Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Good News Everyone!


After a few weeks of very nervous nerds, it was announced this week that the original cast of Futurama is set to return when it's revived on Comedy Central in 2010:

The "Futurama" reboot is now on track.

The recent 20th Century Fox TV-"Futurama" voice actor standoff won't have an effect on the show's timetable, insiders said over the weekend. The show's new round of episodes is still set to bow on Comedy Central in 2010.

Here's what won't be happening this week, however: auditions to replace the five "Futurama" cast members.

Casting execs were set to begin meeting with replacement thesps this week. But the five stars -- John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille -- finally sealed pacts late Friday with 20th Century Fox TV to return to the show.

Both the actors and 20th are believed to have found a compromise. Move comes after 20th put out a casting call in July to find replacement voice actors for the show.

Check out the full story at Variety:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006797.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&ref=bd_tv


Tuesday, July 28, 2009

ATandT Blocks 4chan, Will Regret it.



So the internet has been a buzz the past couple days because AT&T did something very stupid over the weekend, it blocked 4chan.org's IP address from it's users. 4chan.org, which is famous for starting LOLcats and attacking Scientology every chance it gets, realized what AT&T did and started an enormous shit-storm. The story received over 10,000 Diggs by Monday morning and AT&T was quick to reverse what it had done and issue a PR statement about how it was a temporary action due to attacks coming from the 4chan site. Moot, the anonymous owner of 4chan, put out a statement calling for restraint in how 4chan's often malicious users handle AT&T's actions. Moot called for a sustained flood of calls to the AT&T call centers, where users could ask why this had been done. At one point yesterday AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson's personal contact information was release and spread across the net and a story of his death circulated on CNN's iReport: http://static.businessinsider.com/~~/f?id=4a6da59be29efc711abb8eea.

A post on Moot's blog says that the whole incident was a misunderstanding and that AT&T's move was not a "sinister act of censorship". Still it will be interesting to see what, if any, retaliation comes from 4chan's users. In the past, Anonymous has hacked Sarah Palin's e-mail account, caused Apple stock to drop after a fake story about Steve Jobs death, screwed with Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list, and generally screwed with Scientology.

Way to go AT&T.

Friday, June 26, 2009

NASDAQ:GOOG - How To Get Listed In Google Finance

We'll see if this actually works, but an article on Search Engine Roundtable implies that by simply including the phrase "NASDAQ:GOOG" in an article your website will pop up in a Google Finance search on Google. You'll probably need to already show up in Google News once in a while, but apparently this is all you need to do. I'm guessing if you abuse this you will be taken out of Google Finance and Google News, but if you write an article about a publicly traded company and want people searching for that company to read your article, this might be the way to go. I'm curious to see if this article will show up, as far as I know I've never been in Google News, but if Google is crawling the internet and looking for places that mention it, it just might.

Check out the article here:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020292.html

Here's the Google News Help thread where a Google employee mentioned it:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/news/thread?tid=634fe5c56d78cd5f&hl=en

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Testing out Blogger's text to post feature. Not sure why you'd need the ability to blog while pooping, but I guess I could if I wanted to.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Stephen Hawking Simpsons Quote of the Day




"I don't know which is a bigger disappointment - my failure to formulate a workable unified field theory, or you." - Dr. Steven Hawking(They Saved Lisa's Brain, Season 10, Episode AABF18)

Monday, April 13, 2009

The 20 Best Alcohol-Related Simpsons Quotes of All Time.

    20.

    [1F15] Bart Gets an Elephant

    Homer: "Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get."

    19.

    [5F03] Bart Star

    Homer: Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?

    18.

    [7G03] Homer's Odyssey

    Homer: “Oh no! What have I done? I smashed open my little boy's piggy bank, and for what? A few measly cents, not even enough to buy one beer. Wait a minute, lemme count and make sure... not even close.”

17.

[4F22] The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson

Barney: “Ah that's just drunk talk, sweet beautiful drunk talk.”

http://www.hulu.com/watch/31924/the-simpsons-beautiful-drunk-talk#x-4,vclip,26

16.

[CABF04] Homer vs. Dignity

Lenny: “Wow, I never seen you have so many lunch beers before, Homer.”

15.

[KABF09] Papa Don't Leech

Royce Lumpkin: “I better whisky up these corn flakes.“

14.

[CABF17] Simpsons Tall Tales

Hobo: “And thanks to that little girl, today you can find applesin everything that's good: Apple wine, apple whiskey, apple schnapps, apple martinis, uh, Snapple with vodka in it, apple nail polish remover ...”

Lisa: “Don't forget apple sauce.”

Hobo: “Yeah ... I suppose you could grind some pills into it.”

13.

[CABF03] The Great Money Caper

Marge: “I'd like to visit that Long Island place ... if only it were real.”

12.

[5F18] Natural Born Kissers

Homer: “Well, this time I'm drunk on love... and beer. “

11.

[2F03] Treehouse of Horror V

Homer: “No TV and no beer make Homer something something”
Marge: “Go crazy?”
Homer: “Don't mind if I do.”

http://www.hulu.com/watch/20655/the-simpsons-no-tv-no-beer#x-4,vclip,37

10.

[8F13] Homer at the Bat

Umpire: “You can't leave first until you chug a beer, any man scoring has to chug a beer, you have to chug a beer at the top of all odd numbered innings. Oh and the fourth inning is the beer inning.”

Cheif Wiggum: “Hey, we know how to play softball.”
http://www.hulu.com/watch/34984/the-simpsons-softball-league-opening-day#x-4,vclip,74

9.

[BABF21] Treehouse of Horror XI

Lenny: Mmmm. Alcohol and night swimming. It's a winning combination!

8.

[4F19] Homer's Enemy

Lenny: He had three beers at lunch. That would make anybody sleepy

7.

[9F14] Duffless

Homer: Marge, I'm going to Moe's. Send the kids to the neighbors, I'm coming back loaded.

6.

[1F20] Secrets of a Successful Marriage

Homer: ”Remember when I took that home wine making course and I forgot how to drive? Marge: “That's because you were drunk!”

Homer: “And how.”

5.

[9F14] Duffless

Homer : When I was seventeen, I drank some very good beer, I drank some very good beer that I purchased with a fake ID, my name was Brian McGee, I stayed up listening to Queen. When I was seventeen.

4.

[8F16] Bart the Lover

Homer: "Maybe it's the beer talking Marge but you've got a butt that won't quit. They got these big chewy pretzels here . . . .^%&$`#^&*)$=(#beer&@~&. . . . .five dollars, get outta here."

3.

[5F23] The Joy of Sect

    Homer: “Homer no function beer well without.”

    2.

    [9F14] Duffless

    Homer: “Son, a woman is a lot like a... a refrigerator. They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice, and... um.. Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman”

1.

[4F15] Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment

Homer: “To alcohol, the cause of and solution to all life's problems. “


Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Urban Camouflage


Those wacky Germans are at it again... this time they're finding new and innovative ways of going undetected in today's modern urban environments. I hope to god our armed forces are aware of the kind of folder technology the Germans are developing and can only assume that it violates the Geneva convention (amongst others). As an art project I give this idea a C-, but as a top secret covert operation idea I give this a C+. Seriously, the next time I'm shopping for folders, bags, or cardboard boxes I'm going to think twice before blindly assuming that there isn't a large German in disguise just waiting to slit my throat.

Check out the site for more top secret German training photos: http://www.urbancamouflage.de/index.php?/photography/2/

Friday, February 27, 2009

Detective Conan: An Experiment in Google's Keyword Tool

So I recently discovered that this blog has a Google Pagerank of 3, which I found interesting considering how little time and effort I have put into it. I've got just over 100 backlinks and for some reason get a couple of hits a day from Google's Image Search, but overall get somewhere between 0 and 5 hits a day. I realized that none of the things I talk about here get a decent amount of search volume, so I plugged a few things into Google's Adwords Keyword Tool which extimates search volume for any given keyword. Apparently there's some anime show called "Conan Detective", or so Google told me. Well I also learned that there are somewhere around 165,000 searches every month for it. Hopefully simply mentioning this show will mean an exponential growth in traffic, I'll keep you posted.

Check out the Adwords Keyword Tool here: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

John Swartzwelder's Earth vs. Everybody (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Frank Burly)


In my mind there is no greater comedic mind alive (or dead) today than John Swartzwelder. For those of you who are not familiar, he is the writer of 59 Simpsons episodes (and worked on the Simpsons movie). Until I read his first novel "The Time Machine Did It", I had never literally laughed out loud while reading a book before. Swartzwelder is a writer's writer, perhaps even a writer's writer's writer.... perhaps. Well ol' Johnny S. has gone and written another Frank Burly epic entitled "Earth vs. Everybody" that is due to hit shelves, internet shelves, in the Spring of '09. I could not be more excited and this time I have to buy the autographed version that Kennydale Books puts up on Ebay.

As primitive and uninformative as their website is, Kennydale Books has an entire page listing all the Simpsons episodes that John penned. The list is a virtual who's who of awesome, classic Simpsons. You can check it out for yourself here: http://www.kennydalebooks.com/episodes.html, but I've decided to put my cut/paste feature to good use and illegally infringe on the copyright of Kennydale Books and any Kennydale Books subsidiaries by including it right here:


(7G05) BART THE GENERAL

(7G09 CALL OF THE SIMPSONS

(7G11) LIFE ON THE FAST LANE
(7G13) THE CREPES OF WRATH (with George Meyer, Sam Simon and Jon Vitti)
(7F04) TREEHOUSE OF HORROR I (Bad Dream House)
(7F01) TWO CARS IN EVERY GARAGE AND THREE EYES ON EVERY FISH (with Sam Simon)
(7F09) ITCHY AND SCRATCHY AND MARGE
(7F10) BART GETS HIT BY A CAR
(7F20) THE WAR OF THE SIMPSONS
(8F03) BART THE MURDERER
(8F02) TREEHOUSE OF HORROR II (The creature from the 4th grade)
(8F13) HOMER AT THE BAT
(8F17) DOG OF DEATH
(8F23) BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE TWO DIMES?
(9F03) ITCHY AND SCRATCHY: THE MOVIE
(9F18) WHACKING DAY
(9F19) KRUSTY GETS KANCELLED
(1F01) ROSEBUD
(1F09) HOMER THE VIGILANTE
(1F11) BART GETS FAMOUS
(1F15) BART GETS AN ELEPHANT
(1F19) THE BOY WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
(2F01) ITCHY & SCRATCHY LAND
(2F09) HOMER THE GREAT
(2F11) BART'S COMET
(2F12) HOMIE THE CLOWN
(2F17) RADIOACTIVE MAN
(3F04) TREEHOUSE OF HORROR VI (Attack of the 50-foot eyesores)
(3F12) BART THE FINK (teleplay, story by Bob Kushell)
(3F14) HOMER THE SMITHERS
(3F16) THE DAY THE VIOLENCE DIED
(3F23) YOU ONLY MOVE TWICE
(4F10) MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS
(4F15) HOMER VS. THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
(4F17) THE OLD MAN AND THE LISA
(4F19) HOMER'S ENEMY
(5F01) THE CARTREIDGE FAMILY
(5F09) BART CARNY
(5F16) KING OF THE HILL
(5F21) THE WIZARD OF EVERGREEN TERRACE
(AABF04) HOMER SIMPSON IN: KIDNEY TROUBLE
(AABF09) HOMER TO THE MAX
(AAABF13) MAXIMUM HOMERDRIVE
(AABF17) MONTY CAN'T BUY ME LOVE
(BABF05) TAKE MY WIFE, SLEAZE
(BABF08) THE MANSION FAMILY
(BABF16) KILL THE ALLIGATOR AND RUN
(BABF20) A TALE OF TWO SPRINGFIELDS
(CABF02) THE COMPUTER WORE MENACE SHOES
(CABF09) HUNGRY, HUNGRY HOMER
(CABF13) SIMPSON SAFARI
(CABF18) A HUNKA HUNKA BURNS IN LOVE
(DABF07) THE LASTEST GUN IN THE WEST
(DABF13) I AM FURIOUS (YELLOW)
(DABF14) THE SWEETEST APU
(DABF16) THE FRYING GAME
(EABF09) MR. SPRITZ GOES TO WASHINGTON
(EABF21) TREEHOUSE OF HORROR XIV (entire episode)
(EABF22) THE REGINA MONOLOGUES
And "THE SIMPSONS MOVIE"


Monday, February 9, 2009

To Obomicons: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!


To Alcohol: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Jay Simpson

For those of you who haven't already heard about this site, it's awesome. Just upload your own images, tweak the color levels and ta-da you have your very own Obamicon! Great if you're running for class president and want to remind everyone what a helluva guy you are or if you just want to make fun of former President Bush. Either way, this site is great for wasting hours upon hours of your precious time.