12-30-2024, 04:14 PM
Zecy Steven Moffat looks ahead to Doctor Who s big farewell. Plus a gigantic Thor: The Dark World rumor!
Today Microsoft further entrenched the Xbox 360 as the best alternative to a cable box with three new Kinect-capable video apps including on-demand content from Comcast, HBO GO, and MLB.TV. Comcast Xfinity TV is the first time the cable TV giant has made its on-demand content available through a console. And as we report stanley usa ed yesterday, streaming Comcast content through your Xbox 360 won ;t actually count against your monthly data cap if the company provides your internet service as well. Makes you feel all sorts of conflicted about net neutrality. https://gizmodo/comcast-says-its-xb stanley cups uk ox-tv-streaming-doesnt-have-to-play-5896560 HBO GO finally makes the network entire catalogue of shows available on the Xbox, though you ;ll have to already be an HBO subscriber with one of the larger cable providers in the US to access it. And the same goes for the MLB.TV app which will only be available for 360 owners with an existing MLB.TV Premium Subscription anywhere in North America. So who really needs a cable box wast stanley mug ing space in their entertainment center at this point [Microsoft] ComcastXbox Xysn This Cordless String Trimmer Leaves Weeds Shaking in Their Roots
Acclaimed science fiction author and literature professor John Kessel recently gave a fantastic stanley drinking cup talk ab stanley quencher out science fiction, and you can watch the whole thing online. Here the blurb: Science fiction is popularly understood to be about showing us the world of the future: space travel, robots, immortality, encounters with aliens, mechanized cities, human evolution. But in fac stanley mugs t much science fiction, though it may be set a hundred or a thousand years from now, is more about the present than about times to come. Both consciously and unconsciously, the futures science fiction writers present arise from and comment on the way things are today, often with the goal of changing the present or even preventing the future. This talk shows how this has been true from science fiction earliest days until now. It gives examples from books and films of ways in which sf had held up a fun-house mirror to the present, both serious and comic, restricting and liberating. [Universo Fractal] BooksFuturism
Today Microsoft further entrenched the Xbox 360 as the best alternative to a cable box with three new Kinect-capable video apps including on-demand content from Comcast, HBO GO, and MLB.TV. Comcast Xfinity TV is the first time the cable TV giant has made its on-demand content available through a console. And as we report stanley usa ed yesterday, streaming Comcast content through your Xbox 360 won ;t actually count against your monthly data cap if the company provides your internet service as well. Makes you feel all sorts of conflicted about net neutrality. https://gizmodo/comcast-says-its-xb stanley cups uk ox-tv-streaming-doesnt-have-to-play-5896560 HBO GO finally makes the network entire catalogue of shows available on the Xbox, though you ;ll have to already be an HBO subscriber with one of the larger cable providers in the US to access it. And the same goes for the MLB.TV app which will only be available for 360 owners with an existing MLB.TV Premium Subscription anywhere in North America. So who really needs a cable box wast stanley mug ing space in their entertainment center at this point [Microsoft] ComcastXbox Xysn This Cordless String Trimmer Leaves Weeds Shaking in Their Roots
Acclaimed science fiction author and literature professor John Kessel recently gave a fantastic stanley drinking cup talk ab stanley quencher out science fiction, and you can watch the whole thing online. Here the blurb: Science fiction is popularly understood to be about showing us the world of the future: space travel, robots, immortality, encounters with aliens, mechanized cities, human evolution. But in fac stanley mugs t much science fiction, though it may be set a hundred or a thousand years from now, is more about the present than about times to come. Both consciously and unconsciously, the futures science fiction writers present arise from and comment on the way things are today, often with the goal of changing the present or even preventing the future. This talk shows how this has been true from science fiction earliest days until now. It gives examples from books and films of ways in which sf had held up a fun-house mirror to the present, both serious and comic, restricting and liberating. [Universo Fractal] BooksFuturism