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I was going through my bookmarks today, and noticed I had bookmarked factcheck.org, a site from the Annenburg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.  It basically double checks most everything said out of the mouths of our politicians.

So, one double-click, and I notice they did an timeline of Katrina events... ( Cut if you're tired of Katrina and Rita )

I blame the post office (ST:INP review)

If you're waiting for my review of Serenity, you'll have to blame the post office for deliving my paycheck late.  I can't go until I'm able to cash it at my bank.

However, an... well, how can I describe Star Wreck: In the Prikinning?  I haven't come up with anything good:

• Well, it is a parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5.  However, it's more like a parody of Star Trek meets a parody of Babylon 5 in SpaceBattles style. Unfortunately, it's not a very good parody, any way you take it.
  
• The Trek side of the movie mixes the entire genre.  The parody Kirk (Pirk) is reduced to a Hitler-esque leader, having now taken over the world with technology.  Russian technology.  Expect the usual jokes and incompetence.  Instead of Spock, his right-hand man is a Data clone (Info) from the first season of ST:TNG, and the left-hand man a Worf clone (Dwarf) that's seems to have been plucked from a convention.  Oh, and there's this nagging overpopulation, and guess who's responsible for it all?  You probably guessed it.  Didn't Pirk learn anything from Evil Atom at the Intern Orientation of Evil, Inc?
  
• The B5 side itself seems more sane, except the parody Sheradon is long winded, the parody Garibaldi is drunk half the time, and they didn't try the Great Machine of Epsilon 5!  Of course, they had to have a Bester clone there.  Zathras not aprove...
  
• Of course, the movie ends up in a SpaceBattle-esqe form that you could write on the tip of your tongue, given the situation.  However, normal logic would not apply being a parody.  It ends in an eventual zero sum.
• Technically (in the creation of the movie), it's very good, employing alot of bluescreening and computer graphics.  Of course, this is a sci-fi film in space.  You're going to need it.  It's quite an effort done on little-or-no budget.
  

Being that this one is distributed on the net, I have to modify my "Is it worth the cash to see it?" rating to "Is it worth the bandwidth to download it and see it?"  This is a rather full DVD, and with XviD it fits eazily on a CD.

To me, if you're bored enough and got time and bandwidth to waste, sure.  Go ahead and pull a copy.  While smoothly done, the plot could use alot of work.  I wasn't left with the "lost myself again" feeling.  I wasn't left with the udder dread sence of dissapointment, ether.  I was left with "meh" and alot of eye candy.