30 Rock Filming On Location

I know I get a little obsessive with my blogs about Heroes stuff, but there are other shows that I'm excited for this upcoming fall; 30 Rock being one of these shows. This show is too hilarious. I admit at first I thought the idea was a bit hokey, but the writers have really got a great dynamic between all the characters, especially between Liz Lemon and Jack Donage (probably spelled incorrectly).

Here are pictures of Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin on location in NYC filming for the upcoming season. Rumors are also going around that Jennifer Aniston will be making a guest appearance in the line-up of guests they have throughout the season, which should be interesting.

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An Evening With The 30 Rock Cast

The entire cast of the hit NBC show 30 Rock, minus Tracy Morgan, were in attendance at an event at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at NYC on Thursday. We have tons of pictures from the event, feel free to check them out.

30 Rock is definitely one of the better shows on television right now, with an extremely talented and funny writing staff. This will be one of the shows greatly missed once all its episodes have aired, due to the writers strike.

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Daily Links

• Windows is notorious for having useless features and CPU resource hogging programs/services enabled by default. Today’s post is about removing some of the useless services. Source (Mark Sanborn)
  
• Catholics getting their panties in a twist over "anti-religious messages" in the new Philip Pullman movie The Golden Compass. Source (BBC)
• Google investing in solar power to fuel their massive server farm. Source (Gizmodo)
• Tolkien's great-grandson arrested in the UK for possession of £3,000 worth of marijuana. Source (The Sun)
• 9 Legendary Cartoon Voices (and where else you may have heard them). Source (Mental Floss)
• British music industry major EMI wants to cut its funding to the industry's trade bodies, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday, which could deal a blow to the fight against music piracy. Source (Yahoo News)
• In the November 15 episode of NBC's "30 Rock," Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey, in their roles as Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon, sang the praises of Verizon Wireless before Fey looked right into the camera and asked, "Can we have our money now?" At least in this case, art did indeed imitate life. Verizon said it handed over an integration fee to NBC, in addition to some marketing support, for the mini-commercial within one of the network's hottest shows. Source (Yahoo News)
• How to improve your concentration. Source (Life Hack)
  
• A 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of wrinkled human skin is going under the hammer in a bizarre auction. It is thought the skin was cut from the corpse of one of Guy Fawkes' fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Source (Sky News)

Finally, here's an awesome video that was on Gizmodo today. It's a commercial from Norway promoting growth in the Engineering field, and it uses some sweet special effects, too bad trains don't normally do this, it would make riding on them a lot more entertaining.

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Daily Links

• One posed for a photo as she scrubbed a Palestinian corpse. Another stripped a man to his underwear and then beat him. A third helped cover up the abuse of a young boy. The six Israeli women who feature in the documentary "To See If I'm Smiling" each wrestle with memories of their compulsory military service that they would rather erase. Source (Yahoo News)
• The Ten Video Games That Should Be Movies (and the Directors Who Should Make Them) Source (NYMag.com)
• Hollywood film and TV writers who've been on a nearly two-week strike against studios will return to contract negotiations on Nov. 26, their union and producers said Friday. Source (Yahoo News)
• NBC has reportedly fired "nearly the entire production staff" on TV show Saturday Night Live following the Hollywood writers strike. Staff working on the hit program learned of their fate on Friday, according to reports. Source (Star Pulse)
• While the maple syrup smell remains a two-year-old mystery to us, 30 Rock entered the fray with a hypothesis. On last night's episode, Liz Lemon, who smells waffles from her Upper West Side apartment, calls Tracy Jordan to remind him to practice his Re-Run dance for the What's Happening! sketch. Source (Gothamist)
• 10 Black Friday Secrets Retailers Don't Want You to Know. Source (Internet News)
• Barney's Mail Sack. Source (CBS)

Finally, here is the 4 Minute preview for the upcoming Heroes episode "Cautionary Tales", airing November 19.

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Late Night/Early Morning Links

Hello again, we have a late night/early morning edition of daily links. I found these articles that I think you might be interested in checking out. If you don't, then you know what, mind your own damn business.

Let the games begin:

• Two Sneak Peek Video Clips of Harry Potter 6, The Half-Blood Prince. Which is now filming. Source (FilmWad)
  
• The Complete Time Travel Chronology (of Back To The Future.....so far) Source (bttf.com)
  
• Increasingly powerful voices in the U.S. are urging war against Iran to stop the country acquiring nuclear weapons. This week, in his Mansion House foreign policy speech, Gordon Brown declared the U.S. to be Britain's greatest ally and stressed that Iran's nuclear programme was a matter of concern. But how could the West actually destroy Iran's nuclear capability? Here, one of our leading academics on war and terrorism warns that some in the Bush camp are considering a very dangerous option... Source (Daily Mail)
• The Arrested Development comeback rumor started with a site called Blues News, which quoted Jason Bateman as saying he believes an Arrested reunion will happen (via movie or cable) and that: "The boss Mitch Hurwitz, I believe, is eager to do it; he's got a master plan, he's probably got timing worked out." Source (E! Online)
• If you weren't sure why 30 Rock won a Best Comedy Emmy, you should have been after watching last night's hilarious episode that left me laughing so hard my dog barked at me about piping down. Source (Palm Beach Post)

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