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It reminds me of this owl missile.

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Last week there was the best “Scenes from next week” preview in 8 seasons. Not sure why it took them so long. I’m not sure why I’m still watching. News came this week that the show was getting canceled. One can only hope it gets canceled in the middle of this episode.

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We’ll get going below the fold at 9PM EST.

3:00 AM
-Well, that’s a big change. You think Hasan’s daughter might be rethinking her choices now?
-Also, what’s with this rogue police Sargent?
3:08 AM
-The hotel only has one camera?
-5 NYPD just went down from the super terrorist.
-Jack Bauer can’t see there’s no one in the cab? He got hoodwinked!
-That last scene there. The terrorist called the other terrorist doing
3:11 AM
3:15 AM
-”Electronic intercept team.” Last week they were behind the times. Now I bet they’re about to be ahead of them.
-Starbuck is the worst CTU agent of all time. Leaving in the middle of a shift. Constant cell phone usage. Visitors….
-Starbuck is a pretty good liar I guess.
-They were able to pull prints from the break in from about 6 or 7 hours ago? AMAZING!
3:22 AM
3:27 AM
-If Starbuck ends up killing the parole officer… Well, then.
-Are they going to say they can’t pinpoint the location of the phone because the walls are too thick?
-I guess they probably shouldn’t have made them put the File 33 onto the screen in front of everyone.
-Why don’t they send File 33, an edited version.
-Oh, Jack Bauer is way behind me.
3:33 AM
-Here’s another thought. The nuclear codes probably should have some sort of failsafe so in this type of situation, they could just…change the codes.
-Why do they put the girl right in the window and then talk in front of it?
-I’m curious who is in charge in all of this. It seems like the head of security would be the one on top.
3:35 AM
3:39 AM
-Starbuck keeps screwing this up.
-Here’s the future technology happening right now.
-I’m sure the parole officer definitely takes precedent in the national security crisis.
3:45 AM
-The master terrorist has a soft spot. I know it. I bet he gets shot.
-Just so we’re clear, this is the same master terrorist that took out 5 NYPD Swat peeps.
-Yup. Shot. What did I say?
3:47 AM
3:51 AM
-When you’re a terrorist and you lose your leverage, you must have this giant sinking feeling in your chest…
3:53 AM
-The terrorists escaped in 5 minutes and no one saw anything. No one can move that fast. They brought all their equipment and everything.
3:56 AM
-Can’t she use some obscure terroristic protection law to detain the parole officer.
-It was all a set up. The bombs are in the car they escaped in!
-I TOLD YOU!
-Dana takes the car out.
-They had 16 seconds and they could have moved the car. Why did it take them so long?
-Also, why use an EMP instead of a giant bomb? Wouldn’t a bomb be easier to get than an EMP?
-Also, who knew CTU was so close to downtown New York?
4:00 AM

It definitely would have been better if Dana tried to get the EMP out of the tunnel and then died while failing. Or maybe not died. Again, this episode was better than the rest of the season, but it was still so full of stupid.

Via Wonderland

Via The Daily What

The dolls are part of a premium-price collectors’ series for adults that Mattel calls the Barbie Fashion Model Collection. Although there have been Barbies and Kens based on other TV series, among them “I Love Lucy” and “The X-Files,” the dolls will be the first licensed line for that collection, Mattel says, with a suggested retail price of $74.95 each.

Oh, by the way, he’s talking about retiring after 30 Rock…

So perhaps the smoke signals he’s sending up about retiring aren’t a bluff. But I can’t help but think that if he gets the chance to work with Meryl Streep again he won’t say no. That would be like turning down dessert, and he’s a cat who can’t resist cream.

Why do they want to make Ford Focus drivers look like people who knowingy take advantage of their friends?

Sigh. I don’t know if this can go on. I say that, but I don’t know if I mean it.

This 24 Tag will take you to ALL of the ‘24′ related content on Unlikelywords.

We’ll get going below the fold at 9PM EST.

2:00 AM
-Just realized I haven’t been paying attention. I don’t think I’ve missed anything.
-So we should have some sort of climax with the bomber by 2:40 AM.
-HAHAHAHA. Starbuck is going to break up with Freddy Prinz, Jr because he’s not the man she fell in love with. That is AWESOME.
-Starbuck and Cole are the best at what they do. I disagree. Strong.
2:08 AM
2:13 AM
-I just want say that it figures that there’s no CTU perimeter around the hospital. Also, it figures the terrorist could just hack into the hospital security. Also, it figures that Jack Bauer would just hang out there, not much more he could be doing?
-”On the systems ethernet port.” OK.
2:15 AM
-Wait, if this guy just wants to talk… That’s going to keep him from fiddling with his detonator, right?
-Also, why is he looking at the camera? How does he know where it is? Also, why doesn’t Jack Bauer get his Imam friend from DC on the phone?
2:18 AM
These commercials for Justified on FX make me want to watch Deadwood again.
2:23 AM
-That lady is soaking wet. Are they in a sauna? Why is she soaking wet?
-In this world, not answering the phone means you CAN’T check voicemail. Hassan should have someone calling her phone every 2 minutes until she picks up.
-Hassan sort of talks like Sean Connery.
2:26 AM
-Man. Too bad it took Markos’ mother over an hour to leave the house. Otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to use her.
-Also, the door should be opened in around 12 minutes.
2:29 AM
2:33 AM
2:34 AM
-Oh man, it’s that guy. I guess Starbuck’s still using her cell phone at CTU.
2:37 AM
-Seriously. I think I hate Starbuck more on this show than I did on BSG. Actually. I don’t know if that’s true because Starbuck did an awesome job of not making me care about her story earlier in the year.
-Markos doesn’t really seem to have the constitution for this type of adventure… He’s conflicted.
-The they way they give out immunity on this show, why didn’t they offer Markos immunity or something?
-That was some awesome Jack Bauer quotations. Stuff like, “If you knew who I was and what I’ve done in my life…” “What happens to your mother is because of you. Only you.” “Truth is, I’m not really. Not anymore. I’m a specialist they brought in for the day.”
-I think we’ll give Jack Bauer a JBKC for that. Pushing Markos into the chamber with 3 seconds left.
2:49 AM
2:53 AM
-Shouldn’t Jack Bauer have confirmed that Hassan was alone before saying “Your Director of Security is in charge of the fuel rods.”
2:55 AM
-That guy just took the FASTEST shower EVER. How did he do that?
3:00 AM

I’m happy to report that this was the best episode in weeks. Also, the scenes from next week with what was going to happen at different times was quite compelling. How did it take them 178 episodes to decide that would be a good way to do the scenes from next week?

New information uncovered by Silicon Alley Insider suggests that some of the complaints against Mark Zuckerberg are valid. It also suggests that, on at least one occasion in 2004, Mark used private login data taken from Facebook’s servers to break into Facebook members’ private email accounts and read their emails–at best, a gross misuse of private information. Lastly, it suggests that Mark hacked into the competing company’s systems and changed some user information with the aim of making the site less useful.

Ruh roh. It’s hard to tell how much of this was new information, though the fact that the accusations from ConnectU came a week after Facebook launched gives the accusers credibility in my book. Also, the $65 Million settlement… Well, yeah. That says Facebook is giving them some credibility, as well. And the accusations of using user data to login to the email addresses of users? That jibes pretty closely with how (un)seriously Facebook takes user privacy. I wonder if any of this will get picked up by the traditional media, and I wonder if the SVI investigation will hold up to journalistic standards…

Via Eric Andersen

Fun fact, Matthew Wilder was the producer for No Doubt’s 1995 hit Tragic Kingdom. I wonder if he’s available for interviews. Or if he was in the No Doubt Behind the Music?