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| Wednesday, October 21, 2009 03:57 PM |
| Recyclotron |
 by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- The above video is violent and horrible and it totally cracked me up and made my day better. (Via)
- Hedgehog says, "Blaaaaah." I'm with you, hedgehog. I'm with you. (Via)
- A roundup of crazy Halloween costumes for kids and pets. (Via)
- What a rip-off! You can only buy 200 sandwiches with this coupon! (Via)
- Pretty cool Wolverine painting. (Via)
- Video of an amazing pop-up LEGO Zen temple. (Via)
- Woah! One of my favorite comic book artists, John Cassaday, is directing an episode of Dollhouse! Very cool. (Via)
- A big set of photos from the Alternative Press Expo. (Via)
- There's a bit of a buzz surrounding Barnes & Noble's new e-reader, Nook. Here's a chart comparing it with the Amazon Kindle 2 (which should be taken with a grain of salt, as the chart was put together by B&N). (Via)
- Pretty good zombie George Lucas costume. (Via)
- A poster for what could be the next children's book to get a perhaps-too-adult big screen adaptation. Don't worry, it's a joke. I think. (Via Duane)
- R2-D2's cameo in Transformers 2 (via). Speaking of everybody's favorite Astromech droid, check out this very nice fan-made R2-D2 hoodie.
- Hulu is showcasing a bunch of sci-fi and horror videos for Halloween. (Via)
- You've got to love this guy Andy's Dude-a-Day project. This time he takes on the Beatles. (Via)
- Scientists have developed the first artificial hand that has feeling. It works by connecting human nerve endings with tiny electronic sensors. (Via)
- I was loath to link to this list, as it includes a mention of the hated Starship Troopers, but the rest of the selections are good enough to warrant a reference. So behold! Sci-fi's 10 best second-in-commands. (Should that be seconds-in-command? Who knows?) (Via)
- Pretty excellent poster for Terminator 2.
- Alien cow abduction lamp.
- Over 40 (!!!) crazy sci-fi dream sequences.
- Remember that 3D-animated cartoon called ReBoot? It was a pretty clever and fun show, with a plot vaguely similar to Tron. Well, it looks like they're making a movie! Check out the teaser.
- ABC's going a little overboard with their promotion of V. Starting this Friday, "skywriters will create giant letter Vs multiple times a day above 26 well-known American landmarks."
- Cool new trailer for the Prisoner remake.
- Sounds like the rumors of De Niro and Jude Law showing up in Thor are probably just rumors. Sadness.
- The top five hunk of junk spaceships. Hmm. Not sure I'd classify the Borg cube as a hunk of junk, but still love the list.
- An "affordable" 3D copier! Put an object in and it will make a copy in plastic.
- Impressive cakes: Pac-Man and Darth Vader. I don't think I'd eat the Darth Vader one, though. Not appetizing at all.
- Robotic cheetah!!!
- Nikes made of junk.
- A short and stupidly funny clip from Star Wars with some new dialog added in.
- This interesting interview with director Richard Kelly about his upcoming film The Box made me want to see the movie more - and also less. Basing the main characters on his parents seems like a weird and pointless idea. But who knows, maybe it will work.
- Gigantic info dump on Epic Mickey. I don't have time to look at this, but thought somebody else might, so there you go. (Via)
- Hey, turns out Antarctica is really damn big. (Via)
- Norman Osborn hair spotted in the wild. (Via)
- Amusing book cover parody, and a great set of photos of weird and wonderful Eastern European book covers(via).
- NASA is testing its first new rocket in 30 years.
- Posters for Legion.
- The guy who's been running FlashForward - Marc Guggenheim - has been replaced with co-creator and executive producer David Goyer. It might be a meaningless change, but then again it might be a response to a dip in the ratings.
- Google could be launching a competitor to the iTunes Music Store soon.
- Looks like the script for that Crow remake is done and they're going to move forward with casting.
- Seven great horror movie themes (as in music).
- Cinematical is going to start highlighting good, bad, and ugly flicks that you can watch for free. A recent gem: Frogs!
- 42 essential third act twists (via) and, in the same vein, the 9 stupidest surprise endings (via).
- On another day, looking at the pizza taco might have made me hungry. Today, it makes me feel slightly ill. (Via)
- Nickelodeon has just purchased intellectual ownership rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and is planning a new animated TV series and film.
- Hilarious image list: the world of tomorrow if the internet disappeared today. (Via)
- Ha ha ha! Burn. (Via)
- Amusing bathroom graffiti. (Via)
- Bing will supposedly start searching Twitter and Facebook status messages soon. How will it get access to Facebook status messages?? That seems like a bit of an invasion of privacy, unless it will somehow link in to your Facebook account and only search your friends' updates?
- M.C. Escher disses Mick Jagger. Pretty awesome. (Via)
- Bacon jam!!!
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| Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:53 AM |
| (Last updated on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 02:51 PM) | | Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- See above for the full-length, Russian-language trailer for Timur Bekmambetov's flying car movie, Black Lightning. Seems like it could be fun. (Via)
- Wil Wheaton records an amusing exchange with a friend about the death of a D&D character.
- Seven ridiculous-ass sequels Hollywood almost foisted upon us. Pretty crazy stories of what could have been. (Via)
- Amazing photos of a hundred-year-old tunnel that lies more than 10 stories underground, behind Niagara Falls. (Via)
- Another leaked Dollhouse memo, this one by Topher. (Via)
- Truly awesome Han Solo vs. Captain Kirk knife fight shirt. WANT. (Via)
- Wonderful knitted Mario in Kuribo's shoe, plus a knitted Goomba. (Via)
- Hollywood studios are banning their stars from using Twitter because they think it's damaging the industry. This is the same shortsighted response to new technology that we've seen in the movie and music industries time and time again. Twitter is just another place you can generate publicity for your product! How is that bad?? Instead of sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling when something like this comes along, why don't you figure out how you can use it to your advantage? Idiots. (Via)
- Amusing poisonous gifts on sale at the Alternative Press Expo. (Via)
- Horrifying scarecrow Elmo. (Via)
- Some really wonderful street art. If you can't read the signs, they say "Sith Extinguisher," "Vampire Extinguisher," and "Fire Extinguisher." (Via Kaki)
- Speaking of great street art, check out these piano stairs and the amount of joy and wonder they generate. Makes me feel better about the world and humanity. (Via Todd)
- Very cute and geeky Super Mario World proposal. (Via)
- Sci-fi fun with Ikea brand names. (Via)
- Covering a Weird Al Yankovic parody seems like the height of postmodernism to me. Here's a bunch of MP3 downloads of people doing just that. (Via)
- Everybody's favorite fishy admiral goes for a pop art/hip-hop kind of vibe. (Via)
- Totally cute web comic.
- A team of engineers wants to enclose Houston inside a giant polymer dome to prevent heat and storms from destroying the city. Um... really??
- Marvel, you have enough comics with "Avengers" in the title, and way more than enough comics written by Christos Gage. Why are you putting Gage on a book called Avengers Academy, which will probably be as bad as Avengers: The Initiative? Please stop now.
- A preview of John Byrne's upcoming comic, Angel vs. Frankenstein. I generally like Byrne's work, and this preview is okay, but I don't know. This one sounds a little too silly even for me.
- Apparently there's an unaired, never-before-seen second pilot for Star Trek that's an extra long version of "Where No Man Has Gone Before," and it's going to be released on Blu-ray. One of these days I get the feeling I'm going to have to break down and get a Blu-ray player. In other Star Trek news, looks like the next movie has been pushed back from 2011 to 2012.
- A couple of Thor casting rumors: Robert DeNiro and Jude Law may have joined the cast in unspecified roles, and Dominic Cooper might play one of the Warriors Three.
- It looks like from these photos that the Cylons' "Plan" was to have a lot of sex. Which admittedly is a pretty good plan, but still.
- Fringe could be hurting in the ratings simply because there are so many other big, popular shows on Thursday night.
- Updates on the various X-movies: they want to reboot things for the Deadpool movie, and include the breaking the fourth wall stuff from the comics; the Magneto movie might not happen; and they'll use the recent, darker Harry Potter films as a model for the X-Men First Class franchise.
- Rumor had it that Jackie Earle Haley might play Sinestro in the Green Lantern film; he says no one's asked him, but that he's excited about the movie.
- A giant gallery of photos of old Halloween costumes (via). Speaking of which, here's a great Bender costume and a homemade exoskeleton costume.
- The director of the film adaptation of Ronin wants to do it in 3D. Oh my.
- Another Ghostbusters star talks about #3. Dan Aykroyd says they have a script but no greenlight.
- South America + Africa = T. Rex! Also, T. Rex wall decal.
- A pumpkin as a cheeseburger.
- Amazing homemade, full-body, leather lion armor.
- Someone spotted an interesting connection to the Bible in FlashForward.
- The 11 most disturbing "Tree House of Horror" segments from The Simpsons.
- Artist Paolo Rivera was left to his own devices when designing a journal about super-soldier experiments in the 1930s for The Marvels Project, so he slipped some Lovecraftian stuff in there. Awesome!
- R-rated movies as kids' books. (Via)
- Chris Kohler at Game|Life says Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is a great game, but it's not really an RPG.
- The bunnies do The Wolf Man. Fun enough, but not their best effort. (Via)
- 5 horror movies you can show your kids. Poltergeist? Really?! I don't know, man, that movie's pretty scary.
- Cinematical offers a list of five possible directors of the Avengers movie now that Favreau is officially out of the picture. PLEASE GOD NO NOT PAUL VERHOEVEN WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!!
- Look at all the new planets they found! And some are Earth-like!
- 10 things parents should know about Where the Wild Things Are. Really this could be boiled down to one item: your kids probably won't like it.
- A truly epic entry on Animals With Lightsabers.
- Cool robot posters.
- A video showing a proof of concept demonstration of playing D&D using Microsoft Surface. Pretty cool!
- Words to live by. (Via)
- Twitter hit 5 billion tweets. Wow. (Via)
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| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:55 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Above is the incredibly cool trailer for Here Come the Waves, the "visualization" of The Decemberists' Hazards of Love. (Via)
- The 272 fast food items highest in calories. I'm happy to say that I'm pretty sure I've never eaten any of the items in the 1000+ calories range. Although I have eaten items in the 800-899 calories range. Gulp. (Via)
- Alien humor. (Via)
- Like a number of other programs, Dollhouse is making big gains in the ratings department thanks to the addition of DVR figures. (Via)
- 22 great sci-fi insults. (Via)
- 8 ways to prepare your pets for war. (Via)
- Check out the kick-ass cover art for the upcoming Planet Hulk DVD. (Via)
- Extremely long list of comic book-related personalities on Twitter. (Via)
- An interesting interview with Mike Mignola about the history and future of the Hellboyverse. (Via)
- Brian Michael Bendis talks about what's next for the Marvel Universe after Dark Reign. It's called Siege, and it will bring Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man back together again. (Via)
- Word has it the Where the Wild Things Are movie is upsetting some kids, but as you'll see in this excerpt from a recent interview, Maurice Sendak and the filmmakers don't really care so much. Here are five clips from the movie.
- The top 10 greatest space zomibes of all time.
- Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich have been ready and waiting to make a sequel to Independence Day, they've just been bogged down in negotiations with Fox and Will Smith. Here's hoping they remain bogged down! Ugh.
- Nanoparticles have incredible potential to advance medical technology and health, but of course the first drug developed to use them will treat erectile dysfunction. Sigh.
- A Lovecraft fan is crafting and assembling souvenirs from the ill-fated expedition in At the Mountains of Madness. Brilliant! Check out a gallery of the items here.
- A map of 50 years of space exploration. (Via)
- Dark Horse might do a Dollhouse comic book series.
- The trailer for Toy Story 3. This movie is going to murder me in my heart.
- Fun trailers and clips from Turbo (about a player in a futuristic, Tron-like video game fighting tournament) and a Mexican film about aliens and paranormal activity called Genesis.
- It's that time of year again! Metal Floss has 10 epic Halloween costumes. (Via)
- Very cool Mario bon-bons.
- Transformer pirate shirts.
- A mashup of a NES cartridge and a NES controller with which you can play NES ROMs. It's a hand-held NES!
- Apparently FlashForward is doing quite well; ABC has ordered 9 more episodes.
- This story about how they used to write Star Trek makes me sad. Then again, as long as they got smart people to fill in the blanks, it's not really that bad...
- Robert Rodat, the guy who wrote Saving Private Ryan, is working on the World of Warcraft movie. Wow (no pun intended)!
- The track list for LEGO Rock Band has been released.
- No, R2, no!
- Tekken 6 is bring back the beat-em-up campaign mode to fighting games. Neat.
- It recently came out that Gary Ross would rewrite and direct a screenplay about Venom, but now it looks like he'll be doing a movie about the spy Matt Helm first.
- Apparently they're going to do 300-style versions of Moby Dick and the story of Moses?! Good lord. Cinematical picks out five more ancient epics that are ripe for the 300 treatment. But really I'd rather there never be another movie like 300. Yuck.
- Scientists are claiming they've found a kindler, gentler, vegetarian spider, but I don't believe it for a second. It's still a nasty, ugly spider. Kill it!
- Speaking of which... ah, Spider Pill!
- Steampunk toilet!
- Write a story with Neil Gaiman on Twitter today.
- A small pile of cute.
- Scans of screenshots of Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth.
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| Monday, October 5, 2009 03:18 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Above, please find animation from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon combined with audio from The Big Lebowski. Pretty funny; needless to say, the audio is NSFW. (Via)
- 10 books that should be banned. I've only read one of these, but as far as that one goes, I agree! (Via)
- Cool sculptures.
- A trailer for what should be a pretty interesting documentary - Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown.
- 6 important life lessons learned from The Twilight Zone.
- One or more episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation are recut into a pretty brutal, but also pretty funny, Wesley Crusher hatefest.
- Looks like MGM has been given some time to work out its money problems, which hopefully means the studio will be able to finish making the Hobbit movies.
- Sci Fi Wire lists its 9 favorite crazy zombie kills of all time, and Underwire rates the zombie-killing weapons in Zombieland.
- Eric Powell and his girlfriend, and real roller girl, Ramb0 Samb0 review Whip It. (Via)
- Awesome Bossk collectibles. (Via)
- A preview of five pages from Ghost Riders: Heaven's on Fire #3. (Via)
- Wireless brain implants could mean a big upgrade in the control of prosthetic robotic limbs. (Via)
- Aww, cute little felt Admiral Ackbar. (Via)
- A couple of photos from the set of Clash of the Titans featuring Liam Neeson as Zeus. Cool! Looks like they're sticking with the metaphor of the Gods controlling humans by moving around figures on a game board. (Via)
- Random photo! (Via)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus is turning 40! In honor of this prestigious occasion, the Mirror picks the top ten sketches. Excellent selections! (Via)
- Some surgeons are using laser eye treatments to tailor people's eyes to their careers; for instance, they can give special forces members and fighter pilots the ability to see a thousand meters in the dark. Crazy!
- A poor video quality trailer for yet another upcoming Doctor Who spin-off: K-9. Yes, this time the Doctor's robot dog is getting his own series. Unfortunately, it looks like they're aiming it at kids, so it's pretty cheesy.
- io9 takes a look back at Wednesday Comics. I agree with a lot of this analysis - except I wasn't as much a fan of the Superman and Supergirl strips, and I was a huge fan of Strange Adventures.
- io9 picks 10 more toys for Hollywood to co-opt. I remember almost all of these toy lines with great fondness. Sectaurs! M.A.S.K.! Good stuff. In a similar vein, relive 10 forgotten cartoon heroes of the '60s! I love The Herculoids.
- Star Olivia Wilde talks about her experience filming Tron: Legacy.
- Another book trailer, this one for a coffee table book which tells an alternate history involving a robot named Boilerplate. It's quite clever, and oddly moving.
- A few fleeting hints about the plot for Ghost Rider 2.
- NBC is developing a new show called Midnighters, based on a series of novels "about characters able to access a superpowered 25th hour called the 'Blue Time' each day as a result from being born on the stroke of midnight." Interesting...
- More crazy anti-aging science: researchers may have found a way to activate muscle regeneration and restore tissue health.
- Stellan Skarsgard has joined the cast of Thor in an unspecified role. Excellent! Love that guy.
- Here's a handy bra that turns into a pair of gas masks.
- Did I post this before? I don't know, but it's awesome: dinosaur-skeleton-shaped ice cube trays!
- Impressive ballpoint pen portrait of Christopher Walken.
- Awesome concept car covered in solar panels which turn constantly to align with the sun.
- Sweet piranha plant scarf.
- Sci Fi Wire has 15 of the spookiest breakfast cereals, 14 great Cthulhu toys, and the 10 scariest Stephen King novels.
- I love this list of theories on what caused the flashforwards in the TV show FlashForward. Especially the last one.
- A video explaining Brütal Legend's multiplayer mode.
- Apparently Nintendo will fix Wii consoles that were bricked by System Update 4.2.
- A collection of cool fan-made movie posters.
- Batman on an elephant.
- I love this trash can mod.
- Heh. Pretty hilarious poster.
- Worst day ever?
- Steampunk R2-D2. (Via)
- Cinematical presents a defense of theater-hopping.
- A review of the new 3D Toy Story double feature. I was kind of excited about this, but maybe it's not worth it.
- Here's a list with an odd theme: the seven scariest movie characters on wheels. I'm linking to it mainly because of the reference to Return to Oz, a movie I have an odd attachment to.
- A review of the Coen brothers' A Serious Man. From the ads, this didn't look like my kind of movie, but I do love the Coen brothers, and this is a very positive review...
- So what's really in coffee, anyway?
- Video of an aircraft shooting a truck with a laser.
- A lamp shade made of bacon strips.
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| Thursday, October 1, 2009 09:02 PM |
| On the Viewer - FlashForward (Episode 2, "White to Play") |
 by Fëanor |
Well, Olivia's first meeting with Lloyd sure was awkward! Interestingly, it seems as if he didn't see her during his flashforward.
Man, this dialog sure is corny. Why is dude so embarrassed to tell everyone he was on the toilet? It's no big deal! Heh. He mentioned Twitter. But yeah, generally the toilet humor is not working for me.
Man, I really hate Di Gibbons. But the fact that her name's on the wall probably means she's going to be important. Sigh.
Mark is already pissed at Olivia for her possible future unfaithfulness. Ouch!
Noh met another lady who didn't have a vision. Maybe he can calm down now. Unless the lady dies in this episode.
"Suspect Zero." Good code name.
Bryce: "There's a gift in the knowing." Says you!
Can't believe Noh is still trying to claim that the future visions don't mean anything. Uh, almost everybody on the planet had them! And they connect to and confirm each other!
Mark goes into the doll factory only because he saw a doll in his vision. We're falling into the old time travel paradox of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
Di Gibbons: "He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over." Wow. Dude had a nice trap set here, and lots of queer technology lying about. Hmm...
Cop died, just like I thought she would. D'oh.
They've already figured out what Di Gibbons was doing with his computers, even though they must've been mostly destroyed in the explosion? That seems unlikely.
Oh jeez. Nick Drake on the soundtrack during the montage.
Di Gibbons was talking to Suspect Zero during the blackout. At least two people were awake. And yet it seems as if Di Gibbons has also been investigating who could have caused the blackouts, so how could he be responsible?
I like the subplot about the website where everyone can post their future visions.
Uh... shouldn't they check those cupcakes for poison? I mean, just in case.
Ugh! The dialog is so bad sometimes. "At home, here, with you, I'm praying it doesn't."
Oh, but I like that he burned the friendship bracelet.
A woman calls Noh and tells him the date he'll be murdered. That'll blow your mind.
Mark and Olivia are lying through their teeth to their kid. I mean I know it's important to comfort her, and the occasional white lie is necessary, but jeez! Anyway, turns out the kid knows Di Gibbons, and knows that he's a very bad man. Nice, creepy ending.
I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to stick with this show. It's definitely intriguing, but there's some pretty bad dialog and acting, and I'm beginning to get the feeling it's just going to keep stringing me along without ever really getting anywhere. |
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| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 09:59 PM |
| On the Viewer - FlashForward (Episode 1 - "No More Good Days") |
| by Fëanor |
This review is done in a pseudo-live-blog style, and may contain spoilers.
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It seems appropriate that we open in medias res and then flash back. The opening sequence is a pretty horrific, almost apocalyptic vision.
Mark's babysitter is pretty hot.
Hey, I've heard that "one penis/all penises" line before. It's a pretty good line.
Very tense, exciting build up to the flashforward event. And what the FBI agent sees is pretty intriguing. They really seem to have thought hard about how traumatic and horrific it would be if everybody blacked out for a couple minutes. It's well done.
"I had a bad dream. I dreamt there are no more good days." Woah. Cool line.
Okay, the slow motion running I did not need. That's just corny.
Um, what is with the kangaroo?
Olivia: "You're gonna be okay, honey."
Kid: "I know, Olivia."
Olivia: "How did you know my name?"
The kids are the first to get how the flashforward works. I like that; makes sense.
"People probably died walking down a flight of stairs." I hadn't thought of that. Brutal! Everybody conking out for a few minutes doesn't seem like that terrible a thing at first, but yeah, it could really have catastrophic consequences.
During the blackout, they all had a vision of the same date and time, six months in the future. The scene where this finally comes out is a bit cheesy - the dialog and acting are kind of weak - but then again, I'm not sure how you could do a scene of people talking out such an idea without it sounding a little dumb.
People's visions match up. They really appear to have seen memories of the future. Very cool. The thing is, now that they know what's coming, won't they act differently, and cause that future never to come to be? I mean, certainly everybody's going to be on pins and needles as the date and time gets closer, and very aware of what they're doing. I would think a lot of people would have the perverse desire to deliberately avoid doing what they were doing in their vision. Or be unable to do it exactly the way they did it, because they were so hyper aware of what was going on.
I'm not sure why Mark doesn't mention until much further on the part of his vision wherein armed gunmen enter the office and try to kill him. Seems like that would be the thing that would stick in your head the most! And the thing you'd want to warn everybody about. Also, Mark's partner didn't see anything during his blackout. That seems like a bad sign, and a very interesting detail.
How to coordinate and cross-reference all these visions? A website! Good idea!
I love that Mark wants to start following the leads now that he saw himself investigating in the future.
We've already got one person saying the blackouts and flashforwards were a punishment from God, and another person saying they were a gift from God.
Mark's AA sponsor: "Maybe because you saw it, you can change it. Ghost of Christmas Future crap." Well said!
Mark's sponsor saw his "dead" daughter alive. "You're worried your future's gonna come true. I'm worried mine's not." Interesting variations. I also like that while a lot of people saw really important things during their flashforwards, some people didn't. One dude was just on the toilet reading the paper. A couple of other people were in a random meeting.
Ouch! Olivia saw herself with another man! A man she currently doesn't know, but for whom in the vision she had very intense feelings. Oh, it's the father of the kid she saved, of course. D'oh. Mark should find him and beat the crap out of him in advance!
There's the friendship bracelet. Prophecy #1 has come true. It's just a cute gift from his daughter, but as she puts it on him, it's like she's cuffing him to all those other things they saw: his wife cheating on him, his drinking. Damn.
Mark's partner is caving on having the bad song at his wedding! Don't do it, man! Hang tough! Oh, and a small detail they messed up: even though the video was already playing on his computer, it still had a play button beneath it, instead of a pause button.
Woah, very interesting: they just found surveillance video of a dude who was awake while everybody else in the world was passed out. Something to look into!
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