William and Sly 2 is a gorgeous, ethereal fantasy exploration game wherein you play a nimble fox tasked with finding the scattered pages of your human friend's journal, while gathering mushrooms, finding keys to unlock mystery boxes, and freeing rune-bound spirits and pixies trapped in frost along the way.
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posted by taz
on Jan 16, 2012 -
14 comments
An Evening With American Dad! The cast and writing staff of
American Dad! sits down at the Paley Center for an hour to discuss the creative process behind the show, the casting process, why
Critters sucks, if we'll ever see Roger's home planet, how the recent
"Hot Water" episode about a killer hot tub was originally intended to be the series finale, and so much more.
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posted by Servo5678
on Sep 26, 2011 -
64 comments
A charity auction whose grand prize was a business lunch with Fox News owner
Rupert Murdoch has been won by
David Brock. Brock is the CEO of
Media Matters, a group consistently
critical of Murdoch.
Auction site Charity Buzz described the auction as a "once in a lifetime chance" to sit with Murdoch "face to face over a friendly lunch and get his feedback firsthand on your proposed business ideas."
It said it was valid for a total of six people and would be held in New York at a "mutually convenient" time with Murdoch covering the cost of lunch.
"Winner will be subject to security screening and background check," it stipulated.
Media Matters founder and chief executive David Brock expects the lunch to go ahead.
"I look forward to this opportunity to have a friendly lunch with Rupert Murdoch, along with five of my invited guests," Brock said in a statement.
"I will soon contact Mr. Murdoch's office to determine a mutually convenient time and place in New York," he added.
posted by Jon_Evil
on Nov 11, 2010 -
33 comments
Thierry Henry is one of the biggest stars in Association Football. With
AS Monaco,
Arsenal,
FC Barcelona and the French national squad, he's won about every trophy that there's to win:
1996-97 French Ligue 1,
1998 World Cup,
Euro 2000,
2003-2004 English Premier League, and the unprecedented
2008-2009 "perfect season" for Barcelona: Spanish Copa del Rey, Liga, and Supercopa, European Champions' League, European Supercup, and Club World Cup. He's also won a large number of French, English and worldwide "Player of the Year" accolades. However...
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posted by Skeptic
on Jul 24, 2010 -
54 comments
With newly released video,
Rachel Maddow shows that the Fox News/Breitbart/James O'Keefe takedown of ACORN in California was fraudulent. For example, coverage depicted ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera as eager to participate in a pedophile prostitution ring suggested by O'Keefe's character. In fact Vera had reported O'Keefe to police. Nevertheless, Vera was fired, and months later ACORN was dissolved. (Previously:
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posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94
on Apr 8, 2010 -
56 comments
Fox News is the most trusted news network in the United States, according to a
new poll [.pdf] of 1,151 Americans conducted by
Public Policy Polling (a polling firm with a mostly Democratic and progressive
list of clients), the most trusted news network among Americans is FOX News, which was trusted by 49% of respondents (beating out CNN, MS-NBC, CBS, NBC, and ABC (though PBS was not included in the survey)).
The pollsters conclude:
“A generation ago you would have expected Americans to place their trust in the most
neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy
Polling. “But the media landscape has really changed and now they’re turning more
toward the outlets that tell them what they want to hear.”
posted by washburn
on Jan 26, 2010 -
126 comments
In a very unusual move, 20th Century Fox has decided to release James Cameron’s entire screenplay for AVATAR online. Read
the script as a PDF.
posted by twoleftfeet
on Jan 11, 2010 -
230 comments
The NYT reports that GE has brokered a deal between MSNBC and Fox News to "reconcile" Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly, preventing further criticism of each other or GE. The deal went into effect June 1, the very same day Olbermann
declared he was "quarantining" Fox, avoiding discussion of the channel in the future. Mr. Olbermann, who is on vacation, said by e-mail message, “I am party to no deal.” Glenn Greenwald
breaks down the political consequences of the deal.
posted by mek
on Aug 1, 2009 -
62 comments
So You Think You Can Dance, the American dance-based reality show with
a very high viewership (and
more than 10 country-specific spin-offs) has a minor controversy brewing in their
fifth season: one of the judges,
Nigel Lythgoe, commented "I think you'd probably alienate a lot of our audience" after watching
a straight/gay male ballroom dancing couple. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
issued a call to action to contact FOX and Lythgoe.
Lythgoe tweeted more of his thoughts, but then went on to
apologise for all his comments. Additionally,
FOX issued a comment on how auditioners and contestants are reviewed. But none of this addresses the role of gender in dancing, though
Lythgoe has clarified his thoughts before: that men "need to be very strong. Dancing is role-playing most of the time. And you need to be strong and lift girls. You need to look stronger than the girl you’re dancing with." Specific roles are assigned by gender in many styles of dance, including
Square dancing,
Tango,
Poi, Haka, and many others. But there are opportunities for
gender-role free dancing, as with the
Lavender Country and Folk Dancers and
other such groups.
posted by filthy light thief
on May 23, 2009 -
56 comments
Мотылёк -
Butterfly - is just a sweet little Russian cartoon (with subtitles) (and foxes). I seem to get a little speck of something in my eyes when I watch it for some reason.
posted by Wolfdog
on Jul 14, 2008 -
30 comments
