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A University of California scientist says our love of large television sets could be destroying our environment.  Michael Prather claims nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) gas used in the production of plasma and LCD televisions could be more than 17000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide in heating the atmosphere.  The gas is not covered by the […]

One obvious feature of Terminators is that they have metallic armor, described as “hyperalloy.” This is very much against the modern trend for body armor, which basically abandoned metal some time ago in favor of ceramic and composite combinations; they give much greater hardness and strength for the weight. The real reason for the Terminators’ […]

Fox launched the fourth season of the House TV series in Portugal by putting these surgical masks on statues in Lisbon.

Nippon Television’s (NTV) producers have obviously never heard of the Geneva Convention. If they had, they wouldn’t have treated poor Nasubi the way they did. They wouldn’t have stripped him naked and shut him in an apartment, alone with no food, furniture, household goods, or entertainment. They wouldn’t have kept him there […]

When broadcast media companies won’t listen to the die-hard fan community of their supposed-to-be-remake of a show with heavy following, things can get pretty messy. As cited by Mike Abundo’s blogsite [1] [2], fans were pissed at the treatment the classic tokusatsu Shaider got from GMA Network and put the matter in their own hands.
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Alex Trebek’s Jeopardy outtakes are much more interesting when you take away the bullshit.

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LG Electronics recently unveiled its new 71-inch high-end, 24k gold PDP TV. We already know why it’s called “Luxury Gold” and why the cute arm-waving Korean girl is probably as expensive as the teevee, but we’re just wondering: can we lick it and rub our gold-deprived bodies on its glorious frame when nobody’s looking?

List of things any hardcore Star Trek fan must know.