Cool Shit 11/12

Regardless of how you feel about George Clooney, read this article for the awesome prank he pulled on Brad Pitt, involving Meryl Streep (albeit indirectly).

I guess you could say I grew up in the golden age of talk shows, when hosts (off the top of my head: Maury, Geraldo, Sall Jesse, Springer, Morton Downey Jr., Richard Bey, Montel, et al) were competing with one another with the most absurd sensationalism they could muster. And while I lost touch of those shows, it appears they've continued on, trimming the fat and surviving like cockroaches after the apocalypse. Springer slides down a pole to start his show? Also, if you're either invited or ask to go on Maury, you've GOT to realize nothing good can come out of it. Nothing.

It seems the Olympics in Sarajevo didn't do much to help the economy or become the thriving winter tourist attraction city/country officials had hoped.

Watching dominos fall is somewhat soothing. Except my one problem with this video is that it easily could have (and actually was) been edited so that each "stage" of the setup could have been done individually and not all at once. So I'm a little suspicious of the whole thing.



The moral of this story might be if you ever find yourself as an American traveling in Venezuela, to suggest to everyone you're Canadian.

Nothing to see here, unless you enjoy the Beatles and want to view them in 360 degrees in the studio. Stupid cool.

Make your iPhone useful: turn it into A BBQ thermometer. Or a geiger counter!

Cool Shit 5/10

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.