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Battlestar Galactica…More than you ever need to know.

Man it is good to be a scifi geek…Tonight starts the Second season of the current Battlestar Galactica series, and I cannot wait.

What’s that… you missed the first season? Well..You can get caught up easily with a little help from Wikipedia (See link below).

By The Way….Don’t forget to subscribe to the Battlestar Galactica Podcast to get insider commentary from producer Ron Moore on the show. Also, off of thier main website, I just noticed that David Eick is providing a Video Blog on the production of the episodes of the show and they have last seasons finale available to watch!

This shows me once again that these guys are working the fans, and giving them want.

Battlestar Galactica (2003) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This new series was promoted as a “re-imagining” of the Universal Studios late-1970s movie and television series Battlestar Galactica. It was not simply a remake of the original but a new direction taken from the same original premise, analogous to a “reboot” in comic books.

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Rockstar INXS

I was a big fan of INXS through the 80’s and 90’s. I loved them from the first time that a friend introduced me to their album The Swing. When I first heard that they were doing a reality show to find a new lead singer, at first I thought.. “Come on you can’t replace Michael Hutchence.”

However, I set Tivo to start catching it… and I have to say that was the most entertaining show that I have watched in a long time. I missed the first show that came on Monday, but I watched their performances on Tuesday night, and I was stunned. Everyone of the contestants were awesome. They performed music ranging from Mamas and the Papas to the Kinks to Black Crowes. It got me to listen to the other part of my iPod that I have been neglecting…My Music. I hope that it continues to be as good as Tuesdays show….

So if you are into Rock and or INXS, it is well worth it. Check it out Here. It isn’t American Idol.

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Podcasters stats surge because of iTunes…

I have heard a lot of Podcasters talking about their surge in listenership since iTunes 4.9 was released. I am sure that is taking place some, but I wonder how much of the surge is not new subscriptions to podcasts as much as it is people “Previewing” their show from within iTunes. I believe that would count as a download…

Just thinking out loud.

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Hey Yall, Watch This!

It seems that the Southern American English has been explained. Now you can understand me.

My southern accent comes and goes depending on who I am talking to. However, no matter what I can’t loose “Yall” and “Fixin to”. I can turn it up a notch if I am speaking to someone that is also genuinly southern.

I love to hear people that speak southern, but I can’t stand it when someone fakes a southern “Drawl” and tries to pass it off. I am sure the british probably feel the same when an American tries to fake a british accent too.

Visit the article to read the whole thing.
See yall. 😉

Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . Southern . Sounds | PBS
Some of the grammatical differences between SAE and other varieties are well known. For example, most Americans immediately recognize you-all and yall as distinctively Southern second person pronouns, and many would know that fixin to, as in “I’m fixin to eat breakfast,” is Southern as well. The latter represents a modification of the English auxiliary system that enables Southerners to encode an aspectual distinction grammatically that must be encoded lexically elsewhere: “I’m fixin to eat breakfast” means that I intend to eat breakfast in the next little while.

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Deep Impact: Not the Movie!

Deep Impact is a NASA project to impact a comet with a projectile, and have it expel gas and material into space so it can be analyzed by the fly by part of the Deep Impact.

This morning I was checking out NASA’s site to see how Deep Impact faired…and it looks like it did exactly what it was expected to, and this video shows it. Amazing.

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Best 5 minutes I spent all week.

This short 5 minute podcast is great! Wichita Rutherford interviews Bluegrass stars, and it isn’t your normal boring interview either. He makes it fun by goofing around with them, rather than just talking.

It will leaving you wondering…”My 5 minutes are over already?”

Definitely worth a listen.
5 minutes with Wichita

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Holy Cow! Google has Earth in beta!

I just downloaded Google’s Earth program, it is awesome! It is like Google Maps on Steroids. You can place pins on your map, notes, print, zoom (fly in) and tilt the image to your liking.

Very cool.

Google Earth – Home
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in — Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.