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MediaPortal – The ultimate HTPC / mediacenter

Looks impressive…

MediaPortal – The ultimate HTPC / mediacenter
MediaPortal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC.
It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video’s and DVD’s, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/nopes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!
Please read the requirements before installing MediaPortal!

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Adam Savage..From Mythbusters Interview

I second the first line quoted below. This is the first part of a good interview with Adam Savage.

I would love to get him on Technorama sometime.

The Sneeze – Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.
MythBusters is easily one of my favorite shows on TV. If you’ve never seen it, hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman use their years of special effects experience to scientifically put urban legends to the test– and blow up a lot of stuff in the process.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Maker of Things and Buster of Myths: Adam Savage. We covered lots of ground including the birth of the show, feeling famous, gay fan mail and lots more…

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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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Fan Films, To boldly go…

In my never ending quest to find something more…something other than the 2 year release cycles of my favorite movie franchises…I have found that Fan films are alive and well on the Internet.

Last night on Technorama (the podcast I co-host), I talked about Fanfilms. I mentioned several really good home made productions. Grayson (Robin is Avenging Batmans death, and is faced with a conspiracy), BatMan : Dead End (A mix of Scifi and Batman) Troops and others…You can find links to all of those at the Technorama Site.

Now something that I forgot to mention…Star Trek fan films. There are some interesting ones coming down the pipe.
Over at New Voyages, they are producing episodes as if it was the forth season in the TOS time era. They have recast Kirk, Spock, and Bones (before you flip out, it is pretty well done) and the set and costumes look great. I just read that Walter Koeing is reprising his role as Checkov in an up coming one…

Now also over at New Voyages they have a links page that links to other Star Trek Fan projects. Some of note I would like to point you in the direction of…
Star Trek: Intrepid
Starship Execter
Also of interest… is Hidden Frontier. I looks like they actually have 6 seasons of episodes already. Set in the TNG era, it looks like they sacrificed building their own sets, and did a lot of green/blue screen. I will have to watch a few. Something else that I thought odd. If I am not mistaken, the theme music is from Galaxy Quest. Now, wasn’t Galaxy Quest sort of a spoof on Star Trek? Ironic.
Anyway, there is plenty here to spend a rainy day looking at.
BTW Got something interesting you like as far as Fan Films go, let me know.