Author: Glenn Hauman

And remember, if you give your Mom some memory… just read and learn. As someone who spent most of Easter fixing my mom’s computer… oh, just read all of it.

And say hi to your mother for me.

…particularly if they’re going to keep poaching whales.

Since it ran on Current, I know there’s a political allegory (or Al-Gore-y) here, but I’ll let you figure it out.

The new Star Trek movie is in theaters, introducing the characters to new fans and surprising old fans. As anyone who’s read a single review, interview or promotional piece is aware of, this movie features some alterations to Trek‘s past thanks to a little time travel manipulation.

But what about the original past and backstory? What did the original series establish when it went on the air?

Here then are a list of six stories from the television series that filled us in on just who these folks were before they joined the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701.

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Remember how I was saying just Wednesday that the Kindle might finally be ready for comics? Well, not at this publisher price point. Cynopsis reports:

Judging from the revenue margins Amazon is seeking, the Kindle many not be the lifeline newspaper publishers were hoping for after all. Dallas Morning News Publisher and CEO James Moroney went on the record stating that Amazon was demanding 70% of subscription revenues during Wednesday’s U.S. Senate subcommittee meeting on the future of newspapers. (Paidcontent found this link to CSPAN’s coverage of the event.) What’s more, Amazon is demanding that newspapers sign over all electronic distribution rights to their content on devices other than the Kindle. (And the studios thought Apple was monopolistic.) News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch also chided Amazon’s approach during his earnings call, saying that News Corp. would strike no deals with Amazon: “We will not be ceding our content rights to the fine people who created the Kindle.”

If they’re trying to push Murdoch around with numbers like that, I can’t see them cutting DC or Marvel a break, let alone Archie or Avatar.

How did I miss hearing about this coming? It happened last night’s episode of Bones after Brennan shocks Booth with a
request to father her child, and Booth got locked in a booth and, well…

Geez, where does this map in Tommy Westphall’s mind?

From Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical: First Look at Downey Jr. as Iron Man in Sequel.

It’s so geeky to say so, my childish heart of hearts just leaps at a photo like this. Iron Man was definitely an amazing way to kick off last summer, and it helps erase the pain of this year’s superhero film to know that Iron Man 2 is in the wings.

Now
come on, Favreau! Give us a photo of Scarlett Johannson or Mickey
Rourke in costume! We have a long way to go, and we need something to
make the long, long months even more unbearable.