December 2009
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Roger Ebert's List of the Best Films of the Decade →
All of these films are on this list for the same reason: The direct emotional impact they made on me. […] In choosing the list, I decided to bypass films that may have qualified for their historical, artistic, popular or “objective” importance. No lists have deep significance, but even less lists composed to satisfy an imaginary jury of fellow ...
Dec 31st
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Various Book Covers of Day of the Triffids →
Dec 30th
Fourth Wall Cavalcade →
Dec 29th
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Dec 26th
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Alma →
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Baseball Creates Committee to Improve Sport →
“Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced Tuesday, to the surprise of many inside the sport, that he had appointed a 14-man special committee to fix the sport.”
Dec 21st
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Some Highlights of Na'vi →
James Cameron’s sci-fi blockbuster Avatar is opening this weekend with much fanfare. As has been widely reported, Cameron enlisted a linguist, Paul Frommer of USC’s Marshall School of Business, to create the Na’vi language, spoken by the inhabitants of the alien world Pandora. […] Na’vi has 20 consonants, 7 vowels, 4 diphthongs, and 2 syllabic...
Dec 21st
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Very neat concept for handling magazines on tablet computers/ebook readers called “Mag+”. Personally the idea of reading newspapers and magazines on a tablet is much more appealing than novels. I like to display books on a bookshelf, but don’t collect magazines. When I’m done with a magazine, I toss it in recycling. Likewise with newspapers. Periodicals I think would...
Dec 21st
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“[Avatar]’s pretty clearly about the insurgents slaughtering American...”
– Tim Callahan
Dec 20th
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Suggested Dialogue Revisions to Original... →
As far as I’m concerned, they only made two Terminator movies. This dialogue shows how one might account for Salvation. Reminds me of the Robot Chicken (or was it Family Guy) Star Wars special in which Darth Vader tells Luke, “as a child, I built C-3PO.”
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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The Physics of Space Battles →
Dec 18th
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The Comics Journal Interview with Dave Gibbons and... →
Dec 17th
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Netflix Mobile →
This has existed for a while but I never bothered to look for it.
Dec 17th
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The Perfect Way to Slice a Pizza →
If a pizza isn’t cut through the middle, how does one divide up the slices so that each eater gets an equitable share? Here comes the math.
Dec 16th
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How Long Could Luke Survive in a Tauntaun? →
Dec 15th
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William & Mary Mascot Finalists →
I like the wren, phoenix, griffin, and king & queen, in that order.
Dec 15th
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This has been going around, but it’s too great not to link to. Christmas Light Hero
Dec 15th
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Batman Writers' Guidlines →
The “bible” for Batman: The Animated Series. Includes treatments for all of the characters, story ideas, and art by Bruce Timm.
Dec 14th
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iTunes Holiday Sampler →
Free iTunes LP album. Includes songs by Barry Manilow, Weezer, Stephen Colbert, and Aretha Franklin.
Dec 13th
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IMDb iPhone App →
I’ve been hoping for something like this for ages. I’m frequently looking actors and movies up, and IMDb’s website is not very iPhone-friendly. I was, in fact, literally saying that I wished they had an iPhone site when I saw their banner ad for this.
Dec 13th
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Cable Freedom, Aided by a Mouse →
New York Times piece on how switching to using an XBOX for TV instead of having cable. This approach certainly isn’t friendly enough for many, but it’s growing. I’m still very happy with my TiVo and antenna setup.
Dec 12th
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I Thirst!, a Venn Diagram →
Dec 2nd