Now that the fourth season is well underway I was excited to see this kick-ass picture of the Battlestar Galactica cast posing for “The Last Supper” (click for bigger):


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Woot! Hulu is online:

You can watch television shows, sports, and movies directly (and legally) from the networks. It’s freakin’ awesome.

I think I just pee’d my pants laughing:

You might want to watch the original video that started it all, if you’re confused.

There are not a lot of nice things I can say about what the writer’s strike is doing to our television (gah, more reality shows!). But hardship breeds creativity, and three of my favorite shows (The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien) have teamed up to appear on each other’s shows.

The results: Epic Comedic Hilarity.

You can watch all of the feud moments, or just skip to the final battle royal on Conan’s show:

I fear that Sherri Shephard, a co-host on The View, has once again shown that there is no limit to her own stupidity. My brain nearly exploded after seeing the following clip from yesterday’s show:

Did you hear what she said? Shepherd just attempted to assert that Christians existed in classical Greece, and that the Greeks threw them to the lions. When confronted on this point, she further claimed that “Jesus came first” (before Greeks and Romans) and stated “I don’t think anything predated Christians”.*

This wasn’t the first time Sherri has been so ridiculously inane: a few months ago she said that she wasn’t sure if the world was flat or not. I’ll give you a second to process that one. Sherri isn’t sure… if the world… is flat. Holy f*ckbuckets, Batman.

How do people like this exist, much less appear on broadcast television? Never before has this speech from Billy Madison been more relevant.

Sherri is so willfully ignorant it’s painful. I would feel sorry for her if she wasn’t so damn sure of her own infallibility.

via Huffington Post

PBS aired a special Tuesday evening on the recent Intelligent Design trial that took place in Pennsylvania. I have been watching segments of the program and they did a spectacular job of explaining both sides of the trial; it is one of the best summaries of the trial I have seen.

Personally I don’t really think this was a trial at all. Intelligent design is creationism, and creationism isn’t science. It’s really that simple.

Someone who argues for intelligent design is equivalent to standing in front of a stone wall and, noticing a stone missing in the wall, proclaiming that the entire wall does not exist. Just because we do not (yet) completely understand something does not mean that all that we do know is rubbish.

If you want to believe that the earth is 6,000 years old or that God just went *poof* and we appeared, be my guest. But if you try to teach my kid that crap it would be best if you sit down and keep quiet - and while you’re sitting there being quiet, try reading a book.

I just heard about a new mini-series that’s coming to the SciFi channel: Tin Man. I’m trying not to get excited about it, but so far I really like the concept and the cast (especially the excellent Neal McDonough, the quirky Alan Cumming, and the bad acting but good looking Zooey Deschanel).

Hopefully the mini-series will be as good as Firefly or Battlestar Galactica - then again, that may be asking for too much. The trailer is a bit lame (mostly because of the voice-over), but their website rocks. Check out the Infinite Oz… it’ll blow your mind, baby!

The reasons to keep paying for cable are dwindling: as of Thursday at noon “The Daily Show” is legally available online! The site already contains over 16,000 video clips, including the previous night’s show.

For once television executives seem to understand that a viewer online is the same as a viewer on the couch. Gee, what a concept.

Occasionally I watch “America’s Got Talent,” a show where the grammatically-challenged title probably indicates the mind-numbing incompetence of either it’s audience or it’s producers (or both).

That audience includes me, so I guess I can’t talk too much trash. Besides “Does America Have Talent?” is a stupid title.

One of my favorite acts is Kashif, some random Indian Pakistani guy from Chicago who dances and lip syncs. It’s strangely captivating. A good friend from work pointed out that his first performance is to a song that was very popular in India several years back.

So for comparison purposes, I give you his first performance AND the original dance that it is based off of:

It’s like me going over to India and dancing to “Rico Suave”… how can you not love this?!

Shannon and I don’t have cable, so my television viewing choices are slightly more limited than what most Americans are used to. Therefore, when pilots for new shows finally come around it can be exciting to see the new shows. I happened to catch a few pilots tonight:

• Knights of Prosperity (ABC): I found this show to be a bit like “Oceans 11″ meets “Dumb and Dumber”, with a hint of “Rat Race” thrown in. The chemistry of the characters, particularly the large black man and the Indian, was particularly funny. Wish it were an hour instead of just 30 minutes long.
• Wired Science (PBS): A fantastic scientific television show that explores recent advances in science and technology in an interesting and entertaining manner. You can even watch episodes online, proving once again that public broadcasting just does it right.
• In Case of Emergency (ABC): A fairly good start to what could be a great show. I like the premise, but it danced a fine line between Scrubs quirkiness and a more serious drama. Despite it’s misleading title the show is about single high school friends reuniting in their 30’s (not about doctors or medical cases). The title comes from each of them missing that one person who can be put as their “emergency contact.”