Ryan Gardner on February 2nd, 2006

Imagine a tribal council where someone gets sent home after getting only one vote. Imagine not knowing if a vote will count until after they have all been counted. Well, you wont have to imagine very long - because that is part of the game this season.
The new format in “Exile Island” makes the [...]

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Tonight at 7PM (8pm in some areas) - Survivor Season 12 will hit the air. In the wonderful RyeBlog tradition - it’s time for you to make predictions based on the pictures alone. (If you recall, some of us did well last time in picking the winner based on her picture alone.)
This will be particularly [...]

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Ryan Gardner on January 18th, 2006

Ever want to watch that 7-Up commercial from 1988 again? Or how about the commercial for the New Kids on the Block toys? How about the ad for Photon or the Slip-n-Slide?
Now you can, thanks to people with too much time on their hands and an ad-pushing website. The ads aren’t that bad - [...]

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Ryan Gardner on January 13th, 2006

Kyosho - maker of many lines of high-quality Radio Controlled cars - will be featured on the January 22nd “Extreme Makover: Home Edition” show. They also involved the creator of RCP tracks (the industry standard track for indoor miniature RC racing tracks - the same kind my brother-in-law uses.
My guess is they will build [...]

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Ryan Gardner on December 12th, 2005

Survivor season 11 is finally over - and we have a winner. Prior to the start of this season, you will recall that we ran our “Pick the winner from the Photographs (and bios) Alone” contest. Here’s the results from that contest:
Predictions from September 15th
Ryan: Originally predicted Gary or Judd. Later on that day, [...]

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It was Microsoft’s week on the Apprentice. Two MS execs came on the show to help promote Microsoft Office LiveMeeting. In my opinion, both teams performed poorly on the task they were given - but one team performed horribly. Here’s my recap:
The task
For this 2-on-2 task, the teams were given the task of creating a [...]

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Live Blogging: Thanks to the magic of the BlackBerry, I am able to present breaking new to you as it happens
NBC is broadcasting live from Rockefeller Center as I broadcast this (somewhat) live from my couch. If you are not watching their broadcast, you are not missing much. Al Roker, the weather-man-turned-major-personality is hosting along [...]

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Ryan Gardner on September 15th, 2005

Tonight is the season premeire of Survivor season 11 - “Survivor Guatemala.” For most of the country, this premeire will happen at the scheduled time. For those of us lucky enough to be in Mountain Time, we have to watch the President’s address first.
Whenever President Bush is done talking to us from Louisiana, Survivor [...]

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Ryan Gardner on September 10th, 2005

CBS apologized for running a rereun of “The Price is Right” where one of the grand prizes in the “Showcase Showdown” was a trip to New Orleans complete with a speedboat. The winner would stay “within walking distance of the French Quarter” (as reported by DirectTV News mix). They pulled the rerun before it aired [...]

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