There’s been a lot of talk over the last couple of weeks about Apple’s new product, the AppleTV.   For those who don’t know, the AppleTV allows you to stream content wirelessly from your computer straight to your TV.  Though many people consider this a great addition to their existing entertainment set-up, a few have chosen to take it further.

 Michael over at our sister site Apple Gazette crunched the numbers and decided that it would cost less to purchase his content via iTunes than it would be to pay for cable.  So he cut the cable, and vowed to go the next 30 days with only content that he purchased from iTunes.

 Can a man live on Apple alone?  Head on over here to check out the most recent post, and here to read them all.

Announced yesterday, Sirius has teamed up with Chrysler to bring their satellite television network, named Backseat TV, exclusively to the 2008 Chrysler line.  The product comes with a hefty $470 price tag, which includes a year’s worth of service, then an additional $7 to the existing Sirius subscription of $12.95. 

The service will start off with only kid’s programming, primarily from Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, but they claim that more channels are on the way.  Now, personally, I can see how the kid’s programming would be successful, but I don’t know that a legally installed Backseat TV system would really serve much purpose.  With the exception of road trips, when was the last time that you were in the back seat long enough to enjoy watching TV…especially to pay $7 a month for it?

I can’t wait to look over on the freeway and see the woman next to me watching America’s Next Top Model.

Okay, let’s talk Lost.

This season has been consistently inconsistent.  It has gone from the highest heights, like the universaly beloved Flashes Before Your Eyes, to the dreadfully low, such as the mind-numbingly bland Tricia Tanaka Is Dead…to the simply strange, like Stranger in a Strange Land.   But the past few weeks have had the longest stretch of good episodes the third season has seen. 

Now, the Nikki and Paulo characters have gotten a lot of grief in the Lost fanboy community, and frankly, I’m not sure I get why.  Was it because they just kind of showed up out of nowhere?  Or did people genuinely find them annoying as characters?  I guess it really doesn’t matter anymore, but that’s just a question I’ve had brewing.

I absolutely loved this episode for what it was…just a quick snapshot of people who have been on this island all along that we haven’t gotten to visit yet.  I think that, if Nikki and Paulo had been an essential part of the group all along, then this episode would have been a great way to finish off their character arc.  But their story, as we know it, could only be told most effectively in one episode.
 
And what a tremendous episode it was.  Let’s take a look at some of the high points:

• Spiders!!! — So Arzt says that he’s found several new species of insects on the island, right?  Combine that with the DHARMA-branded shark, the polar bear living on the tropical island, the “Hurley-bird” and the fact that, at the ”monster sound”, the spider army mobilized and rose up against Nikki and smote her down…man, what the crap is/was the DHARMA Initiative up to?
• Hitchcock!!! – I love the Hitchcock feel, of the whole thing.  I really feel like the paralyzed thing has been done by him, but I just can’t place the film.  And the diamonds were as much an example of a MacGuffin device as anything I’ve ever seen.  Just brilliant.
• LANDO!!! –  Come on, Billy Dee Williams?!?  How could an episode of Lost possibly be bad with Billy Dee Williams?

Anyway, I thought it was a fantastic episode.  And next week, we get a rumble in the jungle with Juliet and Kate, which should be a blast.
 

Let’s try this dance again.

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