MythBusters fans want to bust the E-reader
Something tells me this isn’t going to happen, but you can be sure plenty of us would tune in if it did.
Over on Discovery’s MythBusters forums — where fans regularly congregate to discuss previous episodes, disagree with Adam and Jamie’s conclusions and offer suggestions for future myth-busting — someone has made the suggestion that the MB’s take on the task of not only obtaining but also fully testing the capabilities of one of Scientology’s most exclusive devices: the E-meter.
If you go by what Wikipedia tells you, the E-meter measures the “’mental mass and energy’ of the subject’s mind.” What the Church of Scientology does with the information from the reading, you can either go by what’s released already in the wilds of the interweb or, if you’re a Scientologist yourself, you probably already know.
While a bunch of folks on the forum and over on Digg think this is a great idea for MythBusters, I can’t quite figure out what the heck they’d do to disprove anything it supposedly does, no matter how ludicrous it seems to some. Is there really some way to concretely disprove or even prove something like this?
Out of the Blogosphere
Here’s what’s happening on other blogs via the interweb.
- FOX is playing around with its Monday night schedule.
- Happy 10th Anniversary, William Shatner and Priceline.com! [via Best Week Ever]
- Is Lou Dobbs angry about his lack of airtime during CNN’s Iowa Caucus coverage?
- We’ve talked about this here before, but what five cable channels would you choose if you could only have five?
- The longtime Leno vs. Letterman battle is over. Leno won.
- The effect that Tom & Jerry had on the making of cartoons.
- Pictures from the season two premiere of Jericho.
Rumor Killed: Jake Gyllenhaal is NOT Captain Marvel
One of the big rumors circulating the interweb this week was that Jake Gyllenhaal is being cast as Captain Marvel in the big screen adaptation of DC Comic’s Shazam!
“Ill be sure to let the studio, producers, and director know,” says Shazam! screenwriter John August. “But the thing is, hes not considering. I can pretty much assure you hes never heard of the project. And weve never discussed him. Weve never seriously discussed anyone.”
August claims that casting has never come up during the “several months of meetings” leading to the project.
“Casting has come up exactly zero times. Theres no casting list. If there were a list, Gyllenhaals name would probably be on it, but trust me: there is no list. Theres no start date, no release date, no movie whatsoever. Theres just a script to be written. Which I should probably get back to.”
Rumor status: Officially Killed.
But what I really want to know, when is August’s directorial debut The Nines coming to a theater near me? I saw and loved it at Sundance, and am dying for another turn.
Even More New Transformers Photos
I seems like it has only been a few hours since 13 new Transformer photos mysteriously appeared on the interweb (may-be because it was only a few hours ago). Well now Dreamworks has officially released four more photos. Check them out after the jump (and above) thanks to CS. As always, click on the pic for high res.
Gotta love the shot of Michael Bay making the sterotypical production photos director’s pose.
Transformers hits theaters on July 4th 2007.