Month: February 2007

Someone took set footage of people dancing The Charleston to a Daft Punk song (YouTube video). Not what I expected at all…

Check out this YouTube video of the first take of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s White & Nerdy video. Donny Osmond is hilarious…

Rosemarie fiore took some amazing long-exposure photos of ‘80s arcade games. The one above of Tempest is one of my favorites…

Check out this awesome post at ruhlman.com in which guest Blogger Anthony Bourdain goes off on The Food Network and some of its “stars.” Classic.

Billboard.com reports that The Police have scheduled a post-Grammy press conference:

After weeks of speculation, a press conference and “special announcement” featuring rehearsals by the Police is set for Monday (Feb. 12) at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, Calif., the day after the band will reunite for a show-opening performance at the Grammys.

The 11 a.m. PT press conference and special announcement via live satellite broadcast is widely expected to be regarding a 30th anniversary world tour by the seminal rock trio.

I’ll be watching (and hoping for a concert tour announcement)…

No Fact Zone.Net reports that Ben and Jerry’s is releasing a new ice cream flavor called Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream.

Chris Yates came up with a neat way to visualize the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System. Wikipedia has a good entry on the Interstate Highway System, including the history of its development and information on numbering schemes.

WikiSky is a very cool online interactive sky map, giving displaying detailed star charts as well as visible imagery from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

In other doomed-to-suck ‘80s movie sequel news, Cinematical alleges that a sequel to Weird Science is in the works. Normally I wouldn’t report on such idle speculation, but a question in the post posed piqued my interest: who will play the “Perfect Woman” embodied by Kelly LeBrock in the ’80s classic? That’s a toughie that I’ll have to mull over, but my first reaction was Jessica Biel. Who do you think can follow in LeBrock’s footsteps?

Cinematical reports on some more news about another Ghostbusters sequel:

Dan Aykroyd just popped up on a country music radio station, declaring that in the last year, there’s been movement in the never-ending saga of the third Ghostbusters film. Aykroyd says his script – Hellbent: Ghostbusters Go To Hell – will now be brought to life as some kind of CGI-animated project, with Bill Murray’s blessing and even his involvement.

I’ll believe it when I see it, but I don’t know about a CGI version…