Archive for March, 2008
Klaatu barata vegan?
Oh brother... the geniuses in Hollywood have decided to turn The Day the Earth Stood Still from a movie with the fairly straight forward idea that blowing eachother up wasn't a good idea... to one that says that all of us (except Al Gore of course) need to shrink our carbon footprints: “The first one was borne out of the cold war and nuclear [...]
Weekend links
Dan Deibert talks about the passing of WGN Radio legend Wally Phillips, that's definitely worth checking out since Dan is the one person who is as much of a WGN admirer as I am. Fred at Real Debate Wisconsin has a fantastic rundown of the tax plans for all three Presidential candidates. Phelony Jones talks about how Global Warming has effected [...]
“Laser” plane
Do you think this came about because Robert Gates was in a meeting one day and said that he wanted "airplanes with fricken laser beams attached to them"? Laser plane could destroy tanks from 10 miles: The United States Defence Department has developed a prototype of an aircraft armed with a laser gun that could destroy tanks 10 miles [...]
Night time arrival
STS-123 landing I'm Mr. Know-it-all when it comes to the space program and all, but does anyone know what those flames are?I have two theories: a) Left over heat from re-entry or b) left over fuel being burned off... UPDATE: The jets of flame are the exhaust of the APUs (auxiliary power units) which power the hydraulics that move the Shuttles [...]
How I met higher ratings
Maybe I no longer have to worry about How I Met Your Mother getting Jericho'd, the ratings for their post-writers strike debut were great, and the ratings for the Britney episode were through the roof. Hollywood Reporter says that they are in pretty good shape to get a fourth season: A guest appearance by Britney Spears on Monday gave the CBS [...]
Wally Phillips
There was some very sad news out of Chicago today, Wally Phillips has died at age 82: The WGN mainstay hosted the morning show from 1965 through 1986. During that time, he ruled the roost in morning drive, at times attracting half of the market's listening audience. "Wally's voice was the first millions of Chicagoans heard every morning from [...]
Recovering the satellites
(I'll give one of my five remaining Early Spin Slot Machines to the first person who can tell me where I got that title from... you're on the honor system, but no googling) While I'm on the subject of a local radio giant like Wally Phillps, I think this also gives a pretty decent opportunity to respond what David said earlier this week about [...]
