Bloggers from the right have gotten their collective knickers in a twist over a moment from Wednesday’s Environment and Public Works committee hearing in which California Senator Barbara Boxer interrupted testimony by Brigadier General Michael Walsh to request he not refer to her as “ma’am.”
Boxer: You know, do me a favor. Could say ’senator’ instead of ‘ma’am?
Walsh: Yes, ma’am.
Boxer: It’s just a thing, I worked so hard to get that title, so I’d appreciate it, yes, thank you.
Boxer: Yes, senator.
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Wolverine's mad 'cause you pirated his movie
Wolverine has escaped from 20th Century Fox’s secret labs and is rampaging across bit-torrent sites. The bootleg of the film, a spin-off from the blockbuster X-Men comic book franchise, may be missing the score and many special effects, but it’s available a month before the premier, in near-DVD quality, without watermarks or a time code.
Reports claim that it’s an early workprint, at least 10 minutes shorter than the release, and that action sequences may be “less gory” than in the final version.
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The backlash against NBC-Universals rebranding of “Sci Fi” has opened a new front: LA-based graphic designer Aaron Harvey has started up a “No Syfy” website and Facebook group.
In a parody of Syfy’s meaningless new tagline “Imagine Greater” Harvey calls on NBCU to “Imagine Better” and declares,
Instead of making inane branding changes that you say were approved by fans, why not address the quality of the channel, the addition of wrestling and ghost hunting, the dearth of real science fiction programming? Programming that would make you money.
Amusingly, NBC-U may have anticipated some of the blowback, as it appears they registered “SyfySucks.com” on January 30, via Corporation Services Company— which also holds registration for Syfy.com. Stupidly, however, they failed to lock down “Syfy.org” or “Syfy.net”— both of which are currently generic landing pages.
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