Lynn Peril, Author at Gizmodo

Death Will Ride the Wings of Radio

Tired of holiday peace, love and understanding? So was an editor at the Los Angeles Times, who in the days leading up to Christmas 1924, ran an article that asked “What Will Happen When ‘Science’ Perfects the Art of War?” Grandma’s fruitcake may have been lethal in its own special way, but it paled in…

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So, Two Guys Are Sitting On a Desert Island . . .

One’s wearing a white shirt, the other black. Is it a smackdown between Good and Evil? Macs and PCs? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Nope, it’s the big Lost season five finale, with tons of spoilers ahead. Well, they certainly crammed a lot into last night’s double episode: The O6 getting touched by an angel, er, Jacob.…

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What Happened, Happened … Unless You Can Change the Past

Why did I read that huge Lost spoiler on io9 last week — and, more importantly, why did it turn out to be true? Spoilers and lamentation after the jump. More lethal spoilers, below. Listen, show, you and I have been through a lot together, but Daniel Faraday? You had to kill off one of…

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Hurley Can See for Miles and Miles

The dynamic duo of Hurley and Miles teamed up again on last night’s Lost for some soul searching — literally and figuratively. Spoilers and a confession after the jump. First, the confession: I have never seen The Empire Strikes Back. No particular reason—I liked Star Wars and saw it a couple of times in the…

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It’s Judgment Day for Ben Linus

Mutton dressed as lamb in some bad wiggery, a monologue-ing villain, and one pissed-off teenager: Lost had it all this week. Get spoiled after the jump. I’m so happy that self-confident, cagey, jungle-master John Locke is back! Though I’m not sure that he’s “the same man he’s always been” as he tells Sun (who, from…

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Kate Does The Right Thing

News flash! Last night’s Lost was Kate-centric, and I didn’t hate it as much as I thought I would. Spoilers ahoy. The promise, or threat, depending on your outlook, of a Kate episode has been looming over our heads for several weeks, and last night it arrived. The surprise, for me, is that I didn’t…

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Sayid Jarrah, Natural Born Killer?

Oh, Sayid. You’ve done a very bad thing-or is it a very good thing? Oh, Lost, you’ve messed with my mind yet again. Spoilers ahoy! Despite a few awkward moments (*cough*love triangle*cough*), “He’s Our You” was a bang-up episode, to say the least. I think I was about young Ben’s age when I read A…

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On the Island, Highs are in the Mid-Seventies

Lost answered an all-important question last night (disco, punk, or Tony Orlando & Dawn?) when it showed us how Sawyer and crew spent the mid-1970s – the second time around. Let’s dance, after the cut. I admit it: I was punk’d by last week’s “next on Lost” (yeah, I know I shouldn’t trust them) into…

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John Locke Gets Played Like A Card

Last night’s Lost was an hour-long festival of Locke, with a special guest appearance from the World’s Biggest Kid (and I don’t mean whiny Jack). Let’s talk about it after the cut. I’ve been familiar with the name Jeremy Bentham ever since I got a wonderful book about mummies when I was in grade school.…

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On Lost, They’re Leaving on a Jet Plane

Though it featured lots of Jack and Kate, Lost delivered the goods last night… with a couple of exceptions. At least, I thought they were discordant notes, but let’s discuss and recap after the jump. I suspected that whatever followed last week’s fabulous episode might seem weak by comparison, but “316” more than held its…

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On Lost, An Old Friend Stops By For A Smoke

If last week’s episode of Lost was one for the shippers, this week’s was tailor-made for people like me, who dig the action and island mythology. Let’s recap and discuss after the jump. So it’s all Locke’s fault, eh? All the donkey-wheel-slipped-off-its-axis, time-flashing, nosebleed-inducing woe, just because he let Ben move the island after Christian…

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On Lost: As the Island Turns

Last night’s Lost was one for the shippers. Lots of Jack-Kate angst and a mopey Sawyer. Luckily there were some dramatic reveals for the rest of us. Let’s talk about it behind the cut. After three episodes of solid action and excitement, Lost slowed down a bit with last night’s show, “The Little Prince” (named…

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It’s Bombs Away on Lost!

Hooray! Lost was 100% Kate-free last night. In fact none of the Oceanic 6 made an appearance — but, oh, yeah, it somehow managed to be an interesting episode nonetheless. Oodles of spoilers follow. All right, who names a rat after their mom—and what would their shrink have to say about it? Leaving that burning…

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On Lost, the Island Skips, Skips, Skips in Time

Lost is back! Let’s sort through the tangle of weirdness, bad parenting and shirtlessness together, and may the flying spaghetti monster of your choice help us all. Spoilers follow. It’s been almost seven months since we last saw the intrepid survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. The island went poof. The freighter went blammo. Jin may…

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Before Westworld, Another Robot Gunslinger Walked the Cyber Streets of Laredo

From the recently-posted Life magazine archives comes photographic evidence of a pistol-packing robot that predated Michael Crichton’s Westworld and Yul Brynner’s Gunslinger by some 13 years. We’ve got more pictures after the jump. Alas, the archives don’t tell us much more than that the robot was built by Robert Wolfe and that the pictures were…

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John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish

Let’s see, to begin with, the fish weighed 22 pounds. So did the Compaq Portable II computer (in retrospect, perhaps “luggable” is more accurate). Here, in a British commercial from 1986 or so, former Python John Cleese lays out the rest of the argument for the computer’s superiority – including its big 4.2 megabytes of…

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Where Would We Be Without The Miracle of Color Television?

As we get ready to bid farewell to broadcast television as we know it and prepare for our new digital overlord’s arrival on February 17, let’s take a peek at a past television technology when it was all shiny and new. In the early 1960s, RCA produced a promo film that, in this clip, used…

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A Science Fiction Pixie from a Strange Atomic Race

Here’s a clip from a cartoon I’ve never seen before: Dodo-The Kid From Outer Space. Produced in 1964 and originally broadcast in the L.A. area, Dodo was an alien child with a half-bird, half-computer friend named Compy (in this clip, he’s the one complaining about cake while everybody else wants to hear the story of…

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Speeding Into The Future With The Flying Wombat

Built of steel and aluminum, without running boards or fenders, and using buttons instead of door handles, the 1938 Phantom Corsair was the last word in long, low, streamlined art deco modernity on wheels. But when designer Rust Heinz (of ketchup fame, assisted by Maurice Schwartz) passed away shortly after the prototype was completed, dreams…

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Was Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space The Best Cartoon Ever?

Oh, don’t get your panties in a bunch—I think we all agree that Hanna-Barbera takes a distant third in the great Chuck Jones/Tex Avery smackdown. But seriously, an interracial all-girl rock band flies through outer space in a giant magic wand, accompanied by their nemesis, her shit-stirring cat, and a cuddly alien creature named Bleep—how…

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Death Will Ride the Wings of Radio

So, Two Guys Are Sitting On a Desert Island . . .

What Happened, Happened … Unless You Can Change the Past

Hurley Can See for Miles and Miles

It’s Judgment Day for Ben Linus

Kate Does The Right Thing

Sayid Jarrah, Natural Born Killer?

On the Island, Highs are in the Mid-Seventies

John Locke Gets Played Like A Card

On Lost, They’re Leaving on a Jet Plane

On Lost, An Old Friend Stops By For A Smoke

On Lost: As the Island Turns

It’s Bombs Away on Lost!

On Lost, the Island Skips, Skips, Skips in Time

Before Westworld, Another Robot Gunslinger Walked the Cyber Streets of Laredo

John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish

Where Would We Be Without The Miracle of Color Television?

A Science Fiction Pixie from a Strange Atomic Race

Speeding Into The Future With The Flying Wombat

Was Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space The Best Cartoon Ever?

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