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So Alex Garland is working on a script Judge Dredd remake.  Does the work really need a Judge Dredd remake? What’s next, Ishtar?  For all the gory details, head over to FirstShowing.

I’m not sure how one company can manage to spin me on an emotional roller coaster, but Apple really seems adept at it. First today they announce iTunes 9 and the ability to arrange apps on the iPhone and the Touch. FINALLY!! WOOHOO! Queue the fireworks and ticker-tape. Then they announce the new Nano. Now, I have a 2nd Gen nano and really love it. I think it is probably the best iPod out there. Don’t get me wrong, I adore my 2nd gen Touch and am addicted to my iPhone, but the Nano form factor and feature set make it, IMHO, the best portable digital music player out there. And with the exception of it’s fat phase (3rd gen, wtf where the thinking?!) it’s evolved quite nicely. So the announce the new features, camera (vid only, why?), pedometer, etc. Then the kick in the nuts. It’s getting an FM radio tuner!

WHY THE HELL CAN’T I HAVE THAT IN MY FUCKING FLAGSHIP iPHONE 3Gs!??!?

The FM tuner in my Zune was one of my favorite features of the device. There are times that I do want to listen to a local FM station for a morning show or a just because I really like their play-lists. The truly annoying bit about this is that we know the iPhone contains the hardware already! The Broadcom BCM4325 chip it uses for WiFi and Bluetooth contains an FM tuner.  All they have to do is TURN IT ON.

Oh, and to give it just that extra twist to the nutz, it can pause and buffer FM as well.  Something the Zune really needed the ability to do.  Hopefully with the prospect of revenue from iTunes tagging (yea, it does that too) they will enable it in a future update.  Grrrrrr…

OK, one more movie for this fall. I probably won’t see it in theaters, but the trailer looks outrageous. Releases 10/2/09.

For more info head over to FirstShowing

Wow, how did I miss this!? Robert Downey Jr in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. The trailer looks fantastic! Set to release Christmas Day 2009!

As always, head over to FirstShowing.net for more info.  FirstShowing is probably the best movie site on the net.

There are three movies that I’m looking forward to seeing this fall.  Actually there are a bunch of movies this fall I’d like to see, but these are the ones I may venture out to the theater to see.  I’ll let the trailers speak for themselves.

Surrogates (9/25/09)

Zombieland (10/2/09)

Want more? Here’s the Zombieland red band trailer:

and the one I am most looking forward to is Law Abiding Citizen (10/16/09)

Starpulse has a great article with the 2009 Fall TV season premier dates.  Some of the highlights (for me at least) are:

Tuesday, Sept 8th – FX – Sons of Anarchy

Monday, Sept 14th – NBC – The Jay Leno Show (more on this later)

Thursday, Sept 17th – Fox – Bones, Fringe

Monday, Sept 21st – The big premier week
Fox – House
NBC – Heroes
CBS – Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory (yea, BBT premiers after TaaHM)

Tuesday, Sept 22nd -  CBS – NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles

Thursday, Sept 24th
CBS – The Mentalist
ABC – Flash Forward

Friday, Sept 25th
Fox – Dollhouse
CW – Smallville

Sunday, Sept 27th
SHO – Dexter
Fox – Animation Domination (Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Cleveland Show)

Monday, Sept 28th – FOX – Lie to Me

Thursday, Oct 2nd – SyFy – Stargate Universe

Thursday, Oct 15th -  NBC – 30 Rock

Head over to Starpulse to check out the full list and a rundown of the new shows for 2009.  Oh, and did I mention Stargate Universe on October 2nd??

Teaser:

Commercial:

Comedy Central has confirmed their order for 26 new episodes!

Full story over at TV Week

A thought occurred to me the other day.  Who really, in their job, needs a word processor?  Most of my users just use it to make documents and shove them on a file share to be forgotten.  These docs almost always contain information that, really, would be better stored in either an online document system or via email.  Think of it this way: You wake up in an alternate universe.  This universe is just like ours except for one tiny difference: The word processor, for whatever reason, was never invented.  Instead, for formal documents they use a….typewriter.  Really.  Or a typesetter for big stuff.  Anyway, you go to work and look at your alternate universe desk.  Now ask yourself, would that desk contain a typewriter?

I’ll bet your answer would be no (nostalgia “old school!” answers don’t count).  More than likely you would use email or use an online knowledge base or document system.  What got me thinking about this was Google Wave and the thought of integrating everything into a hybrid, web based communication system.   Foget document types, concentrate more on document content.  You enter it, drop it into an search indexed public or private folder. Want to email it, click email and email headers appear.  Sending it internal, it just links to the document in the folder instead of generating 5000000000 copies of it, since you, of course, hit reply-to-all.

OK, ramble over

As mentioned earlier, My Name is Earl was canceled by NBC and the producers were shopping it to Fox.  TV Series Finale is reporting that Fox has now passed on picking up the sitcom for its 5th season.

Reaper was cut by CW and now the its producers are trying to get the series picked up as a first run syndicated show.  Head over to ReaperDMV for the full story and info on how you can help save the show.

Just a reminder, there are some cool shows starting up soon, or continuing.

• Mental - New Fox show about a mental ward. Think ER, but for crazy people.  Starts Tuesday, May 26th on Fox
• Wipeout - Starts on ABC Wed, May 27th
• Pushing Daisies – The final episodes get burned off starting Saturday, May 30th on ABC.
  
• Ice Road Truckers – Always a cool show in the summer (get it? I’m a riot).  Starts Sunday, May 31 on Discovey
• Dexter - Showtime is re-running the entire series leading up to the new season.  Starts Sunday, May 31 on Showtime
• Burn Notice – 3rd season starts Thursday, June 4th on USA!  Don’t forget to follow Jeffrey Donovan (Michael Westen) on twitter @Jeffrey_Donovan
• The Listener – The Canadian import mind-reading drama starts Thursday, June 4th on NBC
• Royal Pains – The new USA drama starts on Thursday, June 4th
• Weeds - New Season Starts Monday, June 8th on Showtime.
• Nurse Jackie – The new Showtime show staring Soprano’s Edie Falco starts Monday, June 8th.  I’m looking forward to this one.
• Raising the Bar – The TNT legal drama kicks off its second season on Monday, June 8th.
• The Closer – The Closer opens its new season on Monday, June 8th on TNT
• Kings - NBC starts burning off the remaining episodes starting Saturday, June 13th.
• True Blood – The second season starts up Sunday, June 14th.
• Torchwood - For those of you in the UK (or, um, P2P users) the awesome Doctor Who spinoff starts its 5-episode 2009 run on Monday, June 15th on BBC 3
  
• Top Gear – Again, just for our UK viewers (yea, right), Top Gear returns Sunday, June 21st on BBC 2
  
• Eureka - SciFi’s Eureka returns on Friday, June 15th on SciFi
• Leverage - The very cool “Ocean’s 11″ like TV show returns to TNT on Wed, July 15th
• Hawthorne - Thursday,  July 16th on TNT
• Saving Grace – Thursday,  July 16th on TNT
• Eli Stone – The Final four episodes air starting on Monday, June 20th on ABC
• Merlin - The British import starts its US run on NBC on Tuesday, June 21st
• The Cleaner – The  A&E drama pickes back up on Thursday, June 23rd
• The Philanthropist – The new NBC drama about a billionaire playboy who uses his money as a weapon in his pursuit of good starts Wed, June 24th

More updates coming later today.

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