Surviving the end of the world

The movie 2012 is opening Friday. According to the film's website, it's "an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors."

Am I the only one who sees a glaring problem with that sentence?

I mean, if there are survivors, it's not exactly the end of the world, is it?

I love a good post-apocalyptic story. I even enjoyed The Postman, although the book was better than the movie. (I mean, Tom Petty as the mayor of the city in the treetops? What were they thinking?) But I think I'll skip this one. If the promo materials are that bad, how good can the movie be? And that goes double for any movie with Woody Harrelson in it.

"Family Guy" not PC enough to be a PC

"Hello, I'm a PC, and I don't think jokes about feminine hygiene are funny."

Or something like that, anyway. Microsoft was set to sponsor a prime time special by "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane as part of its Windows 7 media blitz, but was somehow surprised when the MacFarlane-esque fare didn't exactly "fit with the Windows brand."

It appears that Microsoft doesn't approve of "riffs on deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest," so they've pulled out of the project after getting a look at the content. Didn't they look at any samples of MacFarlane's stuff before they signed on? Or did they just think that with a name like "Family Guy," it must be good clean fun?

One comment on the AdAge article says "But fear not as all is saved! I just heard that Microsoft has hired Michael Richards to do some colorful Windows 7 skits."