Worried about 30 Rock, Philly’s Greatest Songs, New Top Chef, Bagels, Drupal & Olbermann »

30 Rock is a great show, fabulous! But it seems to be on the trajectory that has doomed many a fine comedy: “Let’s jam pack it with Big Name Guest Stars every week! Seinfeld! Oprah! Aniston! Jonas Brothers! The Pope! Awesome!” No, not awesome.

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A Few Products That Make My Life a Little Bit Better »

Portable Car Jump Start System - My old VW’s battery goes dead quite often, so I bought one of these bad boys after waiting an interminable amount of time for AAA on a freezing winter night two years ago. The small unit is very easy to use and can jump your car in about two [...]

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Russ Goes Mac! »

Dear loyal UsedWigs Radio listeners,
This posting is to apologize sincerely for the delay of Podcast 51, which you are no doubt highly anticipating since you know that CBS3’s Nicole Brewer and the fabulous El Vez are our guests! You know that it’s “in the can” and you’re probably wondering WHERE THE HELL IT IS. I [...]

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Friday Quick Links! »

No, This is Not a Kidnapping: The lovely Nicole Brewer of CBS3 Philly chats with Geekadelphia’s Tim and Eric and gets exclusive bonus footage of a super-fast chinchilla! Check out the video. Nice job fellas!
Blind Painter: Esref Armagan cannot see, but he sure can paint. {via boingboing.net}
Colossal Waste of Time: But I still watched the [...]

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One Very Creepy Robot »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djJDvgUOL7E

 
More: Momoyo Torimitsu

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Amazing Lists of Awesome and Not So Awesome Achievements »

Hungry for some tasty, low-cal distractions before the big holiday? Here’s a bowl of some cheese-filled trivia nuggets to feed your ever-expanding pop culture belly.
Longest Running TV Shows
“Quarterlife” just missed by 632 episodes.
The 20 Most Expensive Domain Names
On a related note: “flooz.com” is now the cheapest.
All Time Worldwide Movie Box Office
Sorry, that dumb boat [...]

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Battlestar Galactica Party in Old City Philly! »

Attention all Skinjobs, Toasters and Humans: Geekadelphia is hosting a Battlestar Galactica Party on May 10th (in conjunction with the fine folks at the Hacktory and Indy Hall) at Independents Hall in Old City, Philadelphia.
I will be there dressed as Klingon with a lightsaber (peace-bonded, of course) just to disrupt the party’s space-time continuum. Hope [...]

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Birbiglia on CBS, Funny Battlestar Recap, Web Forms Made Interesting »

CBS Green-lights My Secret Public Journal! We’re big fans of comedian Mike Birbiglia (that’s “Birbigs” to those in the know) and his secret public journal.
He’s got himself a big network show, hopefully he’ll say no to the laugh track and won’t have ancient comedians guest star as his parents… at least until season 4. [...]

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Woman ‘Working from Home’ Sends Strategically-Timed Emails, Fools No One »

“Wendy works from home quite a lot, and she sends emails every couple of hours to prove she’s actually being productive. Must be a pain typing in the old iPhone while you’re on the stair climber at the gym, driving to the shore or hitting the sale racks at Bloomingdales?”

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