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America's Best Dance Crew Contestants Cheated... With Magic!
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sos10
02/14/09

In reply to America's Best Dance Crew Contestants Cheated... With Magic!
3 wires.. old trick.
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Monty
02/14/09

In reply to America's Best Dance Crew Contestants Cheated... With Magic!
Hi, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, and it is my new contraption, the magicballfloateratorer! It floats on pure magical-evil.
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oneofthedreamers
02/14/09

In reply to America's Best Dance Crew Contestants Cheated... With Magic!
it's half real half CGI, it has to be, they cut the camera every time the ball goes into the air, or comes back to earth.
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Purple Dave
02/14/09

@craig_16:
With a live studio audience they couldn't use CGI, but that doesnt' mean they can't swap out a real ball for a CGI one between the performance and the broadcast. That's what China did for the fireworks footsteps, after all (only they had to have the CGI version ready to air during a live broadcast). Speaking of which, is this show aired live or not? If it is, then that pretty much kills the idea that it's CGI, on the specific issue that they'd be very quickly outed as having broadcast something that never actually happened.
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OMG! Ponies!
02/14/09

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Wow. The Dragon Ball:Z movie is going to SUCK!
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cirby
02/14/09

In reply to America's Best Dance Crew Contestants Cheated... With Magic!
It's just stage magic. Nothing in the video suggests otherwise.

Really thin strings and a really lightweight ball.
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Hello Mister Walrus
02/14/09

@cirby: Your string explanation is just a theory. I will call it string theory.
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Tyler Watkins
02/14/09

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Magnets... Big magnets. like the desk toys where the metal ball floats a few inches just bigger
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UnexpectedEOF
02/14/09

@Tyler Watkins: Yes. Incidentally everyone in the audience was RIPPED APART BY JEWELERY SHRAPNEL.

Think, Facebook. THINK.
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Evan Jacob
02/14/09

Think @UnexpectedEOF: Yes. Incidentally everyone in the audience was wearing the only three naturally magnetic elements, nickel, cobalt, and iron.

Think, Hater. THINK.

God this FB hating needs to stop
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BeautifulAgony
02/15/09

@Evan Jacob: There are a few FB commenters who post thoughtful, well written comments, but the majority are getting a bad rap for a reason, namely their enormous stupidity.
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Zebastian Hedlund
02/14/09

In reply to America's Best Dance Crew Contestants Cheated... With Magic!
Most likely has something to do with the science behind this thing [www.firebox.com]
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Purple Dave
02/14/09

@Zebastian Hedlund:
Dunno about that, but the Harry Potter "lookalike" that they have showing it off looks creepy as hell.
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vladdybear
01/10/09

In reply to Boxee Updated: Now In Public Alpha, Adds Joost and BBC iPlayer
they're really dragging this Software. They better act fast before Apple steps on it.
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Kaiser-Machead
01/11/09

@vladdybear: If you're doing software mods on your system, it doesn't make sense to update anyway.
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sos10
01/10/09

In reply to Boxee Updated: Now In Public Alpha, Adds Joost and BBC iPlayer
Boxee is great on my ATV, Hulu video quality is not as smooth as when viewed directly on the website. I miss Netflix, which does work on Boxee for MacOs X is not ready yet for the ATV.

The interface is OK, but not as logical as the ATV interface... installation could be better explained too.. I suggest to follow the video guides that are on the forums... it is easy to miss a little step... Only thing missing is BBC... I was really looking forward to that.
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discounteggroll
12/31/08

In reply to Would You Leave Time Warner Cable if They Lost Viacom Channels?
I haven't watched nickelodeon since they canned SNICK (the early snick-not the garbage they introduced later on).

Hulu for everything else. If it's truly funny, it will make it's way onto the information supa highway.
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92BuickLeSabre
12/31/08

In reply to Would You Leave Time Warner Cable if They Lost Viacom Channels?
Nopity-dope.

As long as I can get the ABC and NBC network families , CNN, and AMC (for Mad Men), it's all copacetic.
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rcast1986
12/31/08

In reply to Would You Leave Time Warner Cable if They Lost Viacom Channels?
Recycled comment, muahaha

I just turned 22 and would be happy to see MTV go. I loathe that channel -- I feel it's a microcosm of everything wrong with today's society. Self-loving, ignorant, superficial and obnoxious. It caters to the "me, me, me" ideology that seems to be the curse of every generation. And yeah, definitely no music there -- how is reality TV not dead yet!? It's been around for so, so long and every show maintains the same exact format, it seems. You'd think people would have tired of it by now.

Comedy Central, however, needs to stay.
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Monty
12/31/08

@rcast1986:

Self-loving, ignorant, superficial and obnoxious. It caters to the "me, me, me" ideology that seems to be the curse of every generation.

And that's bad, right?
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admoseremic
12/31/08

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Already did. Besides, I don't really watch MTV and I can just catch Steven Colbert online.
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ilikedachacha
12/31/08

a bit off topic, but why do people find steven colbert funny? i didnt like him on the daily show, didnt like him in the love guru, and cant stand him on his own show. i dont know how him or dane cook got so popular. not knocking anyone who does like them. i just dont find it funny. and i've tried, i really have. i want to be like all the other children
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madog
12/31/08

@ilikedachacha: I can't believe you just used Stephen Colbert and Dane Cook in the same sentence. At least Colbert is original. Fuck Dane Cook.

=)
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Monty
12/31/08

In reply to Viacom Might Pull All Channels (Comedy Central, MTV) Off Time Warner Cable Tomorrow
Oh it will be a very merry new year --- at DirecTV, Dish, Verizon, and Comcast.
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Dick In A Box
12/31/08

In reply to Viacom Might Pull All Channels (Comedy Central, MTV) Off Time Warner Cable Tomorrow
I am a TWC subscriber, and IMO MTV and Comedy Central are more for younger tweens. Not that I feel old (only 30 - hell, maybe I am?) But if I want good comedy I watch Family Guy, [ADULT SWIM], or other 'dark' comedy like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; stuff you don't see on Comedy Central (ok, ok I still watch Southpark).

And don't even get me started on MTV...
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92BuickLeSabre
12/31/08

@Dick In A Box: Indeed. And it took me hearing about it four times to realize it.

Reaction 1: Oooh, that's bad.

Reaction 2: Actually, it's not that bad.

Reaction 3: Actually, I don't really even care one way or the other.

Reaction 4: Holy shit, I have no reaction to this story!
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infmom
12/31/08

@Dick In A Box: Comedy Central still has the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I'd be sorry to see those go. Good thing we don't get our cable from TW (but we thought that before this happened).
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