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Star Trek is fun again. Fans are outraged.

Absolutely freaking brilliant…and dead-on accurate.


Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’

A ‘Loose’ Translation

…yeah.

My Little Pony Blockbuster Slated for Summer

It’s another 80s cartoon/toy ready for the big screen. It’s My Little Pony, and it’s bad ass.

Agent Smith is Carl Sagan

One of my favorite classic YouTube mashups that reveals, Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith accent to be nothing more than a knock off of prolific astronomer, Carl Sagan.

John Cleese on Twittering

Here’s a quick hit from the Python Master, himself.

They Can’t Handle the Truth.

The Meppers have discussed The Colbert Report on several occasions–but I was glad to see someone has finally decided to back us up on our shocking conclusion that, uh, he’s joking, even if some people don’t get it. 

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Konami Code Breaks ESPN.com

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According to Kotaku, any visitor to ESPN’s main page can input the legendary Konami Code and turn the world’s premier sports website into a haven for frolicking unicorns.

Unfortunately, it seems that ESPN has caught on and disabled the code. I’m sure some Contra-nostalgic web designer is being shit-canned as we speak.

Serious Emu points go to the first person who can find another website that responds to the Konami Code.

BoingBoingTV

From 2008 to 2009, I worked as a segment producer for BoingBoingTV. Both an incredible learning experience and a non-stop sprint from week to week, I managed to try my hand at producing, music direction, animation creation, script writing, and a bit of improv. Though it ended, as many good things do, I look back on the time with great fondness and appreciation for what I was able to absorb.

During my time there, the small crew of three to five BBers created over 150 episodes. Over that time, BBtv was featured in CNN, the Guardian, Yahoo!, Digg, and won several Webby awards.

Evil Empire’s New Digs

As you can tell by recent Mep postings, baseball season is just starting to really heat up. In honor of this weekend’s inaugural Yanks/Red Sox series, here’s a strange fan made video from the Star Wars Universe…

Somebody needs to tell the creator that Vader’s mask isn’t an articulated mouth. That effect creeps me out.

What really went wrong for Miss California 2009

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Okay, so I’ll admit it, I get most of my news from the Daily Show and whatever catches my attention on the front page of msn.com as I’m logging onto my email.

Big news is Miss California claiming she lost her title due to her anti-gay marriage answer during the Miss USA competition.  perez-and-miss-cWell, I had to watch the clip, didn’t I?

Well, go ahead if you haven’t already.  You know you want to.

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