"Firstly, the Orville zombie sounds nothing like the original. More important, it is visually jarring ... my emotions ranged from 'this is amateurish-looking crap' to 'holy jeebum crow, this scares the hell out of me'—especially near the end, when the Orville zombie's shoulders start hitching and it looks as if he's about to hack up a hairball."
"I watched the tape, stunned. After impressing us with their skills and professionalism earlier in the evening, it seemed the chefs had swung the pendulum as far as they possibly could in the opposite direction, undermining their efforts to date with a ridiculous—even cruel—act of juvenile intimidation."
"Most of the videos I have seen of the iPhone don't show it in action, but this video really gives you an idea of how you interact with this little device. Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, pulls out all the stops for CBS News and runs the iPhone through its paces."
"Straggling far behind Sony and Nintendo in the Enterbrain survey was Microsoft's Xbox 360, which had sold 290,467 since its Japan debut in December 2005." Ouch.
"Apple went through numerous iterations of the glass surface, trying to find one that’s not too slick or too rough, or that shows grease and fingerprints too much."
The iPhone looks slick, sick, sleek and lovely (albeit a bit on the large-ish side in the X and Y sense, which is probably necessitated by the gestural interface and multimedia features). Yeah, I want one.
"Add to this the pressures of introducing a CG baby into a scene which would be shot as an extended, three and a half minute single take, filmed with a hand-held camera, lit by a hand-carried hurricane lamp, with the baby in close up from delivery onwards, and you had one of the most demanding VFX briefs of 2006."
This article on potential hydrogen peroxide-based Martian organisms prompted me to look up the bombardier beetle—a particular insect I'd never heard of, whose boiling-hot defense mechanism sounds like something out of science fiction.
(Then again, I'm not really that up on creepy crawlies to begin with. Hate the damn things.)
The (recently cancelled if The CW doesn't pick it up) O.C. stopped being relevant about halfway through its first season, but Alexandra Patsavas' music supervision remained top-notch throughout the series' run. Here are some songs I've heard on the show that I would have picked for compilation if I'd been in charge of one of its numerous soundtrack releases:
"At Sara Lee, Jimmy Dean executives took particular notice when McDonald's in 2003 introduced the McGriddle, the pancake-and-sausage sandwich gobbled by thousands each day. Michael Wellner, director of marketing for new products at Sara Lee's food and beverages division, began scouting restaurants for breakfast ideas that could easily be adapted for the home."
I always figured the introduction of the McGriddle was a seismic event.
"Then I got really suspicious. A bag of natural Cheetos seemed so much more appealing than the classic cheese puff. Why? Was it the image of a subdued Chester Cheetah rising gently from a farm field bathed in golden sunlight?"