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We finally rented a movie (Lars and the Real Girl - very good, highly recommend) and hooked the laptop up to the TV, a 42 inch HDTV 1080p. Used a DVI to HDMI cable and the picture was pretty good. It wasn’t HD, since Apple only allows HD rentals on Apple TV, but the movie [...]

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Very cool stop-motion work
Via Boing Boing
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Iron Man
Movie Review: Iron Man
My rating: 4.5 stars

This is a great movie to kick off the summer blockbuster season.
Action - check
Humor - check
Special Effects - check
Good Acting - check
Robert Downey Jr. does a great job as Tony Stark. The film, like most super hero movies these days, is perfectly setup for the sequel. There [...]

This is hard to say, but this may be the best bit from The Daily Show ever
Part 1

Part 2

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We were fortunate to get a nice LCD HDTV for Xmas, but we just got satellite service (have had it for a week now).
The over the air digital broadcasts, with some shows broadcasting in HD, are nice, but don’t match up with some networks like Discovery HD or even the Food Network HD.
We went [...]

The Daily Show is back! Without its writers its just not as good. But this would be true of any show. The Colbert Report works a little better, but I want my Daily Show back.
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I was able to identify the following games:
Pong
Tetris
Mortal Kombat
Pokemon
The Legend of Zelda
Mario Bros. Theme
Mario Underground Theme
Super Mario Theme
Mario Water Theme
From Gizmodo via Milk and Cookies
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From Fora.TV: Christopher Hitchens Debates Alister McGrath
A debate, dialogue, and discussion with Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath.
The Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University host a debate between writer Christopher Hitchens and Oxford University professor Alister McGrath on the role of religious belief in [...]

Watch the earthrise and earthset with video from Kaguya, a Japanese spacecraft sent to the Moon

More info from JAXA
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Nova has a great special on Darwinism vs. Intelligent Design titled Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
How creationists pick a choose what science they like makes no sense to me at all. Deny evolution, but take modern medicine?
I am fine with people questioning Darwinism and evolution, that makes for good science. But if you [...]