Tag archive: Homer

Iconic singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is in negotiations to become a voice giving directions on a satnav. At least that’s what he told listeners to his The Time Radio Hour, claiming he’d been approached by more than one manufacturer. He said: “You know I don’t usually like to tell people what I’m doing, but I’m talking to a couple of car companies about the possibility of being the voice of their GPS… Read More

Back in 2003, an episode of animated comedy show The Simpsons revealed that Homer Simpson’s e-mail address was chunkylover53@aol.com – an address that was actually registered by one of the show’s writers. Plenty of people added Chunkylover53 to their AIM buddy list – although the name remained very dormant. Now the name is being used again – but this time it’s spreading a Trojan. On AIM, Chunkylover53… Read More

A new patent granted to Matthew Jarman of Salt Lake City purports to offer personal TV censorship capabilities, enabling users to block out offensive words or terms used in video programming or, if the particular program proves unmutable, in some cases blocking an entire program based on its content. Even better, these preferences would be configurable on a user-by-user basis, so children wouldn't have to hear expletives and explicit… Read More

Here at Digital Trends, there are some items we sit on for a while. Sometimes news is embargoed by a company; sometimes we have to hold something waiting for images or information. Heck, sometimes things aren't sourced well enough that we feel comfortable running with it, and, sometimes, things just don't seem important enough to write up. Then, there are items we hold back as

Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson stole the show during Sunday's Super Bowl, attracting almost twice as many viewers as the most thrilling moments on the field, according to an annual measurementof second-by-second viewership in TiVo households. The Jackson-Timberlake moment drew the biggest spike in audience reaction TiVo has ever measured. TiVo said viewership spiked up to 180 percent as hundreds of thousands of households used… Read More