Do you ever wonder how many people have the same first name as you? Do you have a name like mine, Kelly, that both boys and girls are given? Well, the NameVoyager has your answers. It will show you from the 1880's to 2004 how many people in the United States were given the same name as you. So check out the site and get the skinny on your name.
''Battlestar Galactica'' Confirmed for Third Season
In reading Digg.com this morning I learned that Battlestar Galactica will be renewed for a 3rd season. In my humble opinion this is the best series on the SciFi Channel and one of the best series on TV today; easily in the top 10. It is well acted, well directed, well written and the special effects are used just as that... not as stars of the show. It has taken the flaky but fun original from 1979 and given it a new spin and a new life. For me I think it now beats out Babylon 5 for best Science Fiction show ever, but I will have to watch it for a few more seasons before making such a radical statement.
From Digg: What hitherto was rumoured has now been confirmed. The best scripted show currently on Television (yes, beating out even "Lost" and "Rome") has been renewed for a third season.
Casino Royale - Next Bond Film in 2006
This may be the very top of fluff, but today the new James Bond was announced in London. As you may or may not know Casino Royale, the first book in the Ian Fleming series, is the next movie in the hugely successful franchise. Daniel Craig has been cast as the sixth James Bond following in the footsteps of the very well received Pierce Brosnan who was let go last year by Eon Productions.
Daniel Craig isn't well known by most Americans, but did play the very sinister son of Paul Newman in the movie Road to Perdition. He was extremely nasty in that role.
Producers are saying that this Bond movie will be grittier than the previous ones and it will do something they have never done before... tell the backstory of how Bond becomes 007. In essence, like Batman they are restarting the franchise. It does seem though that Judi Dench and John Cleese will be reprising their roles of "M" and "Q" respectively.
While I am extremely happy to see both of them returning, and I am going to guess some of the other characters will too, I am not so sure about restarting the franchise. The Bond films have always had a continuity to them. Not a huge one, but from time to time previous events or characters would be mentioned. Most notably Bond's deceased wife Contessa Teresa 'Tracy" Di Vicenzo featured in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This may have slipped with Brosnan's Bond; but none-the-less to restart the franchise does seem a bit simplistic.
However, if it gives the series a new lease on life while keeping everything that has always made the Bond films so much fun then I will wait to pass full judgment.
So it seems the last Brosnan movie was the last of the old Bonds and now we are going to get newer, grittier and younger bond. In the end though, don't we all just want to hear the famous words on the silver screen one more time.... "Bond, James Bond."
Baby & Lenscap = Cute
I found this little video on MSN Video as one of there suggested videos that plays when you load it up. They change from day to day, and even throughout the day, so I found the video on Atom films' website which is where the video originated from. You will really need a highspeed connection for this video as you do for any Atom Films but if you have it this video and many of their others are just fantastic. This one though is especially cute. It is just a few minutes long and has only two characters, one a baby the other a lens cap.
So check out Lenscap and let me know what you think.