Miraclo Miles

Terror Trousers! Virginia Tech engineers appear to have found a niche in a slow news day with their special pants that may warn someone he's in danger of falling . The application suggested -- that it could allow more independent living for the elderly -- strikes me oddly. Are we honestly thinking healthcare responders would be standing by to dispatch someone based on an imminent fall alert from these panic pants? And what helpful message will the pantaloons of doom offer to the unsteady senior? If one's in danger of falling and isn't aware of it, I tend to think that a voice suddenly coming from one's pants is only going to make matters worse. They'd make for great entertainment at frat or tailgate parties, though, especially if the voice chip was easily rewritable. Add some moisture sensors in the crotch and we'd have a winner. Brief text of the accompanying article reprinted below for posterity's sake. A team of engineers at Virginia Tech University ha...

One More Day for Dr. Horrible Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog , all three parts of the musical, are being made available again, but just for today. Go! Also, I was happy to see that they announced we'd be seeing more of Dr. Horrible down the line .

Max Well, Maxwell Edison, the eldest of our cats - who as a kitten, his eyes not get opened, came into our lives when some unknown ass threw him and his siblings out of the window of a car speeding down PA Route 13 one night in April of 1999 and my wife pulled over to try to save what she could - died today. Close to death more than once in those early days, he grew into a scrappy little furry fireplug of a guy. A generally solid, alpha cat who took no guff from his adoptive brothers in the years since. He was finally taken down by a few more medical reversals on top of his age, including a very recent stroke that aged him terribly. Even before this he'd been having obvious joint problems over the past year and had become a heat junkie, be it moving around the house to follow the direct sunlight all day or wanting to climb up on and rest on one of us whenever possible. Much sadness around the place. Max imprinted on us in the way such cats will when people are their first sig...

FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It's Alyson Hannigan Heh.

Don't forget! This is the final day to see this free online! Click on the image and take a look & listen! At midnight tonight it recedes to the land of iTunes and paid downloads! Go! Watch. Why are you still here?

The Here, The Now Rolling, rolling, rolling, but generally just feeling older. At ground zero it's mostly more of the pathetic, energy-sapping, downward spiral same. Most of what's newer is just proof that things fall apart, and that more things go wrong than right. La-la-la. I'm doing a little updating today. I've knocked out some of the jukebox tracks that had gone dead (though I see at least one of the "good" ones has now gone dead, too) and added a fair handful of others. Adding some songs I hadn't heard in a while, along with some novelty files, including a couple audio pieces that fit into season two of The Venture Brothers , while the Monarch was in prison. I should do a more aggressive weeding so that the mix is fresher, especially since I've kept the auto-play and random settings. I even added one that came available from Joss Whedon's online media experiment Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog . Dr. Horrible is a musical Whedon came up ...

Redman & the Clockwork Perils Here's one I meant to post last weekend. Time and energy simply slipped away, especially with the ever-insidious help of the work week. Tomorrow we'll be catching an early showing of The Dark Knight , so let's look at last week's entry from the comics to film category. As of this past weekend the latest of the summer's comics-driven films was Hellboy II: The Golden Army , a sequel to 2004's Hellboy . Writer/Director Guillermo del Toro is continuing to capitalize on his current spot as one of the few go-to guys for film fantasy of the fairy tale type, albeit with more of the original menace restored that decades of child-shielding do-gooders had filtered out like so many focus groups… which isn't to say that the Hollywood process doesn't ultimately filter some of it back out again in time for the climax. Here del Toro, working with Hellboy/B.P.R.D. (Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense) creator Mike Mignola, ha...