Re: Calling Hollywood.
 

And Alton Brown and the Mythbusters gang need to team up on a show about food myths. Who do I pitch this idea to?

Re: Calling Hollywood.
 

You could make a few YouTube videos and then send up a trial baloon.

Re: Calling Hollywood.
 

As the Food Network already has Food Detectives, I suspect they would not be interested.

Re: Calling Hollywood.
 

Yeah, different TV networks would never plow the same ground.


Mythbusters already does food-related myths, on occasion. And from a quick look at the link you gave, I can tell you that the two shows have even looked at the exact same myth, on at least one occasion -- the "5-second rule" for food dropped on the floor. Food Detectives has a bit on "What's the deal with the 5-second rule?", while Mythbusters "busted" the myth by measuring bacteria on food before and after 5 seconds on the floor.

Re: Calling Hollywood.
 

My favorite was testing the myth of which was better for you -- the sugary breakfast cereal, or the box in which it came?

Re: Calling Hollywood.
 

Alton Brown is employed by the Food Network.

Re: Calling Hollywood.
 

Just don't pretend your kid is in the balloon.

The sheer awesomeness does. Not. Stop.
 

Ivy-educated former professor of evolutionary anthropology now travels the country with panel contending that humans were engineered by various -- get this, various races of extraterrestrial shape-shifting reptiles.

Too much good stuff in the article to summarize.

Google Books Brouhaha
 

I admit to not having followed the Google Books dispute, but I ran across this article over the weekend and thought it did a good job of explaining it, if anyone else is interested - http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/t...nt?oid=1211860

Re: I am an old man.
 

Even a blind pig finds the occasional acorn.

Re: Google Books Brouhaha
 

It kind of discounts the value of the effort that Google went to to compile the database in the first place. Putting aside the proposed monopoly over "orphan" works, which is a not insignificant problem, the reporter and the opposition seem to ignore the significant benefits Google's efforts would bring with quibbles about inaccurate metadata. Someone else is free to go to the same effort. Or, put differently, you get what you pay for.

Re: The sheer awesomeness does. Not. Stop.
 

Poor Dan Brown. He thought the Illuminati were just an anti-Vatican secret society. Now we know they're the frontmen for the aliens.

ETA: I just remembered "V" is coming back to TV. Extraterrestrial shape-shifting aliens!! Yeah!!!

Re: The sheer awesomeness does. Not. Stop.
 

Huh. Shape Shifter's clearly older than I thought.

Re: Google Books Brouhaha
 

The momentum narrative is dripping with bias.

The odd thing is that this concern is really about the author's copyright, and the class action system, rather than anything Google did.

Re: Google Books Brouhaha
 

As an utter ignoramus about antitrust, it seems to me the courts' complicity in allowing a market to be defined in this way is the real problem. "Your Honor, your analysis should focus solely on whether Google has a controlling share of the market for . . . written works for which the acquisition cost approaches zero."