Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are returning to HBO. [link]
The downside is that it won’t be to revive Mr. Show. The upside is that while they’ll be doing a conventional sitcom-style comedy program, it will be interspersed with fake commercials, in a nod to their past.
You can read all about it in the link above. [...]

Some enterprising bar owners in Minnesota are bypassing their state’s smoking ban –for now– by staging “theater nights”, taking advantage of a loophole that specifically allows actors to smoke on-stage. [link]
Just goes to show you, just as with prohibition and other things, that people are going to do what people are going to do. It [...]

Where else but America could a Hasidic Jew take over a troubled school filled with Hispanics and Blacks and come out of it with a success story? [link]
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Some excellent commentary here on the draconian desire by certain US Intelligence organs to monitor everything on the internet. And an excellent comic here of how that would really work.
I just wish Joe and Jane Sixpack would get it through their minds that you don’t make yourself more safe against external threats by opening yourself [...]

Busybodies across the fruited plain are constantly trying to get all that rampant obscenity acted upon. And they’ve all got their own hot-button shows they want censored. (Link to BoingBoing summary, direct link to governmenttactics.org)
My personal #1 takeaway from this is to be amazed at how effective FoxNews, O’Reilly, TV Evangelists, Limbaugh and the rest [...]

Well, I suppose everyone’s heard by now about Heath Ledger’s unfortunate demise. And in case you haven’t, TMZ is there with some distinctively rotten coverage.
Heath was in Mary Kate’s apartment. Heath was not in Mary Kate’s Apartment. Heath died of an overdose. Heath’s cause of death was accidental. They’re just stepping and sliding in it. [...]

Oregon 39, Michigan 7
From TFA: “The Wolverines haven’t won a game since Schembechler died the day before the Ohio State game last year.”
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It is nice to see a bastion of the old, copyright-mad media latching on to the intertubes, rather than trying to suppress them.
This is a bit of an old story, but recently the first several episodes of the Showtime network’s original program “Weeds” were leaked to BitTorrent, resulting in no shortage of speculation that Showtime [...]

Here’s a fun site: Death by Caffeine.
I was interested to note that even with the ever-increasing caffeine level in both regular soda pop and so-called “energy drinks”, you’d still die of an exploded stomach and hyperhydration well before actually dying of the caffeine, provided of course, that you were of otherwise robust health with no [...]

It looks like there’s a showdown brewing in the “AJAX-Joomla” subculture lately, with both JoomlaWorks.gr and Gavick.com releasing fading content scroller extensions in close proximity to each other.
Rundown after the jump.
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