This is cool.

This guy collected screengrabs of the London Underground Realtime Disruption Map for 15 days and compressed them into a 3-minute timelapse Quicktime video. Over 15 days, the Tube was fully operational only 22% of the time.

Someone should do one for the NYC subway.

That is cool.

Someone should do one for the NYC subway.

And Chicago. The Red Line got disrupted again because of a suicide. At least this time it was on a weekend, and not rush hour.

OK, this is... interesting.... (sorry if this has been posted before)

Rejected TV Pilot Thrives on P2P

The WB television network passed on the pilot for Global Frequency, a sci-fi adventure series based on the graphic novel by English scribe Warren Ellis.

But that didn't stop someone from leaking the pilot on the internet. The file eventually found its way into the BitTorrent network.

Over the last couple of weeks, enough people have downloaded and viewed the pilot online to give producers hope that TV executives might take a second look at the show.

"There's a large and growing fan base for a show that never aired," said John Rogers, the show's writer and executive producer, on Wednesday. "Now I have an extra 10,000 hits a week on my website, and I've got to figure out what to do here."

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But with the current buzz wholly the result of unauthorized peer-to-peer activity, show creators are a bit unsure how to proceed.

"I'm officially against downloading files when they violate the laws of the country you live in," Rogers said on Wednesday.

On his June 19 blog, Rogers wrote that "illegal file-sharing is a bad, bad thing, and I in no way encourage it.... All references to downloading sites will be immediately deleted from ... this website. You, despite your enthusiasm, should be ashamed of yourselves. Ashamed."

In his June 21 blog post, he asked people to "spread the word (but not the file. Bad TV audience. Baaaaaad)."

Hmm. The show has (had) a Buffy writer (Diego Gutierrez).

It's never too long, Vortex. You've never gotten an out-of-the-blue call from a guy six months later?

yeah, but I always thought "if I was so freaking great, why did it take you 6 months to call". :)

Vortex, I've watched both Closer eps. I figured out the first one right away, and didn't get the second until she revealed it. I do find it too precious, with whatsername squinting and trying to look all frumpy, and winning every battle (but not the respect) in the squad room.

that's it exactly. although I totally loved her friend calling her out when she was complaining about the women in the husband's life.

It was a very interesting pilot (I think if you search Minearverse 3 you'll find discussion of it).

Lordy, I'd love to see Global Frequency get picked up somewhere. It can't be that expensive since it doesn't have the super fancy sets.

I totally loved her friend calling her out when she was complaining about the women in the husband's life.

I'd love it more if I wasn't so sure he was totally in love with her and her non-LA freshness.

What does WETA know that we don't? [link]

I'd love it more if I wasn't so sure he

well, CLEARLY, but I still liked it. I think that I liked that he was willing to call her out in spite of that.

I probably took too much pleasure in her being called out. I think I'm wishing for all the characters on the show to fall, except for the MBA and FBI guys.

I have found something I'd throw my second bed over for. I want it badly.