SyFy: I love this bit from the TVWeek.com article on the name change

“What we love about this is we hopefully get the best of both worlds,” Mr. Howe said. “We’ll get the heritage and the track record of success, and we’ll build off of that to build a broader, more open and accessible and relatable and

It's not just a dumbfuck marketing move, in other words. Read between the lines, people: "SyFy" is some kind of plan to flush out the Cylons!!

What are you, toaster-lovers?! Get with the human program!

SyFy! SYFY!!

"SyFy" is some kind of plan to flush out the Cylons!!

I think this is just a cover, so people won't investigate the rumors about the SyFy Channel executives and their nonstop Cylon orgies.

Thanks, everyone! I'm going to cross my fingers, send it certified, and hope it gets there.

For example, not a single sexy babe was involved in the Battle of Midway.

No, just no female sexy babes. Quite possibly a lot of sexy male babes. All those fit young men sweating under the south Pacific sun. In and, if it was hot enough, maybe a little bit out of uniform. Mmmmmmm.

And how is "UFO Hunters" an appropriate show for the History Channel?

Dude it's about the aliens that have visited us not the aliens that will visit us.

I saw a couple of "UFO Hunters" shows, but the hilarity could not beat out the stupidity. I do remember one in which they were trying to decide if aliens or secret government operatives were slicing up cattle. I don't have enough treadmill TV time to spend on shows just to enjoy the unintentional humor.

L. Sprague de Camp had an awesome article, listing the achievements of a "hitherto unknown" civilization like calendars and higher mathematics and extensive canals/irrigation and a complex writing system and so on - and getting more and more excited, only to reveal at the end that it was the Maya he was talking about, and that everything he'd mentioned was very well documented... and why the hell do people prefer to speculate about Atlantis when this is in their own backyard?

The same reason that even scifi shows tend to invent "Ancients," I think -- you'd like to think somebody knows everything! If it's just humans (or known aliens), well then that's just... stuff that happened, not part of the big plan!

OMG, Theo - ATLANTIS IS IN MY BACKYARD?!?!?!?!!

A bill is being introduced to provide a $5,000 voucher for people who turn in old cars (at least 8 years) to get new more efficient ones. Germany already has a program like this.

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A have a 15 year old Honda Civic, but finding a relatively inexpensive new car with better fuel economy doesn't leave a lot of selection.

OMG, Jessica - You live in New York and you have a backyard!