February 2012
14 posts
“I have never seen [JAWS: The Revenge], but by all accounts it is terrible....”
– Michael Caine, revealing a cynical edge
'Paradise Lost' Scrapped By Legendary Pictures -... →
I wonder what they were thinking: “Clash of the Titans for the christian market”?
FBI — Steven Paul Jobs Part 01 of 01 →
Everything you ever wanted to know that the the FBI ever knew about Steve Jobs.
WatchVegas’s heroic boys in blue beat and subdue a diabetic who needs insulin. The laugh at the end completes the tableau.
(via Video shows officers beating motorist in diabetic shock - News - ReviewJournal.com)
School Is In Session | TPM Media →
Kid’s going for a DARPA grant.
John Williams is 80 today. Think about that.
Rogers, BCE vying for a bite of Apple’s iTV - The... →
While the iTV product remains cloaked in secrecy, sources say Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has approached Rogers and Bell as it actively pursues partnerships with Canadian carriers.
The future is a web-enabled movie device so awesome, that the manufacturer can get ISPs to pay them for it.
Barbara Ehrenreich - Welcome to Cancerland →
Now breast cancer has blossomed from wallflower to the most popular girl at the corporate charity prom. While AIDS goes begging and low-rent diseases like tuberculosis have no friends at all, breast cancer has been able to count on Revlon, Avon, Ford, Tiffany, Pier 1, Estee Lauder, Ralph Lauren, Lee Jeans, Saks Fifth Avenue, JC Penney, Boston Market, Wilson athletic gear — and I apologize...
John Kricfalusi Simpsons opening!
The “ultimate display of public limp dickery”
[…] Vanderboegh, like many House Republicans, buys into the conspiracy theory that the Obama administration deliberately pumped additional weapons into Mexico in an effort to create the political will to pass gun control at home.
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Donations from readers of [Mike Vanderboegh] Sipsey Street Irregulars blog helped him fly out to Washington, D.C. this week for the [House...
WatchProcess subway train
January 2012
15 posts
Joe Paterno Dies In Hospital; Doctors Promise To... →
infosuicide - Google Search →
Compare with “Going Galt”
I thought, in the new order, information was...
The money [from Megaupload premium accounts] mainly routed through US-based PayPal, which is how Megaupload collected subscriptions from users looking for premium accounts. This wasn’t chump change; the government claims that the Megaupload PayPal account has “received in excess of $110,000,000 from subscribers and other persons associated with Mega Conspiracy.”
What Mitt Romney Learned From His Dad | Rick... →
Most strikingly, asked about the idea that “rugged individualism” was the key to America’s success, [George Romney] snapped back, “It’s nothing but a political banner to cover up greed.”
“The Italian word De Falco used, “cazzo” in Italian, is slang for the...”
How Stanley Kubrick Invented the Modern Box-Office... →
Department of Phrases I Haven't Heard In A Long...
“Interlibrary loan”
Ringing Finally Ended, but There’s No Button to... →
The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday night. The conductor, Alan Gilbert, did something almost unheard-of in a concert hall: He stopped the performance. But the ringing kept on going, prompting increasingly angry shouts in the audience directed at the...
GOP Candidate Passed Off ‘Home Economics’ Degree... →
Oh come on!
Should the Times be a Truth Vigilante? →
Just throwing it out there, but I remember reading in Tuchman’s The Proud Tower about how in Paris in the 1890s, at the time of the Dreyfus affair, there were hundreds of newspapers, newsletters, magazines, periodical pamphlets, etc. and none of them professed objectivity, so everyone read a few of them, and while the reader might have tended to select sources according to their own biases,...
“Charlie Sheen is the poor man’s Charlie Sheen.”
– Nathan Rabin
Facebook Responsible for A Third of Divorces in... →
A recent survey conducted by a UK based divorce website disclosed that 33 per cent behaviour divorce petitions filed cite Facebook as a cause for filling for divorce in 2011. In 2009 this figure was 20 per cent.
Just bought a typewriter
Hipster transfiguration continues apace.
December 2011
44 posts
Ryan Lilla at the NYRB →
If you ever wondered where “political left” and “right” came from, this is a good start.
http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/ →
Why not? →
Johnny Depp, Eva Green and Chloe Moretz in an IMAX Dark Shadows feature.
"The Star Wars Holiday Special" in Context
Just some thoughts…
Friday, November 17, 1978, 8 PM, (7 central and mountain)
In November 1978, the Special was preempting Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk on CBS. It was against Donnie & Marie, The Rockford Files, and Diff’rent Strokes — then only in its fourth episode, and quickly building an audience with an assist from Charlotte Rae/”Edna Garrett,”...
“You know, Max… some times… I don’t — think I know you.”
– Captain von Trapp
Chaplin Film Locations THEN & NOW - Keystone... →
Edendale
Supervillain or Newt | Celebrating our next... →
The Irrelevance of Money →
Matt’s been a little flaky lately but this one’s a keeper.
Christopher Hitchens, 1949 — 2011
“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where. It looks too...”
– Marissa Mayer
MIT slows down light with... →
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I’m going to the Nakatomi Christmas Party.
