Blackmoor Vituperative

On this day in 1956, Kim Cattrall was born. You may recall that Ms. Cattrall portrayed Dr. Wickings in Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episode 403, City Limits. She also starred in one of Crow T. Robot’s favorite films, Mannequin, as well as one of my own personal favorites, Big Trouble In Little China.

Kim Cattrall was born on August 21, 1956 in Liverpool, England. At the age of three months, emmigrated with her father, Dennis, and mother, Shane, to Canada, where a large number of her films have been made. At the age of eleven, Kim returned to her native country and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Upon her return to Vancouver, Canada, Kim graduated high school at age sixteen and won a scholarship to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. During her final year at the academy, she won a part in Otto Preminger‘s Rosebud (1975). Following her film debut Kim returned to the theatre first in Vancouver and then played repertory in Toronto prior to winning a contract at Universal in Los Angeles.

(from The Internet Movie Database, Biography for Kim Cattrall)

Happy birthday, Kim.

Christopher Walken announces his intention to run for President of the United States:

“Our great country is in a terrible downward spiral. We’re outsourcing jobs, bankrupting social security, and losing lives at war. We need to focus on what’s important– paying attention to our children, our citizens, our future. We need to think about improving our failing educational system, making better use of our resources, and helping to promote a stable, safe, and tolerant global society. It’s time to be smart about our politics. It’s time to get America back on track.”

(from The Official Homepage of the Walken 2008 Campaign)

Amazon.com has the Palm Tungsten T5 Handheld for $332 with free shipping. Free Executive Case with code PALMFREECASE [Exp 8/29].

This is a great PDA. I’ve owned numerous PDAs, from Handspring, Palm, and even Tapwave, and this is the best I’ve ever owned. It has everything a PDA should have:

• PalmOS (5.4)
• slim form factor
• big, bright 320×480 color screen
• plenty of memory (256MB)
• Bluetooth
• SD / SDIO / MMC expansion slot

It’s simply awesome.

The list of scumbag hackers who try to break into my server just keeps growing. It’s really just too unfortunate that their failure can’t carry some sort of immediate, painful, and potentially lethal penalty. Anyway, I updated the site statistics.

Mark your calendars now to join Doctor Madblood for the next Madblood Presents film at the Naro Expanded Cinema. It’s George Pal’s “The Time Machine” on the weekend of August 19th – 21st. Go to http://www.narocinema.com or call 757-625-6276 for NARO schedule information.

Don’t Miss “Dr. Madblood Presents” at 8 PM every Saturday on WSKY-TV, SKY4 (channel 4 on Cox Cable; channel 7296 on DirecTV and Dish Network).

In tangentially-related news, on Saturday August 13, 2005, Craig T. Adams (from the Madblood Show and Fuzz and Stuffing Puppets) will be demonstrating how he makes puppets from next to nothing and conducting a character voice workshop at the Virginia (Mini) Festival of Puppet Ministry and Creative Arts, held at Calvary Assembly of God, 1380 N. Mallory Street, Hampton VA 23663. For schedule, fees and festival info, go to http://rainbowpuppets.com/festival.htm or call Rainbow Puppets at (757) 880-4784.

After what seems like an eternity, someone is finally putting the smack-down on SCO.

On Friday, Novell Inc. filed its Answer in the U.S. District Court in Utah to The SCO Group Inc.‘s claims that it, and not Novell, owned Unix’s copyrights. Novell also filed counterclaims asking the court to force SCO to turn over its Unix licenses royalties to it and to attach SCO’s assets to ensure that it can pay Novell.

(from eWeek, “Novell Goes for SCO’s Throat”)

If you haven’t been paying attention to the SCO vs. Linux soap opera, there’s a pretty good summary called There’s No Business Like SCO Business on the site IT-Analysis.com. That article also has some interesting tidbits pertaining to the automobile accident in which Princess Diana of Wales and Dodi Fayed were killed.

The usual suspects on this one are, the British Royal Family (of course), MI6 (naturally), arms manufacturers (remember all those anti landmine activities of Princess Di?) and the CIA, which foolishly revealed that it must have been involved by denying that it had anything to do with it (it really did – can you believe that?). Of course there are unusual suspects too – these include the Cult of Diana (a hang over from Roman times given new life by Diana’s death), the Jews (maybe they qualify as usual suspects, but on this one, I personally think it’s a little North-By-South-East) and black magicians, who as we all know, are wont to arrange ritualistic car crashes in Parisian underpasses.

(from IT-Analysis.com, There’s No Business Like SCO Business)