Monthly Archives: October 2007

Iron Mike & Bobby B. Wish You a Happy Halloween

Say what you will about Jimmy Kimmel — this is brilliant, and I don’t know who else out there could actually pull off getting these two guys to do this.

R.I.P., Dear Goulet

Sad news from the Hollywoods today:
LOS ANGELES — Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in “Camelot” launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73.
The end of an era. And here I was just reminiscing about Halloween 2002 when I went as Goulet (well, really I went as [...]

Hulu Thoughts

There’s no shortage of Hulu coverage elsewhere (TechCrunch, WSJ, NewTeeVee) that I unfortunately don’t have time to fully read and digest just yet…but I will leave some initial thoughts after interacting with the first embeddable clip I used in my Hulu test:

I really dig the little scrubbable clip customizer, that lets you grab a small [...]

Hulu Test

Looks like I have some resizing of my main content area to do.

How big of a dork does it make me…

…if I totally want one of these?
[via FFFFOUND!]

Best Widget Ever

Share This Deportes

This past week, RxSN launched a little variation on Alex King’s ubiquitous Share This plugin for Wordpress that I’ve started running here.
It’s called Share This Deportes, and it’s the same as the original, but with sites like Fark, CollegeHumor, Yardbarker and Ballhype added. If you’re a sportsblogger running Wordpress, I suggest you give it [...]

Trekspotting

So it looks like J.J. Abrams Star Trek cast has all its key players:

Chris Pine as Kirk
Zachary Quinto (Sylar from Heroes) and Leonard Nimoy as Spock
Karl Urban as Bones
Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) as Scotty
Zoe Saldana as Uhuru
John Cho (Harold of Harold & Kumar)as Sulu
Eric Bana as Nero (the villain)

And he’s got [...]

Funny or Die’s Comedy Power Trio

The Announcement with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay & Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow officially joins Adam McKay and Will Ferrell at Funny or Die. Now if they could only get Larry the Cable Guy to come aboard.

High

Congrats to my old teammate Garrett Atkins and the rest of the Rox on their sweep of the D-Backs and the continuation of their ludicrously well-timed hot streak. 21-1 and counting.
(NOTE: No idea who that guy in the picture above is, but I like to think it’s Wally Weekes.)