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

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

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/

Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
Metacritic: 60/100
Favorable response to film as a whole is sparking sequel talk

Early viewers do NOT recommend the 3D version (looks better in 2D)
– Perhaps attributed to the color palette used in Asgard (gold/brown/black – details get blurred)

10 minutes of Behind The Scenes footage: Part 1 // Part 2

SCI FI vs. MYSTICISM

Thor is Science Fiction in this movie
– Origin story was totally mythological, but changed in the 90s to being alien technology
* Video Link : https://watchmojo.com/index.php?id=7768
– “indistinguishable from magic”

SyFy movie by the same name?
Thor is public domain. So are a few other superheroes!
– “The bible itself is just a fan fiction anthology.”

AVENGERS
Captain America will get a new costume for “Avengers”

Other movie links:

A great write-up with lots of behind-the-scenes info, courtesy of io9.com

Thor’s powers get stolen a lot
A gallery of high res stills
A look at LOKI, who is confirmed as involved in the Avengers movie
– Being compared favorably to Baltar (BSG)
– Performance has received nothing but praise, so far

What is a Spinoff ?
A NASA spin-off is a spin-off of technology that has been commercialized through NASA funding, research, licensing, facilities, or assistance.

Flash – NASA@Home and City

NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award – Video – OPTIMUS PRIME began in space and transformed itself in order to come to Earth; OPTIMUS PRIME goes undetected and helps people while protecting them. Similarly, NASA technologies, though designed for space applications, are often modified and transformed to go into everyday products used on Earth; they often go undetected and often help people.

Tang, Teflon, and Velcro

Tang – General Foods developed Tang in 1957, and it has been on supermarket shelves since 1959. In 1962, when astronaut John Glenn performed eating experiments in orbit, Tang was selected for the menu, launching the powdered drink’s heightened public awareness

Teflon – Invented for DuPont in 1938, when the Agency applied it to heat shields, space suits, and cargo hold liners.

Velcro – Was used during the Apollo missions to anchor equipment for astronauts’ convenience in zero gravity situations. Although it is a Swiss invention from the 1940s, it has since been associated with the Space Program.

Android APP – NASA Spinoff’s [free]

NASA’s latest technology news, a searchable database of NASA-derived innovations, a map of spinoff locations, a historical timeline, and a database of NASA’s available licensing opportunities to inspire the spinoffs of the future.

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Health and Medicine

Extended Wear Contacts – Gas permeable contacts were derived from unique technological advancements derived from the company’s experiments with NASA.
Ear Thermometer – This technology was originally developed to detect the birth of stars.
Invisible Braces – This material is a spinoff of NASA’s advanced ceramic research to develop new, tough materials for spacecraft and aircraft.
Edible Toothpaste – developed for the astronauts to use in space
Vision Screening – From telescope Technology
Ventricular assist device – PIC – ventricular assist device that functions as a “bridge to heart transplant” by pumping blood throughout the body to keep critically ill patients alive until a donor heart is available.

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Computer Technology

Force Feedback Joystick – evolved from research to develop a controller for the Apollo Lunar Rover

Consumer / Home / Recreation

TV Satellite Dish – NASA developed ways to correct errors in the signals coming from the spacecraft. This technology is used to reduce noise in TV signals coming from satellites.
Cordless Tools – originally developed to help Apollo astronauts drill for moon samples.
Memory Foam – origins date back to 1966 when it was developed to absorb shock and, thus, offer improved protection and comfort in NASA’s airplane seats
Enriched baby food – Commercially available infant formulas now contain a nutritional enrichment ingredient that traces its existence to NASA-sponsored research on algae as a recycling agent for long-duration space travel
Sun Tiger Glasses – From research done on materials to protect the eyes of welders working on spacecraft
Scratch-resistant Lenses – Prevent scratches oh helmets
Space Blanket
Public Safety

Fire Fighter Equipment – NASA and the National Bureau of Standards created a lightweight breathing system including face mask, frame, harness, and air bottle, using an aluminum composite material developed by NASA for use on rocket casings

Fire-resistant reinforcement – the Apollo heat shield was coated with a material whose purpose was to burn and thus dissipate energy during reentry while charring, to form a protective coating to block heat penetration. NASA subsequently funded development of other applications of the heat shield, such as fire-retardant paints and foams for aircraft, which led to intumescent epoxy material, which expands in volume when exposed to heat or flames, acting as an insulating barrier and dissipating heat through burn-off.
Transportation

Aircraft anti-icing systems – SBIR : Thermawing allows pilots to safely fly through ice encounters and provides pilots of single-engine aircraft the heated wing

Improved radial tires – [tread life expected to be 10,000 miles (16,000 km) greater than conventional radials] – Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company developed a fibrous material, five times stronger than steel, for NASA to use in parachute shrouds to soft-land the Vikings on the Martian surface

Environmental / Agricultural resources

High Performance single crystal Solar energy – Originated with the efforts of a NASA-sponsored coalition who’s goal was to develop remotely piloted aircraft, intended to fly unmanned at high altitudes for days at a time and requiring advanced solar power sources that did not add weight.

Water purification – NASA engineers are collaborating with qualified companies to develop systems intended to sustain the astronauts living on the International Space Station and future Moon and space missions.

Pollution remediation – Work done at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to demonstrate the feasibility of encapsulating live cells with microencapsulation technology
Additional Info :

NASA – Office of Chief Technologist
NASA – Spinoff 2010
NASA : Kids – Inventions From Space
Discovery – 10 NASA Inventions You Might Use Every Day
Spinoff’s from NASA

THE NEWS:

Osama bin Laden killed
– Conspiracies abound!* No ID by non-US sources
* Burial at sea (not an Islamic custom)
* Raid was not sanctioned by Pakistani government
* Top secret “Team 6”

— A super-stealth chopper that was burned to the ground by US troops Pic 1 & Pic 2 (source)
* He’s been dead for almost a decade!
US seizes Osama’s hard drives
– Likely encrypted.
– If using AES-256, would take longer than the age of the universe to crack.
– US Gov has stated “hundred of people” are working to get to the data.

How the internet reacted to the news (PC Magazine)

TECH TO CATCH HIM:

It only took one tapped phone call
– And a crapload of investigation, tips from a detainee involved in the 9/11 attacks, and 8+ months of surveillance.
White House staff watched live video feed of the raid

DNA used to identify him
– CIA had DNA from Osama’s half-sister on file, who died in the US from cancer several years ago.

TECH TO ANNOUNCE:

Twitter announcement from WhiteHouse (1337!)

Pre-empted the final moments of Celebrity Apprentice
– Stab at Trump over birth certificate “conspiracy”? (FUNNY PIC) (ANOTHER PIC)
– Related: Press dinner speech highlights (hilarious video)
IT pro living in Pakistan accidentally live Tweeted the whole operation

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PROLIFERATION OF FUNNIES:

Mis-quoted MLK
– Originated on Facebook, misquoted and is popping up all over the internet now

Late night comedian one-liner round-up

Internet funnies:
Pic — gamer face
Pic — sad but true
Pic — mission accomplished 1 // mission accomplished 2
Pic — location tracking
Pic — should have captured him
Pic — Fox News “accidentally” spells it wrong
Tweet — epic monster movie
Tweet — disney week
Tweet — hide & go seek
Tweet — IE is next!

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