With news that Hong Kong Phooey is coming to DVD, Jamie Weinman tries to put his finger on why the crappy Hanna-Barbera shows from the 70’s and 80’s are more popular than the better early stuff.

Fark readers were introduced to Varietyspeak this week, as they were pointed to a Variety article about the possible return of Futurama. Anyways, after reading all the complaints about the trade paper’s unique usage of the English language, I found a full glossary. Enjoy!

This looks way too complicated. I’ll stick with WordPress.

A few things about WordPress’s new interface are bugging me a bit. So, I’m going to start a test blog using the free version of Moveable Type, and we’ll see how that goes.

Columbia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project
is an interesting catalogue of plagiarism suits involving music, complete with audio clips so you can compare and decide. I was aware of some of these cases. But of particular note to me was the suit involving “Day by Day” from Godspell and the 1970’s “Today Show” theme (which would [...]

Quite the Blonde Joke going around. Enjoy.
(Couldn’t resist.)

Absolutely, I’d love living in one of these houses, part of a 1960’s Motorola ad campaign.  So what kept this reality from coming alive? Was it cost? (Likely.) Was it people’s resistance to change? (Maybe.) Was it people’s attachment to privacy? (Could be.) Anyway, add some sort of magic drapes to all those windows, and [...]

Dick Clark made his return to television last night, and put to bed the jokes about age and robots (with which he played along in the past). He showed us he’s a human being, and not immune to age, and I salute him for it.
Now, it’s reasonable to have a discussion, I think, about whether [...]