- Alex Albrecht
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name = Alex Albrecht
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birth_date = birth date and age|1976|8|14
birth_place =Vienna, Virginia
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occupation = Podcast host, Actor
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website = http://diggnation.com
http://totallyradshow.comhttp://projectlore.com
footnotes =Alexander Jennings Albrecht (born
August 14 ,1976 inVienna, Virginia ) is an Americantelevision personality, actor and podcaster who resides in the Brentwood neighborhood ofLos Angeles ,California . He is best known for co-hosting the formerTechTV television program "The Screen Savers ", an hour-longcomputer andtechnology variety show, as well as the weekly podcastsDiggnation andThe Totally Rad Show . On July 15, 2008, he released his new podcast/websiteProject Lore , all aboutWorld of Warcraft .Early life
Alex is the son of Dr.
Mark Albrecht , President of the ILS. Alex went to elementary school atBurgundy Farm Country Day School [cite web|url=http://revision3.com/diggnation/2008-03-13latenight|title=Diggnation Episode 141|publisher=revision3.com|accessdate=2008-07-27] .Albrecht graduated from
American University with a degree in computer science. Alex was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity.Career
Albrecht worked for the
RAND Corporation as a programmer and IT person and later worked for theScience Applications International Corporation developing multimedia programming forBritish Petroleum .cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395403/bio|title=Biography for Alex Albrecht|publisher=imdb.com|accessdate=2008-01-23]In 2001, he founded the improv-comedy troupe The Misfit Toys, which performed live in L.A. until 2003.
Albrecht appeared as a contestant on the gameshow "Russian Roulette" in 2002. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pehFbptUY YouTube - Alex Albrecht on Russian Roulette ] ] He also appeared on "Beat the Geeks". [ [http://youtube.com/watch?v=lrSQMSaDsUQ YouTube - Alex Albrecht on Beat the Geeks ] ]
Albrecht was hired by G4TechTV to be the co-host alongside
Kevin Rose (replacingPatrick Norton ) of the television technology show, "The Screen Savers ", for the first G4techTV episode airing from Los Angeles. The first Los Angeles based episode of "The Screen Savers" aired on September 7, 2004.On November 11, 2004, Albrecht announced on his personal blogs that G4 had decided to revamp "The Screen Savers" by making it more pop culture, Internet, and gaming-oriented. Alex Albrecht,
Yoshi DeHerrera ,Dan Huard , executive producerPaul Block , and the show's entire staff (comprised mostly of formerTechTV employees) either resigned, made separation deals with G4, or were officially terminated. [ [http://alexalbrecht.typepad.com/alex/g4techtv/index.html Alex Albrecht: G4TechTV ] ]", a weekly cooking show that lasted 8 episodes before being canceled in the fall of 2006. [ [http://revision3.com/shows/ List of Revision3 shows] ]
Albrecht was featured in "SWGack", a weekly
podcast on the popularMMORPG ,Star Wars Galaxies . On March 4th, 2006, he andJoshua Brentano announced on their last episode that they would discontinue the podcast due todisenchantment with the game itself. [ [http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=20315 SWGack - For Everything Star Wars Galaxies on PodcastAlley.com - The place to find Podcasts ] ]Albrecht and Rose also appeared in a
Super Bowl ad forGoDaddy.com duringSuper Bowl XLI . Albrecht has appeared in aDomino's Pizza commercial eating Domino's pizza in a house being raided by the "flavor" police. Alex has also appeared in a Dell commercial, advertising the line of High-Definition Dell LCD televisions, Alex stated that this commercial was ad libbed. He has also mentioned doing an audition for an advertisement for McDonald's that was never aired in the US, but he has said that it was for British television.On December 4th, 2007 Alex guest hosted "
Attack of the Show " (the show which succeeded his old show on G4, "The Screen Savers"). [cite web|url=http://chrisbegley.blogspot.com/2007/12/alex-albrecht-is-co-hosting-attack-of.html |title=Alex Albrecht is Co-Hosting Attack of the Show Tuesday!|accessdate=2008-01-23]Alex's newest project is
Project Lore , which launched Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Project Lore is all about the popular video gameWorld of Warcraft . On the show, Alex and friends show off all of the 5 man dungeons available in Burning Crusades, starting with the lower levels, and working up. Recently Blizzard allowed the Project Lore team to showcase some of the new beta content from the upcoming Wrath of the Litch King expansion.ee also
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Project Lore
*Revision3
*TechTV
*Kevin Rose References
External links
* [http://www.alexalbrecht.com AlexAlbrecht.com]
* [http://revision3.com/diggnation Diggnation]
* [http://revision3.com/ctrlaltchicken Ctrl+Alt+Chicken]
* [http://www.totallyradshow.com The Totally Rad Show]
* [http://projectlore.com/ Project Lore]
* [http://revision3.com/ Revision3.com]
* [http://alefox.sourceforge.net/ Open Source version of the 'Alefox' web browser]
*imdb name|id=1395403|name=Alex Albrecht
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