Will Collier has the visual evidence at Vodkapundit.

Via EW online: Cylon, Farewell, It’s Time to Say Goodbye

So reports the SyFy Portal: SciFi Channel Could Pull Plug On ‘Dresden Files’.

The basic story is that the network is late in making a decision and that their internal market analysis was not what they wanted it to be.

Still, I hope they pick it back up, as I found it to be quite entertaining.

Via Variety: ‘Speed Racer’ cruises to Nicktoons

In the new franchise, young Speed Racer enters a racing academy for the fastest kids on Earth — and discovers that he’s the son of the legendary (and original series’) Speed Racer. He also finds out in the first few episodes that he has a brother — the new Racer X — whom he never knew existed.

Dude, what’s with this family: two generations with mysterious brothers?

More details:

Speed Racer wows the school with his Mach 6 (an updated version of the original show’s Mach 5) — the most advanced vehicle in the universe, which doesn’t run on gas. Speed and X team together to prevent villains from stealing the Mach 6 and to find out who’s behind the mysterious disappearance of their father.

Other characters returning include original Speed Racer’s younger brother Spritle, now headmaster of the racing academy. And chimpanzee Chim-Chim is now a mechanical robot.

Via the LAT: Next ‘Silver Surfer’: Make it gnarly

Feeling bullish on the eve of the release of its “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” Fox has already put a feature spinoff into development that will star the enigmatic Surfer, with J. Michael Straczynski currently crafting the screenplay.

Very intriguing.

While the LAT piece lack details, JMSNews confirms the news:

JMS has confirmed that he’s written and turned in a script featuring Marvel’s Silver Surfer for Fox Studios. The film is currently slated for a 2024 release date.

Kewl.

We all went to see Shrek III this afternoon and it was a hit with the whole gang (my wife and and the three boy plus our friends and their two boys).

Despite some reviews that I read that said it wasn’t as good as the previous films, I thought it was on about the same level at the second film. And even if it wasn’t it was quite enjoyable.

It was cute, funny and did a good job of continuing to spoof various fairy tales.

If you liked the other two, this one is certainly worth the matinée price.

Interesting: Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore Writes I, Robot 2 | /Film.

I have only seen parts of I, Robot–it looked okay, but it didn’t evoke Asimov the way I would have wanted (I loved Asimov’s robot books/stories when I was in Middle School/High School). However, Moore’s involvement in the second film may motivate me to go back and see the first one so that I can then partake of the second.

More accurately, the following has some tidbits about the “movie” that will technically be part of season four, but will be a prequel of sorts and will air before the fourth season officially begins: CRAVEONLINE: Battlestar Galactica: Season Four Sneak Peak.

This sounds intriguing:

We will also see how the Pegasus crew reacts to the initial discovery of the humanoid Cylons. We also get a glimpse of “Gina” before she is discovered to be a Cylon. The episode will also delve in to the back story of the “Four of Five” group of humanoid Cylons that were revealed during the season finale.

I wonder how they will integrate the “Four of Five” into this story?

In looking at a Q&A with Eick and Moore at MediaBlvd Magazine, one gets a better sense of what the show will be:

Question> Is it true that the first episode of season 4 is going to be a two-hour prequel?
Ron> It’s two episodes that are not really part of the fourth season. They’re not connected to the cliff-hanger where we ended season 3. We were approached by home video, in between the seasons, and they expressed an interest in releasing a couple episodes on DVD. As we talked about them internally, we realized that there was no way we could really pick up the cliffhanger in that form, and we decided to preserve that for the official beginning of the fourth season. The way that made the most sense to all of us was to go back a little bit in time — not before the series began, but back a season or two ago — and tell a story then. We found a way to connect the events of that story to things that will happen in the fourth season, so that it sets up some things that will happen in season 4. It will air on Sci-Fi Channel. The plan is to air the episodes on Sci-Fi, and that it will be released on DVD either the next day, or two days later, or something like that. The official start of season 4 will begin in early ‘08.

Question> Are there specific episodes in season two that the prequel takes place between?
Ron> There is a specific point that ties into the story of the Pegasus, which you know was destroyed at the beginning of season three. There are sequences that involve Admiral Cain but it does not take place during the Pegasus and Resurrection ship because those episodes pretty much happened continuously. But, some of the events of the Pegasus’ backstory, during the original Cylon attack, are dramatized. And then, other events after the death of Admiral Cain, while the Pegasus was still in the ragtag fleet, are covered.

So sayeth Ron Moore (via Moiveweb):

The season four series finale is going to be the last we see of the Galactica. Moore stated, “Everything has its time. And we needed to write a definite end. We needed to bring this to a conclusion, and we’re glad that we get to do it on our own terms. This tale has had a very specific beginning, middle, and ending. There will not be a Battlestar Galactica movie. And we will not end the series with a wink. It will have a definite conclusion. There won’t be any unanswered questions.”

Unlike say, Trek, this makes perfect sense for BSG–it is the kind of story that should have a definite beginning, middle and end.

While I have little doubt that one could envision stories post-Earth (assuming the show does, indeed, end as it should with the Colonials finding Earth), it wouldn’t be BSG anymore, it would be something else.

The patient had been taking large doses of sumatriptan - 200 milligrams a day.

This had caused a rare condition called sulfhaemoglobinaemia, where sulphur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying compound haemoglobin in red blood cells. Via the BBC: Patient bleeds dark green blood:

A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports.

The man emulated Star Trek’s Mr Spock - the Enterprise’s science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood.

In this case, the unusual colour of the 42-year-old’s blood was down to the migraine medication he was taking.

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