If you care about this sort of thing, you’ve probably already seen this. But on Wednesday, Disney Channel announced a 10-part Tron series for fall of 2011.
Disney XD (another …

I haven’t read this yet (it is almost 600 pages) but I just downloaded the newWomen’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance study released yesterday …

Foreign Policy has a fantastic set of photographs from war zones.
Check out: “The Shooting War.”

No.
No, no, no, no: “Hella number: scientists call for new word for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.”
Before this article I’d never heard of “Yotta-” before (it means Septillion) and now they want …

I’ve got a weird obsession with Portand’s Time and Temperature Building. When Liz and I were looking for apartments, it was my dream, hope, wish, desire, to have one …

Annnnnnnnnnd the worst idea I’ve heard this week is that Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, or Disney Theatrical Group, or Disney on Broadway, or whatever Tom Schumacher’s calling his cadre this …

Istithmar World Capital, the private equity and alternative investment arm of Istithmar World, part of Dubai World, a Dubai government-owned company (phew) has defaulted on their $300 million mortgage for …

How did I not think of this?
How did Foreign Policy magazine make this joke and not me?
In their post “This will not end well” they make a joke about the …

No good news coming from Albany tonight – they’re reporting at the Times-Union that the Portland Pirates AHL hockey team is moving to the New York capital next season: “GM: …

Spencer Ackerman’s is a blog I read daily. He writes mostly about the Iraq War, but also about comic books and punk rock. He was also a consultant …

Slow news day so I’ve been catching up on the mass of articles about Leno last night. The battle-lines are drawn, most are either for him or against him, …

So last night was the first night of the new Tonight Show, re-starring Jay Leno.
Whoo.
I didn’t watch it, as much as out of solidarity with Conan as out of loathing …

I have no idea what website this came from, or what a “PaleyFest” is, but this article popped up on my radar yesterday: “‘Lost’ Creators Want to Get the Finale …

Uh-oh. Retaliation begins: “Dubai: Israelis Will Be Denied UAE Entry.”
Of course, we’ve talked about Israelis and Dubai before (see Shahar Peer and Dubai).
But this is different.
The Emirates will now …

I’ve meant to write more about the Winter Olympics over in Vancouver, but I didn’t and now they’re over.
So the final medal count turned out pretty nicely:
            Gold Slvr Brnz …

So now the Islamic Solidarity Games have been called off because host-country Iran inscribed “Persian Gulf” on the tournament’s official logo and medals.
This, as we know from last week, is …

Now, we know from popular fiction that zombies don’t run. Real zombies shuffle around, moaning that they want to eat brains. In fact, that’s all that zombies do …

Apparently Maine Restaurant Week starts today.
So if you have extra money, and like to eat, I’d suggest you check it out.

This one is a half-percenter, but it’s the kind of thing the internet loves, so here we go.
Last week I talked about the trailer for the new documentary Waking Sleeping …

I love mocking Portland “International” Jetport. But it’s friendly mocking.
“Ribbing”, if you will.
I was, however, concerned back in November when it was announced they were losing flights …