Friday Link Dump
* At about the 2:40 mark on this video, you can watch a pilot pour himself a glass of iced tea inside the cockpit during a barrel roll.
* Rumor: [tag]POLICE SQUAD[/tag] to [tag]DVD[/tag] in October. This is the classic short-lived TV series that gave us the NAKED GUN trilogy of movies. It’s about time!
* Play Battleship on-line. For the tech geeks: It’s in AJAX. How Web 2.0!
* I’m getting older, because I feel the need to write this: Kids today are getting dumber. Here’s the well-linked story of a kid who became an [tag]intern[/tag] at Comedy Central and then spilled all the behind the scenes gossip onto his blog. The sad thing is, this kind of career suicide can also lead to book deals. The world is upside-down.
* PC World ranks the 25 Worst Tech Products ofAll Time. What tops the list? [tag]AOL[/tag]! BWAH HA HA Yes, AOL is even worse than Microsoft’s BOB.
May 26th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Barrel roll, dammit. A role is what an actor has.
May 26th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
“Police Squad” is lots of fun. I watched several of the episodes years ago — presumably a VHS release that a friend had.
One of its great gimmicks was that it would always end with a closing wrap-up scene where someone would toss off a joke and then it would immediately freeze-frame while the credits rolled, a la “CHiPs” (does that date me? …crap) and other shows. …Except that in “Police Squad” it wouldn’t be a real freeze-frame, all the actors would just have frozen in place — and then someone else would come in the room and wonder why nobody’s moving, or the criminal they just arrested would take the opportunity to split, or some similar gag. That always cracked me up.
May 27th, 2006 at 6:12 am
The other trick Police aquad had was that each opening credit had a special guest star announced (one of them was William Shatner) but they always killed them in the credits they never got to be in the show.
May 28th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Ratzi — thanks. All fixed.
Scott — I still love the scene where they threw a note attached to a window into a rock garden. Cracks me up every time.