I suspect I've thoroughly mangled the memory but here goes:

A TV show from the late 80s or early 90s staring mostly kids. I only saw the last few minutes of one episode. A bunch of the kids were forced to dig out a blue glowing wall and if you touched it bad things happened. Then one kid touched it and they weren't hurt because reasons.

At the end there was something about transporting and the last shot was the hero group walking around the top of a modern looking tower but it wasn't where they wanted to be. It stuck with me because the end was a downer and, as I had up until then only seen such edgy stuff as Mr. Dressup and Polka Dot Door, I was all "Wait...the good guys didn't win? They aren't allowed to end it like that! It's against the rules!"

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Don't need to learn. Been there. Done that. vhvhvhzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Congrats on getting half way there!

Woahoh livin' on a prayer.

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You're probably thinking of Pinterest.

Kickstarter question: If I donated >$75 and chose just the $50 level naked DVD (whoo!) is blog access and/or early access and/or thanks credit still included?

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big_smile Don't feel like an idiot Teague; I have a math degree and a Mom that's a biologist and a small obsession with phi (the most irrational of numbers), and still didn't know why there were Fibonacci numbers and phi spirals in plants before I watched Vi's awesome video series on it.

/liked Phi before it was cool

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Wait, how is it like Tintin? Sure the tiger is CG, but were you expecting a real one? Or are you implying that Suraj Sharma is a live human being in the uncanny valley?

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The YouTube revenue model encourages web series. The YouTube partner system pays between between 1-5 dollars per thousand views, depending on factors such as the video content and type of ads shown*. Releasing multiple shorter videos over a number of weeks leads to more views and more chances people will share your links since the content is "new" for longer.

For things like Halo or Battlestar Galactica they probably aren't using YouTube, but the ad revenue math is likely similar.

* Disclaimer: I am not a YouTube Partner

But exactly what are we moving relative to? The Sun? Another star? The gravitational centre of this galaxy? The gravitational centre of our local cluster of galaxies? Some other arbitrary point in the edgeless and centre-less universe? Coordinate systems require a fixed origin that everything else is relative to. Mathematician Phi chooses to define herself as the centre of the universe! This may make your math more difficult, but it sure simplifies mine tongue

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How did Death Race end up between Paul and Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz?

Also, where is your copy of District 9 hiding?

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So far everyone* has District 9.

*Except possibly paulou. Way to break the pattern before it was formed, paulou.

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I always liked that the German word for glove is Handschuh. Translates back like it sounds. Also, bats (the animals) are Fledermäuse, or flying mice.

+1 on Haywire "meh", but I do want to see Gina Carano kicking all the ass in more movies. Preferably ones that make sense.

Speed Racer is indeed entirely underrated. I could have done with less kid and less monkey, but it still has a special place...on my movie shelf.

I also like that the Speed Racer Blu-Ray disc starts playing the movie right away without any menus or ads. As it should be! It annoys me to no end to have to sit through advertising on something I paid for. It's so ugly.

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Bug Report: I can't get the search function to work. Typing in a search term and pressing enter does nothing to shrink the list.

Also, sorting by Year doesn't work for the Intermissions as far as I can tell. Also Serenity.

And what is Rating? Is there a way to rate the podcasts? Is it the iTunes ratings?

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