On October 19, 2009 Mashable.com published an article titled “#BeatCancer Sets Guinness World Record, Raises Over $70,000.” This dollar amount is considerably higher than what the calculations at the end of this article came up with. The article doesn’t explain this discrepancy. It had an extremely upbeat tone about the success of this campaign. It includes the sentence: “Although the official Guinness World Record drive is now over, the campaign continues to raise awareness and encourage donations.” (Bold not in original.) If read quickly this might give Twitter users the impression that the $0.01 was still going on, although it has ended. In addition the mention counter on http://beatcancereverywhere.com has been turned back on and has now counted over 600,000 uses of the hashtag.…

Here’s an open discussion for the fifth episode of Season 1 of ABC’s FlashForward, titled “Gimme Some Truth”.

Comments will probably contain spoilers, so if you aren’t watching it live or if you’re flashing into the future to read this and haven’t watched the episode yet, then beware.

Aaaand discuss!

Recently the White House stirred up its latest batch of controversy when last week, White House communications director Anita Dunn said Fox News operates “almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.” On Sunday, Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, said, “It is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.”  In short, Fox News is not a real news organization.  They are absolutely right.  Fox News is not real news it is purely propaganda.  The White House did leave one thing out however and that is that all television news with the exception of C-SPAN is biased and therefore not real news.  The standard that we define news by just…

Here’s an open discussion for Season 1, Episode 8 of Glee, which is called “Mash-Up”

Previews show a Slushi War and Sue getting her freak on.  Oh boy…

Glee away!

By now, you’ve probably seen the Popular Mechanics article where Dr. James Allen, Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Chair of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies at Brown University decoded the hieroglyphics on the new Lost season 6 poster.  According to Dr. Allen, “The hieroglyphs spell out two Egyptian words, meaning ‘Who is the guide?’ or ‘Who is the leader?’”

So this week’s discussion is this: What interpretation do you have for that translation?  Who do you think is the ‘guide’ or ‘leader’?  Jacob?  Not-Locke?  Locke?  Jack?  Ben?  Richard Alpert (we’ve been on Team Alpert-is-Really-Jacob since it first went around back in May 2009)?  Let us know in the comments below.  Let’s get some discussion going!

Here’s the poster:

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Well the Fall TV season has been in full swing for the past several weeks and once again the over the air networks still have not learned anything from the cable networks.  First you have FOX taking So You Think You Can Dance, the best competition show in my opinion, from the summer, where it was a huge hit, and jamming it into a fall schedule full of new programming.  Other than lack of ideas and greed what is the possible reason for moving an incredibly successful show?  Did they not see what has happened in the past with Who Wants to be a Millionaire?  Now FOX has also picked up Glee for a full season.  I like Glee, but I think…

If you’ve seen the story of Keith Bardwell, a Justice of the Peace in Louisiana, refusing to marry an interracial couple, you may have reacted with vitriol and disgust but I say “hold on”. While I don’t think Mr. Bardwell should continue his duties as a justice of the peace I don’t think he deserves the rage that may be focused on him. First it is his contention that he does not marry interracial couples for concern over the negative effects on any future children. He then refers the couples to another justice who will marry them. Is this completely against the duties of his job?  Yes, and that is why he should be fired. However, if he truly believes…

Good Intentions Don’t Make Up For Poor Research

This weekend (October 17 -19, 2009) gave us an enormous example of how even the best of intentions cannot make up for not doing enough research to give people accurate information about how to help. In this case no actual harm was caused to anyone but a great many people wasted time and energy doing something they thought would help a good cause but that didn’t. They also unintentionally created a giant wave of Twitter spam that seems to have peaked sometime on Saturday, October 17, but as of this writing (4:00 pm PDT on Sunday, October 18, 2009) is still not over.

It all started with the desire to use social media to…

Hope we don’t see anymore of those throwback uniforms this season.

Detroit at Green Bay
Lions have lost last 18 games to the Packers in Wisconsin, starting with a 38-10 loss at Milwaukee’s County Stadium in December 1992.
Green Bay

NY Giants at New Orleans
It will be a family event as Eli Manning makes his first pro appearance in the Louisiana Superdome, where his father, Archie, starred with the Saints. Saints TE Jeremy Shockey, who played six seasons with the Giants, will be playing against them for the first time since being traded in 2008. Giants are 5-0; Saints 4-0. Someone has to lose this week. And if you’ve been following my picks, you already know who I’m calling in this one.
Giants

Cleveland at…