December 2007
86 posts
In The Name of the King →
Excerpt from the movie’s press release: As the Krug overrun the countryside, the King’s magus Merick discovers the true source of their power: his old rival, Gallian (Ray Liotta), a formidable and power- hungry wizard. Gallian plans to use his hellish militia to overthrow King Konreid (Burt Reynolds) and place his sniveling pawn, Duke Fallow (Matthew Lillard), on the throne.“This is a joke,...
The Online Photographer: Great Photographers on... →
“What would happen if the master photographers of the past posted to Flickr today?” [via]
Ballistic Jaw Propulsion of Trap-Jaw Ants →
Saw this as part of IFC’s Short Attention Span Cinema. To capture the 145mph mandibles of the trap-jaw ant, the filmmakers shot 100,000 frames per second. — courtneyc [via]
:: rogerebert.com :: Answer Man :: Were the first... →
…through which I found this interesting piece about film history misconceptions.
“This is so relaxing. To me it’s therapy. I can just sit and forget the world...”
– Kay Bachman, North America’s fastest woman beaver skinner. (via IN-FORUM) [via]
Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007 →
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Alan Rabinowitz - Zoologist Gives a Voice to Big... →
As a child, I had this horrific stutter. In school, I was put in what was called the retarded classes. I was very angry that people couldn’t see past the stuttering. From the second grade on, I stopped talking, except to the little green turtle and the chameleon I kept at home. Talking to the animals, I realized they had feelings. I didn’t know if they understood me. But I saw that they were...
“Chemotherapy knocks seven bells
Out of life-threatening cancerous cells....”
– by Stephen Gold [via]
Rod said: “New phone books are out and I’m the first name on my page. You can’t buy that kind of visibility.” All I could think of when I read that quote was this scene from “The Jerk”.
Internet Bankruptcy
I was off work for the week before Xmas. This—as I normally do most of my feed reading at work—combined with the holidays and my shockingly fast descent into World of Warcraft addiction* left me behind on both my feeds and the tumblrs I follow. I have 3000+ unread items in Bloglines and haven’t even seen my Tumblr dashboard in a week and a half, which likely translates to...
“The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than...”
– Jeff Sessions, R-AL [via Bill Israel who adds, “What the hell did he just say?”] Our leaders always make me so very proud of being from Alabama. How much more proud could I be? The answer is none…none more proud*. *If you don’t get that reference, I have nothing to say to...
Madonna’s macrobiotic Christmas →
Note to self: perhaps the live at Montreal Jazz fest version of ‘So What’ by Miles Davis is not supposed to go well with World of Warcraft.
DNA Pioneer’s Genome Blurs Race Lines →
James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and winner of the Nobel prize, raised a storm recently when a British newspaper quoted him saying that black Africans are not as intelligent as whites. But his own brilliant DNA seems to blur the lines. A new analysis of Dr. Watson’s genome shows that he has 16 times the number of genes considered to be of African origin than the average...
The best music of 2007 | The A.V. Club →
Travors says he only has 2 of the 25 albums putting him two ahead of Rod. Jacob claims to own half of the list and hate the other half. I myself also only have two of them, the free one and the #1 selection, and only have one of the others—the new Iron & Wine release—on my wish list. But I haven’t listened to the free one yet (I haven’t managed to get it onto my...
“By sharing media we find interesting, we share something of ourselves. If a...”
– squashed, regarding that anti-Tumblr article that’s going around.
“…you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves...”
– Bad Astronomy Blog » Take a ride on the Redding
Sometimes I’m jealous of all the cool stuff that other countries have that America doesn’t. Stuff like culture and history and all that crap. But then I think, “Yeah, but I bet they don’t have a cable network that shows ‘A Christmas Story’ for 24 straight hours on Christmas Eve.” I feel a bit better after that.
Common Errors in English →
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