or... "I want to hear those lovely Yinzer vowels...."

According to io9 and other sources, RTD and Julie Gardner are putting together an American version of Torchwoood to be handled by BBC Worldwide.

If nothing else, it would be interesting to see how RTD would deal with actually having to learn how the US government works (the President-Elect ( Read more... )

fandomsecrets is my pop culture crack.  So much so that if the day's post doesn't go up by 3 PM Mountain time, I get itchy.

Saw this yesterday in the comments section, and it is so the version of Torchwood that is in my head.

FIRST I WAS o_0, THEN I WAS XD!

If you like it as well, please direct your squee to tavven .

Got this off of io9...

New Evidence For Seas of Liquid Diamond On Neptune
Remote gas giant planets Neptune and Uranus could be covered in vast seas of liquid diamond, dotted with solid diamond chunks like icebergs. A new experiment revealed such oceans are plausible, and would explain some oddities about Neptune's magnetic field.

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By now you have seen footage of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti last week, and the asinine amateur theology demonstrated by one Pat Robertson.

Aside from his obvious ignorance on the subject of Afro-Caribbean religions (to the point that I hope ninjacooter didn't have a stroke), his implication that people kicking out an exploitative power are ( Read more... )

First off, Children of Earth hit me like a punch to the kidneys, and RTD needs to get a tougher skin. Having spent three years in Architecture school, I am amused by folks in creative fields that don't accept that critiques are part of the biz ( Read more... )

Today we learn what a sizzle reel is ( Read more... )

Caught this off of The Daily Show by way of Jezebel. If at any point you have had to endure Fox News in the mornings, you have caught "Fox and Friends", the network's morning chat show. My political leanings aside, the fact that I can remember Steve Doocy from his days as the wacky human interest story guy on the local news in Washington, D.C. is ( Read more... )

It's been twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall fell.  Without nuclear war happening first.  This was one of my happy "where were you when" moments, the other being happily drunk in my living room as Barack Obama getting elected.

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I was born in 1975, so I was aware of goings on in the tail end of the Cold War, namely the Soviet invasion of ( Read more... )

Folks often wondered if TDS would still have material once Bush the Younger left office.  But the chain reaction of wingnuttery that the Obama administration has inspired (Dow reaching 10,000 points?  Sensible people in office? WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!?!?!) has filled the void quite nicely.

Glenn Beck has been laid up with appendicitis, but ( Read more... )

I first heard about the Great Accidental Balloon Hijacking of 2009 That Wasn't while listening to the BBC World Service at work yesterday.  That story spread fast...

Andy Warhol was only half right.  Everybody will only be famous for 15 minutes, sure, but they will live forever as a Internet Meme, as seen below:


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