WebPro News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Kevin Pollak , who even if his name doesn't ring a bell, you've likely seen before. He's a comedian, as well as an actor. He's played in movies alongside Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Jonn Candy, and others. Not a moviegoer? He's also played on his fair share of television shows. You may have seen him on The Drew Carey Show...
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
By David Lambert - Are your shots up to date? Doctor John Becker (Ted Danson, Cheers) can give you a physical soon. Your check-up appointment is all set for January 12th, because CBS DVD and Paramount... (more)
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter has been kind to a motley crew of actors, TV personalities and pop stars whose fame online outstrips that of the outside world. And it's all about getting personal.
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
How do beekeepers get honey out of honeycombs? Would you believe it involves a gigantic centrifuge and some 90’s rap? (Well, the latter is just edutainment, not technically part of the extraction process.) Anyway, this vintage Reading Rainbow clip explains the process a beekeeper goes through to harvest the honey, then there’s [...]
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
In this free contest, your task is to design a logo for Burton/Wolfe Entertainment, a film and entertainment company (i.e. TV, film, internet, etc..). Burton/Wolfe Entertainment is a new, boutique Hollywood production company created by renowned Actor/Director LeVar Burton (of Star Trek and Reading Rainbow fame) and longtime Producer/Executive Mark Wolfe. The purpose of their [...]
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
The world famous chip maker, Intel, has been showing off some of its new ideas at the Intel Developer Forum. This three day event finished off with Intel talking about its next generation chip...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Close, but no cigar , @dtapscott. One of the many interesting things about Twitter is its democratizing power. Everyone with an account has an identical ability to get in touch with any other user of the service. The amount of high-profile types using Twitter makes this flat communication structure an especially liberating thing. Wil Wheaton can talk to Levar Burton , but so can we , if we want to...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
One of my favorite things about The Onion is how often its content cleverly deals with books, reading, literature, authors, whatever. I think we’ve linked to a bunch of those stories/articles before, so I won’t do that now, but I did want to send you to this recent opinion bit by ‘LeVar Burton’ about his time [...]
Superhero Hype (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
We got our hands on Warner Home Video's Superman/Batman: Public Enemies a few days early and you can now read our positive review of the title here . The studio is releasing Superman/Batman: Public Enemies on Blu-ray, a 2-Disc Special Edition DVD and a Single-Disc Edition on Tuesday, September 29th. The film features the voices of Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Tim...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
What do you do when your kid is the bully? Turns out conservatives have no ideas about how to reform health care. Yo, John. Either you did or you didn't. Admit or get off the pot already. Just how far down does that rabbit hole go, anyway? The dinosaurs that lived, at least for ...
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) had it made in the 1980’s. He had his own TV shows for kids that included Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Big Top Pee-wee. Pee-wee’s Playhouse even won Emmy Awards. But in 1991 Reubens was arrested for masturbating publicly in an adult theater. After that incident, Pee-Wee Herman lost his [...]
Burnt Lumpia (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Some say that it's never too early to read to your child--even reading to an infant still in the womb is said to increase a baby's language skills. So when the fine folks at Shen's Books sent me a review...
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Michael Vick returns to a regular-season NFL game Sunday after serving 18 months in prison for his involvement in a dog-fighting ring. Vick isn't the first athlete to do time then step onto the professional playing field. We take a look at a half-dozen athletes who went from prison uniforms to playing uniforms: MIKE TYSON | read more
bub.blicio.us (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
The 140 Twitter Conference organized by the Parnassus Group kicked off in Los Angeles at the Skirball Center this week to accolades and exhilaration. Business, marketing, service, and communications professionals joined celebrities, Twitter developers, investors and entrepreneurs to share insights, experiences, and their vision for the future of collaboration, community, and commerce. Indeed, we learned...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Speaking of that fine line between fact and fiction… Longtime host of the recently cancelled PBS show Reading Rainbow turned to Twitter to clear up a misunderstanding that was started by a new article — in the Onion! — supposedly written under his byline entitled “My Living Nightmare of Encouraging Kids to Read is Over.”
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