Google Chrome recently decided to upgrade my Adobe Flash to version 10.1, which I asked it to do because I enjoy using up-to-date (not bleeding-edge technology, but close to it). Shortly thereafter, I noticed that every time I went to a webpage containing one or more audio-bearing flash elements, all the other audio on my [...]

Warning: This post relates to the latest developments of Battlestar Galactica (season 4.5) and is not spoiler-safe. I recommend against reading this post until you have finished watching episode 4×17 — Someone to Watch Over Me. Music First off, a note to the music in this episode. Holy crap! I am always a sucker for piano, and [...]

Hi, honey. Guess what I did at work today?I wore a bomb. A nuclear bomb in a field of flowers. Today marks the end of my latest stint of nostalgic sci-fi viewing as I finish off The Peacekeeper Wars, the capstone films to the series Farscape — which is, I might add, one of the best [...]

I have lost faith in the human race. From the BBC: A man on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies has killed and decapitated a fellow passenger. An eyewitness said the victim was stabbed 50 or 60 times by the man sitting next to him, who then severed his head with a large knife. […] “When we [...]