Okay, look, if you take away anything from this episode, it is that building a Viper car is just all sorts of awesome sauce, and Steven is just crazy if he says differently.

Other than that, it’s Moronic Monday and Steven and I of course have tons of stupid things to discuss as always.  We also do some discussion of what is up with the new Microsoft phones and how we think people are being a bit harsh on them.

(Links by Steven for some of the stories we discuss in this episode)

Twettle, the teakettle that tweets when it’s tea time – DVICE
Toe Mouse makes your computer really hands-free – DVICE
Teen Sues His Mother Over Alleged Facebook Hacking – Woman Changed His Password, Slandered His Wall – The Next Web
Guy turns mail truck into street-legal Battlestar Galactica Viper – DVICE
Hands on with Microsoft Kin: ain’t nothin’ like it – Seattle Times
Is this a living example of the Courier UI? – WinExtra

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It’s official, Conan O’Brien is coming back to the late night talk show scene, but at a location no one expected.

It was announced today that Conan O’Brien will launch a new show on cable channel TBS this November. The new show will run Monday thru Thursday at 11 EST/10 CST, and it will push the George Lopez talk show, Lopez Tonight, back by one hour.

Although the majority of the reason Mr. O’Brien left NBC was due to The Tonight Show being moved back an hour, apparently Mr. Lopez is all for it, and even went so far as to call O’Brien last week to ask him to join the basic cable channel.  ”I can’t think of anything better than doing my show with Conan as my lead-in,” Lopez said in a statement. “It’s the beginning of a new era in late-night comedy.”

According to Nikki Finke, although TBS was never mentioned by the press as a possibility, they have been wooing him since the beginning.  It was George Lopez’s personal phone call last week that pushed to him finally sign with the cable channel.  The most surprising twist is that the untitled new show will have the same budget as The Tonight Show did, and will also give Mr. O’Brien a lot more creative freedom now that he is freed of network constraints.

“For decades, late-night TV has been dominated by broadcast television,”  Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, said. “Now, with a young audience and a growing late-night lineup, TBS is set to be the choice of comedy fans for years to come.”

The rumors had all pointed to Fox being the front runner, but apparently the affiliates weren’t thrilled with the idea of giving up their lucrative syndication shows such as The Office and the pending 30 Rock.  There was also some talks with Microsoft about doing a show on the Xbox Live system, but that never came to fruition.

The timing is of course perfection as Mr. O’Brien’s “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour” kicks off tonight in Eugene, OR., providing him with the perfect platform to promote his new show without violating his agreement with NBC.

The second Sex and the City movie is coming out next month, and the first full trailer is finally out, revealing a couple of major plot points … that make absolutely no sense.

To the right is the first teaser poster that was released, and if you click it to see a much larger view, you can finally figure out Carrie’s sunglasses are reflecting the sand dunes of Abu Dhabi … what?  Um … the show is called “Sex and THE CITY” because New York City is actually a character in the stories.  Removing the girls out of the city to a foreign land is like leaving out a main character.

That aside, the trailer shows them being glamorous as always, but every scene in Abu Dhabi feels like it was yanked out of a Bob Hope & Bing Crosby movie, and at any moment they’ll start singing, “We’re on the road to …”  The glamor just seems too much, too over the top and almost like a parody of what we knew for six seasons and one movie.

Then there is the Aiden issue … Carrie runs into an old flame halfway across the world, and questions her marriage to Mr. Big … the man she was on and off with for years, that she finally married, she sees Aiden and … oh … let me just throw that all away.

This trailer does not fill me with a lot of hope, and is already making me think we have officially reached the “beating a dead horse” stage of this franchise.  This movie might redeem itself, but the trailer is not filling me with very much hope.

The film is released on May 27th.

Another busy week, and 51 total.  And I even got a bit of extra sleep this week.  Woo-hoo!

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Didn’t Kentucky Fried Chicken change its name to KFC some years ago to get away from the idea of it being unhealthy for you? Could someone please explain this abomination called the “Double Down” to me then?

Launching on April 12th, the Double Down is a sandwich that replaces the bread with either two pieces of original recipe chicken or grilled chicken.  The makings of the this thing?  Why cheese, bacon and some sort of sauce, of course.

Is this some sort of insanity?  In a country that has taken to constantly complaining about how it needs to lose more weight, and we have multiple television shows dedicated to this concept, someone at KFC actually thought this was a good idea?  To me it looks like a heart attack waiting to happen.

Many people are pointing out that the calories aren’t “that bad”, but have you looked at the sodium?  It’s about half of your total daily recommendation in just one “sandwich”.

Oh yeah, let me get in line now for this.  Believe me, no one really needs this thing, and, oh yeah, with that much sodium, you better get the large drink, and that will add how many calories to this meal?

This thing is like something a bachelor makes when he’s living alone, but doesn’t ever show it to someone else.  Somehow this one snuck out and is going to be mass produced.

I say avoid it like the plague.

Yep, it’s TechMeme Friday! … and the Twitter buys Tweetie story broke about 20 minutes after we finished recording … of course.

We still have some fun with the day’s headlines, and the fact that the Apple stories just never seem to end coming down the pike.

(Links by Steven for some of the stories we discuss in this episode)

Apple Slaps Developers In The Face – The Flash Blog
It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor – Search Engine Land
Of course were hole fillers and why no-one should depend on only one platform – Loic Le Meur
Netflix Delays Universal and Fox New Releases, including Avatar PC World
Microsoft’s latest phone experiment – Reuters
Google accused of YouTube ‘free ride’ – Financial Times
iAd Solves Some Problems With Mobile Ads—But Not The Most Important Ones – paidContent
Who would benefit most by buying Palm? – CNET News
Microsoft Research’s “Manual Deskterity” explores the synergy of pen & touch – istartedsomething.com

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Scattercast is 90 … and yeah … I get preachy again.  I know you’re all shocked.

- Tron 3 … really?

- A remake of Real Genius?  Noooo!

- A bit of an education on stop motion animation.

- What is wrong with out schools when “different” kids are sent to fake proms, and other kids are sent home for shirts that might make someone “uncomfortable”?

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You know, they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but considering how much Apple news there has been lately, there probably isn’t a doctor left in the country.

Steven and I take a look at the iPhone OS 4 news and point out some flaws in it, and some stuff that won’t make developers happy.  And with the addition of iAd, just how much money will Apple be making now from the entire revenue stream of its devices.

Oh … and a brief Google story.

(Links by Steven for some of the stories we discuss in this episode)

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compiler – Daring Fireball
Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1 – Daring Fireball (an update of sorts to his post above)
The Apple Way – TomsTechBlog
Scientist Uses Google Earth to Find Ancient Ancestor – ReadWriteWeb
Does iPhone OS 4 Violate Patent Filed By Microsoft? – I’m Just Being Manan

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And yet again Hollywood plans to remake a film that has absolutely no need to be remade.

One of my favorite comedies from the 1980′s is 1985′s Real Genius starring Val Kilmer.  It has a decent story, it’s cute and has some of the best one-liners ever for a comedy of that era.  ”In the immortal words of Socrates ‘I drank what?’.”  It was a great movie, and one that I watch probably at least once a year

Oh, thank you, Hollywood! Yes, Sony Pictures and Imagine Entertainment are partnering up to do a remake of it.  The script is currently out to a couple of writers, but no cast or director has been attached to the project yet, neither has a potential release date.

Seriously, this is yet another in a long line of films that does not need a remake.  I just got off the phone with a good friend of mine who saw Clash of the Titans, and he was naming off the laundry list of silly changes they made to the story that make no sense, and it makes me question these remakes even more.  I won’t spoil it for people, but they changed just about every aspect of that film, and I can see that happening with Real Genius also, whomever ends up working on it will want to put “their stamp” on it, to make a little piece of it theirs

Add this to the ever growing list of films that don’t need to be remade.  And isn’t intriguing we never saw this many remakes of films from the 1970′s?  Where is the updated The French Connection?  How about Jaws?  Close Encounters of the Third Kind?  Rosemary’s Baby … aw crap.  And with Michael Bay producing?!?

… someone bring me a gun.

Tonight’s episode title is explained in the first few minutes of the show … hehe.

Steven and I speculate on a brave new world for Microsoft where everything runs on its new Metro UI … even though we learned after the show the screenshots we saw of Internet Explorer weren’t real, our thoughts still make sense.

Supposedly AT&T will be giving unlimited 3G access for $30 on the iPad … yeah … right.

(Links by Steven for some of the stories we discuss in this episode)

Internet Explorer 9 going all Metro, according to allegedly leaked screenshots? (update: nope) – engadget
Windows 8 Faster, Smaller, and More Responsive than Windows 7 – Codename Windows
Let’s not get ahead of our Midori shall we. – WinExtra
AT&T: iPad 3G is Truly Unlimited, Not 5GB – Gearlog

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If the rumors are true, we won’t be waiting 28 years for a third Tron film.

Tron Legacy is still eight months away from release, but that isn’t stopping Disney from moving forward on plans for a third film according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, writers & producers on LOST penned the script for Tron Legacy, and now they are reportedly working on a script for the third with an eye to making the three films into a trilogy story.  Neither director Joseph Kosinski or any of the actors are signed as of yet, but all of them had options in their contracts for a sequel.

This follows rumors that Disney was looking at launching a television series set in the world of Tron, but no word on if it will be live action or animated as of yet.  As for the third film, no confirmation has been made as of yet if the film will follow the Flynn family like the first two films, or if it will possibly be about some of the numerous new characters that are being introduced in the second film.  There is also some talk of Tron being worked into the Disney theme parks, with the leading rumor having the attraction being centered around the Light Cycles.

While fans of the original are thrilled to see a sequel finally coming to be, it’s already beginning to feel a little cheapened and being turned into just another franchise.  The original film spoke to a generation, and I really feel that Tron and War Games are two of the most important films ever for inspiring the personal computer revolution.  Disney has every right to make as much money as possible, but at least have some respect for those of us who hold the original film in a special place in our hearts.

Tonight Steven and I discover we drink Kool-Aid … who knew?

Are you ready to pay more for your Internet?  Hope so.  You also read to be told what you can use it for?  Hope so.

Twitter is going to have a whole TV show based on it in Japan … gotta love those wacky Japanese!

(Links by Steven for some of the stories we discuss in this episode)

That sound of a cash register going cha-ching – it’s just Comcast celebrating FCC loss – The Inquisitr
What is Success? The Anti-iPad Manifesto. – SiliconAngle
One possibility for true net neutrality – The Inquisitr
Reverse engineering confirms Apple iPad is ‘a really big iPod Touch’ – The Download Squad
Japan Gets New TV Drama Based Around Twitter – The Inquisitr

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