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Sad: Boner killed himself

From ew, The body of Growing Pains actor Andrew Koenig, who had been missing since Feb. 14, was found Thursday around noon in a Vancouver pa...

The HHD Winner is...

There were some really great haikus this week, and I was hard pressed to pick a winner, but in the end JPX's amputee haiku edged out the...

Happy 30th birthday Missle Command!

From ew, To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Atari’s Missile Command, OMGPOP has created a “remixed” multiplayer version online, which is a...

Star Trek Convention Chicago '75, full cast reunion

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Black And White Bloopers: Watch Bogart Flub His Lines

From cinemablend, When you’re watching those classic, black and white movies it’s hard to imagine anyone having any fun on the set. The work...

People of the Park

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"Superman" Reboot Details have Leaked

From worstpreviews, It was recently announced that David Goyer and Jonathan Nolan have started working on the script for the third Batman mo...

Next Mascot For Ole Miss?

From geekology, Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi) has decided to ditch its old racist slave-owning mascot Col. Rebel in exchange for ...

Nightmare on Elm Street (remake) trailer

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James Blish

See? See? This is who I was dealing with while reading those Star Trek paperbacks I discussed below. Look at the picture! Exactly the guy ...

HHD: The Human Body

Everyone has one and for better or for worse it is yours to keep Tall, short, strong or weak the object of desire or of ridicule Powerful mu...

The Old Paperbacks! Pt. II: Complete Blish Covers

About a week ago I posted photographs of the contents of a box of old paperbacks I'd retrieved from my parents' house. Of course yo...

Box Office

From iwatchstuff, 1. Shutter Island - $40.2 million, proving Scorsese films fare best when their name hints they could be a reality series. ...

Michael Jackson's 'Captain EO' returns to Disney

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Captain EO and Michael Jackson are returning to Disneyland. The park says it will show the 1986 Jackson musical begin...

Elm Street remake update

From slashfilm, You may have noticed that on Monday we published our set visit report for Samuel Bayer’s remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street...

Kirk Cameron Prays For 'Growing Pains' Costar's Safe Return

From ew, Kirk Cameron has issued a heartfelt plea to his former 'Growing Pains' costar Andrew Koenig, who disappeared in Vancouver m...

Superman's debut comic sells for $1M

By Jake Coyle, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK — A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $1 million, smashing a...

Boner is missing!

From ew, The parents of Andrew Koenig -- who has reportedly been missing for the past week -- described their son as "suffering from de...

Digital sculpting class

This was what I came up with after messing around for about two hours, starting with the Mudbox program's abstract human head (which ann...

I forgot

I meant to post this The list grows ever longer So here it is now Star Wars - Johnny Sweatpants Christmas - JSP (Octopunk won SW, but forgot...

Haiku Hump Day results: Who gets the rock star parking?

What a great week! While I didn't see the staggering numbers that my sister's Pets topic saw last week, the combo of griping and dr...

Hear the Horrorthon theme song!

From geekology, CodeOrgan is a website where you can enter any website's URL, and, using a complicated algorithm, it turns the website&#...

HHD results will probably have to wait until tomorrow

Your Uncle Octopunk is exhausted. I just had the most ridiculous freelance job building an offensive lawn fountain. Everything turned out ...

Making Of: The Classic HBO Intro From the 1980’s

From slashfilm, Everyone who grew up in the 1980’s probably remembers the classic HBO Starship intro which played before all the big picture...

Haiku Hump Day: Driving!

That's right. We all do it, even though we know it's probably bad for us. Sometimes it's a stresser, sometimes it's the be...

The old paperbacks! (updated below)

I dropped by my parents' house today on unrelated business (my Mom's computer...don't ask) and finally decided to deal with this...

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

"Oh, no!" Five years ago, Keith Martin, a Star Wars fan (whose other characteristics are unknown to me), thought very hard about ...

Horrible movie takes box office

From ew, Warner Bros. sure did give couples an easy fix for their February holiday. Valentine’s Day took in approximately $67 million over ...

Kevin Smith deemed 'too fat' to fly Southwest

From ew, Kevin Smith has been taking Southwest Airlines to task via his widely-read Twitter feed after the director was deemed a “safety ris...

Doug Fieger, lead singer of rock group the Knack, dies at 57

From ew, Doug Fieger, lead singer of rock group the Knack, died at 57 after a battle with cancer, his brother Geoffrey confirmed today. “I’v...

Bad Romance

I encourage you all to watch this video by Lady Gaga. I came across it a couple of weeks ago when it appeared as one of those thumbnail &q...

Yep, my dad owned one of these embarrassing cars

The Disc Is Over The Fence: Frisbee Inventor Walter Frederick Morrison Dies At Age 90

From geekology, Seen here playing spaceman, Walter Frederick Morrison invented the modern Frisbee in the 1950's after throwing a metal c...

Vacation 58

If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our best vacation ever! We were going to Disneyland. It was a dream come true....