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SNL Censoring Skit

I watched this skit live and it was (in fact the whole episode) one of the funniest things SNL has done in a long time. (Tina Fey is great as Palin but I have never found her writing very funny. SNL has a long way to go to return to their heyday, but they are [...]

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BBC iPlayer on the Wii

Sadly, this won’t be available in the US (and I have yet to get my Wii onto my wireless network) but I had to include the story, if only for the picture that accompanied it. She looks very scary. The Wii has brought many people to gaming for the first time The BBC’s iPlayer video [...]

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I still miss Mr. Rogers

Mental Floss (great name and great site) has a list of “15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever.” (And if you listen to NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, as I do, this is the list they used for this week’s “Not My Job” game.) This one is my favorite: 1. Even Koko [...]

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Looking for SuperBowl Ads?

Here they are all in one place. My top picks would be: the Bud Light fire breathing episode Bridgestone Richard Simmons/Alice Cooper Doritos Mouse Trap Iron Man! (which is not so much a vote for the commercial as eager for the movie, same is true for Wall-E) NFL Oboe commercial Worst, without a doubt: the [...]

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Star Wars Holiday Special

There isn’t much more to say. It is so bad it is…bad.

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