Six Seasons of "Lost," Re-Enacted in 1 Minute - By Cats [Spoilers]

Afraid you'll never catch up with all the twists and turns of "Lost"? Never fear, the folks at TremendousNews.com have created a video in which cats sum up the entire six seasons of the show in just one minute. [Note: there are spoilers in the video that take you right up to date in the show, so be forewarned if you don't want to know some of the secrets of The Island and "Lost."]

Say It Ain't So, Bruthah! Henry Ian Cusick from "Lost" Sued for Sexual Harassment

Maybe all that time-travel has finally taken its toll on Desmond. Henry Ian Cusick, the actor who plays Desmond Hume on the hit TV show "Lost," has been sued for sexual harassment by a former ABC employee.

Chelsea Stone, a former employee of ABC Entertainment, has sued Cusick for harassment and sexual battery, accusing the Scottish actor of a variety of offenses, from groping her to making offensive noises and gestures. (View the lawsuit against Henry Ian Cusick.) The charges date back to on-set incidents in October 2007.

It is claimed that Cusick, who first became known on "Lost" for pushing a button every 108 minutes to save the world, "'placed his hand on her buttocks' and then caressed her back 'while making moaning sounds.' He then put his face in her cleavage and wagged his head back and forth."

Is this true, or just a disgruntled employee making false accusations? We'll have to wait and see... if we can keep Desmond from further time traveling!

Obama Nominates Locke for Commerce Post (Here's Why It Should Have Been *John* Locke)

The news reports are buzzing across the wires today: "Obama nominates Locke for commerce secretary." Now, the assumption is being made that he's talking about Gary Locke, the former governor of Washington State, but if Obama really wants to think outside the box, I have a modest proposal to make: Obama should choose the other Locke: JOHN Locke from "Lost."

Sure, John Locke has never held elective office, but you can't say he doesn't have political experience. (And don't tell him what he can't do, or else you might get a knife in the back!) Let's look at his substantial achievements over the last four-plus seasons. In this time he has:

* gone face-to-face with the Smoke Monster... and lived to tell about it!
* fixed the time-warping Frozen Donkey Wheel!
* effectively interfaced with people (and other entities) of all backgrounds, from department store customers to Losties, Tailies, the Others, and the Other Others
* earned the trust of his higher-ups including Ben, Jacob, Richard Alpert, and Christian Shephard
* has pulled himself up by his bootstraps (literally), going from a physically challenged wheelchair-bound sad sack to a hard-charging leader of the Others
* served effectively as a clerk in a major cardboard-box manufacturer
* shown loyalty and sacrifice by giving one of his kidneys to his lying, scheming, fat-cat, bird-hunting, threw-his-son-out-a-window father

And, of course, John Locke is, like Pres. Obama, a self-professed "man of faith."

If the president is looking for unique qualifications and wants to really "reach across the aisle (isle)," he'll choose John Locke as commerce secretary.

Charles Widmore from "Lost" to Bail Out U.S.?

It's clear the U.S. economy is deep in the crapper, and with hundreds of billions of dollars not solving the problem, it's clear that only one person can come to the rescue: Charles Widmore.

Charles who, you say? Charles Widmore is the mysterious, obscenely rich mogul who's pulling a lot of the creepy strings in ABC's "Lost." Sure, he sponsors round-the-world sailing races and buys the very priciest single-malt Scotch, but that's run-of-the-mill billionaire stuff.

No, Charles Widmore can buy rare documents from a 19th-century slave ship, and what's more, carry out a massive diversionary campaign to find his true treasure: that mysterious South Pacific island that is home to the afore-mentioned slave ship, random polar bears, Others, Other Others, and a large quantity of Dharma Initiative Ranch Dressing. And, of course, the island can travel through time and space (which must wreck havoc with the ranch dressing's expiration date).

You see, Charles Widmore so badly wants the rest of the world to believe that Oceanic 815 was lost at the bottom of the ocean that he staged an elaborate fake crash scene on the bottom of the ocean. This is no mean feat; it involved buying a jetliner, filling it full of corpses (apparently these can be bought on the black market), and then having it placed at the bottom of the sea.

What price might Charles Widmore exact for agreeing to bail out the U.S. Treasury? Well, maybe the U.S. agreeing to give his hated son-in-law, Desmond, a one-way trip to the International Space Station. Or maybe a few of the U.S. Virgin Islands so that he can experiment with trying to send them through time and space? I hear St. John is nice this time of year (polar bears not included).

So how about it, Charles? You bail out our economy and we'll give you a Desmond Hume space shot and a few sunny islands? Tell you what, we'll throw in some of that specially aged Dharma Initiative Beer, too...

It's Pi Day, 3/14/08

Today is Pi Day, an occasion to honor that mathematical ratio that begins with 3.14 and seems to have all kinds of magical applications in math and the world at large. You can find more about Pi Day at PiDay.org.

The BBC has a good, thoughtful article on pi that asks, "why are we driven to find the answers behind it?" (Yes, today is 3/14, which makes it ideal for Pi Day, but the Beeb also notes that it is also Albert Einstein's birthday.)

A refresher from school days about what pi is: it's the number that results get when you divide the circumference of a circle (the distance around it) by the diameter (the distance across the circle at its widest part, dividing the circle into two even halves).

If you want to read more about pi and its significance, read the BBC article, which also has links to things like musical pi.

For me, too much math makes my head hurt. Just considering all the math and science implications revealed in the average episode of "Lost" give me brain freeze, so the potential cosmic ramifications of pi are way over my head. But I'm sure Daniel Faraday, "Dan McFly" from the "Lost" island, is celebrating with his dead rat Eloise.

Baby Aaron in a Shocking Plot Twist on "Lost"

If you saw tonight's episode of "Lost," titled "Eggtown," it may have taken a while to lift your jaw off the floor after it dropped upon seeing the show's latest twist. I won't reveal it here, in case you haven't seen the episode, but I'm sure it will have The Fuselage , The Transmission, Jay and Jack, and the other "Lost" podcasts/message boards buzzing.

I'll just mention that it may call into question some of Desmond's fortunetelling abilities, among other things. And like many other reveals on "Lost," it creates more questions than it answers.

I wonder how much of baby Aaron we'll see in future episodes. Also, island time is much slower than real time (no, I'm not talking about Daniel Faraday's anomaly, but the fact that the three-plus seasons of "Lost" represent only 100 days or so in the Losties' lives. So they'll need another baby to play young Aaron, because the real baby we've seen as Aaron will be getting too big. Or maybe, like Walt, he'll just grow unnaturally fast, and Locke and Sawyer can call him Tall Aaron?

The Fuselage: The Mother of All "Lost" Forums and Message Boards

By far one of the most popular, informative, and just plain addictive forums and message boards for the TV show "Lost" is The Fuselage.

There's a very good reason that The Fuselage.com is the go-to place for thousands of "Lost" fans: it's the official site of the show's creative team, and it says "Sponsored by J.J. Abrams" right under the title. (If you move your mouse a certain way, that changes to "Sponsored by the Hanso Foundation" ... does that mean that you'll possibly get sucked into the Dharma vortex and end up eating Dharma Initiative Ranch Dressing like Hurley?!)

And yes, J.J. Abrams and some of the other people behind "Lost" pop in to answer questions, tell readers if they're on target with a certain theory or are totally off base, etc.

To be honest I haven't checked out The Fuselage for a while... I got addicted to it for a spell and had to wean myself away from it and from the other "Lost" forums and message boards. With there being so many "Lost" fans and so many forums, discussion groups, etc., it's easy to just wander from one to another because there would always be new messages, content, and replies somewhere out there.

Fly Oceanic Airlines... Straight to the Bottom of the Ocean!

With a new season of "Lost" on the air, ABC is getting in gear with another promotion campaign centered on Oceanic Airlines, the carrier whose doomed Flight 815 crashed onto the mysterious island with our friends, the Losties. ABC previously conducted viral campaigns on the Web, with a fake Oceanic Airlines Web site and another one for the Dharma Initiative.

The new Oceanic Airlines effort is going more mainstream: Oceanic Airlines billboards have been spotted in Ames, Iowa among other places, and one newspaper story said that to add to the drama those billboards "were later 'defaced' to redirect those who saw them to another website with additional dramatic story elements and even clue hunting games to find out more information about storylines."

and there were bogus commercials for the airline on "Eli Stone," the show that followed "Lost." Scenes of pretty female flight attendants were interrupted by flitting black-and-white images of a man in a seemingly frantic state of mind, seeming to be a "Lost"-style passenger stranded in a horrific situation, trying to broadcast a message to the outside world. Also seen is a glimpse of part of an Oceanic Airlines plane underwater, perhaps at the bottom of the ocean. These ads also promote an Oceanic Airlines Web site, FlyOceanicAir.com.

UPDATE: I've checked out FlyOceanicAir.com, and it has the greeting from the flight attendants seen in the TV commercial, which is followed by a clip of the man we saw glimpses of in the commercial. Turns out he's the boyfriend of a flight attendant on Flight 815 and is looking to find answers regarding what happened to the doomed flight... and his message directs you to another site, Find 815. The site invites you to play an online game and join the mission of the man, Sam Thomas, to find out what happened to the flight and his girlfriend.

The FlyOceanicAir.com site also contains a press release that announces that Oceanic Airlines is resuming service.

The Lost Season 4 Premiere: Interesting Reading

As you're getting ready for Lost Season 4 premiere (or have watched it already), here are a couple of interesting articles for your reading pleasure.

Cracked.com delves into the mysteries of Lost and The Island, with its article "5 Questions the Lost Writers Need to Answer (And Why They Won't)."

And Entertainment Weekly's EW.com has a "Lost Preseason Cheat Sheet" to get you up to speed on the story thus far. Even though I've been watching the Lost specials last night and tonight, another refresher can't hurt, considering the dizzying array of multiple story lines and red herrings the series has going on.