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My iMac turned six years old this month. I still use it as my main machine. It runs Mac OS 10.6.8, the last release that allows use of PowerPC applications. It’s also the last version before form began running roughshod … Continue reading →

KMXG-FM in Davenport started its merry-making a week ago. There oughta be a law against this sort of thing.

…now what? UPDATE: Instead of sweeping, the Cubs got swept, and we haven’t abolished lawyers. This is the timeline that sprung from when Marty didn’t hit the Rolls-Royce on Oct. 27, 1985. Future imperfect, indeed. UPDATE II: USA Today has … Continue reading →

The Associated Press announced July 23 that it and British Movietone have recently posted over a million minutes of historic film and video news footage to YouTube. All have an AP watermark, but the bulk of the clips are newsreels. … Continue reading →

LA Weekly went to every (or nearly every) shooting location in Back to the Future, and the comparisons of then and now, especially the Universal backlot and Whittier High School, are very interesting. The backlot certainly has changed — kind … Continue reading →

The Hallmark Channel has decided “You know what, they say we’re the Christmas movie station, let’s go with it in every way possible.” The premiere. Of a Christmas movie. A week after Independence Day — or six days after also … Continue reading →

I don’t think “Horse with misspelled name wins Triple Crown” was on the list of things to worry about giving copy editors and grammar Nazis such as myself fits, along with spell-check programs. But now “American Pharoah” is part of … Continue reading →

Leia: Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way? Where, in the Star Wars movies, do we ever see carpet, and more specifically, 1970s-style shag carpet? The joke to film audiences in 1977 is obvious, but slightly less so … Continue reading →

As seen at the Madison roadgeek meet earlier this month (because stereotypes happen): (link)

July 9, 2008: Appomattox Court House, Virginia, the site of the end the Civil War, or at least the beginning of the end, as scattered Confederate armies surrendered over the next few months. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. … Continue reading →