The MPAA has convinced the L.A. Boy Scouts to offer a badge for “respecting copyright”.

In other piracy news…

A Revenge of the Nerds remake is in the works. For me, the original is probably the movie that has the highest “number-of-times-watched-to-quality” ratio.

Iron Man will be played by Robert Downey, Jr. Everyone’s favorite substance abusing millionaire playboy will played by everyone’s favorite substance abusing millionaire playboy.

This is the love-child of Turbo from Breakin’ and Alfonso from Silver Spoons. He looks animatronic… It’s a Small World 2: Electric Boogaloo

I wonder what these guys think of it.

BTW – Nothing says “I’m a superior breakdancer” than a Pink Floyd painter’s hat with flaps.

It’s news to me that Weird Al still makes music. He has a parody of Ridin’ Dirty, called White and Nerdy (listen). It’s actually pretty funny.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (trailer)

I love Borat, but this looks a bit scripted. The genius of the character is that when he interviews people, they let their guard down and say things that otherwise they would never say on camera. I’ll still see it.

Tenacious D in ‘The Pick of Destiny’ (trailer)

The Tenacious D show was funny, but does it scale? And has Jack Black jumped the shark?

The Wicker Man (trailer)

The original Wicker Man with Christopher Lee was excellent, and it still holds up. It’s one of my favorite horror films, and my favorite kind… lots of suspense with a powerful ending. The remake stars Nicholas Cage, and instead of taking place on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it’s set in Washington state. Really? When I think of ancient druidic cults, Spokane does not come to mind. And another thing, IMDB has the remake as being rated PG-13 for “disturbing images and violence, language and thematic issues.” Sounds like they’re passing on the dancing nubile pagans with their naked jubblies all aflutter. Big mistake, five demerits.

Don’t play it loudly at work.

Wired has an article about game design and game theory in Survivor:

While tweaking Survivor, he closely studied John Nash’s game theory in order to better engineer the hysteria and emotional blowouts of each season’s finale.

“What Nash’s theory predicts is that whenever you have a group of people competing, they collude to squeeze one guy out, again and again, until there’s only two guys left,” Burnett notes. “Yet when there are only two of us left, we’re surprised when one of us fucks each other over. That’s the fun part. It surprised John Nash himself, but it happens every time.”