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One of the coolest Astronomy Picture of the Day shots I’ve seen in a long time, although they’re pretty much all cool.

The write-up about the shot is amazing.

Sometimes, you’re busy on the computer and you were watching something on Teletoon but it’s over and you don’t change the channel because you’re trying to figure out just what the frack about Dreamweaver anyway and then this new anime-esque CG show comes on and you’re mesmerised, kind of like when you started to watch the Battlestar Galactica mini-series and had to stop rebuilding your computer because you didn’t want to miss anything and this is the same. ‘Stunning‘ ain’t too cool a word.

It’s like 2251 and the Earth is all broken up into chunks that still orbit the core. Some of the chunks are big enough to support entire communities. There’s a government body called the Sphere and pirates. Water is very valuable, cuz like where are you going to find it? Oh, the pirates are rebels against the corrupt Sphere. Everybody flies everywhere. There’s a flying machine that’s like a cross between the Nautilus and Nuestra Senora de Atocha.

The official site is here.

From the Wikipedia article: “Skyland, is a CGI cartoon developed in partnership in Canada/France/Luxembourg for the television channels Teletoon (in Canada), the NickToons Network (USA), Canal France 2 (France) and CiTV (Channel and slot on ITV1 in the UK). It was launched on April 22, 2006, at 7:30 pm on Teletoon. A one hour, worldwide preview was aired on November 26, 2005 at 7:00 PM or 8:00 PM EST and again and 11:00 PM as well as at 8:00 PM and 11:00 the following day. The show is produced by Paris’s Method Films and Toronto’s 9 Story Entertainment.”

They appear to have used motion-capture for the people, and realistically imaginative exquisite backgrounds. Tonight they had a chunk of Ile-de-France that contained the Metro station Charles de Gaulle-Etoile. I’ve actually been there. Who could have prognosticated?

This show is as pretty to look at as Dragonbooster, but with way more substance. I can say that authoritatively, having only seen one and a half episodes of Skyland (op. cit.).

Google string for ’skyland teletoon’

(Yeah, I know. I said I was going to watch every episode of Distraction. I’ve seen like three.)

PS, and apropos of nothing, Anneli can do Chewbacca, and I can’t. One of her family cats can do a better Yoda than I do.

‘The Unit‘ is a cool new show on CBS and Global.

It’s based on a book called “Inside Delta Force” by Eric Haney.

The Variety review calls it ‘A manly show about super-secret Special Forces officers and the women who love them’.

It’s got stalwart, upright, patriotic secret soldiers and it’s got stalwart, upright, patriotic woman and wives, keeping their husbands’ secrets for the good of the nation, but still having to deal with PTA, kids’ karate classes and Tupperware parties. On both fronts, it’s got adventure and subterfuge, misinformation and misdirection. It’s dark and moody and interesting and fun.

It’s also got Dennis Haysbert who was the President on ‘24′ the first season or two.

Last night’s episode had a character being beeped at by a jeep driver to hurry up, and as he got into the jeep he asked ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?’

I laughed like it was an episode of ‘Arrested Development’.

(They also had an acronym that was used a few times and finally explained. ‘BOHICA.’ LOLing and ROFLMAOing all over the place.)

Apparently, the albinos are pissed off at ‘The Da Vinci Code’.

Yikes.

Just shows to go ya, somethin’s always pissin’ off somebody.

“Music and blasters and old Jedi masters”

The Star Wars Cantina Parody song by Mark Jonathan Davis.

Y’all want to click on the ‘Cantina.wav’ link to hear this song.

If you’re listening to it in Winamp or Windows Media Player or VLan, or anything that has visualizations, turn the lights off and the visualizations on, and like just groove.

From Science Jokes, where there’s more of the same.

Submitted to them by a “dcoble”, credit where credit is due

Test your knowledge of chemistry by filling in each blank with a word
from the list below.

1. What a ship does when it’s torpedoed. ____________

2. When there’s no gas left, we say it’s ____________.

3. The weather in Antarctica is quite ____________.

4. Overtime for British policemen. ____________.

5. What we do when we’re in pain. ____________

6. ____________ is a measure of, uh, light intensity.

7. What you get if you put Robin Williams in jail. ____________

8. The power company’s special cocktail. ____________

9. She hit me with an Eveready, so I charged her with assault with ____________.

10. Old Chemistry profs never die, they just fail to ____________.

11. What the cowboy did with his horses. ____________

12. When I meet a 6′6″ mugger, ____________ away very fast.

13. The element that comes after nine. ____________

14. An original inhabitant of North America. ____________

15. Motto of land developer: ____________ is better.

16. Slang for “You got it correct”. ____________!

17. ____________ only at the finest restaurants.

18. When a Chemistry prof dies, we have a funeral, then____________.

19. How can you expect me to do all these problems? ____________ little boy!

20. “I’ll knock down these buildings!” “You mean you’ll ___________?”

———————————————————————-

a) Aluminum       f) Beaker            k) Iodine         p) Rhodium
b) Ammonia        g) Copper nitrate    l) Iron           q) Silicon
c) Argon          h) Gold              m) Platinum       r) Sulphur
d) Barium         i) Hydrogen          n) Radon          s) Tin
e) Battery        j) Indium            o) React          t) Zinc

It’s just a movie. And why are you named after a holiday honouring a cartoon penguin?