Brian, Crispy, Patrick and Stephen tackle a ton of weird in this week’s episode. This week features closing music by Jonathan Coulton (Tom Cruise Crazy). Show notes after the break.
Sci-fi authors go a little nuts advising the TSA. Why do we want authors giving security advice? http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2008/March/SecurityBeat.htm#Science
People wanting to make laws against employers using what they find on a person’s Facebook/MySpace/blog to make employment decisions. Apparently these folks have no problems putting their information on-line as long as it has no real consequences … you fail at “free speech”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=544389&in_page_id=1770
GI Joe … a real American Hero or a real movie flop waiting to happen? At least Snake Eyes looks cool.
http://blogs.inquirer.net/hackenslash/2008/03/26/first-look-gi-joes-snake-eyes/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296054,00.html
The End of Jericho … the second coming of this CBS show lead to its day of reckoning. The four horsemen of WhatTheCast bid a second farewell to the show.
http://blog.zap2it.com/scifi/2008/03/jericho-cancell.html
A new widget for finding sci-fi conventions by zipcode.
http://www.greententacles.com/services/confinder/30052/
I agree with you on the GI Joe film. Growing up we would play GI JOE everyweek and even though I will go see the film I fear it at the same time.
But I have read that one change in the movie will be that Joe HQ will be based in NYC now and not in Brussels.