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TNT and the NBA blew a once-in-a-generation sports moment

I love women's sports. My favorite sport on earth is women's pro soccer, both domestic and international. I also wake up at 5am many winter mornings to watch live bike racing streaming from Europe, all so I can see how the pro women fields are doing.

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pssst Lego Masters is much better in Australia

A few years ago, the show Lego Masters popped up on television in the US. It's fun to watch, though as much as I like the host Will Arnett's acting in comedy shows, he kinda takes on a persona of a "jock" spending most

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Season 3: Party Down coming February 24th

It's been about ten years since Party Down got cancelled and the new season is dropping less than a month from now and it's hard to believe it's actually almost here.

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Everyone’s a mixologist now

me last week at a bar: ugh this cocktail tastes like shit me this week after binging that netflix cocktail show: ugh this cocktail is too spirit-forward, lacks acid, tastes unbalanced and is too heavy on the pandan

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Project Runway "We're sleeping where?"

Apologies for getting this out a week late on account of travel, but here we go. The episode opens with the hilarious surprise they get to sleep on the top of the Empire State Building, and while that's probably fun for a boy scout troop, if you'

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Project Runway: A Leap of Innovation

A surprisingly great runway this week. Some looks appeared to be a bit hasty and pinned together, but otherwise a good show. Runway Kenya continues to absolutely kill it. She does unbelievably good work in a single day challenge. Even through TV, you can tell things are impeccably constructed. Hope

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Project Runway "Unconventional Recycling"

The second episode of the season had a lot going on. An unconventional materials challenge. A team challenge. A 5-piece collection in one day. I suppose the show runners wanted chaos because it seems like a good recipe for it in this episode. Overall, the thing that set apart any

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Baby's first license agreement

A couple days ago while surfing the Family and Kids section of Netflix instant, I found a show I knew my daughter would love. We watched a couple episodes and it was then I noticed the small print in the Netflix interface: available for streaming until June 23. It'

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Kevin Bacon Number II: The Wire Index

I've noticed many of the films and shows I've enjoyed over the past few years have featured actors that previously appeared in The Wire. Someone should build a site that calculates a number based on how many actors in a show or film previously appeared in

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Netflix on the iPad

One of my favorite apps for the iPad is Netflix's streaming service. I started out watching tons of documentaries. I really enjoyed two recent ones: Beer Wars and The Union. Beer Wars is an inside look at the world of microbreweries and how it's nearly impossible

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The Art of Negotiation According to Pawnstars

The other day I caught a marathon of the show Pawnstars. On the surface, it's kind of a blue collar version of Antiques Roadshow and at first I thought it was a pale rip-off of the original. But after watching a dozen or so episodes and a couple

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Superbowl

Yesterday's Super Bowl was great. A perfect come from behind win that ended the way everyone wanted it to, with the Saints on top. In the past, I've watched the game mostly to see the ads, but this year was pretty bad. Aside from the Letterman

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Project Runway Decoys

Pretty cool to see that the Project Runway producers commissioned not just the three finalists, but the next three runner-ups at Bryant Park as well. Three you didn't see were Jerell's, Suede's, and Joe's collections. As you can hear, the commentator figures

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What does "MeFi" mean in the background of Mythbusters?

I figured I should write the answer to this entry in case some fans of the TV show Mythbusters ever wonder what a small easter egg in the background of the show set means. For anyone typing the title of this post into Google, here's your answer: Adam

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SPOILER ALERT

So if you didn't see Lost tonight, you shouldn't read this post. Ok, still here? Great. So a few characters get killed off at the end, but I have to wonder... the first two to die happened to be played by actors that both happened to

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Rambling about blogging and TV

I've long wondered when the act of blogging TV would take place. I don't mean writing blog posts about the last episode of Lost, I mean actually snipping segments from TV and posting them for all to see. Basically doing with TV what bloggers were doing

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Set TiVos to stun

Don't forget like I almost did: The Colbert Report starts tonight, so you might as well set that season pass to grab it after the Daily Show when you get home.

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Is anyone else freaked out by The Daily Show' s new studio set?

Slate has a perfect piece: Is anyone else freaked out by The Daily Show' s new studio set? When the show started last night, I thought I was watching something from the 1998 archives, perhaps Stewart's first show or something. It looks dated and almost claustrophobic. The

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Ah fair use, where would we be without you?

Jason Kottke was just on G4's Attack of the Show, and thanks to my hacked TiVo, it's available as a 85Mb MPEG2 torrent. Jason did great for live TV, which is just about the most stressful thing in the world. He seemed relaxed, though the host

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eBay my ride

It's not entirely surprising to see cars from the show Pimp My Ride being sold on eBay for cash. I think this newest one makes it five or six of the featured cars that have been sold. The show's premise is kind of flimsy: kids in

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Spellbound

Woot! The national spelling bee finals started today and they end tomorrow with a four hours of it broadcast on ESPN. TiVo link for the early round coverage at 10am and the live finals at 1pm.

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huh

A random person just emailed me saying they mentioned my name on Attack of the Show, on the TechTV G4 network. If anyone saw it or has details, feel free to drop a comment here.

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Pour 40Gb on the curb for your dead torrents

Bummer to see TvTorrents get shut down. I didn't use it much, but I did become a huge fan of Arrested Development after catching one episode on TV and going back to TvTorrents to find all the previous shows. I ended up buying the first season DVD in

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Xeni on Dennis Miller, via BT

I'm trying out blogtorrent on my server here, and my first test file is a 12 minute clip (MPEG2, 224Mb) from tonight's Dennis Miller show with Harry Shearer, Xeni Jardin, and Mickey Kaus, as they talked about blogging. I think all three were great though I

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beep boop boop

This Week in God is the highlight of TV for the entire week for me. Those three minutes make paying $60/month for programming worth it.