In the latest episode of the great TV show Orphan Black, a character is searching for something on the Internet and is for some reason viewing search results in the form of HTML (ooo, what a hacker!). If you look at the stylesheet URLs, you’ll notice “wp-content”, a sign that it’s a WordPress-powered site!
Before you bother to check, the domain is registered in real life but there’s no site there, WordPress or otherwise.
For other sightings of WordPress on television, check out these posts.
WordPress.com, the primary product of the company I work for, was featured in an answer on Jeopardy! last night. Very cool.
The question is “What is a blog?”.
UPDATE: My co-worker Matt Thomas has a video of it over on his blog.
If you haven’t been watching Orphan Black on BBC America, you really should check it out. The first season recently concluded and it’s by far my favorite show currently on television. Really innovative premise and the starring actress, Tatiana Maslany, is incredible to watch at work. I won’t go into too much detail to avoid giving anything away but this trailer for the show should hopefully get you hooked:
I watched the pilot episode of The Americans last night and before I knew it I had watched all 5 episodes that have aired so far. Really good TV show and worth checking out.
I discovered Person of Interest on Saturday night. It’s a TV show that airs on CBS and is really good, so much so that I watched 22 episodes over the weekend.
MINOR SPOILERS BELOW!
The show is about a guy who develops a surveillance machine that gives him the names of people (and that’s it) that it thinks are going to be killed soon. This guy recruits an ex-soldier to help him prevent the murders.
Sounds a bit silly but it’s actually quite good and worth checking out.
From the Jimmy Kimmel show, this is absolutely hilarious:
I was making up a list of highlights to send to some friends and figured I might as well just post the list on my blog. Click here to see the videos »
First off, all credit goes to DD32 for this. He spotted it and I’ve been laughing ever since at how funny this is.
The following screenshots are from episode 5 of the British mini-series Strike Back:
If you don’t recognize the code, it’s from one of WordPress’ Javascript files called post.js.
Mark Jaquith was even kind enough to port their changes back into the WordPress core. Hilarious.
Jane noticed that Ugly Betty uses WordPress, so I thought I’d post some screen caps. It’s been heavily reworked, but you can still tell the production staff used WordPress as a base.
Pretty funny.