Based on the ’70s series starring Lindsay Wagner—although the new version drops the “The”—”Bionic Woman” is a new hourly drama added to NBC’s Fall line-up, starring English soap star Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers. A four-minute preview is online at NBC.com, which includes a shot of Katee “Starbuck” Sackhoff as an older model of bionic [...]

A friend of a friend snapped this picture outside the local Sam’s Club. I’m sure the back-pressure to the engine is balanced just perfectly.

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Putty knives; garage doors; electric motors; wool.
• 6PM, Fuse - The Sauce: A magazine program that features music news, lifestyle information and celebrity guests.
• 6PM, Science Channel - Mars Underground: Aerospace visionary Robert Zubrin is profiled, and his theory of the establishment of permanent human [...]

Autoblog had a chance to drive the new Camaro Concept, which, had you not been aware, is being prepped for a re-release very soon by Chevrolet. They’ve not only driven it, which is only mildly interesting—we know it’ll be fast and handle like a dog—but they’ve put together a very nice gallery of pictures of [...]

Right over my shoulder sits a copy of Randy Mosher’s Radical Brewing, my very favorite homebrewing book and one of the only ones I’d recommend to those uninterested in brewing but interested in beer. Besides serving as a great tour of the more esoteric styles, Mosher also gives some examples of brewing with strange ingredients—chicken [...]

Is Danny Sullivan’s “Real Kickboxing Bag Workout” actually “real?” Does it exist in our shared dimensional space? I’m going to go out on a limb and say that it does, because anyone selling you a $350 set of instructional DVDs, a water-filled kick-boxing bag, a jump rope, and a pair of boxing gloves must know [...]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Included: bicycle helmets; lithium batteries; car brakes; aluminum.
• 6PM, History Channel - Man, Moment, Machine: JFK and the Crisis Crusader. Recalling the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, during which President John F. Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba to prevent the USSR from delivering nuclear missiles [...]

This “cop on pot brownies” 911 call blew up on the internet this weekend, but this news report gives you a taste—and also frustrates me tremendously for two reasons. First, the cop was dismissed but no charges were filed, despite the fact that he stole evidence (the marijuana) from a locker?
Secondly, the newscasters crack up [...]

“To stretch the normal 22-episode season of “Heroes,” which faltered after its long hiatus this year, NBC will add “Heroes: Origins.” The spinoff will introduce a new character each week, and viewers will select which one stays for the following season. The two series will have 30 new episodes combined.” [CNN]

This week we exposed our apparently voyeuristic nature, passing on a link to the New Yankee cam, which lets you watch Norm Abrams and crew build those sweet wood projects in real time – mistakes and all. Beware, though: you might find yourself as addicted as we are. We also checked out a [...]

Wisebread has an interesting short history of “baby carrots,” which aren’t young carrots as you might think, but full-sized carrots that have been washed, peeled, and whittled down into uniform pieces. And while baby carrots are pretty good, the author of this piece argues (correctly) that baby carrots don’t taste like carrots. The lack of [...]