Hank Moody is back, ladies and gen­tle­men! Well almost, on Sunday Sep­tem­ber 28 at 10 PM ET/PT you can watch the season pre­miere “Slip of the Tongue”. Better yet set it as it a reminder

As anyone knows, I am not a huge fan of Adobe Flash, but I had to share this with you guys, in case you’ve missed this! One of my favorite TV per­son­al­i­ties is co-​host Adam Savage from the pop­u­lar Dis­cov­ery sci­ence tele­vi­sion show Myth­busters. Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel pre­vented the explo­ration of RFID secu­rity by Myth­busters, after allegedly coming under pres­sure from credit card com­pa­nies. Adam Savage said a planned seg­ment of the pro­gram was going to look at how hack­able, reli­able and track­able RFID tech­nol­ogy might be. A researcher for the show called up Texas Instru­ments to arrange a con­fer­ence call to talk about the tech­nol­ogy. But when the call took place, Texas Instru­ments brought along big legal guns from the credit card indus­try.
“Texas Instru­ments comes on along with chief legal coun­sel for Amer­i­can Express, Visa, Dis­cover, and every­body else,” Savage told del­e­gates at the recent HOPE (Hack­ers on Planet Earth) con­fer­ence.

“The Myth­Busters pro­duc­tion team were way, way out­gunned and their lawyers made it really clear to Dis­cov­ery that they were not going to air this episode talk­ing about how hack­able this stuff was. Dis­cov­ery backed down being a large cor­po­ra­tion that depends upon the rev­enue of the adver­tis­ers. Now it’s on Discovery’s radar and they won’t let us go near it.”
Texas Instru­ments has responded to these accu­sa­tions by saying that only one lawyer took part in the con­fer­ence call, and that tech­ni­cal ques­tions were explored. It said that it wasn’t involved in putting pres­sure on Myth­busters or Dis­cov­ery to drop the seg­ment, sug­gest­ing it got credit card firms involved because they were more famil­iar with con­tact­less pay­ment tech­nolo­gies.
“Technical ques­tions were asked and answered and we were to wait for Myth­Busters to let us know when they were plan­ning on show­ing the seg­ment. A few weeks later, Texas Instru­ments was told by Myth­Busters that the sto­ry­line had changed and they were pur­su­ing a dif­fer­ent angle which did not require our help. Savage’s com­pletely dif­fer­ent take on this con­ver­sa­tion can be found in a clip posted above. Weird part of the story is that hack­ing guides are freely avail­able all over the inter­net. So as they say at Myth­busters: this myth is busted!

A friend at work said I should watch this TV serie called Dexter. My first reac­tion was Dexter’s Lab­o­ra­tory? Dexter is an Amer­i­can tele­vi­sion drama series based on the novel Darkly Dream­ing Dexter by Jeff Lind­say and adapted for tele­vi­sion by Emmy Award-​winning screen­writer James Manos, Jr. The show pre­miered on Octo­ber 1, 2006 and has since enjoyed wide crit­i­cal acclaim. Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) plays the char­ac­ter of Dexter Morgan, a Miami-​based serial killer who works for the Miami Metro Police Depart­ment as a blood spat­ter ana­lyst. Inter­est­ing twist ay

I don’t watch TV reg­u­larly but he pointed me to some good stuff (thanks Rodi): like Cal­i­for­ni­ca­tion with David Duchovny (X-Files), who plays Hank Moody, a trou­bled nov­el­ist whose move to Los Ange­les and has prob­lems with his job and a com­pli­cated rela­tion­ship with his ex-​girlfriend Karen (Natascha McEl­hone) and daugh­ter Becca (Madeleine Martin). I love these series so much, I watch almost every day an episode on my iPod Touch.

Mac­Gyver is an adven­ture tele­vi­sion series, pro­duced in Canada, about the laid-​back, extremely resource­ful secret agent Angus Mac­Gyver played by Richard Dean Ander­son. The series was cre­ated by Lee David Zlotoff and exec­u­tive pro­duced by Henry Win­kler (The Fonz) and John Rich. It ran for seven sea­sons from Sep­tem­ber 29, 1985 to May 21, 1992. I am miss­ing the resource­ful­ness in the film indus­try. Block­busters like the first Star Wars saga and Alien were filmed on a ‘tight’ budget, but came out great. Nowa­days films start at couple of bil­lion gazil­lion dol­lars, but all they pro­duce is crap (give or take a few). This Mac­Gyver Mul­ti­Tool reminded me of the sim­plic­ity of using ’stuff’ at your own advan­tage and I find it very funny