Ballpoint Adventures for January 27, 2006: Billy Wonders Why TV Sucks

This is why I don't want broadcast TV anymore.

poisonforthemasses:How TV Ruined Aspiration (by biosystemics)This video manages to miss its own point while brilliantly illustrating it. Said point is that we should just stop watching TV. I largely have. I can’t remember the last time I saw a TV commercial. But just a few minutes into this video I found myself thinking: “So, why doesn’t this guy STOP WATCHING AND SHUT UP?”My feeling is that if you’re still watching all the shit he’s talking about you’re pretty much a lost cause. It’s sort of like a drug user, alcoholic, smoker or person who eats unhealthy food. There’s really no excuse for any of those behaviors in today’s world of information-at-your-fingertips and if you’re doing them anyway, I don’t know what a few well-placed verbal jabs are going to do to get you to change your ways. Might just serve to reinforce said behaviors. Well, the video sure made me feel good about my own choices. Of course, it made me feel worse for humanity.

Doctor Who Custom Cubeecraft Templates by CyberDrone on deviantART

Link: Doctor Who Custom Cubeecraft Templates by CyberDrone on deviantART

What with new Doctor Who episodes airing both in the UK and on BBCAmerica, I thought I should post a link to these awesome Doctor Who papercraft designs.  Check ‘em out!!

These 8 people are responsible for HOURS (maybe DAYS) of laughter from me

These 8 people are responsible for HOURS (maybe DAYS) of laughter from me.

Found via kellyannnx:

Wow.

INDEED!

Get your own 1966 Batmobile!

Authentic 1966 Batmobile® Replicas

Wouldja look at that baby? She’s gorgeous!  It’s one of the few cars I’d want to own if I actually wanted to own a car.

SIGH…!

**UPDATED AGAIN *UPDATED

writer-a:

I’M SO THERE. 

Yeah, I think we may need to hold a mini-fund-raiser to get Jay and Kay down to DC for this.

*UPDATE: Oh and this occurred to me while reblogging this to my lifestream:

Crap, it’s a Thursday! Why couldn’t they pick a Saturday for this so more folks could avoid missing work to go to this?

More info:

http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/

http://www.keepfearalive.com/

So we all miss work while they still get their weekend :

*UPDATE: I’m dumb. Was looking at September instead of October. It IS on a Saturday. >_<

Farscape: Best Final Moment in a Series Finale Ever

I’d have warned for spoilers, but this really doesn’t give anything away. I know, since I saw this shot in a DVD extra before I watched the finale.

Ironically, thanks to this awesome ending, I’m worried the Farscape movie (what would have been the 5th season if the SciFi Channel, now “SyFy,” had a fricken clue) is going to ruin it for me.  Ah well.

Oh and in case you’re considering watching Farscape, I HIGHLY recommend it—however, you should know that the only kind of ending I like better than happy endings are endings where the hero is totally fucked.  So, you might not like the series ending as much as me.

If you’re on the fence about the show here’s a pretty much spoiler-free, but INSANELY COOL montage they cut together for the “previously on Farscape” segment in front of the final ep.  See if it makes you want to give the show a try.

Sweet: Farscape Season 4 DVD #1 due in to my mailbox later on, today!

Who else loves Farscape, hm?

NBC's Hulu, Just a Stopgap Without Knowing It

So, the Internetz are all abuzz today about NBC/Universal's new Hulu video site going beta yesterday. Most people lucky (or connected) enough to get invites are saying it's not nearly as bad as they'd expect a service from a major media corporation to be. Some are actually saying Hulu will seriously threaten sales at Apple's iTunes Store. Meanwhile, the smart people realize that this is no iTunes killer, nor is it a YouTube killer.