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Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer’s
‘Angel for Animals’ PETA PSA

Click on the poster to read more about Tricia and to enter a contest to win Battlestar Galactica DVD’s!

My dad forwarded me this pic that just says it all…

This just goes to show, politics mean more than pragmatic solutions to politicians.

You have a substance, let’s call it urmaj, that is processed and produced by large corporations, is physically addictive, causes long term damage to various major organs, is usually a major perpetrating factor in many crimes, especially “crimes of passion”, and has proven to be a leading cause of death including by its own overconsumption.

While, another substance, let’s call it cloha comes directly from the earth, grows freely anywhere in any condition, needs no processing, has no addictive properties, is not responsible for terminal organ failures, is rarely the reason people commit crimes of passion, or any other violence, and does not cause death or destruction no matter the amount consumed.

In our world, urmaj, the first one, is readily availiable left, right and centre. The government controls it, taxes us for it, regulates it, and enforces the rules around its usage. Still, year after year, more and more people are dead from its misuse, dying from its addiction or injured by the accidents that urmaj causes.

While, cloha, the second one, is completely criminalized, and distributed only covertly through vast, worldwide organized crime networks who, more than a few have noted, seem to have friends in all the right places. More and more people are imprisoned over cloha each year in jail cells full of hardcore criminals, with whom, one can imagine, they get to spend lots of quality time swapping tricks and tips, making bigger criminals out of them when they get out than when they had first gotten there.

What a weird world, huh?

Yowza! I’m played by Lucy (in the sky)!

Which Battlestar Galactica Cylon Are You?

Battlestar Galactica @ BuddyTV.

A cute little guide to convince your new gf/bf/bff that Battlestar is sooo not freaking Star Trek.

Journalist Mark Glaser has an article up on the pbs.org MediaShift blog about the changing face of media in the 21st century. He talks about how both traditional media and new media must learn from each other, and merge the best practices. I like the point he makes about the techno-genie… once it’s out of the bottle, no one can put it back in. We’ve seen the same phenomena with all technological breakthroughs: TV, radio, Film, Nuclear weapons, cell phones, you name it.

No longer do people rely on TV Guide to program their lives around their favorite TV shows. Now they can use a digital video recorder or watch shows on-demand online and fit their TV watching into their lives. The people are taking control and watching, and listening to what they want when they want — and on the devices they want. And that goes for TV as well as radio and audio, with podcasts allowing people to listen on their own time and fast-forward or rewind shows at will.

What do we gain? We get more control of our lives and our media experience and we are no longer slaves to programmers. But what do we lose? We are losing shared experiences, where we all watch the same shows at the same time, or watch the same sporting events together. And our “water cooler” talk has a new etiquette, where we must tell people not to ruin our favorite shows because we’re taping it to watch later!

Came across this by Emo Phillips

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said “Stop! don’t do it!” “Why shouldn’t I?” he said. I said, “Well, there’s so much to live for!” He said, “Like what?” I said, “Well…are you religious or atheist?” He said, “Religious.” I said, “Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?” He said, “Christian.” I said, “Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?” He said, “Baptist!” I said,”Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?” He said, “Baptist Church of God!” I said, “Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you reformed Baptist Church of God?” He said,”Reformed Baptist Church of God!” I said, “Me too! Are you reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?” He said, “Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!” I said, “Die, heretic scum”, and pushed him off.

I love surrealism.

Frito-Lay’s new Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos, which are the “official sponsor” of The Colbert Report’s coverage of the presidential primaries, have earned praise from PETA…