Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

Here is an example of a teleportation special effect I did up. After hearing about the Battlestar Galactica Videomaker contest , I thought I should hone my video skills. In the next few days, I am going to post a how-to for this video. As a teaser: with Adobe Premiere Elements, this is SUPER EASY.

CFAX today had Jack Etkin on their morning talk show to talk about the plight of the free press. He was complaining that we have lost our free press to the corporate conglomerates. Guest host Erick Thompson (who is on Chum-- er-- Bell Global Media's-- payroll) got all defensive and claimed that A-Channel news staff decide what they will cover and don't get any interference from their national overlords. Maybe that's true; maybe that's hokum. Maybe he doesn't know how a corportation can influence a local outlet through hiring decisions and budget; or through control of their national feed, so the local outlet gets a small list of stories to use for national and international coverage. Jack Etkin dithered on that we needed an independent media and not media owned by corporations. What an idiot. Any organization of any size has to incorporate and become a corporation to sever the health of the enterprise from the health of the owner. Joe's Weekly News should be a ...

Two advents: First, we launched the "Those DeWolfes" site-- a one stop shop of our interests and affairs. Second, I finally published (on Those DeWolfes), a piece entitled "They Could Be Brothers". Enjoy! Some actors in Hollywood look so much alike I get them confused. These actors should be cast together in the same movies. Maybe Hollywood is done with turning TV shows into movies and it's time they start movies with three brothers or mother-daughter combos. Dad and His Two Sons: Treat Williams, Ron Livingston & Colin Farrell They have the dark-haired leading man thing going on but you could spin it as a former hustler (Williams), his neurotic son (Livingston) and his crazy son (Farrell).

I've been reading Vernor Vinge . Alot of his stuff. He is super cool. In the latest book I've been reading, A Deepness in the Sky , he uses seconds extensively for dating: mega-seconds (1 million seconds) and giga-seconds (1 billion seconds). Given that 1 billion seems like such an unreal number, I thought it was interesting to ponder hitting the 1 billion (second) mark. So to calculate when that happened, I did up a script: What's a Gigasecond? What were you doing when your gigasecond odometer rolled over?

Nelly Furtado is going to return to her home town of Victoria, BC and celebrate Nelly Furtado day on March 21st. She will go on to perform at Save-On-Food Memorial Place Centre Arena (etc.). I thought I would harken back to one of Nelly's concerts here a few years back... After performing her set, Nelly left the stage. Backstage, there were throngs of people crushing to get close to the pop star. At the top of the stairs was Nelly. At the bottom were adoring fans. In between her and the mob was a dumpy security guard facing the crowd. Nelly wanted through, so she booted the security guard in the ass and sent him flying so that she could continue on. C'mon, Victorians! Let's all share some choice Nelly moments. Did anyone suffer her in high school drama class? Was she your nightmare date in High School? Dish! Dish in time for Nelly Furtado Day ! Leave me a comment with a link to your anecdotes and I will make sure they appear below.

Rather than subtitle Yankee TV shows and movies, Turkish producers remake the shows. Sometimes with terrifying results.

These are seriously cool comparisons of the before and after of the remaster original Star Trek: