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A big thanks to Robin from ApproachingLOST.com for the following.

Robin Parrish from ApproachingLOST.com here. Can you believe the beginning of the end is here, after all these years? I have something to mark the occasion that I think is kinda nifty, and I’d like to get it into the hands of as many Lost fans who want it as possible.

Like lots of others, I’ve spent the last year re-watching all of Lost‘s first 103 hours, and I kept careful track of the many, many unanswered questions. After a lot of thought and consideration, I’ve rooted out the trivial ones that aren’t likely to be addressed, and compiled the rest into a PDF document. It’s a topical checklist of Lost‘s unanswered questions.

I’m not gonna call my list “definitive,” because there’s no way any list ever could be, since we’ve all got our own personal wishlists of questions we hope the show answers. But to the best of my reckoning, these are the most important questions that still require an answer, from a storytelling point-of-view. (I know, I know, the characters are what matter most. I’m not suggesting that the mysteries are more important. This is just for kicks.)

Via Cracked.com:

Lost is influenced by many things, like the Wizard of Oz, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks and so on.  However, Lost is mostly influenced by Star Wars.  You have a couple Han Solos, a couple Luke Skywalkers, mystical forces at work, ghosts, siblings unaware they are siblings, mass extinction, good guys shooting guns out of bad guys’ hands, bad guys shooting guns poorly, and enough father issues to make a Girls Gone Wild Criterion Collection.

Star Wars changed movies and essentially created the summer blockbuster.  Whether that’s a good thing (Jurassic Park) or a bad thing (Transformers and 108 other movies), there’s no denying that Star Wars paved the way.  Lost is perched to do the exact same thing for television, for better and worse.

Click here to read the full article.

[Photo via The Mung Hour]

Via Telegraph.co.uk:

The sports minister Svilen Neykov ordered a special review after 4, 15, 23, 24, 35, and 42 were drawn on Sept 6 and again on Sept 10 in consecutive lottery rounds.

The probability of this happening is 4.2 million to one, according to the Bulgarian mathematician Mihail Konstantinov, although he added that such coincidences can happen.

An unprecedented 18 people guessed all six numbers when they were drawn the second time on Sept 10. The winners will each get 10,164 leva (£4,600).

Three of the numbers also appeared in the Sept 13 draw.

The lottery deputy chairman, Maria Yaneva, excluded any possibility of manipulation, telling the 24 Hours newspaper that the numbers were drawn in different order each time.

The draws take place in the presence of a special lottery committee that guarantees no manipulation, and it is broadcast live on television, she added.

LOST was illegaly downloaded 51 million times this year, according to research firm Big Champagne:

Most Popular TV Torrents

1. Heroes; 54,562,012
2. Lost; 51,151,396
3. 24; 34,119,093
4. Prison Break; 29,283,591
5. House; 26,277,954
6. Fringe; 21,434,755
7. Desperate Housewives; 21,378,412
8. Grey’s Anatomy; 19,916,775
9. Gossip Girl; 19,706,870
10. Smallville; 19,598,999

Visits to leading “torrent” sites, which index video and music files, have nearly doubled in the last year.

The proportion of file-sharing involving films and television rather than music is continuing to rise, the research shows.

[Via BBC News]

Seriously. Below is the full story, as reported by TorrentFreak.com:

The 14 year old daughter of a city counselor in Spain is the source of a small political crisis in the city of Getafe. The girl used her mother’s work 3G modem to download some episodes of the popular TV-show ‘Lost’, resulting in a massive $40,000 bill.

Every parent knows that their kids can drive up a phone bill quickly, and the same goes for mobile Internet access when there’s no flat rate plan available. The daughter of a local politician in Spain recently embarrassed her mother by borrowing her work modem and running up a huge bill that any teenager could be proud of.

The girl in question couldn’t connect to her home WiFi network from her bedroom, so she borrowed her mother’s 3G modem to download some Lost episodes, among other things. What she didn’t know was that this would result in a $40,000 (30,000 Euro) bill at the end of the year.

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