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South Park: With Apologies to Jesse Jackson (season premiere)

Television – Given Michael Richards' tirade at a comedy club last November, it would have been easy for South Park to dedicate a show to ruthlessly bashing Richards and people who use the N-word, but South Park has never been about simple approaches. Ultimately, Stan realizes that a person who isn't black can never really understand the effect that word can hav

Voted for on March 08, 2007 03:15am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / 1 sink

A review of Heroes season 1, episode 4: Collision

Television – Here's TV Squad's latest episode review for the hit NBC series "Heroes".

Voted for on March 06, 2007 08:35pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks

A review of Heroes: Fallout

Television – TV Squad has a review of the "fall finale" of Heroes. So, did it live up to the hype?

Voted for on March 06, 2007 08:35pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 38 votes / 1 sink

Wil Wheaton reviews Star Trek: TNG: Hide and Q

Television – Wil continues to provide us with his damn funny and insightful reviews of Star Trek episodes from The Next Generation's first season.

Voted for on March 06, 2007 08:34pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 31 votes / No sinks

Wil Wheaton reviews the Star Trek: TNG series premiere

Television – Wil's got his first review of 2007 up on TV Squad, this time covering the series premiere of the show.

Voted for on March 06, 2007 08:34pm

Changes in store for Heroes season two
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Changes in store for Heroes season two

Television – "Volume One comes to a conclusion at the end of episode 23, and Volume Two starts with the opening of season two. And Volume Two is a different story."

Voted for on March 06, 2007 08:34pm

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Review of Heroes: Parasite

Television – Not a whole lot of episodes left in the first season of Heroes, and Sylar's stepped up the game once more.

Voted for on March 06, 2007 08:34pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 51 votes / No sinks

Star Trek XI casting rumours - are these Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu and Scotty?

Movies – Rumours they may be, but I have to say that the latest casting gossip for Star Trek XI is looking superb. Imagine these names lined up to play Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Sulu. Stop for a moment, have a look, and realise just how good these guys look for the roles.

Voted for on February 27, 2007 05:59pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 26 votes / No sinks

Heroes 1.17 - Company Man - Recap

Television – Heroes has always been a good show. Since the beginning you just felt the potential, and as the weeks went by Heroes let a little more of its brilliance show. Tonight's Heroes, 'Company Man', was the Zenith.

Voted for on February 27, 2007 05:59pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 34 votes / 4 sinks

The problem with punditry re: Google Apps vs. Office

Gadgets & Tech – The only thing less surprising than Google announcement of Google Apps Premier Edition Wednesday evening and the ensuing white noise it has precipitated was the inevitability of some seriously wrong-headed punditry from the usual suspects. Microsoft-bashing is all sorts of fun - it must be given the number of folks engaged in the game

Voted for on February 27, 2007 02:07pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 51 votes / 2 sinks

Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary

Popular Videos – A short film about Net Neutrality. Also, anyone can download and edit the film -- perhaps edits you make will show up in the next version.

Voted for on February 27, 2007 02:07pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 98 votes / No sinks

Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: John Scalzi

Books – This column is about one of the authors of Science Fiction, John Scalzi. Wil Wheaton talks about John Scalzi's work and says what he thinks about the novels. He also talks about other authors he likes.

Voted for on February 27, 2007 02:06pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 54 votes / 1 sink

An Interview with John Scalzi

Books – John Scalzi is the very definition of a freelance writer: Winner of the Campbell award for best new science fiction writer in 2005, and nominated for the Hugo Award for Old Man's War in 2006, author of several non-fiction works including 3 volumes of the Rough Guide series, among others. In this interview, he talks about it all.

Voted for on February 27, 2007 02:06pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 67 votes / No sinks

Batman Year 100: Batman versus the DHS

Books – Batman Year 100 is set in 2039, 100 years after his 1939 debut. America has become a Soviet-like military society, where corrupt DHS officials reign supreme in a land of suspended habeas corpus and universal surveillance. Batman is now a mere urban legend in Gotham City, but he is still alive and well, living in the cracks of totalitarian America.

Voted for on February 27, 2007 02:06pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 49 votes / 6 sinks

The Publishing Industry assault on Google Books

Books – There has been much to do about the controversy over Google's plans to create a digital database of library books belonging to various affiliated libraries willing to denote their contents to Google's project.

Voted for on February 27, 2007 02:06pm