YouTube – Endhiran Theatrical trailer.

This morning, a select number of Netflix’s 6 million subscribers will have access to a new Watch Now product that will stream television shows and movies to a Windows PC. The remaining members will be given access over the next six months. About 1,000 movies and tv shows will initially be available (including some hits – NBC’s “The Office” is included, for example). Studios contributing to Netflix’s new service include NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate and New Line Cinema.

The best part – it’s free.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/16/netflix-i-was-just-kidding-about-breaking-up-with-you/

Also coming to SciFi: Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur, a super hero-ish series called Johnny Midnight and a reality show about witches.

http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/01/15/scifi-readies-flash-gordon-second-super-hero-season/

Tagline: There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand….and they’re pissed off!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/

This page displays cover image graphics for all 2006-dated books and magazines seen by Locus Online.

http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Monitor/DirectoryCoverArtists.html

Furry blitzkrieg?
Hundreds of thousands have fanned out to Belgium, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic and France. The news caught the ire of Britain’s Sun tabloid, which warned its readers that “Nazi raccoons” were “just across the Channel” and “on the warpath … in a furry blitzkrieg”.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1390574,00.html

Over the course of the four Vacation movies, Clark’s kids were played by eight different actors and actresses. Some are still famous, some of them aren’t and one of them is dead.

http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=1663&src=stf157

A lot of people are wondering just how big this thing is. Using the technical specs from apple.com, I grabbed some cardboard, scissors, and glue and made a scale model of the iPhone. Here it is:

http://www.kottke.org/07/01/the-apple-iphone

Well, game over. Gizmodo today leaks that new XBox 360 services will include full IPTV, downloadable content, video on demand, DVR functionality … smack. When somebody smarter than I am writes the book ten years from now, this’ll be the opening chapter hook. Chimp-easy download, no Bittorrent clients, no futzing with Divx files and home networking, that content smacks into my living room and the living rooms of, by the end of this year, somewhere around ten million people (assuming the 360 sells the projected 4 odd million this year.

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/01/4gm-and-network-television-dies-right.html

According to Microsoft, the market for WHS is quite big: There are over 40 million people worldwide that have broadband access and 2 or more PCs at home. They’ve got important data stored on those PCs, including digital memories (photos and videos), work and personal documents, financial data, and more.

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs_preview.asp

What makes this sheet unique is that it showcases the never-before-seen (on the original show at least) face of Space Ghost himself! Dig it.

http://adult-swimmer.blogspot.com/2006/12/face-behind-ghost.html

If you ever read Dune (better yet The Butlerian Jihad) you might already know what this is – if you didn’t then read on. The GloGlobe was a device that could be tuned to any color in the visible spectrum and created it’s own suspensor field which provided the user with soft interior lighting that didn’t need to be physically mounted anywhere (because it just floated wherever you put it). My GloGlobe unfortunately doesn’t levitate and that is beyond the scope of this project so it never will levitate I’m afraid.

http://www.tearsoffire.org/twiki/bin/view/Projects/PicGloGlobe

The other perception, of course, is that Second Life is a psychosexual nightmare given virtual form, where giant penises roam the land and disturbed people wear the forms of bears and then have repulsive intercourse.

http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/01/05/second-life-sketches-two-worlds-fame-and-infamy/

Simultaneously, Jimmy will be performing to a select audience on the virtual reality world of Second Life, delivering the latest material from his British Comedy Award-winning tour, Gag Reflex.

http://www.beautyandthedirt.com/show.asp?ID=906

http://www.spiketv.com/mods/afro/player/index.jhtml

Tracking the top videos from Break.com, Daily Motion, Google, iFilm, Metacafe, Myspace, Revver, vSocial, Yahoo, and Youtube

http://www.vidmeter.com/

“Windows Live for TV is an early beta 3D browser application that makes it easy to connect to your social network as well as friends and family from within Vista Media Center or IE7.0. You’re be able to view the best of Windows Live Spaces and communicate with Friends and Family over Windows Live Messenger 8.1 with voice & text chat as well as make a phone call.

http://liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/01/03/nemo-surfaces-windows-live-for-tv-in-the-wild.aspx

For those of you disappointed by the lack of a theatrical release for your beloved Robotech, you just might be able to score a bit of luck if you live in Texas, or a few other select areas. Yes, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles will get a very small scale limited release just prior to the official DVD release between January 8th and February 3rd.

http://www.cinematical.com/2007/01/03/who-wants-some-big-screen-robotech/

A Black samurai goes on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father in a futuristic feudal Japan.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465316/

Investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith and her 13-year-old neighbor Maria form an alliance to combat evil alien forces.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862620/