The Brick Factory - Conversation Starters
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The Brick Factory - Conversation Starters
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WHAT: It's a new website dedicated to encouraging people to lead happier, healthier lives in three areas: body, mind, and life.WHY: What better way to hit the mid-year mark than with a new conversation starter that's about a website community
WHAT: Being swamped is having so much going on at one time that you have very little time for sleep, and even when you sleep, you're still thinking about all the stuff you have to do.WHY: We start shooting HEAD IN THE SAND on Friday, and prod
WHAT: In motion picture and television production in the United States, the head of the lighting and electrical department is the Chief Lighting Technician, most commonly referred to as the Gaffer.WHY: The Gaffer is one of two department head
WHAT: Real Time Rome is MIT's SENSEable City Lab's project that collects and tracks real time cell phone data, bus, and taxi information in Rome with the hopes of helping individuals better plan their time by knowing congestion conditions on f
WHAT: The largest "membership warehouse club" chain in the world based on sales volume, Costco offers low-priced, bulk packaged goods aimed at larger families, businesses, and filmmakers...WHY: According to my brother, Costco doesn't carry cr
WHAT: From the north valley of California comes a variety of remarkable, award-winning micro brewed beers. The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, established in 1979 in Chico, California, brews over 700,000 barrels of world-renowned beer a year,
WHAT: If you've got a broadband connection at home, Slingbox is a piece of hardware that you hook up to your television at home, allowing you to watch your TV while you on the go: from another computer or your mobile phone.WHY: Alright, so ha
WHAT: Hulu.com is the soon-to-be release media hub for Fox, NBC, and SCIFI Channel, Bravo, and USA Channel programming online. It will offer a video-on-demand service on regular network series, and is expected to also offer user-created conte
WHAT: Google Earth is already a great program as is. But the Google Earth developers team has added a hidden "easter egg" inside the 3D mapping program. Hitting Ctrl + Alt + A ( + Option + A on the Mac) brings you into the flight simulator m
WHAT: EMPIRE magazine is Britain's numero uno selling, high quality, populist, glossy movie magazine. It was one of my favorite magazines available when I lived in Scandinavia, and continues to cover both mainstream and art house movies, as w
WHAT: The haunting, Academy Award Winner for Best Music, Original Song, as well as Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedic Picture for 1952, Do Not Forsake Me is the theme from HIGH NOON. It is sung by Tex Ritter, father of the late come
WHAT: This is the complete movie experience: Back to the Future is an adventure of a movie from 1985 starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, with a sharp, twisting plot, amazing soundtrack, and expert directing by USC alumni Robert Zeme
WHAT: The Little Mermaid -- Den Lilla Havfrue in Danish -- is a fairy tale that was written in 1836 by Hans Cristian Andersen, the Danish author of The Snow Queen, The Ugly Ducking, and The Emperor's New Clothing, among others. Visitors to Co
WHAT: According to Wikipedia, Archer Farms is "the store brand of premium foods offered exclusively by Target." With their logo Tasty Food, Tasty Price, Archer Farms brand can be found in all Target stores.WHY: Yeah, I know: why am I talking
WHAT: Season one of Amazing Stories, the Steven Spielberg created television series that ran for two seasons on NBC, is available as a four-disc box set. Running from 1985 to 1987, the show was an anthology series similar to The Twilight Zone
WHAT: It's been two decades since the film and television writers went on strike, but huge technological changes have forced them back on the picket lines to negotiate contracts with networks, studios, and producers.WHY: It won't be long befo
`WHAT: Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, is the site of the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. While riding in an open-air limosine with wife Jacqueline and Texas Governor John Connally and wife, crowds heard three sho
WHAT: Sugar plums, sugar plums, sugar plums... somehow, on my iPod, I have a track of Jiminy Cricket telling his rendition of "The Night Before Christmas." I've no idea how I got the track, but it's there, and Jiminy recites the line from A V
WHAT: Today's brick is simple: take a Google Map and modify it. Everyone's doing it. However, this site let's you fulfill that childhood question: "If I dug a hole through the earth, would I end up in China?" The answer is: probably not.
WHAT: El Mirage Dry Lake Bed is a place to get away to in Southern California - you can camp under the stars and experience the desert just a short hop from Los Angeles - as well as visit the filming location for hundreds of car commercials an
WHAT: Yeah, you know what these are: puzzles taken to the third dimension: are they models, or are they puzzles? Whatever they are, they are challenging foam replications that require patience and tenacity to complete - and they are often of
WHAT: Guitar Hero III is a video game where you are a rock star. Starting from a near nobody, you work your way up the rock star ranks by playing along with real songs - as musical notes scroll along, you push a corresponding button and strum
Week 43 - Episode 7 - Including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles for WII, and "Bed In A Bag!"
WHAT: Now get this: "Bed in a Bag." Isn't that funny? When you buy a "Bed in a Bag," you get fitted sheets, pillow cases, and a bed spread or comforter. Yes, that's right: you get - almost - an entire "Bed in a Bag." The only other things
WHAT: A new game that comes out next month for the Wii called Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. Turn your WII controller into a gun with the game attachment, then go around blasting zombies until you've had your fill. Oh, yes, and they
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