What's Your Damage?

Sony TV to remake 'Heathers'.

Dear Studio Executives:

Please stop ruining my childhood with your remakes and come up with an original idea for once.

Sincerely,

Me

BPA Free since... never?!

Unbelievable, just caught this story about SIGG bottles which, as it turns out, do contain BPA in the liners. I have been proudly toting around my stylish, red SIGG bottle for almost two years now completely oblivious, after having abandoned my less stylish but cheaper and more practical Nalgene bottle when the BPA freak-out first set in. Although the liner does in fact contain BPA, according to the article government testing has proven that it does not in fact "leach" BPA, still the fact remains they lied about it. I guess the only guaranteed safe method of drinking water is to just shove your head under the tap and swallow, unless of course you live in Los Angeles where your tap water is most likely recycled toilet water, then you're just plain screwed.

Save Count Chocula!!

Major food corporations are reporting a possible sugar shortage.

"The firms – including Kraft Foods Inc., General Mills Inc., Hershey Co. and Mars Inc. – indicated that if they couldn't tap supply markets like Brazil, they'd run out of sugar to make candy bars, cookies, cereal and a host of other products."

For the love of pregnant women and candy bar connoisseurs everywhere, save the sugar!!

Family Guy- Abortion Episode

Here's a table read of the controversial Family Guy abortion episode Fox refuses to air. Good stuff if you ask me.

Mecca lecca hi, mecca hiney ho!

Did somebody say wish? I must see this!

Mad About Mad Men

Mad as in pissed, although to be clear, it's not Mad Men I am angry with, it's DirecTV. Last year I was pumped to watch Season 2 of Mad Men when it premiered on AMC, I had just finished watching the first season on DVD and was hooked. Set up the Tivo for a season pass, got comfy on the couch and whisky glass in hand, pressed play. About five minutes into the first episode I realized I would not be watching the rest, at least not for a while. Anyone who has an HDTV will understand what I mean when I say that watching non-HD programming on an HDTV is like watching crap flung on a wall. The picture is fuzzy and the colors are not true and with a beautifully shot show like Mad Men it makes you feel like you might as well be watching a blind mime doing an interpretive re-enactment of the episode because it would probably look better.

Realizing that AMC did not yet broadcast in HD was a bummer, but the hubby and I decided we would simply wait for the DVD release and get caught up in time to watch season 3 live and in HD, because certainly by a years time that would indeed be a possibility. As it turns out, it is, only not for customers of DirecTV who as of now have not yet picked up the AMC HD channel. Knowing I would again be relegated to waiting to watch the new season on DVD, I wasn't in a mad rush (pun intended) to get caught up on season two, so we finally picked up the Blu-Ray this weekend and watched the first episode yesterday and, yes, it was worth the wait.

Facebook: more than just superpoking?

Cleaning out some old magazines this weekend and found this interesting article about Facebook in the July 09 issue of Wired magazine. In a nutshell it describes how Facebook is essentially poised to take over the internet and revolutionize how we use it, in particular how we use search engines and the apparently soon-to-be-left-in-the-dust Google.

"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online world, one that places Facebook right at the center. In other words, right where Google is now."

And here I thought Facebook was just another fun time-suck merely good for reading hilarious status updates, checking out vacation pictures and playing the occasional round of killing and robbing on Mafia Wars.