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Bring Back MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
- DEC 10: MST3K's Next Big ... CAMEOS!
- DEC 9: MST3K's Next Big ... ARTISTS!
- DEC 9: MST3K's Next Big ... WRITERS!
• What will the new episodes look like?
• Will the new episodes be in HD? (And why does it matter?)
• What kinds of movies will the new episodes riff on?
• Exactly how Joel will use the Kickstarter funds..
• Why the old cast and writers haven't signed on... yet.
• Why a new cast is so important for the next season!
Hello, People of Earth.
Welcome! I'm Joel Hodgson.
Once upon a time, a television series called MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 was born. We debuted on Minneapolis' KTMA, local television, on Thanksgiving Day 1988, as the world was in the final throes of Teddy Ruxpin-mania. That was almost thirty years ago, but for some reason, people still seem to like the show – it's a mitzvah!
Our show has had a long, strange run. Across a UHF channel, a cable network, cancellation, a feature film, then another cable network, the show lasted for 12 years, two generations of hosts and puppeteers, 2 Emmy nominations and a total of 197 episodes before we got canceled again for good in 1999. Sadly, it was just as Prince predicted.
But maybe that's not where it all ends.
Starting today, we finally get a chance to bring back MST3K.
With your help, we can create a new season of MST3K, prove there's still an audience, and maybe even convince a network to bring us back for more.
Great question.
The simplest answer is that there are a lot of cheesy movies left to riff, and a lot of people who would still enjoy watching them with us.
Plus, I think there's a place for us. Nowadays, riffing is everywhere! Many people claim that MST3K created a shift in the way people watch TV shows, and that now, as a result, the fields of entertainment have been plowed and readied for a riffing renaissance.
I mean, look at the influence it's had... Everyone riffs on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Hell, there are ten to twelve people who are still, unironically, riffing on MySpace and Friendster.
In a world where riffing has become as common as our national pastime, baseball, it makes sense: like baseball, everyone knows how to play, but sometimes it feels good to just sit back and watch the original movie riffing team take a whack at it. And if we came back, imagine all the riffs we could make about things like Uber or Cards Against Humanity!
Also, there's a pile of scriptural evidence in whichever sacred text that you hold dear to prove that we need more seasons of MST3K… so when you share on social media, you know you're not going to offend anybody.
You know, I just read that last sentence... and actually, I'm pretty sure you're going to offend everybody. But at least you can rest assured that you'll offend everyone equally.
We do, and here's why: I think it's because MST3K is more than just movie riffing. It's a stranger and denser recipe than just saying smart aleck things to a forgotten movie, but I think this is the secret ingredient: we believed that it's easiest to survive the cheesy movie that we're living in with friends who keep us from taking it all too seriously.
Now, I don't want to get too maudlin about it, because being too serious is the enemy of comedy. We weren't trying to send a message: job #1 was always to make a funny show. But while we were doing that, I hope we also helped show the kids that society, and the stupid things we say and do to each other, are "just a show, and you should really just relax."
Yeah, this is what I was afraid of. Now I'm starting to sound like the Dr. Bronner's label. Next question?
The simplest answer is: until now, we couldn't bring MST3K back.
I've been thinking about ways to re-animate MST3K for over a decade... and over the last 15 years, I've met thousands of you who said that you wanted MST3K back too. But two things have finally changed that make this the right time. And I'm not talking about the legalization of marijuana or the proliferation of water jet pack use.
1. Crowdfunding gives fans the power to get what they want.
In less than two years, I've watched fans use crowdfunding to bring back Veronica Mars, Reading Rainbow and Super Troopers – all cult favorites, like us – and it made me wonder how MSTies would respond if we had the chance to return. Now we're going to find out… and then maybe LeVar Burton can finally stop acting like he's so much better than us.
2. We had to work through some complicated legal issues.
Even though we've always wanted to bring MST3K back, it wasn't that easy. Thanks to the Last Will and Testament of one eccentric old heiress, the rights were tied up for years. It took time to work those issues out, but with the help of my friends at Shout Factory, a special chokehold I perfected in WuDang that I like to call "The Persuader," and a night I had to spend in a haunted house as a term of the the old lady's will, we succeeded.
This summer, we finally got all of the rights cleared up… and now, like Orpheus, we can now descend into hell to hang out with a couple of wisecracking robots.
Now we're talking!
Our Kickstarter campaign has two really important goals.
As soon as we reach our minimum goal of $2,000,000, we'll be able to make three new feature length episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. But then, for each additional $1.1 million we raise, we can make three more... up to a full season of 12 episodes!
(If you're wondering why new episodes cost so much – especially the first three – keep going down the page to "HOW WE'LL USE YOUR MONEY," or take a look at the Backer Update where I explained the budget in detail.)
Here's a simple diagram to help you remember our goals:
If we can raise even more than that, I'd love to shoot some (or all) of the new season LIVE in front of an audience – and maybe even stream the show live on the internet! (Oh yeah: I just saw your eyes light up.)
Finally, if we raise $1 BILLION – stay with me on this one – we're going to adopt a real live teenage boy and "Truman Show" him into believing he is the Pumaman!
Hear us out, because this goal is just as important: we're not just crowdfunding because we need funding.
We're also doing it because we need the crowd!
If we want a lot more MST3K, we need to work together to prove that there's still an audience out there that wants MST3K – and that this isn't all some pitiable delusion – so that we can find a network or online platform who will agree to pick up the show and keep it going… hopefully for another 200+ episodes.
Even if you can only spare $5 or $10, every extra backer helps us send a message to the networks: it's time to #BringBackMST3K.
Okay. It's time for me to put away the grease gun and give you your marching orders.
If any of this rings true to you, we need your help now to spread the word. Back in the day, every episode of MST3K ended with a message that encouraged fans to "Keep Circulating the Tapes." And you guys did.
Those grassroots efforts helped MST3K find friends and fans at a time when the rest of show business didn't quite know what to make of us. It was social media in its most primitive form... and because of you, it worked.
Today's, it's time to update that phrase for the internet age. If you're with us, this is your call to action, MSTies.
And while you're at it, you can help out even more by taking a minute to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. (Apparently those matter more than Nielsen ratings, now!)
Listen, I know this Kickstarter idea isn't for everyone. Neither was Mystery Science Theater 3000. But just like MST3K itself, I know the right people will get it.
Thanks for reading. I hope you'll join us.
Dear People of the Internet,
Welcome to my first-ever Official Crow-Funding Campaign. Tee Hee!
As #1 Golden Shiny Boy Champion, I need a place to shine bright and inspire. I want to be a part of your life again, serving in both a wind-beneath-your-wings and an ASRM capacity. You know you still want me, baby, but allow me to tell you why.
- First, I like POP! Figures. I intend to roll most of the money into Funko stock. Plus a few hat parties.
- Also, I'd like to open up a long-overdue public dialogue on Cee-Lo Green and his fashion choices.
- Then, I plan on turning at least a thousand dollars' worth of funds into pennies, which I will press into elongated souvenir coins at theme parks and fairs.
- Finally, if you are still undecided, I ask you to consider this: after years of waiting, I will finally get to decide who lives and who dies. You don't want to be on the wrong list, do you?
I look forward to your loyal service in the many years of the New Golden Age to come.
Your Future Supreme Being,
Crow T. Robot
Hello, Ladies.
I'm pleased to be with you again. It's been too long. Now that we're about to be a huge crowdfunding hit, I've got a few things I'd like to discuss with you.
It turns out that the last 15 years have been kind to our legacy: we're famous now. And not internet famous, either. Real famous. I have lots of female fans.
Angelina, Scarlett, and many women named Madison: I've got parts in the new show with your names on them. You can come over and we can run lines in my bungalow, and I'll make us a curry. Then if things get "consensual," so be it.
I'll also pretty much be the "troubleshooter" on this Kickstarter campaign, because I understand how you think and I'm a master of social media. My god: you do realize that I'm the uncredited creator of both memes and avatars?
What are you waiting for? Get out to the Kickstarter polls and start voting.
Tom Servo
Hey everyone. It's Joel again.
Look, I know what you're wondering, so go ahead… just say it.
Believe me, man. I get it. If it cost $2 million just to make three episodes, we'd be spending almost $700K per show! And you're right: by itself, an episode of MST3K doesn't cost nearly that much.
The real explanation is pretty simple.
1. We don't get to keep all of the money we raise on Kickstarter!
CAMPAIGN FEES: Out of the first $2,000,000, we have to pay about 8% – that's $160,000 – in fees to Kickstarter and the credit card processor.
- REWARD & SHIPPING COSTS: Then, we have to design, produce, print, sort and ship all of the rewards we're offering in exchange for your pledge. (Those t-shirts aren't free, you know!) That costs about 27%, so that's another $540,000.
- (We're not charging you twice for shipping, I promise. Even though Kickstarter asks you to add more for shipping, they count that money toward the total we've raised, even though we still have to spend it on, you know… shipping!)
- So, out of the first $2,000,000 we raise, we have to spend $700,000 just on the costs of this Kickstarter campaign!
2. Then, we have to spend a lot on startup costs just to get the show going.
To shoot new episodes, there's a lot we'll need to do: creating concept art and designs, building sets, making models, creating costumes, adding new features to upgrade the robots, and all sorts of other things. All of that work costs money, which is why our first $2,000,000 includes $550,000 for startup costs. The good part is that every penny of that ends up on screen where you can see it.
3. But... the more episodes we make, the less each episode costs!
We have to spend the same amount up front, no matter how many episodes we make. If we only make 3 episodes, these costs increase the budget for each episode by $183K… but if we make a full 12, they only increase it by $46K each!
Anyway, once you take out the CAMPAIGN, REWARD and STARTUP COSTS, there's a lot less than $2,000,000 left. In fact, that leaves just $750K for three episodes, which – I hope – sounds a lot more reasonable than $2,000,000!
At the end of the day, our goal is to make each episode for around $250K.
To put that in perspective, that means we're spending less to create 90 minutes of MST3K than even the low-end reality shows spend to make 22 minutes! (Really makes ya think, don't it?)
Now, if you're as tired of reading as I am of writing, here are some wicked cool graphics that explain all of this:
I know not everyone will want this much explanation, but if I'm asking you to trust me with your money, I think it's important to be crystal clear about how we're using it.
Plus, $750K for each set of three episodes feels a lot better than $2,000,000.
(But man, I'd hate to try to sell a car to you people. Tough crowd!)
Hopefully by now, you're already on board. Maybe you're not even reading this. Maybe you've already made your contribution, selected your rewards, and are now rushing around the internet helping spread the good word to all of your MST3K-deprived friends!
But if you're still on the fence, maybe I can make it easier for you.
Personally, I think the most compelling reason to help out is that you want to see new episodes of MST3K… and not just for you. Think of the friends and family who you can finally introduce to the new MST3K: the one with a fresh new cast, fresh new riffs, and zesty new cheesy movies!
On the other hand, let's not any of us forget: this is Kickstarter. I know that you know that that's gonna mean some cool rewards for helping us out. And for a show that's never really been about cool merch...I think we've finally got some!
UPDATE! We've gotten a lot of questions asking exactly what's included with each package, so we've put together another helpful little chart:
You can see all of the rewards on the right side of the page, but here are a few highlights:
Become... Part of MYSTERY SCIENCE HISTORY!
All backers – no matter what you pledge – will be invited to join the new MST3K Information Club. (It's like the old MST3K Info Club, only better. And modern. And more exclusive. And wider in the hips.) Over the next year, we'll invite you to help us rediscover MST3K and get it oiled up and running smoothly. You'll be part of the process!
Read... Our Page-Turning Insider Updates
We don't just want to take your cash and walk away: we want to take your cash and talk away! Most Kickstarter projects promise "exclusive behind-the-scenes updates," but this time, I mean it: I've already started planning things I want to share with you. It'll be like getting email from me, Crow and Servo for at least a year.
Possess... Amazing, Terrifying, Heart-Warming New MST3K Swag
Before the end of the campaign, we'll start sharing the designs we're planning for some of the #BringBackMST3K swag you can get, including the OFFICIAL T-SHIRT ($50+), OFFICIAL MUG ($75+), OFFICIAL KEYCHAIN ($100+), OFFICIAL POSTER ($150), and many more. We've got several amazing artists working on this stuff. I can't wait for you to see it.
Take Control.... of the New Episodes!Bringing back MST3K isn't enough power for you? Great! For real high-rollers, we're offering all sorts of ways to be part of the episodes themselves. You can…
- Steal the hearts of millions when you... APPEAR IN AN EPISODE!
- Throw your weight around and… BECOME A PRODUCER!
- Kickstart your new riffing career and… HELP WRITE AN EPISODE!
- Immortalize your favorite inside joke with… A PERSONAL RIFF!
Own and Command... Your OWN Robot Friend!
This one is difficult for me, but I want to make sure this Kickstarter succeeds, so I'm willing to make the sacrifice: a very limited number of you can KEEP THE ACTUAL CROW and/or SERVO FEATURED IN A NEW EPISODE! They'll record a personalized video for you, and then we'll ship them off to your doorstep. When we're done shooting.
1. FOLLOW "@MST3K" ON ALL OF OUR SOCIAL CHANNELS.Be sure to follow our official accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Ask your fellow MSTies to follow them too! Tell them that those numbers have a really big impact when we start asking networks to #BringBackMST3K for more new seasons.
2. CIRCULATE THE MESSAGES AT THE END OF EACH UPDATE. At the end of each Backer Update, Crow or Servo will share a message or image that you can copy and paste to share with your friends, to help spread the word.
3. KEEP CIRCULATING THE FACTS… NICELY! I know there are still some fans out there who are skeptical about this Kickstarter, about why MST3K costs so much money and how we'll spend it, about bringing in a third cast, about who is and isn't going to be involved… So, like they say on the subway, "If you see something, say something!" If you hear fans insisting that $2MM is more than we need to make three episodes, or that the old team isn't invited back, I hope you'll share the facts with them. (Please be nice, though! The internet needs a lot more of that.)
The internet is great, but sometimes riffing is even better when you can meet old (and new) friends in person! There are already a lot of MST3K groups on meetup.com, but if there's not one near you, start one now and invite your friends! We've got some events planned for this month, and we'll be calling on all the local groups to be part of them.
As long as we have the funds we need, we'll be able to produce new episodes. That part is easy! But over the last month, I've had lots of time to think about all the possible risks and challenges MST3K could face...
MST3K has been away for a long time. YouTube didn't even exist when we shot the last episode of MST3K. (Yes, Virginia, there was a world before YouTube. People laughed more back then. Colors were brighter. There were concerts in the park.)
I've imagined many hypothetical risks:
- What if no one enjoys watching B-movies anymore?
- What if you don't want us talking while you do?
- What if there is an unknown virus that has killed mankind's ability to enjoy a good solid ironic viewing?
- What if kids playing in "Garry's Mod" on Twitch have made the whole thing meaningless?
- What if robot-shaped puppets don't have the overwhelming cultural significance they once did?
- What if our collective consciousness can't take the excitement, and the entire world becomes a flash mob, and we all steal our own TVs?
- What if all eight billion people on the planet become a single "Improv Everywhere" troupe, but don't have anyone left to surprise?!?
As you can see, this whole endeavor is fraught with risks.
Risks and challenges
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Austin Seferian-Jenkins not medically cleared for drills at NFL Scouting Combine
Former Washington tight end says pre-existing foot condition no major problem
Seattle Times staff reporter
INDIANAPOLIS — Thursday, when Washington tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins held his official meeting with the media at the NFL Scouting Combine, he spoke confidently of how he'd time in the 40-yard dash.
"I'm looking to run a 4.6-something,'' he said.
But when the time came for tight ends to run Saturday, Seferian-Jenkins could only watch from the sideline, revealing later he was not medically cleared by the NFL to participate.
According to several reports, the tests revealed a pre-existing foot condition.
Seferian-Jenkins didn't go into detail during an interview he gave to the NFL Network (he was not made available to other media members) and downplayed the injury, stating, "Everything is good. I'm fine. Just happened that I didn't get medically cleared for whatever issues and can't compete today, and that's unfortunate.''
Asked if he'd participate in UW's Pro Day April 2, he said, "Don't know.''
How the injury will impact Seferian-Jenkins is hard to tell at this point. If he recovers well enough to do testing at some point between now and the NFL draft on May 8-10, it might turn out to be fairly irrelevant.
And even if he can't, and assuming it's an injury that is not serious, there are lots of stories of players coming off injuries who still get taken about where projected.
Seferian-Jenkins loomed as one of the more intriguing players in the draft as he has the perfect skill set for the new breed of ultra-athletic tight ends, but also is coming off a rocky final college season in which he had the lowest numbers of his three years at Washington and also was arrested for a DUI in the offseason.
In the NFL Network interview, Seferian-Jenkins seemed upbeat, saying there were "a lot of positives'' from his time at the combine and predicting he would test well once healthy, be it at UW's Pro Day or an individual workout.
"If I do have that workout, I am going to be ready,'' he said.
Hawks say nothing official on Rice
When Seattle receiver Sidney Rice tweeted a goodbye to Seahawks fans Friday, it appeared to confirm earlier reports that the team was getting ready to release him, a move that has been long anticipated.
However, the Seahawks made no roster moves Saturday and Seattle coach Pete Carroll, in a brief comment as he walked through the media center at the combine, said he had nothing to pass along on Rice.
"I heard that (the report of Rice being released) but there's nothing,'' Carroll said. "I don't know where that came from.''
Seattle's release of Rice would save big money for the Seahawks as Rice would be paid $17.5 million over the next two seasons. He also is still rehabbing a knee injury suffered at St. Louis Oct. 28.
Seattle is under no deadlines to release Rice other than needing to be under the NFL salary cap on March 11. The Seahawks are estimated to already be a few million under the cap, but will want to clear up space to sign their own free agents and pursue others during free agency.
Evaluating distractions
While the Seahawks have earned a reputation for making their team a success while also embracing players with all manner of backgrounds, Carroll said Friday he would back off of a player if he thought there was the potential he would create too much of a distraction.
"Sure, yeah,'' Carroll said. "Just depends on what the nature of it is and how that's going to fit in with the overall performance of a player in making him a really productive team member.''
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Former UCLA defensive lineman Cassius Marsh played his last two seasons with the Bruins for coach Jim Mora, a former UW player who also coached the Seahawks in 2009. Mora replaced former UW coach Rick Neuheisel, who coached at UCLA from 2008-11 before being fired.
Marsh said the difference between the two coaches was considerable.
"I love coach Mora, man,'' Marsh said. "He's a hands-on coach, a player's coach, holds everyone accountable. It's a very tough program now. …
"When I first got to UCLA, it was extremely soft and I thought about leaving and coach Mora came in and he changed everything, man. All that soft stuff was not acceptable, and he just completely flipped everything. Now it's quite the opposite. We play great defense over there, it's all about toughness, so he's really been great.''
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For a number of reasons you may want to build binary packages for a large selected set of packages in pkgsrc or even for all pkgsrc packages. For instance, when you have multiple machines that should run the same software, it is wasted time if they all build their packages themselves from source. Or you may want to build a list of packages you want and check them before deploying onto production system. There is a way of getting a set of binary packages: The bulk build system, or pbulk ("p" stands for "parallel"). This chapter describes how to set it up.
First of all, you have to decide whether you build all packages or a limited set of them. Full bulk builds usually consume a lot more resources, both space and time, than builds for some practical sets of packages. There exists a number of particularly heavy packages that are not actually interesting to a wide audience. For a limited bulk builds you need to make a list of packages you want to build. Note that all their dependencies will be built, so you don't need to track them manually.
During bulk builds various packages are installed and deinstalled
/usr/pkg (or whatever
LOCALBASE is),
so make sure that you don't need any package during the builds.
Essentially, you should provide a fresh system, either a chroot environment
or something even more restrictive, depending on what the operating system provides,
or dedicate the whole physical machine.
As a useful side effect this makes sure that bulk builds cannot
break anything in your system. There have been numerous cases where
certain packages tried to install files outside the
LOCALBASE or wanted to edit some files in
Running a pbulk-style bulk build works roughly as follows:
First, build the pbulk infrastructure in a fresh pkgsrc location.
Then, build each of the packages from a clean installation directory using the infrastructure.
To simplify configuration, we provide the helper script
In order to use it, prepare a clear system (real one, chroot environment, jail, zone, virtual machine). Configure network access to fetch distribution files. Create a user with name "pbulk".
Fetch and extract pkgsrc. Use a command like one of these:
(cd /usr && ftp -o - https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc.tar.gz | tar -zxf-)
(cd /usr && fetch -o - https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc.tar.gz | tar -zxf-)
(cd /usr && cvs -Q -z3 -d email@example.com:/cvsroot get -P pkgsrc)
Or any other way that fits (e.g., curl, wget).
Deploy and configure pbulk tools, e.g.:
sh pbulk.sh -n # use native make, no bootstrap kit needed (for use on NetBSD)
sh pbulk.sh -n -c mk.conf.frag # native, apply settings from given mk.conf fragment
sh pbulk.sh -nlc mk.conf.frag # native, apply settings, configure for limited build
mk.conf.frag is a fragment of
mk.conf that contains settings you want to
apply to packages you build. For instance,
PKG_DEVELOPER= yes # perform more checks X11_TYPE= modular # use pkgsrc X11 SKIP_LICENSE_CHECK= yes # accept all licences (useful # when building all packages)
If configured for limited list, replace the list in
with your list of packages, one per line without empty lines or comments. E.g.:
www/firefox mail/thunderbird misc/libreoffice4
At this point you can also review configuration in
and make final amendments, if wanted.
Start it:
After it finishes, you'll have
/mnt filled with distribution files, binary packages, and reports,
plain text summary in
pbulk.sh script does not cover all possible use cases.
While being ready to run, it serves as a good starting point to understand and build more complex setups.
The script is kept small enough for better understanding.
pbulk.sh script supports running
unprivileged bulk build and helps configuring distributed bulk builds.
A complete bulk build requires lots of disk space. Some of the disk space can be read-only, some other must be writable. Some can be on remote filesystems (such as NFS) and some should be local. Some can be temporary filesystems, others must survive a sudden reboot.
40 GB for the distfiles (read-write, remote, temporary)
30 GB for the binary packages (read-write, remote, permanent)
1 GB for the pkgsrc tree (read-only, remote, permanent)
5 GB for
LOCALBASE (read-write, local, temporary)
10 GB for the log files (read-write, remote, permanent)
5 GB for temporary files (read-write, local, temporary)
After your pkgsrc bulk-build has completed, you may wish to
create a CD-ROM set of the resulting binary packages to assist
in installing packages on other machines. The
pkgtools/cdpack package provides
a simple tool for creating the ISO 9660 images.
cdpack arranges the packages on the CD-ROMs in a
way that keeps all the dependencies for a given package on the same
CD as that package.
Complete documentation for cdpack is found in the cdpack(1)
man page. The following short example assumes that the binary
packages are left in
/usr/pkgsrc/packages/All and that
sufficient disk space exists in
/u2 to
hold the ISO 9660 images.
mkdir /u2/images
pkg_add /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/cdpack
cdpack /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All /u2/images
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etc.) on each CD in the collection, then you need to create a
directory which contains these files. e.g.
mkdir /tmp/common
echo "This is a README" > /tmp/common/README
echo "Another file" > /tmp/common/COPYING
mkdir /tmp/common/bin
echo "#!/bin/sh" > /tmp/common/bin/myscript
echo "echo Hello world" >> /tmp/common/bin/myscript
chmod 755 /tmp/common/bin/myscript
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Back in the day, a "smart" phone was one that let you manage a calendar and e-mails. Now, the IQ test is more rigorous. Ask anyone carrying an iPhone or Android phone these days what makes their phones brainy and they'll quickly tell you, "It's the apps, dum-dum."
Apple has a commanding lead over all other smart phone platforms with 230,000 and counting in the App Store. But Google's Android platform now claims 70,000. There may be a big difference between the two, but it's not felt in all categories. In 10 of the most important app categories, iPhone and Android duke it out. Surprisingly, it's not a total rout, not on either side. Each platform takes its fair share of victories.
The iPhone's huge app count doesn't help it in certain situations. After all, Apple only just bestowed multitasking to its development community, something programmers have been working with on Android for a couple of years. Also, iPhones don't run widgets — an extension of an app that appears on an Android phone's home screen. When it comes to music and social networking, widgets mean a huge advantage.
But Android suffers in other ways. Because the OS is freely available to anyone who builds hardware, carriers sell Android phones with a variety of screen sizes and processor speeds. This makes game designers in particular kinda twitchy, especially since they know that a new iPhone will only come out once a year, setting a new top-bar standard when it does.
Another developer concern is the overwhelming number of free apps in Google's disorganized Android Market. According to the mobile apps tracking firm Distino, free downloads account for well over half the apps, including nice ones made by Google itself. If you're trying to convince people to pay actual money for your apps, it's better to flaunt wares in the iPhone App Store, where freebies only account for just over a quarter of listed apps.
The iPhone has a huge lead here, and most game developers appear to be hanging back from committing to Android for the time being. The biggest exception is Gameloft, which has already published a considerable lineup of Android games including the platformer "Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles," and the first-person shooter "NOVA." Ironically, Gameloft said last fall that it was scaling back on Android development, and still refuses to sell apps through Google's embarrassingly chaotic Android Market, opting to sell through its own website instead.
While there are lots of casual games for Android, there's nowhere near the momentum of iPhone, with marquee titles like "Sims," "Mass Effect" and "Plants vs. Zombies" (at right) already being downloaded by the masses. Though one imagines that Android's explosive growth this year would spur game developers, there's mostly just a lot of vague optimism. "We don't race to anything," said Garth Chouteau, a spokesman for PopCap, which publishes "Plants vs. Zombies," "Bejeweled" and other popular mobile games. "We are working on games for Android, adapting some of our most popular games. But we haven't announced which games or when they will ship." Winner: iPhone
Social networking
Perceptive reviewers have taken the iPhone to task for not being a very friendly social networking platform. You can set up your phone to get alerts from Facebook and Twitter — sometimes through third-party apps that charge money, like Boxcar — but you can't really browse your feeds in a comfortable way without diving deep into the apps. Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 is built around the idea that your feeds should be visible as soon as possible, with panels that you can assign to your friends, that will aggregate each person's updates across multiple social media services into one easy-to-find square.
Nevermind that Motorola and others have developed software for Android that's specifically geared to feeding you social updates quicker, all of the new Android phones have Facebook and Twitter widgets that let you browse your people quickly without making you launch any apps. Winner: Android
Kid stuff
As a parent, I have come to think of the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad as very expensive pacifiers. There are some phenomenal books and educational games being developed for these devices, and anyone who knows they'll be stuck in a car with a 3-year-old for more than 11 minutes will happily pay for every last one. On the iPlatform, kids' apps are very high quality — and in the Android Market they're almost totally nonexistent. Seriously, I can't find any of my favorite kids' apps for Android.
Caroline Hu Flexer, co-founder of Duck Duck Moose, maker of leading musical toddler edu-apps like "Baa Baa Black Sheep" (at right), shed light on the subject: "So far we haven't developed for Android primarily because of the wide range of devices that we would have to design for and test on," she said. "This would be very costly for our small team of three." She added that they were also intimidated by the higher ratio of free apps for Android. Winner: iPhone
Music, photos and movies
When it comes to basic media playback, the iPhone still is what Steve Jobs called his "best iPod yet." Syncing songs, playlists, TV and movies — even rented movies — through iTunes is easy despite the program's famous bloat. And once the media is on the iPhone, it's easy to access and manage (as you can see in the presumably familiar image at right). For people who own their own music and movies, it's unparalleled. Though photo syncing is best performed through Apple's iPhoto, another bulky Mac program, it too provides unparalleled organization.
For Android users, media help for the moment has to come via third-party software. My favorite for now is DoubleTwist, sort of an iTunes "lite" that runs on Macs and PCs and syncs music to most phones, and even helps organize movies and photos too. Meanwhile, the DoubleTwist app for the phone itself acts like the iPod app on iPhones. (Both the computer program and the phone app are free.) Winner: iPhone
Streaming music
When it comes to streaming music and new music-on-demand services, Android suffers no disadvantage. All the popular iPhone music apps — Pandora, Slacker, Rhapsody, Mog, and even utilities like SoundHound and Shazam — they're all available on Android too. The difference is, most of them get widgets in Android. Pop open your phone and flip through tunes, ditch one service for another, hell, play two or three songs at the same time from the same screen in some freaky mashup performance piece, all without dipping into an app. You can't do that on an iPhone, but if you're half crazy, you'd definitely do it on an Android phone.
Now, Apple's newest OS release does give most of those apps the ability to be played from the iPhone's multitasking menu, but only once they're launched. And if you launch a new one, you have to go back to another app to get it to play again — there's no way to switch from, say, Mog to Pandora, without going in and launching Pandora to take precedence over Mog. Winner: Android
Dining in
As a guy who owns lots of knives and pots and kitchen gadgets — and actually uses them fairly regularly — I love to try to enlist my digital helpers into my cooking misadventures. Although I'm partial to the iPad in the kitchen, the iPhone has the most cooking apps of all. So I was surprised to find that not only were many of my favorite cooking apps already in the Android Market — Epicurious, BigOven and even Michael Ruhlman's indispensable Ratio — there were also a ton of crappy little cooking apps from all over the place. They may not all be that useful, but it is a healthy sign. There's even a Grocery IQ for Android, a grocery-list syncing app that is probably the most used app in our home. If you have more than one iPhone or Android phone in your house, you need it (and it's free). Now bring on Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything (at right), and we're in business. Winner: iPhone
Dining out
Going out — particularly hunting down worthwhile restaurants and funky bars — forms the third part of an equilateral triangle with music and social networking, so it's no surprise that this is also an app category where Android had no trouble catching up to iPhone. The free trinity of Yelp (at right), Urbanspoon and OpenTable have all made their appearances in the Android Market, as has the elder statesman Zagat, complete with its $10 price tag. There are widgets for some of these apps, but to be honest, I can't figure out the real advantage. The Zagat widget just shows you a random nearby restaurant — you can refresh it to get another suggestion, but after doing this a few times, you miss the normal search interface. Point is, there is no widget advantage here, and all apps are equal. Winner: Tie
This one was a near tie — it's impressive how many iPhone staples like FlightTrack, Kayak and TripAdvisor have made it to Android. However, I took points off of Android because the Expedia app (at right), a free and very useful extension of the popular travel service, is not listed. Not yet anyway. I also find that the iPhone's push notifications are particularly suited to flight updates, and I can't really see how a widget would provide huge advantage. Winner: iPhone
I read every night on my iPad, but I've never read more than a page of a real book on any phone. Still, the arrival of e-book apps on smart phones is a big buzz maker, and Android is, as of this week, essentially caught up to iPhone. When it comes to marquee e-book apps, both platforms have Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook (at right) and Kobo, which is supported by Borders.
Android doesn't have Apple's iBooks, obviously, and Apple is bound to grow it and possibly even release it for other platforms. Still, you'd be out of your mind to spend money on iBooks now, when the other services are accessible from such a broad variety of gadgets, including iPad, iPod and iPhone.
Android phones do have a small e-book advantage of their own: You can copy files to an Android device via USB without needing iTunes or some special app. As more and more titles are available online, in many formats, both with and without content protection, this will keep things simple. There will always be third-party ways to move files to an iPhone and read them, but Apple might try to limit what files can be recognized and transferred through iTunes. Chalk one up for Android openness. Winner: Tie
Google apps vs. Apple apps
One of Android's not-so-secret weapons is Google, a powerhouse software innovator that has yet to charge a dime for an app on any platform. Google co-developed the Maps app for iPhones, but they went one better for themselves: Most Android phones running 2.0 or later come with a full turn-by-turn navigation app. Google doesn't stop there: The Android Market has Google Sky Map (at right), Google Translate and Google Goggles — a visual search engine — as well as Google Earth (which is also available for iPhone).
By contrast, the apps Apple releases are either too redundant (MobileMe Gallery), too self-serving (Apple Store) or too damn expensive (iMovie $5, and that's assuming you already forked out the money for the newest and best iPhone). We haven't seen iWork for the iPhone yet, but on the iPad, that's $10 ... each. So $30 for Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Winner: Android
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The child was not harmed, Deputy Superintendent William Glass said Friday, but every step of the incident is being looked at.
"This is not acceptable and it has caused us to review our protocols," Glass said.
He said some changes have been made already.
Glass said a preliminary report indicates that the child visited the nurse complaining of a fever. She returned to class, saying she was told to go home, but in fact she did not have a fever and was not told to go home, Glass said.
The teacher let her leave the class again. She walked out of the school, and a neighbor who saw her walking toward home, accompanied her to her house.
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While typically a nurse would not send a child who is sick back to class, in the future the nurse will send a note or call the teacher with information about the decision regarding a child sent to her so the message could not be misconstrued, he said.
In addition, the protocol will be to make sure a sick child is dismissed from the nurse's office, where he or she would wait to be picked up by a family member, which is typically the case, Glass said.
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Seattle Weekly gave me a call last month with a cover story, and it was so intriguing and different from what I am used to, I couldn't pass it up. The subject is Steve Sarich, and it is going to be very difficult to give good description of him without going on for several pages. Fifty-nine years old, former Penthouse photographer, used to date Anna Nicole Smith, currently dating a 20 year old aspiring model, medical marijuana grower and seller, and he is surrounded by an entourage of young "volunteers" in their 20's and 30's, including a personal cook who is really good! I photographed Steve at his new home in the foothills about 40 minutes outside of Seattle. He moved there after a home invasion at his previous residence, where he was sprayed by a shotgun blast just before he shot one of the intruders.
When I arrived at his home, I was greeted by a large pit bull and I honestly thought it was over. I may have thrown my hands high in the air and yelled something. Not really sure what holding my hands above my head would have accomplished had I been attacked. Then, I was mistaken for a "patient" and presented with some options. After quickly explaining I was the photographer and not a patient, I was introduced to Steve and got a tour of the compound. I know there are some new laws and marijuana is legal with a prescription, but apparently it is legal to grow and sell it now, too. Growing up with the understanding that marijuana is an illegal drug is a hard concept for me to shake. All through the day I found myself wondering, "Could I get arrested if this place gets raided right now?" Not to mention, guns make me a little uncomfortable.
"Marijuana's never been on a path to greater acceptance than it is now. But to Steve Sarich, the change just isn't coming fast enough. With his guns, brash manner, and retinue of followers who look too young and healthy to be in need of weed, Sarich is the enfant terrible of Washington's medical marijuana movement.
Sarich doesn't exactly shy away from confrontation. Where many activists believe that a quiet, non-profit model of providing pot to patients will keep them in the good graces of legislators and law enforcement, Sarich's vertically-integrated enterprise has unabashedly mixed medical clinics with pot brownie sales, and scoffed at the legal limit on plants. And sent taunting emails to cops while he does it." – Nina Shapiro, Seattle Weekly
The cover shot is a perfect example of his brash attitude and confidence. I asked him if he had a particular strain he wanted to hold and his eyes lit up. He had just created a new strain of pot and named it "Alloway 420". Roy Alloway was a Bremerton drug cop who is notorious for his aggressive tactics. He retired shortly after this issue came out, but I'm sure his retirement had nothing to do with this story.
Pretty crazy stuff. If you want to read more, it's long, but it is an interesting article about Steve and medical marijuana.
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Going back at least 12 years now, if not longer, CBR has regularly produced daily photo parades from Comic-Con International in San Diego, giving you a feel for the show and, well, playfully mocking the costumed folks in attendance. Over the last few years, as my schedule has grown crazy during Comic-Con, we've not run photo parades as regularly, which is shame. When CBR first started covering Comic-Con, we did only two things -- live coverage of the Eisners (using dial-up to log on to the net!) and photo parades! It's part of our history of Comic-Con coverage, and I have been sad to see it fall by the wayside. So, it's with great excitement that we're bringing it back this year, filled with great pictures by staff photographer Pinguino Kolb and a handful of obnoxious comments from myself.
So, relax, sit back and enjoy our final photo parade of 2010 featuring the sights and wonders that awaited attendees, pros and local residents alike on the Sunday during 2010 Comic-Con International in San Diego, and if you somehow missed it, here's Thursday, Friday and Saturday's rundowns as well!


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A Varsity Scout Team is the standard unit for Varsity Scouts and is composed of one or more squads, and are supported by an adult Team Committee.
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Between 1984 and 1989, Varsity Scouts were part of a Boy Scout troop, since 1989, a Varsity Scout team is a separate unit operated by a chartered organization. The chief operating officer of the organization which as been granted a charter by the BSA, appoints a Chartered Organization Representative who oversees the Varsity Scout team (and any other Scouting units such as a pack, troop or crew). The Team Committee is lead by the Team Committee Chairman, and handles the administrative, fiscal management, and policy making of the team. The team committee is usually made up of parents of youth members; a committee member may also serve as a Program Adviser for one of the five fields of emphasis. The Varsity Team Coach and Assistant Team Coach are the youth-facing leaders and should have a friendly working relationship with the team committee.
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After more than a year of review, Food and Drug Administration scientists said the drugs appear to increase the risk of cancer after they are used beyond 2 1/2 years. The agency studied several dozen reports of cancer in children taking the drugs. Half of the patients had lymphomas, a cancer that attacks the immune system.
The drugs are known as tumor necrosis factor blockers and work by neutralizing a protein that causes inflammation and damage to bones, cartilage and other tissue. The drugs are prescribed to children with rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disorder and Crohn's disease.
The agency will bolster the "black box" warning on the five drugs on the U.S. market, including Abbott Laboratories' Humira, Johnson & Johnson's Remicade and Simponi, and Enbrel which is co-marketed by Amgen Inc. and Wyeth. All of the products are multibillion-dollar sellers.
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4 comments:
- HalloweeNut said...
The "Belial" mask is just too friggin' cool!
- February 12, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
I remember looking at these last year. We have come a long way from the sweat producing plastic masks!
Now if the prices would come down alittle I can actually get one....
- February 12, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- JD said...
Really cool! The middle one looks like one of the demons from buddy the vampire slayer
- February 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM
- The Gill-Man said...
I've been drooling over these ever since you first blogged about them. If I could afford it, I'd have a whole collection of these (as it is, I can't even afford ONE!). The Orlock mask is a MAJOR want of mine. I love evil, creepy vamps, and that one just NAILS my vision for what one looks like. Kind of a cross between Mr. Barlow, the Master from Buffy and DaFoe's version of Max Schrek from "Shadow of the Vampire".
- February 15, 2011 at 11:26 AM


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We haven't dealt with this subject since the typewriter was invented. (Whatever that is.) We mean printers, my friends. Yes, printers. Those blocky, boxy things that churn out what is paradoxically called hard copy. (How hard can a sheet of paper be?)
Tech magazine editors and bloggers always rate printers according to speed and print quality. Well, that's all right, but they're all pretty similar when it comes to output quality, and speed never varies by more than a few seconds. So let's ignore those parts for the moment, and, as our calculus professor used to say, differentiate.
Things we never used to pay attention to, we now pay attention to. Is it one of those inkjet printers where you stand up a sheaf of paper in the back and it feeds in from there? In that case, after a while � depending on the humidity � the paper starts to curl over, and sometimes stays that way. The open top of the printer can also collect dust, crumbs and insects. If the paper feed tray is at the bottom � but not completely enclosed � you have the same problem: dust, dirt and cookie crumbs inside the printer.
Why do manufacturers do that? Don't they understand that a large opening to the inside of the printer might cause problems? Oh they understand, all right. So why do they do it that way? Because it's cheaper, that's why. Pennies and nickels are saved in manufacturing because there's no money in selling the printers, only in selling ink. We all learn that as soon as we have to buy new ink cartridges.
Ah, the ink. Well the ink is a dye, and it's real cheap. You can buy large quantities of it from the same companies that sell to the big printer companies. You can also buy no-name ink cartridges that perform substantially the same as the ones with the company's brand. We have done this and had only one bad experience. The price difference is stunning, something on the order of one-tenth the brand name price.
You can also buy cheaper ink cartridges right from office supply stores. We bought replacement cartridges for our Hewlett Packard model 5510 all-in-one from Staples, a giant chain of office supply stores that circle the Earth. They weren't as cheap as the no-name suppliers on the Web, but they were a lot cheaper than HP's own brand and they worked fine.
What is an "all-in-one" printer anyway? The name is a marketing gimmick. The only "all" part is a scanner that sits on top of a regular printer. (The fax part is in the software.) Our HP scanner never worked with Windows 8, even after downloading a new driver. The final blow was the constant screen messages telling us the printer had detected a non-Hewlett Packard ink cartridge and we should replace it as soon as possible. Hey, we bought it from a reputable office supply store. Is HP that desperate for ink money? Yeah, they probably are.
So the annoying messages about ink combined with the non-working scanner was enough to prompt us to dump the printer. We bought a Canon all-in-one, the Pixma MX922. Are we happy now? Eh, so-so.
The scanner part works. And the paper feed trays are all enclosed; in fact the part where the paper comes out stays closed until the machine is ready to print; that's pretty cool. How's the print quality? Eh, not so hot. In fact, let's face it, the quality is about what we got from color inkjet printers 20 years ago. How about the print speed? Real slow. We'll try an Epson next. This could go on for years.
What About Laser Printers?
Laser printers are great � except for when they're not.
Laser printers are fast, cheap to operate, and the print quality is outstanding. The color versions also cost about five times as much as an inkjet printer. Oh, and we forgot, boy are they heavy.
The Okidata printer we had for years produced quality as good as you would see in a classy color magazine. The only reason we gave it up is we moved our office, and moving it too made us think about increasing our health insurance. It was so heavy we couldn't give it away.
Well, OK, the weight wasn't the only reason. Laser printers use powdered ink mixed with glue to put print on the page. That glue and ink have to be melted by a hot roller so they will stick to the page. The roller is very hot.
That means you don't want to put in glossy photo paper. Because the coating on the paper can easily be melted by the roller and may stick to the image drum.
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Comic-Con: Del Toro offers peek at "Pacific Rim"
(AP) SAN DIEGO - Guillermo Del Toro is going really big with his next film.
The creator of "Pan's Labyrinth" and the "Hellboy" movies came to Comic-Con on Saturday to give fans a taste of his science-fiction showdown "Pacific Rim."
Due in theaters July 12, 2013, "Pacific Rim" is a clash of the titans as humans pilot colossal robots to battle gargantuan sea monsters.
Charlie Hunnam plays a washed-up ex-pilot and Rinko Kikuchi is a raw trainee who are teamed up in an antiquated robot to make a last stand against the ocean beasts.
The cast also includes Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Del Toro's "Hellboy" star, Ron Perlman.
Del Toro screened a few minutes that featured epic smackdowns between the 25-story machines and creatures.
The Mexican filmmaker told fans that he wanted to do more than show monsters and robots duking it out, aiming to fill the conflict with emotional, operatic battles.
"A movie like this, it's easy to forget how unique you can make it, and I didn't want to forget," Del Toro said. "I wanted to make the movie not a war movie but an adventure movie."
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Hunnam, best known for the biker TV show "Sons of Anarchy," said he signed on for "Pacific Rim" without even seeing a script.
"There are probably two filmmakers in the world, Guillermo being one of them, that I would take that leap of faith with," Hunnam said.
Del Toro said that after previewing footage at Comic-Con, he and his colleagues were going into "radio silence" about "Pacific Rim" until the end of the year to keep details under wraps.
"This is for you, totally for you, and those (expletive) who have the James Bond cameras in their glasses, don't use them," Del Toro told the crowd of fans.


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I run a landscaping website and need a template for my newsletter.
The target audience will be anyone interested in making improvements to there landscaping to make there homes more valuable.
The newsletter will be sent to people who are looking for ideas on how to make there homes more valuable through landscaping improvements.
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The name: Landscaping ideas for You to be on the top of the newsletter somewhere.
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