BuddyTV (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
In the cutthroat industry of television, networks know better than to keep a show that won’t reach ratings standards. We all know how fast the powers that be could cut the show, even if it had aired its pilot episode. ...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
The Millard Fillmore soap-on-a-rope* started spinning in the shower this morning. I knew some mischief was afoot. Sure enough, as soon as we turned the gas on to the computer and the screen warmed up, what should pop up but a group claiming to be opposed to junk science and arrogant ignorance, but arrogantly spreading the [...]
The Sound of Young America (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Chip Kidd is one of the country's best-known designers. For the past twenty years, he's designed book covers for authors like Michael Crichton, David Sedaris, Cormac McCarthy and innumerable others. More recently, he's taken pen to page himself, writing two comic novels, "The Cheesemonkeys" and "The Learners." This show was recorded live at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival in Seattle, Washington....
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Michael Crichton's tale of technology gone mad in a futuristic holiday park where punters get to play out their fantasies with lifelike androids. Rating:2.5
[Geeks are Sexy] technology news (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Without further delay, the continuation of the Sexiest Fictional Geeks list! 5. Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park) The Cocky Geek I seem to remember Michael Crichton describing Malcolm as a rock star academic… as if that were somehow a bad thing. I for one think it’s totally sexy how geeks are getting to [...]
The Monarchist (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
"In 1993, Michael Crichton riled the news business with a Wired magazine essay titled 'Mediasaurus', in which he prophesied the death of the mass media. "Vanished, without a trace", he wrote. The Mediasaurs had about a decade to live before technological advances — "artificial intelligence agents roaming the databases, downloading stuff I am interested in, and assembling for me a front page" — swept...
TheCelebrityCafe.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Storm chasers follow tornados in Oklahoma.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Ever wonder what inspires the creators of some of TV's top thrillers? Old TV thrillers, it turns out. Take the case of J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci -- the guys who created "Lost," "Alias" and the coming "Star Trek" movie.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
In movie history, this 1976 movie is the last example of pre-Star Wars major studio science fiction
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
No polar bears, but plenty of weirdness. "Fringe" is as creepy as "Lost," but much easier to follow.
Brookston Beer Bulletin (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
No, I don’t been those lumbering giants making flavorless beer-like industrial beverages which we all hope might one day become extinct, I’m talking about a beer made with roughly 45-million-year old yeast found in a bug entombed in amber, and extracted just like the plot of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. This time around, the story [...]
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
photo credit: roonb How great is this?! Library Journal compiled a summer reading list just for men… Check it out! “Terrorism is the cornerstone of this summer’s fiction offerings for men. From the frighteningly plausible to the wildly impossible, these diverse titles capitalize on the uncertainty and threat of seemingly random attacks. As the action heats [...]
Confessions of a Science Librarian (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
I've never been a big fan of the "staff humans were not meant to know" genre of techno-thriller -- you know, Michael Crichton and his ilk. But, done well, it can be pretty darn funny, in grim, morbid way. In that vein, take a look at Cracked 's The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World ! The article is quite extensive, with each experiment evaluated in terms of What Could Possibly Go...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
By Joseph Romm " After all, just 20 years ago scientists were worried about the new Ice Age ." This myth is so potent for deniers from Michael Crichton to George Will to Senator James Inhofe that even word guru and strategist Frank "death tax" Luntz made it a recommended line of attack in his super-slimy 2002 memo to conservatives on how best to cast doubt on climate science. Why do deniers love it...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Photo: NASA Is the International Space Station just another bot in a botnet? Are criminal hackers tapping away in some dark warehouse now in control of critical command-and-control systems on board? No, that would make a good Michael Crichton novel, though. It seems some...
