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A real astronaut reviews fake astronauts in a movie about space!

What's better for a lazy Friday than a collection of random facts?

Interview with Jerry Seinfeld. Why should you waste your time with another interview with Jerry Seinfeld? Oh, I don't know, maybe because he reveals his FAVORITE SEINFELD MOMENT EVER!

"Cappers" on the internet. I'm not ready to call them the most vile form of species out there, but they're probably in the top 10. All for the hunt and success of getting a girl out of their clothes.

You don't have to love popcorn to read this article about it. But if you do love popcorn than you'll probably really want to read it.

Ah, Halloween is coming, so it's time for the ladies to start thinking about what costume they want to sexify. Here's a look at a few. Not sure the sexy Rick Grimes costume can be topped...

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The government is shut down, yay! You know, we might get older, but we never grow up. The sandbox rules apply no matter how old you are. And some people just never learned them. And those people apparently gravitate toward government jobs. Anyway, here's a look at a list of things that happen during a government shut down, and how it might affect you. Hope you're not reading this from a tent in Yosemite!

Screw you modern technology! I want to walk up a cliff using plank boards and a chain. At least that's what some people who made these cliff walkways must have said. Or maybe not since most of them were built pre-modern technology. So they must have just said, "I wonder what's up there?"

Anthrax gets all the big headlines, but ricin is just as, if not moreso dangerous. And it can go in the mail too. Remember when the Elvis impersonator was charged for doing so? No? Than this article is a great way to catch up on that plot.

I like how sometimes we brand things we don't understand as "weird." Take for example this article (otherwise nicely written) about Sony and some of its more unusual products that see the marketplace. While some might call the strategy and execution as innovative, creative and inspiring, apparently others simply say "weird."

The petition to make Mick Jagger the star of Clockwork Orange (and then indirectly have the Beatles score the movie).

Nice to know NASA at least has some kind of plan in case an astronaut floats off into space untethered (ala Sandra Bullock in Gravity), though I'm not sure it's a great plan.

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Alfonso Cuaron, the director of Children of Men (go rent it if you haven't seen it yet) has a new movie coming out, called Gravity. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, and looks fairly intense...



Need to fulfill your dreams of being a spy but only have a computer at your disposal? No problem, since the NSA has put together a document teaching people how to use the internet to do your spying.

It's time to take a journey back into the past, to simpler times, when people didn't wear so many logos on their clothes, irony was used the proper amount, and Michael Jordan challenged Charlie and Martin Sheen to a series of basketball related contests on national television. Hosted by Dick Van Patten.



It's rare that a project with Michael Bay's name attached intrigues me. But apparently it does happen. Check out the trailer for the television show The Last Ship, airing this summer on TNT.



The short essay "Coyote vs. Acme," by Ian Frazier, should at least make you smile today. And if you enjoyed it, you can get his book of the same name, Coyote V. Acme.

Take a look at the celebrities Anchorman 2 has lined up for cameos. If you don't care about spoilers, that is.

Here's a look at what you could be watching, and you'll be missing this fall when it comes to science fiction programming.