May 2009
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No Salvation
Partway through Terminator Salvation, Blair (Moon Bloodgood) and Marcus (Sam Worthington) are heading back to their resistance base and are attacked by some human survivors. Marcus is off gathering firewood when the men attack Blair with the presumed intent to rape her, but Marcus comes to the rescue.
Now, I certainly watch too many Joss Whedon creations, but this scene bothered me. It’s...
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Roger Ebert on fake IMAX →
Fascinating article.
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Twitter and Copyright — “Twitterlogical: The... →
My amateur curiosity says that someone could/will probably write a book or epic poem using individual Twitter posts for each line, and that overall work would be copywriteable, but it seems that any individual tweet isn’t.
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Gizmodo on the design of the Skynet base in... →
I think the filmmakers missed a great opportunity to show what a machine city might look like. Purely functional, all tools taking commands wirelessly from other machines, not guardrails on dangerously high structures, etc.
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Play Him Off, Green Day →
From The Colbert Report.
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Put Safari 4 Tabs Back Where They Belong | Mac... →
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Gummi Venus De Milo →
Sweet sweet candy.
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YouTube - W&M Students Break "Thriller" World... →
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William & Mary - W&M officially breaks 'Thriller'... →
242 people.
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Enable the 30 Second Skip on your Remote →
TiVo tip.
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Transforming USB Flash Memory (2 GB) - Ravage →
Dear Santa…
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Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Sets →
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Official Gmail Blog: Import your mail and contacts... →
It’s hard to believe one could have still been stuck with mail in different accounts.
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How to Purchase TV Shows, Movies, Music, and Music... →
Researching Apple TV. Important to note: It seems like Apple TV *will* automatically download new episodes of a season pass you’ve purchased, but *only if* you purchase it from the Apple TV, not from your computer.
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Why Lil' Kirk Was Listening to the Beastie Boys →
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YouTube - i made old star trek look like new star... →
ToS + lens flares!
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io9 - J.J. Abrams Admits Star Trek Lens Flares Are... →
I liked the glossy look of the film.
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AMC theaters are running FAKE IMAX's and charging... →
I was ripped off by this at Watchmen.
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Chimpanzee Riding A Segway →
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Star Trek Fashion Smackdown →
Loved the retro-chic uniforms in the new film. One gripe: there’s no apparent rank insignia on them. On the original series stripes on the cuffs served this purpose.
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On Barack and Caylee: names and the news →
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MacGuffin Watch 2009
As the summer movie season revs up it’s fun to look at tropes of action movie plot development. Today: the MacGuffin. If Wikipedia is to be believed, Alfred Hitchcock said:
[We] have a name in the studio, and we call it the “MacGuffin”.
It is the mechanical element that usually crops up in any story.
In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy
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America's most popular names of 2008 →
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TiVo Series 4 Wishlist — Observation Point →
I haven’t used an HD TiVo but may be switching to one soon-ish. I didn’t realize it didn’t already understand how to distinguish/prioritize HD vs. SD versions of the same show.
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