The Origin of Sesame Street

As a child of the 70s, I recently read Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street and enjoyed it thoroughly. That experience only may this, the pitch film from 1969 all the more interesting.

Be Seeing You

First clips from the forthcoming V remake

I'm thinking I'm gonna like!

Barney Fife & the Constitution

How many of you start singing the Schoolhouse Rock version after about 30 seconds?

Top 10 Reasons to Watch Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica

Growing Up Online

Last night's episode of PBS' Frontline was all about kids and the Net.

In Growing Up Online, FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood. "The Internet and the digital world was something that belonged to adults, and now it's something that really is the province of teenagers, " says C.J. Pascoe, a postdoctoral scholar with the University of California, Berkeley's Digital Youth Research project.

I've only watched excerpts so far but the whole program is available online on Frontline Web site. The best quote from the show I believe is "We have to look at our kids less like victims and more like participants."

My dad's on TV, with the county sheriff!

Well, turns out it's not as bad as it sounds. He's promoting a event on the history of the Sheriff department. (My dad's the president of the town Historical Society.)

24 in 1994

What if CTU agents had to rely on early 90s technology? Find out in this hilarious "unaired pilot".

The IT Crowd is back!

Not the forthcoming US remake, but a second series of the original UK hit! (Three episodes in and I finally noticed over the weekend.) Anyway, here's the bit that's been making the rounds regarding anti-piracy warnings. (You'll need to poke around on BitTorrent for the complete episodes.)

And so it begins... again!

Now here's an amazing yet wonderful coincidence. Over the past month I've been re-watching the whole Babylon 5 series once again. (Last night I watched the episode in which we discover who Valen really was.) Not five minutes after finishing that episode I check my feeds and the Amazon.com blog informs me that Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, the first of a new series of direct-to-DVD movies is being released at the end of July. I'm so excited! Now I've got to get through the rest of the series, the movies, and Crusade in the next three months. (And yes, I just pre-ordered my copy.)

Comic book art

This is most likely the most beautiful comic book cover I have ever seen. (The story's pretty good too.)

Visual joke

Caught this on YouTube. It's from an episode of Robot Chicken. The guy just stands there then asks "Do you get it?" Well, do ya punk?

BitTorrent humor

Today's Real Life comic takes on "watching" UK TV via BitTorrent. I have this conversation with myself all the time. (Doctor Who Series three starts this Saturday! Guess what I'll be watching on Sunday.)

Batgirl was a librarian

Keep that in mind when you watch this.