Firefox is having an ad contest for a 30 second advertisement. Entries must be submitted by March 31, 2006. I have an idea if anyone has access to some video production equipment and editing skills.
Category: Of Interest
Those miscellaneous things that just must be published.
JJ Abrams Directs MI: III
J.J. Abrams makes his big screen debut with "Mission: Impossible III" (The colon looks wrong there).
[he] told a crowd at the theater-owner convention ShoWest that he set out to make an action film that put characters first, spectacle second.
Directing Lost, Alias, and a movie. I wonder if one movie/style affects the other.
The Frenzy is on!
Blingo is giving away $100 gift cards in a frenzy right now!
It lasted 30 minutes. I watched it but had done my 10 blingo searches already.
March Blingo Frenzy Continues
Have you signed up with Blingo yet? No spam. No catches. Signup under someone and that someone wins too. More info.
Looks like I’ve been misspelling frenzy as freenzy so I get top ranking if you search for "blingo freenzy" but I have no placement on "blingo frenzy."
Looks like they had another frenzy Sunday afternoon.
for an hour in the afternoon we distributed 40 Visa Gift Cards valued at $25 each
We scored another movie ticket but turned it down in hopes of winning something better (think iPod…) since we are limited to winning 2 prizes per household per month.
Bicycle Pacman Chases Ghost
What a brilliant idea for the wheels of a bicycle!
It’s the Simpsons!
And just incase anyone has been living in a cave for the past week, here’s the incredible video of the Simpsons introduction using live actors instead of animation. And incase your cave is REALLY deep, here’s the Internet Movie Database’s info on The Simpsons.
Get a new domain name for 50 cents
Slickdeals.net tells us that today between 5pm and 6pm EST or until all coupons are gone (think within 3 minutes) that Dotster will be issuing a 50 cent coupon for a new domain name registration if purchased today or tomorrow.
One coupon per order, per account and/or per IP address. There will be a total of 1000 coupon codes. The promotion will last for 1 hour or until the 1000 coupon codes are gone. The coupon will be valid on March 9 & March 10, so the Happy Hour will ONLY be to GET their individual, unique coupon code, they can’t actually purchase their domain until the next day.
Exercise + Food = Strong Mind
BoingBoing points to another study showing exercise and proper eating being very beneficial to our brains. This complements the information in Make Smarter Children.
Blingo March Freenzy continues!
Have you signed up with Blingo yet? No spam. No catches. Signup under someone and that someone wins too. More info.
A couple of brief notes regarding Blingo. The main rule to be aware of is that each household is limited to winning 2 prizes per month. If I win a movie ticket, since I signed up under my wife, she also wins. She has the option of turning it down but if she accepts that means our household has won 2 prizes and within that month and we are no longer qualified to get more prizes. I wrote Blingo to ask if during their freenzy they would temporarily increase the number of prizes each household could receive and, with a very nice letter (unlike the evil Blogger.com employees), Blingo explained that the freenzy is to help increase awareness of Blingo and that the prize limit has to remain at 2 per household even during the freenzy.
Could you, would you save a life?
Yesterday a 13 year old girl, Megan, on Sarah’s Bearden Middle School bus fell over with a heart attack. The girl beside the victom screamed. The bus stopped, students evacuated the bus, paramedics brought in a AED, rushed the girl away, and that’s all we know.
Poor Sarah. Bomb threats, lock downs, and possibly death. Too much reality for a 12 year old. The sad thing is Sarah keeps everything locked inside of her and I can’t get anything but stoic, short answers from her. I was the same way at her age and it pains me because I know that keeping things bottled up can only last so long and eventually it all has to come out; the longer she waits, the harder it will be to deal with the bottled up emotions. I bet she thinks she is being strong; strength would be talking. At least she has caught blog fever and perhaps we can communicate that way. She shared more information about the incident in her blog than I could have dragged out of her with any other means.
Taking advantage of the situation we had this dialog:
Dad: "So Sarah, would you have liked to known CPR to be able help?"
Sarah: "They taught us CPR at camp."
Dad: "So did you try to help?"
Sarah: "She didn’t need CPR. She needed those paddle thingys."
Dad: "An AED? A defibrillator?"
Dad takes a moment to explain CPR, the functions of the heart, lungs and brain, and why CPR saves lives until an AED can be brought on the scene.
Sarah glazes over and tunes Dad out.
Dad asks: "Would you like to be trained in CPR?"
Sarah, exasperated: " I don’t want to learn that medical stuff!"
Dad, starts to explain how she could have helped the girl today, or perhaps her grandparents or even parents.
*Ring ring*
Saved by the bell. The phone rings to end the conversation.
I have to say I found the conversation a little disheartening. More people should be trained with the American Red Cross.
Blingo March Freenzy continues!
LOST – Hurley backstory coming
Garcia says Lost fans eager to learn more about Hurley’s backstory will be treated to another Hurley flashback episode this season that depicts his time in a mental institution. “The episode is really interesting,†he says. “[What happened to him while he was in the institution] was even a question I had.â€
I was lead to this by lost-tv.
Another Lost Theory
Entertainment Weekly senior editor Jeff Jensen says he’s figured out Lost.
- THE ISLAND: It’s Alive!
- THE DHARMA INITIATIVE: Head Games
- THE HATCH: Human Testing
- THE NUMBERS: Those Damn Yankees!
- THE ANSWER TO ‘LOST’: The Island Is Haunted by a Powerful Psychic
Thanks to Ray Camdem for the link.
Space port opens with first lauch in 24 days
Excellent photography by KristyK
Lost Thought
What if Libby, aka clinical psychologist, was the spy and her husband, let’s guess Henry Gale, are actually part of the psychology experiments on-going as part of the Dharma project. Dharma never ended. The Dharma scientists crash planes and ships to obtain new test subjects. Let’s pull it back in from far fetched conjecture. Back to Libby and Henry. Libby’s job is to psychologically evaluate the beach crew. Henry got caught checking on her or running a report back to The Others and now he starts some psychological warfare.
When Sayid was questioning Henry, Henry tried to gain control over Sayid with references to "have you lost someone?" Sayid, with his own psychological training used Henry’s bait rather than being entrapped by it. I think Mr Eko, who applies his own brand of psychology, befuddled Henry Gale and scared him since Gale couldn’t assess Eko…of course, then there was the knife. We saw Henry Gale successfully get to Locke and we can guess how that is going to play out. I’d wager to say that next week we see Gale make a play on Jack.
Henry Gale may be a prisoner but he’s going on the offensive.
Remember the reasons for Dharma:
According to a choppy ”orientation film” found in the hatch, Dharma founders Gerald and Karen DeGroot established a research facility on the island in the 1970s to conduct experiments in meteorology, zoology, electromagnetism, psychology, and parapsychology.
We have seen zoology (polar bear, shark tagged with Dharma symbol…). We have seen meteorology ("you mean the freakish end of the world weather"). We have seen electromagnetism (suspected reason for crash, thumping wall in hatch, …). I think we’ve witnessed lots of psychology including the costumes of The Others. And parapsychology (the beast?). What if Henry Gale wasn’t just listening through the door but was using parapsychology to listen to their minds? What if the reason Henry Gale was so afraid of Mr Eko was not the knife but instead because he couldn’t read his mind or perhaps read it all too well!
The Dharma medical facility looked as if it was emptied hastily. Perhaps Libby warned them that Claire was coming. Of course, if that was the case, why not don the costumes and scare her away? But if they didn’t want an encounter, quickly getting out could also explain why the costumes were forgotten.
