@Lando Calrissian
You might want to get that checked, man.

@ossger
I'm with you on that one. Committing a large chunk of time just to hear a rehash of the stuff I read about every day is too daunting. Maybe if they segmented the show by subject and put up several videos instead of just one.

I'm with you on that one. Committing a large chunk of time just to hear a rehash of the stuff I read about every day is too daunting. Maybe if they segmented the show by subject and put up several videos instead of just one.

Steamrolling: the gadget-centric version of rickrolling.

"Google juice"??

Um, no thanks, man. I'm good.

To all of you protesting that Jackson deserves better than this, that his dignity is being impugned, etc. etc., please hear this:

Michael Jackson deserves no better the mocking he gets, nor has he any dignity remaining. He was a man whose best creative works were twenty years behind him, who had squandered the bulk of his vast fortune on self-gratification, had disfigured himself with excessive surgery, was a probable pedophile, and yet who despite all this continued to seek out the public spotlight. Where in all that is there a man deserving of the reverence he is given?

The poor sot has passed on, God bless him, and he is beyond any cares of what anyone here thinks of him. Making fun of him hurts him not at all, and reminds the rest of us of the ridiculous extremes to which life can be taken when a person puts his own desires above common sense and the good of others.

Now somebody pass me the Jesus juice.

Motion capture: meh. 3-D: double meh. All of these things the studios want me to find captivating and money-worthy... all I want is a well-told story. Hell, I'd rather sit at a campfire with my old Scout Master (can we skip the easy pedophile jokes?) and listen to him tell old stories simply because he was a great story-teller. Never saw a bit of 3-D around the campfire, yet I enjoyed it far more than most movies.

Yeah, all the snazzy stuff is nice, but only if it's backing up a well-told story.

incognito, you don't have kids, do you? Call us back when you do; I can nearly guarantee you will see things differently. What you call 'spying' most parents call 'taking care' and view it as an inescapable responsibility rather than some kind of power trip. Sure, I want to know where my kids are all the time -- not so I can track them down, punish them, and ruin their childhood, but so I can help them if there's ever any trouble.

I'd lay down in traffic for my kids. Using tracking tech to keep up with them isn't inherently wrong or harmful, no matter what you OR Darren Murph might have to say on the matter.

I dunno, man; I still can't see my to do list on my iPhone's home screen. My Treo did that and more just fine. The iPhone may be a prettier and perhaps even better smartphone, but more capable? I'm not so sure.

@Chuckles:

Hey, I go to Duke too. Where you gettin' free upgrades from?