Mythergency!
I’m surprised I didn’t see this sooner. Mythbusters is actually a geek version of the beloved 1970s television drama, Emergency! It doesn’t really take a lot of digging to see some amazing parallels.
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Rebooting Wonder Woman?
The surprising geeky news of the week came with the announcement of a planned reboot of the Wonder Woman franchise, not as a movie but as a television series. The latest development golden boy is hyphenate, David E. Kelley. You know that I have some thoughts on this.
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FIBA, Please Don’t Marginalize Women’s Basketball
FIBA’s women’s basketball conference has decided it wants to test the option of lowering the height of the rim for women’s basketball. I can’t help thinking that making that change would be a bad idea.
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2010 FIBA Women’s World Championships – A Headache For WNBA 2012?
What effect will Australian and Russia not medaling in the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women have on the WNBA when it’s an Olympic year?
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Ooh-rah For Catherine Bell
Every now and again, an actor becomes very associated with a role. Such is the case for Catherine Bell and the character she played on JAG for nine years, Lt. Colonel Sarah MacKenzie.
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2010-11 Maryland Women’s Basketball First Thoughts
It’s that time of year again. Classes have begun, the temperature is cooling, and a Terp’s thoughts turn to the Comcast Center and the upcoming women’s basketball season. Every year starts with the desire to win a national championship. Do the Terps have a shot, or is it Uconn/Tennessee/Baylor/Stanford’s to lose?
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The Connor Wars EXTRA03 – First Draft: “A Thousand Miles”
Here is an extra little something from the Connor Wars archives. The fanfic that picked up where the second season finale of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles left off.
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Firefly Panel – Dragon*Con 2010
As usual, when you get cast members from Firefly/Serenity together, you are bound to find your cheeks aching from all the smiling. Shiny.
On the panel are
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The Connor Wars Writer’s Room 41 – How To Do It
I thought I’d take a few moments and give my thoughts on Terminatory production items. As this is a “Writer’s Room” entry, I think it’s fair to say there will be some thoughts on TCW as well.
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Boomerang Actor – Shannen Doherty
A boomerang actor is one you keep returning to as new projects come out or when you revisit their previous adventures as comfort food. These actors make an impression–if not to the general public, then to you. They resonate. In this installment: Shannen Doherty.
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Basketball Delayed Foul Suggestion
Something like soccer’s delayed penalty might be a good idea to stop the strategy of preventing a breakaway score–without incurring a breakaway foul–from becoming common.
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DCU: Who Do You Trust? (Game Trailer)
Hollywood keeps churning out superhero movies (well…except for Wonder Woman — and I’d be more than happy to give it a shot), …
Read more...Do Schools Kill Creativity? | TED
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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WNBA 2010 – Can the Sparks Make the Playoffs?
This has been a very strange season for the Western Conference in the WNBA. Most years, you’d be saying that this team was definitely going to the lottery. But this isn’t most years. Los Angeles still has time to make the playoffs. The question is: do they have it in them?
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The Connor Wars EXTRA02 – “Fate” (alternate ending pages)
Here is an extra little something I’ve written for The Connor Wars. The fanfic that picked up where the second season finale of Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles left off.
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Some Championship Series Tweaks
Playoffs are interesting things. Ostensibly, they exist so that the best team will eventually prevail. But, all too often, in some playoff schemes teams that are undeserving get in. In others, a lucky score determines the champion. Every year, it seems, some situation arrives that makes me wonder if there might not be a better way.
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WNBA 2010 – All-star Feistiness From Orender
Perhaps the best part of the WNBA “Stars at the Sun” weekend was WNBA President Donna Orender’s press conference. What made this one notable was that Ms Orender’s smiling, optimistic face gave way to that of a league president bristling over some of the obstacles she’s had to strain against.
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Should We Tweak the WNBA’s Branding?
The past couple of years in the WNBA have been interesting in a tummy-flopping way. Players are moving hither and thither at an astonishing rate. Some wonder if this might actually be hurting interest in the league by weakening its brand.
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