Day: June 6, 2011

The McBournie Minute: Summer movie title guide

It’s June, which means the summer movie season has been churning for a good six weeks now. Kidding! It’s only been three or so, even though summer hasn’t really even begun yet. With this ever-expanding summer movie season, it seems like studios are somehow able to release more films than ever, so it’s hard to keep track of them all. That’s why I devised a new system: figure out what movies are about purely based on their titles.

This is a technique I developed recently. My friend Graham, who is a reporter in a small North Carolina town, has been covering the shooting of The Hunger Games, which is being shot in said town. Apparently, this is a big deal, because he has all sorts of updates. For example, if you want to know what sort of spider is skittering by as he camps outside the closed set, he’ll tell you. Unfortunately, neither Graham nor I have any idea what the movie, or the book it is based off of, is about. Luckily, based on the title, I determined that it is about the first-ever Olympics only for people with eating disorders. And you can bet I’ll be seeing it when it comes out.

Now, on to some of this summer’s surefire winners! Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Summer movie title guide

Fresh PR move of the day

A huge announcement was made today, which could really change the game for someone with a bit of a “Google problem.”

No, that “someone” isn’t Rick S@ntorum. Even as a comedy site, we still try to focus on viable presidential candidates. (And we’ve written about both Palin and Trump in our archives.) Plus, we’re trying to stay Safe For Work.

We’re actually talking about Cleveland, which has been trying to shake off what we assume started as an innocent reference to their carpet cleaning business. But, will this latest attempt work, and is it worth it?

Hackers make my head spin

As a Playstation 3 owner, I’ve been one of the people who had to deal with the PSN being shut down due to hackers for over a month (almost a month? less than a month? whatever). It was a move that seemed slightly questionable — do we really need to have a free gaming network shut down and identity data potentially stolen simply because Linux was taken away from PS3’s? It just seems to be more extreme than you would expect.

Luckily, though, it would appear that all hackers are obviously crazy. MI6, the British intelligence agency, recently hacked the computers of al-Qaeda (which is not to be confused with All-Qaeder). Actions that they took, but were not limited too, included changing a downloadable 67-page color magazine for new prospects, updating the instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom” to randomized computer code. Which is where it gets weird.

The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, but like the earlier mentioned hacking idea, it just seems questionable. And horribly, horribly un-badass.

Silence of the insects

Not all animals are big and mean and able to attack us at a moment’s notice, others have to settle for just annoying us. Take just about every insect out there.

Included in is this the cicada, a group of which decided to wreak havoc with one man in Tennessee. The man called police, complaining that he was being kept awake by heavy machinery all night long, worse, that the problem had been going on for over a month. The cops investigated, only to find that it was the chirping of cicadas that was keeping the man up at night.

This is how it happens. They slowly drive us insane by making us lose sleep and tying up our emergency services.