The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel (Free subscription) | yesterday
We took poetic license and named today's image the "Red Dwarf Galaxy." It's actual name is spiral galaxy NGC 5792 a typical spiral, almost edge-on, with blue spiral arms and some dust features, what is cool is its neighbor, a...
Mitchelaneous (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
There is no doubt in my mind that Red Dwarf was one of the greatest television sitcoms of all time. Originating from a recurring radio sketch, Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, this show about an odd band of misfits traveling through space, was beyond awesome. With that said, I thought I would share with you my top ten Red Dwarf moments, from it’s eight seasons. The Comeback of Talkie Toaster The Light...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I don't wanna wait! For Joshua Jackson to be cast in a science fiction film that sounds a lot like Men in Black and is based off a British television show from the 70s. Luckily, I don't have to.
The Wertzone (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
As mentioned in the previous review, Red Dwarf abruptly went off the air following transmission of its sixth season at the end of 1993. A criminal case involving actor Craig Charles and the breakdown of the working relationship between writer-producers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor proved disastrous, and although both problems were eventually overcome (Charles was fully exonerated; Rob Grant departed to...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I've seen every single one of these episodes too many times to count. Doesn't matter a bit. This is timeless inventive, stuff. The kind of thing that you feel obligated to introduce to the unitiated and invite friends overt o watch and rewatch. The fact that the character of Basil Fawlty is based on a real person makes the show all the more rich. Like Seinfeld and other programs that expertly replicate...
Young American Poets (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The feminist in me, the one who reads queer theory and gender analysis for fun, the person who attends poetry readings where the words “twat,” “cunt,” “yoni” and “vagina dentata” get kicked around like hackey sacks, balks at the fact that I wish I were there to make you dinner when you get home from work. Wish I could watch you clear the threshold, listen...
Vegan Knitting...and then some (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I just posted this on the Vegan Sock Knitalong blog: I recently completed two pairs of socks using Knit One Crochet Two's Wick, a worsted weight yarn made of 53% soy and 47% polypropylene, which supposedly creates a fabric that wicks, pulling the moisture away from your body as you sweat. I picked up a couple of balls a few...
Appulo.us Newest Apps & Updates (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Enemy of Chaos (1.0) Leila Johnston Category: Books Price: $4.99 Cracker: RCRX Application Description: You look at the job advert again. “Person with superior reasoning ability required.” Well that’s definitely you, you think, as you switch the lights on and off exactly six times so that your family won’t all die in an accident. This job, whatever it is, was made for you....
Musings and Marketeerings (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yes, we boldly go... where everyone wants to be! STARHYKE blasts off at Forbidden Planet London with the launch of the DVD BOX SET featuring guests Danny John-Jules, Jeremy Bulloch and Suanne Braun, on Thursday 26th November 5:30 – 6:30pm. Starring Claudia Christian (Babylon 5), Jeremy Bulloch (Star Wars), Danny John-Jules (Red Dwarf) and Suanne Braun (Stargate SG-1), Starhyke is a off-the-wall,...
Nature (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Exoplanets are distant worlds that orbit stars other than our Sun. More than 370 such planets are known, and a growing fraction of them are discovered because they transit their star as seen from Earth. The special transit geometry enables us to measure masses and radii for dozens of planets, and we have identified gases in the atmospheres of several giant ones. Within the next decade, we expect to...
The Wertzone (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The fourth season of Red Dwarf is interesting in that it is the only one without any major format changes. Some of the behind-the-scenes changes were quite big, most notably the moving of production from Manchester to the far superior Shepperton Studios near London, but otherwise the status quo from Season 3 remains unchanged. The season begins with Camille , starting a brief two-year tradition resulting...
Terence Eden's Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I first met Mike Atherton (aka Sizemore) at a Tuttle event a few years back. I’d been following him online for a while and was interested to hear what he had to say about the future of voice. He let slip that he was trying to develop a Sci Fi series – I’m ashamed to [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Noticings Everyone has a camera on their phone, but very few of us use them beyond the moments when we realise we must capture a friend throwing up or take a picture of a gig from what will look like a mile away. Noticings is a nice way of having fun with your mobile technology (you can use proper cameras, too) by taking part in a game that invites you to notice interesting little things around you...
Blog THIS, Pal! (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Yes, I knew eventually that this whole blogging/NaBloPoMo deal would pay off in time - and in celebration, here is your Red Dwarf/Rifftrax moment of zen: Just to make sure you're reading this through a reader, and that it isn't being reposted on another blog. For more up-to-date blog posts, please visit http://www.blogthispal.com
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By the halfway point Back to Earth turns into an unmerciful parody of Blade Runner . From a chase sequence through a surprisingly well-conceived futuristic Chinatown alleyway to a chilly interrogation of an Asian prop master who "just does noses," it's astonishing how well the show apes the iconic look of that film. We don't get any shots of Lister releasing a dove into the sky, but we do...
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