Stargate’ TV films ‘scrapped for finance reasons’ – TV News – Digital Spy
What the Creators of Torchwood: Miracle Day Promise You’ll See
Hasselhoff turns porn star for “Sons of Anarchy”
Fall Dates for Chuck, Playboy Club, Parks
Netflix recently added X-men, X-men Evolution and Spider-Man (both 60s and 90s versions) to Instant watch

BOOKS:
George RR Martin’s “A Dance With Dragons” releases next Tuesday (Fifth book in “Game of Thrones” series)

MOVIES:
Blade Runner beats Star Wars to top sci-fi film poll
Marvel is making short films about their C-list superheroes
A couple superVILLAIN movies that could rival the Avengers’ team-up
New trailer for Mamoa’s Conan
Thor 2 in 2013… withough Branagh

Google+:
FaceBook like accurate ads, but everywhere.

GAMES:
Star Trek: New Video Game Has Ties to New Movie
GOG.com is awesome, older games are better.

WTF:
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Goes Digital, Searchable, and Free
Critical question: Should I start my kids on the original Star Trek series, or should I start them on TNG and let them go back to see the original when they get older? : scifi

MOVING PICTURE HAPPY FUN MUTUAL TIME:

Sherlock – a modern adaptation

• Created by : Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss [both Dr Who writers]
  • Both Moffat & Gatiss are big Sherlock Holmes fans
• Spoke to The Sherlock Holmes Society of London
• Matt Smith was the first person to unsuccessfully audition for the role of Watson but was too “barmy”, and the producers required someone “straighter” for Watson. Shortly after, Moffat cast Smith as the Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who.
• Series 2 confirmed : based on the stories “A Scandal in Bohemia”, The Hound of the Baskervilles and “The Final Problem”

DRINKING:
Johnnie Walker Green Label
Wikipedia
Get some STONES!

Games:
A bunch of Starfox 64 3D screenshots (and the box art)
LA Noire coming to PC this fall!

Movies:
GREEN LANTERN II GETS GREEN LIGHT
INSTANT AMAZING FOLLOW UP OF POWERED BY ANTI-PROTONS UPDATE:
“Green Lantern” Sequel May Not Happen
Don Cheadle talks THE AVENGERS, IRON MAN 3 and WAR MACHINE spinoff
Netflix for Theaters: MoviePass Lets You Watch Unlimited Movies in Theaters
Lost Co-Creator Doing His Best To Destroy The Aliens Movies
Star of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, The Great Muppet Caper, The Princess Bride, The Larry Sanders Show and Corky Romano passes away.
Heroes are made… IN AMERICA.
Ford Calls Out LeBeouf

Transformers: Dark of the Moon – is OUT!
*Transformers 3 to have the most amazing 3D ever?
*Trailers
*‘Transformers’ sets BO’s best 2011 debut $37.3B opening night!
*‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Easter Eggs
*Quint thinks Michael Bay minimized the stupid shit and maximized the cool

TV:
Warehouse 13 season preview: “A New Face”
Falling Skies rockets off to best-of-year start

CHILDREN OF EARTH – Rewatch
Trailer
Buy it from Amazon (free stream for Prime Members)
Torchwood web series will actually be interactive “games”

NEXT WEEK’S WATCH-A-LONG:
Sherlock – Season 1 of the BBC Series

Lost’s Evangeline Lilly to Star as Woodland Elf in Upcoming Hobbit Movie
What Are You Expecting From Falling Skies?
ABANDON ALL HOPE FOR HELLBOY 3
Martin Freeman Is The Hobbit In The First Official Images
Torchwood Returns! – Seasons 1-3 currently on Netflix.
Christina Hendricks Could Be The Next Wonder Woman
Spider-Man is going to die tomorrow.
Shallow Hal Jordan? Screenplay for Green Lantern starring Jack Black
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Star Wars
Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces
THE MUPPETS.  THE GOD DAMNED MUPPETS.
Shot-by-shot of Mr Poppers Fucking Penguins and the Fucking Smurfs.
New Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer.

J-Man Update:
Jeremy’s Date Night (I gotta check with the lady about this)
– It was awkward, and terrible.
– But it got me re-interested in Online Dating, after I’d previously had a bad experience with it.
– Signed up on OKCupid.com, and ended up on a date with the FIRST GIRL I was matched with.
– Her name is Jen, and more than a month later, we are now officially boyfriend/girlfriend.
– She’s awesome, btw.
Bacon Diet
– I’m at 318lbs now! (which I THINK is another 11 pounds lost, in May)
– I have cheated. An occasional cheat does keep me on track.

Jupiter@Nite Rebirth:
-June 23rd
-CastaBlasta (Example of the geekines and another)
-Content including: SciFi, Video Games, epic movies, nerdy toys, Comics, books, TV
–Jupiter Broadcasting Calendar
-Weekly
-Big focus on the audio version, this will be a “talk show” with a behind the scenes video.
-Beer is Tasty/Bar Tasty type content.
-LIVE
-Polls

Part 1) Previous episode:
UFOs are REAL!

The book — Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Bases (audio)
The book’s pitch is that even though the Roswell crash is considered the identifying event of Area 51, it’s merely the tip of the iceberg!

• Nuclear authority given to civilians, with Top Secret clearance!
• Even the President didn’t know what was going on — Clinton had to make a committee to investigate.
• When the bombs dropped on Japan, Congress learned from news reports.
• Video of underground atomic test

Declassified Photos: https://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/area-51-declassified-4968/Photos#tab-Photos/2
Nat’l Geographic – Area 51 Declassified: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/area-51-declassified/

Part 2) Previous Episode:
Planet Zarmina

So many issues with the concept of this planet supporting life, that it’s become kind of a given to ignore it and focus our attention elsewhere.
– Tidally locked
– Off-axis orbit prevents spectrometry

• In February of this year, the Kepler experiment announced the existence of over 1,200 “candidates” for extrasolar planets.
• In March, they extrapolated their findings as a ratio:
  • “Roughly one out of every 37 to one out of every 70 sunlike stars in the sky might harbor an alien Earth.”
    • Given the size of our galaxy, this would indicate BILLIONS of potentially Earth-like planets.

Other neat discoveries have been made:

• A system with 6 HUGE planets, within the radius of Venus’ orbit
  • Current theories on planetary accretion and formation do not explain how this could happen at all.
• A new math technique may allow for the detection of alien forests
  • Uses the relative brightness of the surface to determine the presence, and amount, of shadows.
• A planet with the density of solid lead
  • 60% larger than Earth, but 8x more massive!
  • Orbits its star once every ~18 hours.
• A gallery of artist renditions of the strangest exoplanets found so far.

Big things! Changing! And we’ll tell you all the details! Jupiter Broadcasting, and this show, are about to undergo some major programming shifts, and we’re here to tell you all about it!

After that news, we’ve decided to dedicate this week’s episodes to UPDATING you guys on some of the most popular topics we’ve covered over the past almost-year. Tonight’s update is about MINECRAFT! Big things have been moving and shaking in the world of indie gaming since the last time we talked about this ground-breaker, and we’re here to tell you about it!

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Previous Episodes:
Minecraft / Minecraft Update

2+ million sales
– Official count

Minecraft coming to Mobiles!

New Features:
“Skyrealm” coming soon to Minecraft
Maps!!!
Achievements (which also drive story, and a new user experience)

Notch is contemplating a launch party / convention in Las Vegas
– Tentative date, Nov 11th
– Yes, the game HAS NOT LAUNCHED YET.

Notch reveals the future of official support for Mods
Original cost for source code = $5, but cost was later dropped to FREE due to outcry.
– Official response

SpyParty — indie 1-man game shop following Minecraft model of buy-into-beta pre-release

Terraria — a 2D multi-player platformer with many similarities to Minecraft

ThinkGeek Minecraft Merchandise

Augmented Reality displays
– National Geographic Visual
* “Information would be seamlessly attached to our decision-making” James Alliban
* “Information becomes part of the object itself” Pranav Mistry
* Privacy concerns (obviously), but also more visual access to the info you’re sharing.
* ARToolkit for iPhone // ARSights (website)

Standardization
– Viability dependent on widespread adoption
– Complete standardization required for most useful

Economics
– Create a whole new job market AR designers / admins
– Create a whole new way for people to spam and advertise

Schism in society – haves and have nots

Wearable Interfaces

Any big players already on board?
Google Goggles App: https://androinica.com/2009/12/google-goggles-visual-search-and-augmented-reality-app-for-android/

Digital wallets / NFC tech
– VISA commercial about paying with phones
– Visa Digital Wallet Accelerates Mobile-Payments Race
– Experimenting with NFC check-ins for Google I/O
– Next iPhone will not have NFC chip, BUT
– NFC payments appearing in Apple stores leading to speculation that the iPhone 5 will have this capability as part of its core functionality.

– Google also showed off NFC capabilities at Google I/O, but used for controlling external devices, not for transmitting data for transactions.
– Google Places already using decals to transmit data to mobile devices using NFC.

Seasons : 10
Episodes : 215
Premier : October 16, 2001
Final Ep : May 13, 2011

Origins

* Derived after a potential series chronicling a young Bruce Wayne’s journey toward becoming Batman failed to generate interest [feature film division of Warner Bros, did not want to compete with a television series]
* After meeting with the president of Warner Bros. Television, Gough and Millar pitched their “no tights, no flights” rule, which would break Superman down to the bare essentials and look at the events that led Clark Kent to become Superman
* They returned and pitched their idea to both The WB and FOX on the same day. A bidding war ensued between FOX and The WB; the latter won out with a commitment of thirteen episodes to start
Interesting Points

* The pilot episode broke the record for highest rated debut for The WB, with 8.4 million viewers
* By the end of its run, Smallville became the longest-running comic book based series and longest-running North American science fiction series in television history beating Stargate SG-1
* The interiors of Templeton Secondary School were used for Smallville High’s interior; the production team repainted most of Templeton in Smallville High’s red and yellow colors, and stuck large Smallville High Crows logos everywhere.
-The team painted over so much of the school that the school eventually adopted them as their official school colors

Spinoff could-have-been’s

Aquaman

-Was to be played by Justin Hartley [Smallville’s Green Arrow]
-Expected debut fall 2006, but following the merger of the WB and UPN, the resulting CW Network opted not to buy the series.
-Made available online through iTunes in the United States and became the number-one most downloaded television show on iTunes

Green Arrow
During sixth season , “talking” was as far as the spin-off idea ever got

After ‘Smallville’ Is Over, What’s Next? Here Are Four Spinoffs We’d Love To See!

Guest Stars from Superman Past

Christopher Reeve
Smalville : Dr. Virgil Swann [1st translated Krypton-ian language
Superman I/II/III/IV : Clark Kent / Superman
Margot Kidder
Smallville : Bridgette Crosby [liason of sorts for Dr. Virgil Swan]
Superman I/II/III/IV : Lois Lane
Annette O’Toole
Smallville : Martha Kent
Superman III : Lana Lang
Terence Stamp
Smallville : Voice of Jor-El
Superman I / II : General Zod
Marc McClure
Smallville : Dax-Ur [Krypton’s scientists, created machine later dubbed Brainiac]
Superan I/II/III/IV : Jimmy Olsen
Dean Cain
Smallville : Curtis Knox :immortal doctor, stealing ‘meteor freak’ organs for his wife
Adventures Lois & Clark : Clark Kent / Superman
Teri Hatcher
Smallville : Ella Lane [ mother of Lois Lane

SMALLVILLE Producers Feel the Pressure of the Series Finale

–Interview Lex returns

Jeremy’s Rants:
Smallville is not Superman!
The whole series felt like a psuedo-superheroey ripoff with the names and places from Superman legends randomly thrown in to spice up an otherwise unrelated story. Sometimes as things that made sense, other times … not. (Brainiac comes to mind)
– The stupid ‘creature of the week’ meteor junk in early seasons.
– Can’t fly?!
– Long, drawn-out romance with Lana Lang.
– And then, romancing Lois Lane before he’s even Superman!
– Lex Luthor. All of it.
** (Caveat: I actually loved what they did with Lex in Smallville, and the actor was phenomenal. But it wasn’t really Lex.)

Honeycomb 3.1 features:
– USB device functionality
– Scrolling task manager with resizable widgets
– Coming to GoogleTV this summer, and so is the Android Market

Ice Cream Sandwich: (no version number?)
– One OS that works everywhere, state-of-the-art UI (does this mean no more device-specific?)
** End of fragmentation, easier updating.
– All Open Source (really? I mean, REALLY-really?)
– 3D using head tracking + facial recognition + XOOM camera

Android Market upgrades
– Top App charts (Popular)
– Editor’s Choice (Curated by Google)
– Top Developers (The hottest app devs)
– Related Apps (Based on previous purchases)
– Trending Apps (Keep up with what’s popular at that exact moment)

Movies on Android Market:
– Movies can be rented/purchased, then streamed to any Android device
** “Thousands of movie titles, $1.99 each” (HD = $4.99)
** That’s cool, sure, but isn’t Netflix $8/mo for unlimited streaming, and has mobile apps?
– Demo shows rental purchased on web app, then instantly available in XOOM’s app.
– Includes “pinning” to allow movies to sync in the background for offline viewing.

Android Open Accessory:
– A new API that auto-installs necessary apps when a peripheral or device needs them.
– “Completely open” – no NDA, no fees, no approval required. ADK available now!
– Based on Arduino

New distribution of software updates:
– All devices on big list of carriers will receive guaranteed updates for 18 months (if device can handle them).

Google Music:
– Sync over the cloud, no need for wires.
** That sounds stupid. People have thousands of gigs of music, would take HOURS to upload and re-sync.
** Endadget says, “It’s like Dropbox, for music.”
– No word on final pricing, but the service will not be free.
– Also features an auto-playlister of some sort called Instant Mix.

Chrome OS:
– File manager (complete with contextual app buttons, depending on available app installs)
– Integrated media player with full screen mode
– Offline versions of Gmail, Calendar, Docs, etc.
– Now available on devices intended for puchase! Made by Samsung and Acer
– Also the “Chromebox” which is intended for business environments. Not much other info…

Google TV:
– New interface using Honeycomb looks more like Android, less like TV.
– Multi-screen apps are going to be pushed in a big way.
** Example: Poker games, with a central display of the table, and personal devices for hands.

SWAG:
Galaxy TAB 10.1” given out to attendees.
Chromebooks given to all attendees.

Skype acquired by Microsoft
–Announcement
–Confirmation
–Fears & Hopes
–Coming to MS platforms
–5 Big Takeaways–Security vulnerability on Skype for Mac

MS Not paying US taxes for the $8.5Bill purchase?
“Of Microsoft’s nearly $50.2 billion in cash and liquid investments, about $42 billion is held in foreign subsidiaries and would otherwise be subject to a tax hit if the money were brought back to the U.S. Ballmer said it is appropriate to use overseas cash because Skype is headquartered in Luxembourg.”

Chris’s thoughts:
-Xbox 360 integration might finally bring Video calling to the TV in an easy way?
-Crazy VR possibilities with Kinect?
-What does this mean for Skype on Linux? (and Mac?)
-Will skype be built into Windows Phone 7 to compete with facetime and GoogleTalk?

Google I/O:
“This Is My Next” coverage: https://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Google_IO_2011
Gizmodo coverage: https://gizmodo.com/5800397/live-from-google-io
Engadget coverage: https://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/live-from-google-i-o-2011s-opening-keynote/