Dec. 9th, 2006

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See yesterday's post for more deals and links to other posts (but assume that most video game deals from previous days are likely dead).

Amazon has started their Kitchen and Home Holiday Sale. There are more items here than I could possibly list, but aside from including many of the deals I've already mentioned (the assorted Farberware and Calphalon ones) there are some nifty Lodge Logic deals, lots of appliances (KitchenAid, George Foreman, Black and Decker, Breadman, Rival etc), more Roombas and other vacuums, sewing machines, linens, self-cleaning litterboxes, and even a chaise lounge. The sale runs through the 14th.

There are a few kitchen deals that aren't listed there for some reason, including a Farberware butterwarmer for $6.99 (50% off) and the Kaiser Cake Pan for $5.99 50% off and comes with a free cake server if you go to the "Product Promotions" part of that page).

The Deal of the Day is the Polar B3 Heart Rate Monitor is on sale for $34.98 (56% off).

In movies, there are five Universal new releases going for $15.97 each (47% off):

The Break-Up
Bring it On: All Or Nothing
Accepted
Waist Deep
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

In video games, Tourist Trophy for the PS2 is going for $16.99 (58% off), and Tecmo Classic Arcade for the Xbox is selling for $4.99 (but the reviews suggest that might be a rip-off, especially if you're buying it for Tecmo Bowl).

And finally, a rare (and great) deal for iPod owners: The Kensington Digital FM Tuner and Transmitter, which allows the pod to transmit to a car stereo and to receive radio signals on its own, is down 84% to $19.99.
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Has there ever, in the history of publishing, been a magazine to jump the shark as quickly and as thoroughly as Giant?

Two years ago, it was one of the best magazines on the market. Now, not a single fucking thing that made it good is there anymore. No articles on video games, comics, and other geek stuff; no Etymology Man; no footnotes; no News in Monkeys; no extensive coverage of movies. Nothing. It's not even like when Spy jumped the shark, when at least they still seemed to want to produce the magazine, but they didn't know how. Here, it's like I'm reading a completely different magazine. One I'm subscribed to through 2010, alas. Maybe it'll re-invent itself as something that doesn't suck in the meantime.
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There are a lot of TV cliches and shortcuts that drive me nuts. The unfilled coffee cups that characters wave around, the ending of all phone calls without saying goodbye, etc.

But one of my big ones is the fact that everyone can spell every name they hear.

Typical moment from CSI:

Brass: The vic's name was Gryzzyksimflwitcz.

Sanders (typing at computer without hesitating): There are three other folks named Gryzzyksimflwitcz in Clark County.

This drives me fucking nuts. Even common names have variant spellings.

So I was happy today when 'song and I watched the pilot episode of The Eleventh Hour the new show on BBC America with Patrick Stewart and Ashley Jensen. About halfway through the show, Jansen's character has gotten a name that could be useful, and brings to it the attention of Stewart's character. Stewart, at the computer, hesitates until she spells it for him.

I know that they don't bother spelling names on shows to save time (and ditto with the lack of phone manners). But it's the sort of thing that just annoys me to no end (and in the day and age of the three-minute musical montage, it's not like most shows don't have lots of other fat that could be trimmed instead). I'm glad to see at least one show that gets it right.

(And yes, I know that the show isn't technically new, as it debuted in the UK in February, but it's new in the US).
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As noted by [livejournal.com profile] kradical and [livejournal.com profile] popfiend:

Did you love the jazz version of "O Holy Night" performed by various New Orleans jazz brass musicians on this week's Studio 60?

Go download it at NBC.com.

If you didn't see the show, still download it.

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