CBS has announced their lineup for the fall season. A lot of shows are shifting time slots, so I am noting those for you also.

(New shows are in bold)

MONDAY
8:00-8:30 PM HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
8:30-9:00 PM RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
9:00-9:30 PM TWO AND A HALF MEN
9:30-10:00 PM MIKE & MOLLY
10:00-11:00 PM HAWAII FIVE-0

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM NCIS
9:00-10:00 PM NCIS: LOS ANGELES
10:00-11:00 PM THE GOOD WIFE

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM SURVIVOR (New Time)
9:00-10:00 PM CRIMINAL MINDS
10:00-11:00 PM THE DEFENDERS

THURSDAY
8:00-8:30 PM THE BIG BANG THEORY (New Time)
8:30-9:00 PM $#*! MY DAD SAYS
9:00-10:00 PM CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION
10:00-11:00 PM THE MENTALIST

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM MEDIUM (New Time)
9:00-10:00 PM CSI: NY (New Time)
10:00-11:00 PM BLUE BLOODS

SATURDAY
8:00-9:00 PM CRIMETIME SATURDAY
9:00-10:00 PM CRIMETIME SATURDAY
10:00-11:00 PM 48 HOURS MYSTERY

SUNDAY
7:00-8:00 PM 60 MINUTES
8:00-9:00 PM THE AMAZING RACE
9:00-10:00 PM UNDERCOVER BOSS
10:00-11:00 PM CSI: MIAMI (New Time)

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Cows are using Twitter … this disturbs me.

Oh goody, anyone with a mobile phone can now have their privacy violated by Facebook!  Go you!

Hmm … did Jobs listen to Gates a bit too closely?

Is WebOS going to show up everywhere?

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

Teat tweet: Dairy cows udderly into Twitter – crave blog
Facebook Launches 0.facebook.com, A Mobile Site That Incurs Zero Data Fees – TechCrunch
Bill Gates Told Steve Jobs About the iPad in 2007 – Gizmodo
X-Plane for Officejet? HP to Put Palm’s webOS in Printers. – Digital Daily

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A Kent State University student in Ohio may have ended her teaching career before it even began if allegations of sexual misconduct with a high school student prove to be true.

Allegations have been made against 22-year-old Melanie Yusko, a Kent State University student completing her student teaching at Southeast High School in Ravenna, OH, that she had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old sophomore male student at the school.  The story came to light after the boy bragged to a friend about the situation, and then somehow the boy’s mother discovered the information and found texts and calls between the boy and student teacher on his cell phone.

The boy’s mother called the school to inform them of the situation, and Ms. Yusko was immediately removed from her classroom for questioning and to be sent home.  The school then called the sheriffs department, child protective services and Kent State to inform them of the situation.  Ms. Yusko was arrested and released on $50,000 bond, and is currently serving house arrest.

Ms. Yusko had been student teaching at the high school since Jan., and the allegations say that the relationship with the boy started off innocently, but escalated once the pair began calling and texting one another.  Supposedly the relationship culminated in a sexual encounter on April 7th, somewhere off school grounds. She has been charged with sexual battery, which is a third degree felony in Ohio, and could be facing prison time if convicted. She is due in court in Sept.

Kent State University is reviewing if Ms. Yusko will be allowed to graduate as she did not complete her student teaching.

Check out all of the teacher sex scandals of 2009 I covered.

It’s time for ABC to do their presentation for next season.

(New shows are in bold)

MONDAY:
8:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars”
10:00 p.m. “Castle”

TUESDAY:
8:00 p.m. “No Ordinary Family”
9:00 p.m. “Dancing with the Stars the Results Show”
10:00 p.m. “Detroit 1-8-7”

WEDNESDAY:
8:00 p.m. “The Middle”
8:30 p.m. “Better Together”
9:00 p.m. “Modern Family”
9:30 p.m. “Cougar Town”
10:00 p.m. “The Whole Truth”

THURSDAY:
8:00 p.m. “My Generation”
9:00 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”
10:00 p.m. “Private Practice”

FRIDAY:
8:00 p.m. “Secret Millionaire”
9:00 p.m. “Body of Proof”
10:00 p.m. “20/20″

SATURDAY:
8:00 p.m. “Saturday Night College Football”

SUNDAY:
7:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
8:00 p.m. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
9:00 p.m. “Desperate Housewives”
10:00 p.m. “Brothers & Sisters”

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Mondays are Moronic Mondays around here, and that means Steven and I do a run down of some of the insanely silly things we see around the Web. We go a bit outside our normal tech realm this week to attack some silly jeans and Barbie doll hotel rooms … but sometimes moronic happenings no no bounds.

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

Ridiculous ’speech bubble’ helmets cut out noise, dignity – DVICE
Joe Francis Gets OK To Air Uncensored Nudity On New Reality Show, “Hottest Girl In America” – PopCrunch
Is Your 3-year-old Worth Spending 1,600 Euros On? – DailyShite
World’s Most Expensive Barbie Unveiled: Over Half Million Dollar Canturi Barbie – If It’s Hip, It’s Here

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The Fox schedule for next season is out, and besides new shows, there are also some schedule shifts.

(New shows in bold)

FOX FALL 2010 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE

(All Times ET/PT)

MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM HOUSE
9:00-10:00 PM LONESTAR

TUESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM GLEE
9:00-9:30 PM RAISING HOPE
9:30-10:00 PM RUNNING WILDE

WEDNESDAY
8:00-9:00 PM LIE TO ME
9:00-10:00 PM HELL’S KITCHEN

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM BONES
9:00-10:00 PM FRINGE

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM HUMAN TARGET
9:00-10:00 PM THE GOOD GUYS

SATURDAY
8:00-8:30 PM COPS
8:30-9:00 PM COPS
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA’S MOST WANTED

SUNDAY
7:00-8:00 PM THE OT (NFL post-game)
8:00-8:30 PM THE SIMPSONS
8:30-9:00 PM THE CLEVELAND SHOW
9:00-9:30 PM FAMILY GUY
9:30-10:00 PM AMERICAN DAD

FOX MIDSEASON 2011 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE (All Times ET/PT)

MONDAY
8:00-9:00 PM HOUSE
9:00-10:00 PM LONESTAR / RIDE-ALONG

TUESDAY
8:00-9:30 PM AMERICAN IDOL Performance Show
9:30-10:00 PM RUNNING WILDE / MIXED SIGNALS

WEDNESDAY
8:00-8:30 PM RAISING HOPE
8:30-9:00 PM AMERICAN IDOL Results Show
9:00-10:00 PM GLEE

THURSDAY
8:00-9:00 PM BONES
9:00-10:00 PM FRINGE

FRIDAY
8:00-9:00 PM HUMAN TARGET
9:00-10:00 PM KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

SATURDAY
8:00-8:30 PM COPS
8:30-9:00 PM COPS
9:00-10:00 PM AMERICA’S MOST WANTED

SUNDAY
7:00-7:30 PM THE SIMPSONS (encores)
7:30-8:00 PM AMERICAN DAD
8:00-8:30 PM THE SIMPSONS
8:30-9:00 PM BOB’S BURGERS
9:00-9:30 PM FAMILY GUY
9:30-10:00 PM THE CLEVELAND SHOW

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NBC has announced its 2010/2011 schedule, and considering the debacle of last year’s schedule with five nights of The Jay Leno Show (which I predicted they wouldn’t cancel … oops), it is a significantly different looking line-up this year.

(New shows in BOLD)

MONDAY
8-9 p.m. – “Chuck”
9-10 p.m. – “THE EVENT”
10-11 p.m. – “CHASE”

TUESDAY
8-10 p.m. – “The Biggest Loser”
10-11 p.m. – “Parenthood”

WEDNESDAY
8-9 p.m. – “UNDERCOVERS”
9-10 p.m. – “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
10-11 p.m. – “LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES”

THURSDAY
8- 8:30 p.m. – “Community”
8:30-9 p.m. – “30 Rock”
9-9:30 p.m. – “The Office”
9:30-10 p.m. – “OUTSOURCED”
10-11 p.m. – “LOVE BITES”

FRIDAY
8-9 p.m. – “Who Do You Think You Are?”/”SCHOOL PRIDE”
9-10 p.m. – “Dateline NBC”
10-11 p.m. – “OUTLAW”

SATURDAY
Encore programming

SUNDAY
7- 8:15 p.m. — “Football Night in America”
8:15-11:30 p.m. — “NBC Sunday Night Football”

SUNDAY (beginning March 2011)
7-8 p.m. – “Dateline NBC”
8-9 p.m. – “Minute to Win It”
9-11 p.m. – “The Celebrity Apprentice”

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On Friday night’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, an interesting question was posed: Should Steve Jobs be running the country?

I’m not sure if it should be Steve Jobs per se, but I have always wondered if perhaps the president of the United States should be more of a business man than a life-long politician. Unfortunately, you need the savvy of a politician to get elected, but wouldn’t it be better to think of the role of the president as a CEO? Essentially that is what the government is, a giant corporation.

The reason this subject even came up was that during a recent report, it was revealed that it now costs two cents to make a penny, and nine cents to make a nickel. The government suggested that we should switch to cheaper materials, an idea that has been floated around since the Nixon administration. Apparently the lobbying group for the coin-operated laundry mats of the nation was against it because if the expense involved with them refitting their machines. Somehow this was reason enough to kill the idea of changing the way we make our coins.

Are you kidding me?

Is this how wishy-washy our government has become? Oh, we can’t possibly change the way we make our coins because places that do laundry will get angry! Is this some large voting block that I am unaware of? Government does things all the time that make life harder on businesses, but the one time it would help cut the costs of our ailing budget, we rethink it?

This isn’t a problem with just the Obama administration, this is a problem with government in general. Note that this has been going on for decades now, not just the past couple of years. Our government is notorious for giving in to special interest groups like this to the determent of the country as a whole.  Yes, presidents have numerous advisers, but they are usually lawyers, politicians and other assorted people with no business pedigree to their name.  Even if it wasn’t a CEO as president, what about an official position in the cabinet where someone with a focus on business can simply go, “Are you nuts?  You’re prepared to do such-and-such, which will cost us more, just to keep some whiny small group happy?”

There was a Kevin Kline movie called Dave some years ago where he replaced the president due to being an impersonator when the real president had a stroke.  To make the First Lady happy, he needed to find $125 million in the budget to fund a plan of hers.  He brought in an accountant friend of his to go through the budget, and he found it by cutting things like an advertising campaign that essentially was about making Americans feel better the choice they made in buying an American car.  That’s what we need is someone who can look at some of the insanity that goes through Washington D.C. and go, “Really?  You think this is wise spending?”

The sad thing is … I know it will never work.  I’m not going to delude myself and somehow think this person wouldn’t get sucked into the moral and ethical vortex that is our nation’s capital.  It is, however, a nice dream to think that someone could walk in and just start fixing some of our sillier problems like the one about our coins, but I’m afraid it will remain just that, a dream.

I, for one, would be willing to give iMerica a shot.  (in the interest of full disclosure … the first 424 words of this post were written last night as I laid in bed … typed out on my iPad)

Down to 47 this week … apparently becoming a managing editor means you write less.  Who knew?

FunJug.com

• Reading Rainbow Banned Book Review #1
• Sassy Gay Friend: Romeo & Juliet
• At the Reservoir
• Foursquare Cops – Episode 5: “Going Rogue”
• We Built Sioux City
• Blah blah blah Iraq mix
• Sing Talk (Tik Tok Parody)

Photo.BLORGE.com

• Sony introduces mirrorless NEX-3 and NEX-5

RememberingChristmas.com

• David Bowie and Bing Crosby “Little Drummer Boy” Music Video

SeanPAune.com

• Betty White On Saturday Night Live
• Comic Book Movies For 2011 And 2012
• The Braindead Techcast Ep. 59: Moronic Monday and a Robert Scoble image to sear the mind with
• Jean Paul Gaultier Jeans Allow You To Carry A Baby … In Your Pants
• The Braindead Techcast Ep. 60: Facebook to Taylor Swift – we’ve got the bases covered
• First Thoughts On The iPad
• Shia LaBeouf Admits Transformers 2 Sucked
• The Braindead Techcast Ep. 61: Even we have our tinfoil hat moments
• Scattercast Episode 95: What’s Getting Canceled
• The Braindead Techcast Ep. 62: Techmeme Friday a perfect lead-in to the weekend
• Iron Sky Inches Closer To Reality

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Apple files for iTunes Live trademark
• Report: Android handsets now outselling Apple’s iPhone
• Twitter hack allows you to force someone to follow you
• Apple exclusivity with AT&T for the iPhone confirmed at five years
• Major security flaw found in Facebook’s Instant Personalization service
• Verizon and Google working on a tablet
• Google adds drag-and-drop images to Gmail
• Facebook calls meeting over user’s privacy concerns
• Social network Diaspora on a micro-funding rampage
• Hulu launches several new changes
• Google Chrome OS said to be ready to launch
• Google to halt direct sales of Nexus One

TechnoBuffalo.com

• Conan O’Brien Visits Google And Brings Questions To The Future Of Media With Him
• Ready To Pick Up A Zettabyte External Hard Drive?
• Magnavox Odyssey: Pong By Any Other Name
• A Round Up Of Internet Radio Streaming Services
• The Age Of The Movie Theater Could Be Coming To An End
• Android Appears To Outsell The iPhone; People Freak Out
• Borders Enters The E-Reader Fight With The Kobo
• Google Foregos The E-Reader And Just Wants To Sell You The Books
• Are You Spending Six Hours A Month On Social Networks?
• Review: TransferBigFiles.com Does What It Says It Will … Kinda
• How to Build Your Channel & Find an Audience: Advice for Aspiring YouTubers
• Apple’s Failed Gaming Console, The Pippin
• Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Think Highly Of His Users
• How Do I Delete My Facebook Account?
• Court Documents In The iPhone 4G Case Get Unsealed

Back in May 2008 a movie trailer showed up online for a proposed movie that some Finnish film makers wanted to make.  They had just come off of a successful fan made movie called Star Wreck that mixed the Star Trek and Babylon 5 universes together, and for a fan made film, it was darn impressive.

So you’ve made a successful fan movie that shows your skills, but you can’t really make money from because you don’t own the rights to the properties.  Sure it shows people you have skills, so you try to come up with something original, you put together a trailer for a film to see how people will react to it … and this is what you get, Iron Sky.

Film fan’s reactions were nuts for it, but the problem was these folks had no money to make it. They started asking for donations to make it, and though it has taken some time, the film has started production, and has resulted in a second trailer.

They have also been doing production blog videos and so on, so there is no question that the money people are donating is going into an actual movie, and you have to applaud them for finding a way to make a movie that probably no studio would have ever signed off on.

Of course, the odd part of this whole production is that despite how severe the trailers look, and like it may be serious, it is actually being billed as a comedy.  Don’t worry, I was expecting unintentional comedy also, but they’re embracing it.

I can’t wait to see this, sure it’ll never be commercially successful, but it’s still going to be a heck of a lot of fun to watch.

If it’s Friday, then it’s time for Steven and I to attack TechMeme headlines. We look forward to this all week because, well … it’s fun! As always we hit a ton of headlines … and make fun of just about all of them.

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

Nexus One changes in availability – The Official Google Blog
WiFi data collection: An update – The Official Google Blog
Apple spurred police in iPhone probe – CNET News
Google Voice invites for students – Google Voice Blog
Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls – New York Times
God help us all, here comes 4chan 2 – CNET News
New York Times to Begin Website Charges in January – Wall Street Journal
Wi-Fi Sync app rejected by Apple, headed to Cydia for $9.99 – Engadget

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Scattercast is 95 … and running behind!

- Changes at Braindead TechCast and some possible changes here.

- Some more thoughts on the iPad

- A run down of TV shows being canceled

- Some shameless self-promotion

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