visitors can pay to have their photos taken), a life-size figure of the character Kaworu Nagisa, a video corner, a museum, a studio gallery for taking photographs, and a shop. Fuji-Q HighLand's website will present the first interim report of the pavilion's 150-million-yen (about US$1.6 million) construction on May 26. Actually, the plan is to build the entirety of Unit-01, but the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park figures the construction workers will only finish the shoulders up before they mentally break down, hide in the porta-potties crying for a few hours, then run away while muttering to themselves I mustn't run away. I imagine that's a pretty good guess. --
[scifinoir2] Canadian Club Re-launches Historic Hide A Case winner gets $100,000
Hi Guys, Yes this is a shameless plug but I've been working on this campaign for almost a year now so I need some additional help. I'm working on a big campaign for Canadian club whiskey and I wanted to share it with you all. The Canadian Club Hide A Case contest starts today. The press is all a buzz about the contest Check out this article from MediaPost: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleart_aid=128004 So basically it's a series of online puzzles that you can solve and build up points. The winners get to go on an expedition to find one of the lost cases of Canadian Club and whoever finds it wins $100,000. It's a super cool campaign and I hope you will show me some love by signing up to play. Visit http://Facebook.com/CanadianClub to register and PLEASE share it with your friends. You may or may not be familiar with the Canadian Club (Whisky) Hide a Case promotion. The company started the promotion in 1967, hiding cases of their whiskey all around the world. Until 1983, they hid forty cases in total. Five cases that were never found---one in Ujiji, Tanzania, one on the North Pole, one in Lake Placid, NY, one in the Yukon Territory and one on Robinson Crusoe Island off of Chile. However, Canadian Club claims only 3 have never been found. The actual prize for finding a case was a worldwide adventure trip, $10,000 or simply the case of whiskey. Well Canadian Club's Hide a Case contest is back and ready for the new modern adventurers to join the hunt. Here is more info below: Visit Canadian Club on Facebook at http://facebook.com/CanadianClub to sign up and start playing and solving the clues. Canadian Club® is reactivating its most exciting campaign to date, over the next few months we’ll be searching for 8 adventurers to join us on the expedition of a lifetime, to hunt for one of our missing cases. We have a $100k prize up for grabs for the final winner of the race to the case, all 8 winners will receive $12,500 each in addition to a place on the trip of a lifetime – and as if that wasn't enough, during round 1 we’ll be conducting a sweepstakes randomly selecting 100 entrants to win adventurous prizes, ranging from digital watches to hydration backpacks. Your mission should you choose to accept it... Round 1: (Begins May 17th 2010) Complete 6 tasks that will test your creativity, brain power and speed. Each task will earn you 10 points – you will only get one attempt to attempt each game so make sure when you click the start button you are ready to play! Each successfully completed task will be rewarded with a clue that will lead you closer to the mystery location. Solve the clues and correctly name the mystery location for an additional 20 points Bag yourself at least 50 points to go through to round 2... Round 2: (Begins July 9th 2010) Upload a video explaining why you think you should go on the hunt. Our judges will select the top 30 videos, which will be put to a public vote – can you convince them? The judges score and the public vote will be combined to select the finalists (see official contest rules for more details) The top 4 Americans and top 4 Canadians will join us on the expedition of a lifetime to hunt for the lost case. Round 3: The Expedition (April 7th – 14th 2011) The chosen 8 will join us in the quest for the case in an amazing adventure across the globe. The Americans will be competing against the Canadians in the adventure of a lifetime, exploring exotic locations, trekking through uninhabited and unusual lands, racing the clock to solve the clues and find the elusive case. All 8 contestants will receive a nice $12,500 each, and did we mention, the final winner of the race for the case will scoop $100,000! The adventure beckons... sign up now on Facebook at http://facebook.com/canadianclub or visit http://Hideacase.com. No Purchase Necessary. Must be at least 21 to enter. Void where prohibited. Visit http://www.hideacase.com for complete rules. Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: scifinoir2-dig...@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: scifinoir2-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re: trailer - Inception
Saw the trailer this weekend while getting my NBA Playoffs on. I second the emotion on DiCaprio. Can't wait to see Inception. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, B Smith daikaij...@... wrote: Yup. DiCaprio has put together a solid, quality body of work. This one looks like a mindbender and I can't wait to see it. I loved the premise but the second trailer really hooked me. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, George Arterberry brotherfromhoward@ wrote: Quietly Leo has done an impressive body of work. From: Martin Baxter martinbaxter7@ To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 1:52:41 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] trailer - Inception  And I should add that my two goddaughters will be seeing it. Neither one likes science fiction (don't think I didn't try, though!), but it does have Leo... that's enough for them. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxter7@ gmail.com wrote: Mr Worf, it's been on my list since the minute I heard the premise. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ gmail.com wrote:  Leonardo DiCaprio has been busy. Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime. (and its in IMAX!) Trailer 1 http://www.imdb. com/video/ imdb/vi286104066 5/ Trailer 2 http://www.imdb. com/video/ imdb/vi402655001 / -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?
I like Encore Westerns too. They even trot out some of the better non-Leone spaghetti westerns from time to time. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: Almost everything, Keith, even some of the sillier westerns, such as Pancho VIlla with Telly Savalas and Clint Walker. Though tonight, they'll be airing Almost Heroes with Chris Farley and Matthew Perry. That shall go unseen by me. I just learned that they're going to reshuffle their usual lineup of series aired in July, and one of the newbies coming in is :Lawman with John Russell. It's sorta like Gunsmoke without the huge supporting cast. I'm looking forward to that. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: What do you watch on the Encore Westerns channel? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:19:00 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling? Keith, it's that scattershot approach to programming that makes me pick and choose what I view. I'm not on any one channel consistently -- no, I do stay on Encore Westerns a lot more than others. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: Yeah, it's just sad. But I guess it's all about profit. I mean, if you look at some of the other cable networks, you really can't tell what they stand for anymore. Reruns of Law and Order, Frasier, My Wife and Kids, Cheers, Supernatural, Charmed, etc., abound. Often one can no longer tell what the station's particular focus is supposed to be... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 6:19:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling? Took me twenty seconds to shake off the shock before I could reply... To paraphrase one of the Founding Fathers, Now is the time for all good people to chip in and create a competitive network against this crap. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Well, how much more does SyFy plan to get away from the scifi motif? They claim it's a zero-sum gain, since one wrestling show is going away, to be replaced by another, and since they claim Tuesday nights will generate better viewership. But this is utter bullcrap. A two hour wrestling block on Friday nights? I just don't get this... *** http://www.multichannel.com/article/451611-Syfy_s_Wrestling_Upgrade_SmackDown_on_Fridays.php Syfy's Wrestling Upgrade: `SmackDown' on Fridays By Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 4/19/2010 12:01:00 AM *Syfy hopes to pin down young wrestling* fans on Friday nights with the fall launch of World Wrestling Entertainment's popular *Friday Night SmackDown*, newly acquired by the NBC Universal outlet. Syfy will air the two-hour, weekly series which migrates from broadcast network MyNetworkTV beginning Oct. 1, during the 8 to 10 p.m. slot on Fridays that had been home to Syfy's original series. To make room for *SmackDown*, Syfy will move original franchises such as *Caprica *and *Sanctuary*, which had aired on Syfy Friday, to Tuesday nights.Th ey replace wrestling reality series WWE NXT, which will leave the network's schedule in October. * WWE NXT* formerly *ECW * has averaged 1.4 million viewers since launching last month. *Friday Night SmackDown* averages more than 3.4 million viewers a week on MyNetworkTV, making it the second most popular WWE franchise behind USA Network's *WWE Monday Night Raw*. I think this is a fantastic opportunity to upgrade what we already have and bring in a bigger WWE franchise *SmackDown *being the second biggest after *Raw*, Syfy president Dave Howe said. *SmackDown *attracts a bigger, more family oriented audience, so it's more helpful in terms of cross-promotion with the rest of the schedule. *ORIGINALS MOVE TO TUESDAY* Howe said Tuesdays will provide greater exposure for those originals than Fridays, typically a slower night in terms of television viewing. Freshman original series* Warehouse 13*, for example, averaged a networkhigh 3.8 million total viewers last summer on Tuesday nights. Howe hasn't totally ruled out the possibility of launching a scripted series in the Friday 10 p.m. time slot. We still have Fridays at 10, so what we're aiming to do is use *SmackDown *as a springboard to launch new shows on Friday, or put in repeats of our scripted shows so that we can continue to grow that *SmackDown *audience across our schedule, he said. WWE officials are said to be currently in negotiations with other distributors regarding future carriage of
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling?
Speak of the Devil, B... there's one on right now, Bad Man's River with Lee Van Cleef. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:54 AM, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: I like Encore Westerns too. They even trot out some of the better non-Leone spaghetti westerns from time to time. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: Almost everything, Keith, even some of the sillier westerns, such as Pancho VIlla with Telly Savalas and Clint Walker. Though tonight, they'll be airing Almost Heroes with Chris Farley and Matthew Perry. That shall go unseen by me. I just learned that they're going to reshuffle their usual lineup of series aired in July, and one of the newbies coming in is :Lawman with John Russell. It's sorta like Gunsmoke without the huge supporting cast. I'm looking forward to that. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: What do you watch on the Encore Westerns channel? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:19:00 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling? Keith, it's that scattershot approach to programming that makes me pick and choose what I view. I'm not on any one channel consistently -- no, I do stay on Encore Westerns a lot more than others. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ...wrote: Yeah, it's just sad. But I guess it's all about profit. I mean, if you look at some of the other cable networks, you really can't tell what they stand for anymore. Reruns of Law and Order, Frasier, My Wife and Kids, Cheers, Supernatural, Charmed, etc., abound. Often one can no longer tell what the station's particular focus is supposed to be... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 6:19:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] WTF--SyFy Fridays Changing to Wrestling? Took me twenty seconds to shake off the shock before I could reply... To paraphrase one of the Founding Fathers, Now is the time for all good people to chip in and create a competitive network against this crap. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Well, how much more does SyFy plan to get away from the scifi motif? They claim it's a zero-sum gain, since one wrestling show is going away, to be replaced by another, and since they claim Tuesday nights will generate better viewership. But this is utter bullcrap. A two hour wrestling block on Friday nights? I just don't get this... *** http://www.multichannel.com/article/451611-Syfy_s_Wrestling_Upgrade_SmackDown_on_Fridays.php Syfy's Wrestling Upgrade: `SmackDown' on Fridays By Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 4/19/2010 12:01:00 AM *Syfy hopes to pin down young wrestling* fans on Friday nights with the fall launch of World Wrestling Entertainment's popular *Friday Night SmackDown*, newly acquired by the NBC Universal outlet. Syfy will air the two-hour, weekly series — which migrates from broadcast network MyNetworkTV — beginning Oct. 1, during the 8 to 10 p.m. slot on Fridays that had been home to Syfy's original series. To make room for *SmackDown*, Syfy will move original franchises such as *Caprica *and *Sanctuary*, which had aired on Syfy Friday, to Tuesday nights.Th ey replace wrestling reality series WWE NXT, which will leave the network's schedule in October. * WWE NXT* — formerly *ECW *— has averaged 1.4 million viewers since launching last month. *Friday Night SmackDown* averages more than 3.4 million viewers a week on MyNetworkTV, making it the second most popular WWE franchise behind USA Network's *WWE Monday Night Raw*. I think this is a fantastic opportunity to upgrade what we already have and bring in a bigger WWE franchise — *SmackDown *being the second biggest after *Raw*, Syfy president Dave Howe said. *SmackDown *attracts a bigger, more family oriented audience, so it's more helpful in terms of cross-promotion with the rest of the schedule. *ORIGINALS MOVE TO TUESDAY* Howe said Tuesdays will provide greater exposure for those originals than Fridays, typically a slower night in terms of television viewing. Freshman original series* Warehouse 13*, for example, averaged a networkhigh 3.8 million total viewers last summer on Tuesday nights. Howe hasn't totally ruled out the possibility of launching a scripted series in the Friday 10 p.m. time slot. We
Re: [scifinoir2] Fly Me to the Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project
I'd love to see it, but they can keep the massive angst. Haven't they done something similar to this before, tossing up a giant bot in the middle of the way for all to gawk at? On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Fly Me to the Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Projecthttp://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/05/fly_me_to_the_life-size_eva-01_construction_projec.php By Rob Bricken in Anime http://www.toplessrobot.com/anime/ Wednesday, May. 12 2010 @ 9:47AM [image: 0596160d3e5cbfe1b42100de1596c048.jpg.jpg]http://www.toplessrobot.com/0596160d3e5cbfe1b42100de1596c048.jpg.jpgLooks like *Evangelion* wants into the giant robot statue game -- there's going to be a life-size Eva Unit constructed at the base of Mount Fuji. Unfortunately... well, I'll just let ANN tell ithttp://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-05-12/life-size-evangelion-bust-built-at-foot-of-mt-fuji : Japan's Fuji-Q HighLand amusement park has announcedhttp://www.fujikyu.co.jp/data/news_pdf/20100512143846_HL_EVANGERIONWORLD_20100512.pdfon Wednesday that it will open a new pavilion called Evangelion: World - Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project on July 23. The pavilion will house the world's first life-size recreation of the scene where the Evangelion anime's main character Shinji Ikari encounters the Eva-01 unit for the first time. The recreation will have a mockup of the Evangelion unit from the bust up. The pavilion will also have a life-size cockpit of an Evangelion unit (from where visitors can pay to have their photos taken), a life-size figure of the character Kaworu Nagisa, a video corner, a museum, a studio gallery for taking photographs, and a shop. Fuji-Q HighLand's website will present the first interim report of the pavilion's 150-million-yen (about US$1.6 million) construction on May 26. Actually, the plan is to build the entirety of Unit-01, but the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park figures the construction workers will only finish the shoulders up before they mentally break down, hide in the porta-potties crying for a few hours, then run away while muttering to themselves I mustn't run away. I imagine that's a pretty good guess. -- -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies
This brings back my childhood fear of the blob. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: It can also be used as a weapon, after a fashion. Just looking at it makes my stomach do slow rolls... On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies by Leslie Katz http://www.cnet.com/profile/Leslie+Katz/ - Font size - Print - E-mail - Share - 27 commentshttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html#comments - Yahoo! Buzzhttp://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=cnet_crave854guid=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html%3Ftag%3Dyahoobuzz Share503http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.htmlt=iRobot%27s%20oozy%20ChemBot%20amazes%20and%20terrifies%20%7C%20Crave%20-%20CNETsrc=sp For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, and it can't stop inflating? (Credit: YouTube screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting ChemBothttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-9970345-72.htmlwe first told you about last year, and well, it looks like the love child of a beating heart and a wad of Silly Putty. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conferencehttp://www.iros09.mtu.edu/index.php/IROS_2009:_The_2009_IEEE/RSJ_International_Conference_on_Intelligent_RObots_and_Systems(the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in St. Louis this week. DARPA envisions the palm-size ChemBot as a mobile robot that can traverse soft terrain and navigate through small openings, such as tiny wall cracks, during reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions. It gets around by way of a process called jamming, in which material can transition between semiliquid and solid states with only a slight change in volume. In ChemBot's case, a flexible silicone skin encapsulates a series of pockets containing a mix of air and loosely packed particles. When air is removed from the compartments, the skin attempts to equalize the pressure differential by constricting the particles, which shift slightly to fill the void left by the evacuated air. In that way, the weird little blob inflates and deflates parts of its body, changing size and shape--and scaring the living daylights out of us. We don't know exactly when ChemBot will join the Armed Forces, but we can only beg: please, oh please, keep it away from us. *(Via IEEE Spectrumhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot) * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Robo-Geisha
That kind of wackiness keeps me sane. You should review it, Amy. I'd love to get your take on it! Daryle On May 17, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Amy Harlib wrote: ahar...@earthlink.net There is a screening here in NYC Tues. May 18th at Japan Society and it's sold out. I already have my ticket and can't wait! I just love this kind of wackiness! Cheers! Amy Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Robo-Geisha I'd attend just to see that. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They are showing the movie RoboGeisha at the Seattle International film festival! Here is some info on the film fest and the trailer: http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=38514FID=166 -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Tumbleweed tiny homes
I think they are a good alternative to the megahomes that are being built. Some people are losing touch with reality. For example the homes that were being constructed in some areas before the housing crisis. If designed correctly a home could be constructed that doesn't require a lot of square feet. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: That is so cool, Mr Worf. And I could manage in one of those. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: At first glance these diminutive homes look like they were made for wealthy children or for little people, but after looking further you will notice that these homes offer all the comforts of home. Can you imagine living in a fully furnished home that costs less than $50,000? What if that home was only 400 sq ft? Take a look at this: http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be
I can understand where he is coming from. I think that he may be in love with the process of starting off something new then moving on from there. He needs to be in a think tank type situation where he can come up with the ideas and develop them then have other people complete them. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, IMO, the idea he had with Alias did develop, and he still tanked on it. he's like a kid in a room with a toy. He's okay playing with it until the door opens, and a shiny newer toy is placed inside. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I think that he has too many oars in the water and suffers from genius syndrome. He is such a genius that he gets tired of an idea if it takes too long to develop it. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Keith, he has this track record of launching something that's spectacular and soul-grabbing, that takes over your life entirely (Felicity, Alias and Lost), and then walking away from it for the next shiny new project. I think I posted something this morning, about some new genre shows coming down the pike. One's called Undercovers, with Boris Kodjoe (breathe, ladies!) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and any fans of Fringe here (which I now reluctantly admit to being one of) will be heartbroken to know that JJ's executive producer on it. And your utterly valid reasons for disliking his work are strong factors in my book as well. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: No wonder you refuse to watch the new Trek film! Why do you loathe Abrams? I actually like his work, but only on original properties. I haven't cared for his stamp on existing things like MI-3 or Star Trek, because his need to add more action over the drama is more obvious, and slightly taints the franchise's core makeup, in my opinion. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:47:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be I STILL loathe JJ with a passion, but I thought you folks might enjoy this. -- Forwarded message -- From: martin_baxter...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM Subject: Check out this site I found on StumbleUpon! To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com [image: StumbleUpon | Discover Your Web.] Discoverhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fdiscover%2Ftoprated%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Favoriteshttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Ffavorites%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Stumblershttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fstumblers%2Fonlinenow%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Hi, Fun stuff to think about... Is Fringe's Alternate Universe The Same Earth As I Am Lege..http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 io9.com/5536897/is-fringes-alt...http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 - Truthseeker013 View now! http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 *About StumbleUpon* Discover great web content recommended by your friends and like-minded stumblers just by clicking the Stumble! button - learn morehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo.php . If you do not wish to receive emails sent by your friends via StumbleUpon, please click click herehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fnotifications.php%3Femailcode%3D3w2z80576ve5lsa9l=7c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Maker faire coming near you this summer!
It never went anywhere, but I think that it just hasn't produce many viable products. A lot of inventions at the maker faire are more whimsical than practical. One really cool thing that they are doing is offering it in foreign countries as well. For example there is a maker faire in Africa too. I did love the inventor shows that were on the air for a while. I'm not sure if there will be any on next season or not though. For example American Inventor was like American Idol people brought in their ideas and the panel of 4 successful experts (rich) who would compete to invest in their idea. The problem with that show was many of the ideas presented were from people that already had working companies but needed a push to the next level. The BBC also had a show called Dragon's Den with a similar concept. The problem is that the truly unique ideas are not getting exposure. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: More cool stuff, Mr Worf. Thanks. Maybe the Inventor Spirit is still in America. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This year the Maker faire is coming to Detroit and NYC this summer! If you are not familiar with the Maker faire. The Maker faire was created by the people of Make magazine. The magazine for the hackers, DIY people that make this country great! Think of the faire as the Macworld for the DIY set. Lots of gadgets and whatnot will be on display. Where else can you take soldering lessons and see a demo of a rocket powered skateboard? Check it out here: http://www.makerfaire.com/ Also check out Make magazine at makezine.com -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies
Ha-ha! The Blob scared you? Why is that? Although, I guess I can understand that. What used to creep me out was that bubble hunter thing from The Prisoner, that would chase down and cover people, leaving the outline of the screaming person inside. I'd start having trouble breathing as soon as I saw that thing bouncing across the sand. Movies dealing with malevolent spiritual beings--vengeful spirits of the dead, evil demons--can get me too, since I was raised in a very traditional Christian tradition, and thoughts of servants of the Devil and stuff still hit that inner part that fears pure Evil. You know, outside of that, few movie monsters or supernatural creatures scare me, at least, in terms of staying with me much past the movie. But what can stay with me in the light night when the house is creaking? Anything I've seen about serial killers and all-too-mortal psychoe: movies like Psycho, the first Friday the 13th, Halloween. I never worry too much about opening the front door in the wee hours and seeing Dracula, Frankenstein, or the Wolfman on my front stoop. But a crazy, cannibalistic killer like a Dahmer who's running around with a knife or ax or something? It's not out of the realm of possibility ... - Original Message - From: Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:22:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies This brings back my childhood fear of the blob. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: It can also be used as a weapon, after a fashion. Just looking at it makes my stomach do slow rolls... On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies by Leslie Katz • Font size • Print • E-mail • Share • 27 comments • Yahoo! Buzz Share 503 For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, and it can't stop inflating? (Credit: YouTube screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting ChemBot we first told you about last year, and well, it looks like the love child of a beating heart and a wad of Silly Putty. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conference (the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in St. Louis this week. DARPA envisions the palm-size ChemBot as a mobile robot that can traverse soft terrain and navigate through small openings, such as tiny wall cracks, during reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions. It gets around by way of a process called jamming, in which material can transition between semiliquid and solid states with only a slight change in volume. In ChemBot's case, a flexible silicone skin encapsulates a series of pockets containing a mix of air and loosely packed particles. When air is removed from the compartments, the skin attempts to equalize the pressure differential by constricting the particles, which shift slightly to fill the void left by the evacuated air. In that way, the weird little blob inflates and deflates parts of its body, changing size and shape--and scaring the living daylights out of us. We don't know exactly when ChemBot will join the Armed Forces, but we can only beg: please, oh please, keep it away from us. (Via IEEE Spectrum ) -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] article: A Star is Born, Cryogenically
The problem is that they will only look like the famous person. Some stars kids just don't look attractive. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, this'll put us a step closer to Star Trek's Eugenics Wars. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Sperm bank says that you can have kids that looks like a celebrity. A Star is Born, Cryogenically Designer babies going celeb route By HASANI GITTENShttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/results/?keywords=%22HASANI+GITTENS%22author=ysort=date Updated 3:00 PM PDT, Thu, Jan 7, 2010 Print Share Buzz up!http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=nbc_bay_area378guid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.htmltargetUrl= retweethttp://button.topsy.com/retweet?nick=nbcbayareaurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.htmlshorturl=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa0xf5Dtitle=A%20Star%20is%20Born%2C%20Cryogenically 0diggsdigg FACEBOOK Getty Images Want a baby with the body of Adam Brodyhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Adam+Brody, the face of Bill Gateshttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Bill+Gates, or the handsomeness of Tom Hankshttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Tom+Hanks ? Now you can have it, for a price... kind of. A Los Angeles http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Los+Angeles sperm bank announced today that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors to give prospective clients a better idea of what their potential offspring might look like. The number one client question we get is: 'Who does this donor look like?' said Scott Brownhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Scott+Brownof California Cryobank http://www.cryobank.com/Donor-Search/Look-A-Likes/. We decided this would be a great way to give thorough and consistent answers. Clients love it. Look-a-Likes has only been available for a week and our website traffic is up 50 percent. Brown said the sperm bank is choosy, accepting fewer than 1 percent of people who apply to be donors. The screening process includes genetic testing, regular blood tests, a three-generation family medical history, and a sperm count/quality in the top 15 percent of the population, he said. A group of employees spent six months putting together the photos and matching them to donors. Clients can search for attributes such as height or eye and hair color, and the database will return a list of donors who each have two or three celebrity look-alikes. Users also can choose from an existing library of celebrities to generate a list of matching donors, according to California Cyrobank, which was started in 1977. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies
I agree, Dahlmer and company are the real monsters that can get you. Jack the ripper, BTC, the Boston Strangler all were real. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Ha-ha! The Blob scared you? Why is that? Although, I guess I can understand that. What used to creep me out was that bubble hunter thing from The Prisoner, that would chase down and cover people, leaving the outline of the screaming person inside. I'd start having trouble breathing as soon as I saw that thing bouncing across the sand. Movies dealing with malevolent spiritual beings--vengeful spirits of the dead, evil demons--can get me too, since I was raised in a very traditional Christian tradition, and thoughts of servants of the Devil and stuff still hit that inner part that fears pure Evil. You know, outside of that, few movie monsters or supernatural creatures scare me, at least, in terms of staying with me much past the movie. But what can stay with me in the light night when the house is creaking? Anything I've seen about serial killers and all-too-mortal psychoe: movies like Psycho, the first Friday the 13th, Halloween. I never worry too much about opening the front door in the wee hours and seeing Dracula, Frankenstein, or the Wolfman on my front stoop. But a crazy, cannibalistic killer like a Dahmer who's running around with a knife or ax or something? It's not out of the realm of possibility... - Original Message - From: Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:22:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies This brings back my childhood fear of the blob. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: It can also be used as a weapon, after a fashion. Just looking at it makes my stomach do slow rolls... On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies by Leslie Katz http://www.cnet.com/profile/Leslie+Katz/ - Font size - Print - E-mail - Share - 27 commentshttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html#comments - Yahoo! Buzzhttp://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=cnet_crave854guid=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html%3Ftag%3Dyahoobuzz Share503http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.htmlt=iRobot%27s%20oozy%20ChemBot%20amazes%20and%20terrifies%20%7C%20Crave%20-%20CNETsrc=sp For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, and it can't stop inflating? (Credit: YouTube screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting ChemBothttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-9970345-72.htmlwe first told you about last year, and well, it looks like the love child of a beating heart and a wad of Silly Putty. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conferencehttp://www.iros09.mtu.edu/index.php/IROS_2009:_The_2009_IEEE/RSJ_International_Conference_on_Intelligent_RObots_and_Systems(the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in St. Louis this week. DARPA envisions the palm-size ChemBot as a mobile robot that can traverse soft terrain and navigate through small openings, such as tiny wall cracks, during reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions. It gets around by way of a process called jamming, in which material can transition between semiliquid and solid states with only a slight change in volume. In ChemBot's case, a flexible silicone skin encapsulates a series of pockets containing a mix of air and loosely packed particles. When air is removed from the compartments, the skin attempts to equalize the pressure differential by constricting the particles, which shift slightly to fill the void left by the evacuated air. In that way, the weird little blob inflates and deflates parts of its body, changing size and shape--and scaring the living daylights out of us. We don't know exactly when ChemBot will join the Armed Forces, but we can only beg: please, oh please, keep it away from us. *(Via IEEE Spectrumhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot) * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] article: A Star is Born, Cryogenically
Isn't that the truth, Mr Worf? On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that they will only look like the famous person. Some stars kids just don't look attractive. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, this'll put us a step closer to Star Trek's Eugenics Wars. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Sperm bank says that you can have kids that looks like a celebrity. A Star is Born, Cryogenically Designer babies going celeb route By HASANI GITTENShttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/results/?keywords=%22HASANI+GITTENS%22author=ysort=date Updated 3:00 PM PDT, Thu, Jan 7, 2010 Print Share Buzz up!http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=nbc_bay_area378guid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.htmltargetUrl= retweethttp://button.topsy.com/retweet?nick=nbcbayareaurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcbayarea.com%2Fnews%2Fweird%2FA-Star-is-Born-Cryogenically.htmlshorturl=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fa0xf5Dtitle=A%20Star%20is%20Born%2C%20Cryogenically 0diggsdigg FACEBOOK Getty Images Want a baby with the body of Adam Brodyhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Adam+Brody, the face of Bill Gateshttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Bill+Gates, or the handsomeness of Tom Hankshttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Tom+Hanks ? Now you can have it, for a price... kind of. A Los Angeles http://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Los+Angeles sperm bank announced today that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors to give prospective clients a better idea of what their potential offspring might look like. The number one client question we get is: 'Who does this donor look like?' said Scott Brownhttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/topics?topic=Scott+Brownof California Cryobank http://www.cryobank.com/Donor-Search/Look-A-Likes/. We decided this would be a great way to give thorough and consistent answers. Clients love it. Look-a-Likes has only been available for a week and our website traffic is up 50 percent. Brown said the sperm bank is choosy, accepting fewer than 1 percent of people who apply to be donors. The screening process includes genetic testing, regular blood tests, a three-generation family medical history, and a sperm count/quality in the top 15 percent of the population, he said. A group of employees spent six months putting together the photos and matching them to donors. Clients can search for attributes such as height or eye and hair color, and the database will return a list of donors who each have two or three celebrity look-alikes. Users also can choose from an existing library of celebrities to generate a list of matching donors, according to California Cyrobank, which was started in 1977. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be
I could live with that, Mr Worf. As long as the show doesn't pay for his dilettantism. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I can understand where he is coming from. I think that he may be in love with the process of starting off something new then moving on from there. He needs to be in a think tank type situation where he can come up with the ideas and develop them then have other people complete them. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, IMO, the idea he had with Alias did develop, and he still tanked on it. he's like a kid in a room with a toy. He's okay playing with it until the door opens, and a shiny newer toy is placed inside. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I think that he has too many oars in the water and suffers from genius syndrome. He is such a genius that he gets tired of an idea if it takes too long to develop it. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Keith, he has this track record of launching something that's spectacular and soul-grabbing, that takes over your life entirely (Felicity, Alias and Lost), and then walking away from it for the next shiny new project. I think I posted something this morning, about some new genre shows coming down the pike. One's called Undercovers, with Boris Kodjoe (breathe, ladies!) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and any fans of Fringe here (which I now reluctantly admit to being one of) will be heartbroken to know that JJ's executive producer on it. And your utterly valid reasons for disliking his work are strong factors in my book as well. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: No wonder you refuse to watch the new Trek film! Why do you loathe Abrams? I actually like his work, but only on original properties. I haven't cared for his stamp on existing things like MI-3 or Star Trek, because his need to add more action over the drama is more obvious, and slightly taints the franchise's core makeup, in my opinion. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:47:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be I STILL loathe JJ with a passion, but I thought you folks might enjoy this. -- Forwarded message -- From: martin_baxter...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM Subject: Check out this site I found on StumbleUpon! To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com [image: StumbleUpon | Discover Your Web.] Discoverhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fdiscover%2Ftoprated%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Favoriteshttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Ffavorites%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Stumblershttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fstumblers%2Fonlinenow%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Hi, Fun stuff to think about... Is Fringe's Alternate Universe The Same Earth As I Am Lege..http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 io9.com/5536897/is-fringes-alt...http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 - Truthseeker013 View now! http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 *About StumbleUpon* Discover great web content recommended by your friends and like-minded stumblers just by clicking the Stumble! button - learn morehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo.php . If you do not wish to receive emails sent by your friends via StumbleUpon, please click click herehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fnotifications.php%3Femailcode%3D3w2z80576ve5lsa9l=7c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant
Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies
Well, I was around 5 or 6 when I first saw the movie. I guess it was that it did all the things this chem-robot is supposed to do. I was always looking under door cracks and checking out the vents. Plus when I looked out of my bedroom into a partially illuminated hallway, I could always convince myself that any rounded shadow was moving, and therefore might be the blob. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Ha-ha! The Blob scared you? Why is that? Although, I guess I can understand that. What used to creep me out was that bubble hunter thing from The Prisoner, that would chase down and cover people, leaving the outline of the screaming person inside. I'd start having trouble breathing as soon as I saw that thing bouncing across the sand. Movies dealing with malevolent spiritual beings--vengeful spirits of the dead, evil demons--can get me too, since I was raised in a very traditional Christian tradition, and thoughts of servants of the Devil and stuff still hit that inner part that fears pure Evil. You know, outside of that, few movie monsters or supernatural creatures scare me, at least, in terms of staying with me much past the movie. But what can stay with me in the light night when the house is creaking? Anything I've seen about serial killers and all-too-mortal psychoe: movies like Psycho, the first Friday the 13th, Halloween. I never worry too much about opening the front door in the wee hours and seeing Dracula, Frankenstein, or the Wolfman on my front stoop. But a crazy, cannibalistic killer like a Dahmer who's running around with a knife or ax or something? It's not out of the realm of possibility... - Original Message - From: Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:22:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies This brings back my childhood fear of the blob. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: It can also be used as a weapon, after a fashion. Just looking at it makes my stomach do slow rolls... On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies by Leslie Katz http://www.cnet.com/profile/Leslie+Katz/ - Font size - Print - E-mail - Share - 27 commentshttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html#comments - Yahoo! Buzzhttp://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=cnet_crave854guid=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.html%3Ftag%3Dyahoobuzz Share503http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-17938_105-10375216-1.htmlt=iRobot%27s%20oozy%20ChemBot%20amazes%20and%20terrifies%20%7C%20Crave%20-%20CNETsrc=sp For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, and it can't stop inflating? (Credit: YouTube screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting ChemBothttp://news.cnet.com/8301-17912_3-9970345-72.htmlwe first told you about last year, and well, it looks like the love child of a beating heart and a wad of Silly Putty. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conferencehttp://www.iros09.mtu.edu/index.php/IROS_2009:_The_2009_IEEE/RSJ_International_Conference_on_Intelligent_RObots_and_Systems(the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in St. Louis this week. DARPA envisions the palm-size ChemBot as a mobile robot that can traverse soft terrain and navigate through small openings, such as tiny wall cracks, during reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions. It gets around by way of a process called jamming, in which material can transition between semiliquid and solid states with only a slight change in volume. In ChemBot's case, a flexible silicone skin encapsulates a series of pockets containing a mix of air and loosely packed particles. When air is removed from the compartments, the skin attempts to equalize the pressure differential by constricting the particles, which shift slightly to fill the void left by the evacuated air. In that way, the weird little blob inflates and deflates parts of its body, changing size and shape--and scaring the living daylights out of us. We don't know exactly when ChemBot will join the Armed Forces, but we can only beg: please, oh please, keep it away from us. *(Via IEEE Spectrumhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot) * -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the
Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be
I agree with this here...he has some good stuff and is talented and he needs to probably mentor new talent and have them execute his projects. I never got into LOSt but I LIVE for every episode of Fringe it's just so good. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I can understand where he is coming from. I think that he may be in love with the process of starting off something new then moving on from there. He needs to be in a think tank type situation where he can come up with the ideas and develop them then have other people complete them. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, IMO, the idea he had with Alias did develop, and he still tanked on it. he's like a kid in a room with a toy. He's okay playing with it until the door opens, and a shiny newer toy is placed inside. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I think that he has too many oars in the water and suffers from genius syndrome. He is such a genius that he gets tired of an idea if it takes too long to develop it. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Keith, he has this track record of launching something that's spectacular and soul-grabbing, that takes over your life entirely (Felicity, Alias and Lost), and then walking away from it for the next shiny new project. I think I posted something this morning, about some new genre shows coming down the pike. One's called Undercovers, with Boris Kodjoe (breathe, ladies!) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and any fans of Fringe here (which I now reluctantly admit to being one of) will be heartbroken to know that JJ's executive producer on it. And your utterly valid reasons for disliking his work are strong factors in my book as well. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: No wonder you refuse to watch the new Trek film! Why do you loathe Abrams? I actually like his work, but only on original properties. I haven't cared for his stamp on existing things like MI-3 or Star Trek, because his need to add more action over the drama is more obvious, and slightly taints the franchise's core makeup, in my opinion. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:47:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be I STILL loathe JJ with a passion, but I thought you folks might enjoy this. -- Forwarded message -- From: martin_baxter...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM Subject: Check out this site I found on StumbleUpon! To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com [image: StumbleUpon | Discover Your Web.] Discoverhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fdiscover%2Ftoprated%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Favoriteshttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Ffavorites%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Stumblershttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fstumblers%2Fonlinenow%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Hi, Fun stuff to think about... Is Fringe's Alternate Universe The Same Earth As I Am Lege..http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 io9.com/5536897/is-fringes-alt...http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 - Truthseeker013 View now! http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 *About StumbleUpon* Discover great web content recommended by your friends and like-minded stumblers just by clicking the Stumble! button - learn morehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo.php . If you do not wish to receive emails sent by your friends via StumbleUpon, please click click herehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fnotifications.php%3Femailcode%3D3w2z80576ve5lsa9l=7c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ --
Re: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be
When the first season of Lost aired I thought that it was the coolest thing on tv ever, but they couldn't out do what they did in the first season. I didn't even mind that there were polar bears on a tropical island. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Mike Street streetfor...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with this here...he has some good stuff and is talented and he needs to probably mentor new talent and have them execute his projects. I never got into LOSt but I LIVE for every episode of Fringe it's just so good. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I can understand where he is coming from. I think that he may be in love with the process of starting off something new then moving on from there. He needs to be in a think tank type situation where he can come up with the ideas and develop them then have other people complete them. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, IMO, the idea he had with Alias did develop, and he still tanked on it. he's like a kid in a room with a toy. He's okay playing with it until the door opens, and a shiny newer toy is placed inside. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: I think that he has too many oars in the water and suffers from genius syndrome. He is such a genius that he gets tired of an idea if it takes too long to develop it. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: Keith, he has this track record of launching something that's spectacular and soul-grabbing, that takes over your life entirely (Felicity, Alias and Lost), and then walking away from it for the next shiny new project. I think I posted something this morning, about some new genre shows coming down the pike. One's called Undercovers, with Boris Kodjoe (breathe, ladies!) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and any fans of Fringe here (which I now reluctantly admit to being one of) will be heartbroken to know that JJ's executive producer on it. And your utterly valid reasons for disliking his work are strong factors in my book as well. On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: No wonder you refuse to watch the new Trek film! Why do you loathe Abrams? I actually like his work, but only on original properties. I haven't cared for his stamp on existing things like MI-3 or Star Trek, because his need to add more action over the drama is more obvious, and slightly taints the franchise's core makeup, in my opinion. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:47:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Fringe Is Becoming the Show Lost Wishes It Could be I STILL loathe JJ with a passion, but I thought you folks might enjoy this. -- Forwarded message -- From: martin_baxter...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM Subject: Check out this site I found on StumbleUpon! To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com [image: StumbleUpon | Discover Your Web.] Discoverhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fdiscover%2Ftoprated%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Favoriteshttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Ffavorites%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Stumblershttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fv4redirect.php%3Fpath%3D%2Fstumblers%2Fonlinenow%2Fc=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 Hi, Fun stuff to think about... Is Fringe's Alternate Universe The Same Earth As I Am Lege..http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 io9.com/5536897/is-fringes-alt...http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 - Truthseeker013 View now! http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F5536897%2Fis-fringes-alternate-universe-the-same-earth-as-i-am-legendl=2c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9 *About StumbleUpon* Discover great web content recommended by your friends and like-minded stumblers just by clicking the Stumble! button - learn morehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo.php . If you do not wish to receive emails sent by your friends via StumbleUpon, please click click herehttp://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=iu=42554612d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fnotifications.php%3Femailcode%3D3w2z80576ve5lsa9l=7c=3w2z80576ve5lsa9. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If
Re: [scifinoir2] article: A Star is Born, Cryogenically
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[scifinoir2] LeBeouf Criticizes Spielberg, Self for Latest Indiana Jones Flick
Wow, a couple of weeks ago I dropped a post that LeBeouf was critical of the second Transformers movie. Now he's at it again with the latest Indiana Jones flick. I haven't seen either picture so far... *** Shia Slams Spielberg, Bay for Movie Missteps By SaraC Mon, 17 May 2010 15:54:12 GMT ShiaApparently, money never sleeps and Shia LaBeouf never shuts his mouth. Over the past few weeks, the star hasn’t been shy about speaking his mind. Even when it meant criticizing some high profile directors. First, he called out Michael Bay for his shoddy work with “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.” When I saw the second movie, I wasn't impressed with what we did, LaBeouf told the Associated Press. There were some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone. “We tried to get bigger. It's what happens to sequels. It's like, how do you top the first one? You've got to go bigger, LaBeouf said. Mike went so big that it became too big, and I think you lost the anchor of the movie. ... You lost a bit of the relationships. Unless you have those relationships, then the movie doesn't matter. Then it's just a bunch of robots fighting each other. Most recently, Shia told the Los Angeles Times he “dropped the ball” on “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” But his criticism extended beyond his own role in the film, and took aim at legendary director Steven Spielberg. You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven [Spielberg, who directed],” he said. “But the actor's job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn't do it. So that's my fault. Simple. He was disappointed in the final product, but felt that it was an even bigger letdown for the fans. I think the audience is pretty intelligent. I think they know when you've made ... And I think if you don't acknowledge it, then why do they trust you the next time you're promoting a movie? LaBeouf said. The actor went on to out his most famous costar, saying he wasn’t the only one to feel that way. We [Harrison Ford and LaBeouf] had major discussions,” he said. “He wasn't happy with it either. Look, the movie could have been updated. There was a reason it wasn't universally accepted. When the press asked LaBeouf if he was worried about criticizing his close friend and collaborator Spielberg, the Young Turk had this to say: I'll probably get a call. But he needs to hear this. I love him. I love Steven. I have a relationship with Steven that supersedes our business work. And believe me, I talk to him often enough to know that I'm not out of line. And I would never disrespect the man. I think he's a genius, and he's given me my whole life. He's done so much great work that there's no need for him to feel vulnerable about one film. But when you drop the ball you drop the ball. Well, LaBeouf better act fast if he wants to save the “Wall Street” sequel. I’ve seen the trailer and that particular ball has not only been dropped, but it’s in danger of bouncing right out of theaters. Watch it now and tell me what you think.
Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies
I can relate to that. When you're that young all kinds things can be ssary. I can clearly remember waking up in the middle of the night to see shadows from tree branches cast on the curtains of my bedroom window. To my sleepy eyes the shadows would look like some man standing outside the window. Scary! I remember closing my eyes tightly in fear, waiting for him to go away. And let's not get started on seeing Dad's hat and coat hanging on the wall, transformed by my sleepy eyes into a scay figure *in my room*! - Original Message - From: Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:58:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies Well, I was around 5 or 6 when I first saw the movie. I guess it was that it did all the things this chem-robot is supposed to do. I was always looking under door cracks and checking out the vents. Plus when I looked out of my bedroom into a partially illuminated hallway, I could always convince myself that any rounded shadow was moving, and therefore might be the blob. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Ha-ha! The Blob scared you? Why is that? Although, I guess I can understand that. What used to creep me out was that bubble hunter thing from The Prisoner, that would chase down and cover people, leaving the outline of the screaming person inside. I'd start having trouble breathing as soon as I saw that thing bouncing across the sand. Movies dealing with malevolent spiritual beings--vengeful spirits of the dead, evil demons--can get me too, since I was raised in a very traditional Christian tradition, and thoughts of servants of the Devil and stuff still hit that inner part that fears pure Evil. You know, outside of that, few movie monsters or supernatural creatures scare me, at least, in terms of staying with me much past the movie. But what can stay with me in the light night when the house is creaking? Anything I've seen about serial killers and all-too-mortal psychoe: movies like Psycho, the first Friday the 13th, Halloween. I never worry too much about opening the front door in the wee hours and seeing Dracula, Frankenstein, or the Wolfman on my front stoop. But a crazy, cannibalistic killer like a Dahmer who's running around with a knife or ax or something? It's not out of the realm of possibility... - Original Message - From: Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:22:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Scared Yet files: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies This brings back my childhood fear of the blob. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: It can also be used as a weapon, after a fashion. Just looking at it makes my stomach do slow rolls... On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: iRobot's oozy ChemBot amazes and terrifies by Leslie Katz • Font size • Print • E-mail • Share • 27 comments • Yahoo! Buzz Share 503 For now, it's palm-size, sure, but what if something terrible happens, and it can't stop inflating? (Credit: YouTube screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) We're getting a first glimpse of that shape-shifting ChemBot we first told you about last year, and well, it looks like the love child of a beating heart and a wad of Silly Putty. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conference (the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) in St. Louis this week. DARPA envisions the palm-size ChemBot as a mobile robot that can traverse soft terrain and navigate through small openings, such as tiny wall cracks, during reconnaissance and search-and-rescue missions. It gets around by way of a process called jamming, in which material can transition between semiliquid and solid states with only a slight change in volume. In ChemBot's case, a flexible silicone skin encapsulates a series of pockets containing a mix of air and loosely packed particles. When air is removed from the compartments, the skin attempts to equalize the pressure differential by constricting the particles, which shift slightly to fill the void left by the evacuated air. In that way, the weird little blob inflates and deflates parts of its body, changing size and shape--and scaring the living daylights out of us. We don't know exactly when ChemBot will join the Armed Forces, but we can only beg: please, oh
[scifinoir2] Splice?
Has anyone watched the commercial for this movie? Is it a Species rip off?
