Daniel is so going to librarian hell.

That's the circle where he's immobilized next to a card catalog, so demons can jot down Dewey decimal numbers on his skin with a sharpie while they're looking up stuff, right?

Not a sharpie. A sharpened bit of his own finger bone.

Ah. Satan's Sharpie.

You know, there's a REASON they confiscate all your writing implements when you go into the Beinecke library. (I think you used to be allowed soft pencil; nowadays it's probably electronics only.)

I've been perusing the BSG portion of SciFi.com and ran across a fan interview of David Eick (the other executive producer, besides Moore). I found this very interesting:

Q: With viewer comments readily available, will the fans' feedback from the first episodes of the second season have any impact on the second half of the season?

Eick: Yes and no. This is the broadband age and it's harder and harder to find any time or place where you don't have immediate access to the world's information and opinions — which may not necessarily be a good thing. Having a little time and distance away from something before judging it is often a much closer barometer of the thing's value (or non-value) than knee-jerk reactions, and so I tend to take most of what I hear and read with a grain of salt. If I'm told there is a definite trend — a great number of bulletin boarders loving something or hating something — then I might check in to see what all the fuss is about.

But I'm reminded of the early days of the Internet craze. We were doing Hercules and Xena at Renaissance Pictures, and reading fan opinions on bulletin boards was a big novelty. But then we all freaked out — the fans seemed to love certain things that surprised us, hated things we thought they'd love ... and so we began correcting. Adjusting. Allowing the boards to influence how the shows were written and produced.

About a month later, the fans seemed to be in ecstasy — they loved everything, they felt heard, they felt a part of the process. In the meantime, our ratings were nose-diving — I remember drop-offs in our Nielsen numbers that were unparalleled. To this day, I wonder if those shows might've lasted another season or two had we not overcorrected and in the process marginalized their appeal. We often forget that the vastly larger percentage of "the fans" never bother to offer their opinions on the Internet, and so as showmakers we're wise to be careful how much, or little, we allow ourselves to be influenced by vox populi.

The Bancroft library at Berkeley allows you to bring a pad of paper and a pencil, and nothing else.

Moore talks about BSG finale and season 3: [link]

Slightly spoilery, but the spoilery stuff is stuff you could probably guess on your own.

How BSG killed broadcast TV--it's about the time delay in broadcasting in the US and torrenting.

How BSG killed broadcast TV-

Huh. So this is a different article than the one with the exact same title that was out (I forget where) six or so months ago....

That article's been out for a while.