To recap: love is noise… assuming “noise” is exploding lights, a falcon, a football field full of 1960’s color guard performers, and a chick busting open her bra to unleash a torrent of flower petals.
Yeah, OK, I’m down with that.
Say hello to the next president of the United States of America:
My favorite part:
When I was a kid in the 80’s I was a Democrat, and then when I could finally vote in the 90’s I was a Republican… I’ve been miserable for 20 years. But now I finally feel like a winner!
There’s a great [...]
For quite some time [Paul W.S. Anderson's] name was pseudonymous with the very bottom of the barrel of mainstream genre filmmaking. Then Uwe Boll showed up and showed us what it was really like to not give a shit about film. And just as we thought it couldn’t get any worse than Uwe, Jason [...]
Dark Chocolate Fudge
Dark! All-encompassing, eternal darkness! Human eyes cannot penetrate the stygian blackness of this unholy confection!
Sounds delicious.
And here we go: Joblo has a PDF copy of the screenplay to The Dark Knight.
Just glancing through it, it looks like this script is pretty close to what ended up on screen, but there are some minor differences. The Nolans have a writing style that’s very direct and concise. Their action descriptions are no [...]
I can’t believe I missed this. Apparently they made a video of the actors doing voice work for Michael Bay’s Transformers. Yes, including the magnificent Peter Cullen.
When Peter Cullen says, “1986 was my last shot at this,” the kid in me poops his OshKosh B’Gosh shorts. Say what you will about the film, but Michael [...]
Wordle is a web tool for creating “beautiful word clouds.” You can copy and paste text to their site, link to a URL with an RSS/Atom feed, or pop in a person’s del.icio.us username (to get their tags) and in a matter of seconds Wordle will generate a word cloud that is delightfully customizable (in [...]
Screenwriter Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica) got an inside look at how soap operas are made, and, as she frequently does on her magnificent blog, she shares what she’s learned with us. It’s fascinating, to say the least.
The production aspects are insane– the show I visited doesn’t shoot, as you might assume, [...]
The 26-year old Franco is competing in her second Olympics, thanks to a burgeoning modeling career that gave her the financial support to continue competing in javelin competitions.
Chris Chase of Yahoo! Sports, on Leryn Franco, the smoking hot Olympian from Paraguay.
Yo tengo un javelin para ti, Señorita Franco… en mis pantalones!
For the first time in my life, I am proud of America.
Thanks to GreatWhiteSnark for the video, who “coincidentally” sent this to me about an hour after I published my previous post about ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2′. I guess great minds think alike, or some fruity crap like that.
Notice anything interesting about the movie poster on the right?
If the movie is called Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, then how come none of these girls are wearing pants? Am I the only one who thinks that’s totally weird?
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a strong supporter of the Sans-Pants Lifestyle™, but I’d also [...]
Ah, I now understand the sudden peace between humans and the animal kingdom. The previously pummeled vampire peacock was given a memorial by a human, proudly displayed in the Burger King where the murder took place, right next to a giant promotional Croissan’wich display. Clearly, such a selfless act has calmed the spirits of the [...]
I am relieved to see that some human/wildlife encounters can end peacefully.
Also, WTF is an emu? Is it, like, a giant bird that wears too much eyeliner and cuts itself? Weird.
As many of you know I previously debunked the theory of evolution via the existence of dick-plant. Apparently, this irrefutable proof of an Intelligent Designer named God has not been sufficient to turn back the tide of “scientists” and their so called “logical” and “rational thought” and “not stupidity.” Pity.
Fortunately, there are those that [...]
Do you see two faces or a vase? I see a good time.
1. This movie needs punctuation in its title. War is generic and boring, while War! is a battle cried that shakes the heavens and brings the gods to their knees. Being able to respectably use punctuation in the title of a film is [...]
Ok, this is just brilliant. Personally I wouldn’t ever use a non-custom theme for a blog, but if you don’t have the interest, know-how, or desire to build your own WordPress theme I think you could do a lot worse.
This also supports my theory that good design is only 10% skill, and really 90% inspiration [...]
One of the stupid design flaws of The Internet Movie Database (or IMDb) is that the movie URLs only include database IDs, which leads to addresses that look like “http://imdb.com/title/tt0390384/” for a film like Primer. As a general rule for something like this the text of the link should be the name of the movie [...]
I watched the indie sci-fi drama Primer over the weekend and I think I enjoyed it. I say “think” because I still haven’t completely wrapped my noodle around the film, which is, it seems, entirely by design.
The film tells the story of two Silicon Valley engineers looking for some VC money, and to get it [...]
At some point you have to just put your foot down and say enough is enough. Well, Apple iPhone, I am well past that point with you. It’s bad enough you’re consuming much of time, what with your beautiful user interface and instant access to a some-but-not-all YouTube videos. But I have to draw the [...]
People are always asking me how they can improve themselves to be better humans. I assume that’s because of my nigh incomprehensible awesomeness, or possibly because I’m not listening to what they’re actually asking me and I’m a raging narcissist. In any event, to address these people’s question I look inward, towards my geek soul, [...]
I generally try not to relink to something someone more handsome famous than me links to, but Anil Dash just made my day.
Behold, a working MP3 player that is a working (transforming) version of Decepticon communications officer Soundwave!
On a related note, Soundwave fans undoubtedly noticed that he wasn’t present in the Michael Bay Transformers film. [...]
The following photograph was taken by my buddy Jake during his trip to Japan. The mural is on the outside of the sumo arena in Tokyo.
Ummm… do you see what I see? The one on the far right is grabbing the giant man-boob of the one in the middle, and the one in the middle [...]
This is something I’ve considered writing at least five times now, but each time I just say “screw it” and go back to ogling Gong-Li’s titties and reading up on vampire peacocks. But this post by Shawn Blanc is going too far, and the pants are coming off ((As you can imagine, they weren’t on [...]
The following is a photograph of Hong Kong taken by Trey Ratcliff:
In a word: amazing.
His personal website has a tutorial on how to create High Dynamic Range images, though it strikes me that the fact that he used HDR in the picture is only icing on what would have been an otherwise beautiful cake.
Astute readers may point out that my previous rant about the lack of reference management software integration in Apple’s Pages isn’t really Apple’s fault. However, I didn’t write that post without doing my homework. A quick web search pulls up this discussion on Apple’s support forums. This post is of particular interest:
I talked to Jason [...]
Long story short, Pages (the iWork word processor) does not integrate with any reputable reference management software that we could find, and Numbers (the iWork spreadsheet app), doesn’t do error bars. So basically, for use in the scientific field iWork ‘08 is a complete non-starter.
This is very unfortunate, given that Arthur Levinson, the CEO and [...]
The Vitamin String Quartet does classical instrumental covers of bands like Marilyn Manson, Iron Maiden, Muse, Weezer, PJ Harvey, Bon Jovi, and Clay Aiken. Yeah, I’m totally confused too. Though I will say that I really liked their cover of No Doubt’s “New” (iTunes link), which is an incredibly under-appreciated song produced for the soundtrack [...]
You’re going to have to take my word for it, but that’s a Jessica Biel butt shot.
You’re welcome.
I think Stealth is as good as a movie about a killer robot jet airplane that gains sentience and decides to disobey orders and attack it’s perceived enemies regardless of the consequences to international stability but then learns [...]
Word on the street is that Universal Music is going to allow their songs to be downloaded as DRM-free, but only with non-iTunes music stores. So the tremendous ((Sarcasm.)) number of consumers purchasing digital music from Wal-Mart, Google, Amazon, and RealNetworks will get interoperable music, and iTunes Store costumers will keep getting the same old [...]
I finally got around to reading Stephan King’s On Writing, and wow, it’s just excellent. King explains that the book is meant to be a short (and it is), but not shallow (and it isn’t), take on the art of writing. Half of the book focuses on King’s experiences on the road to becoming a [...]
While I’m mentioning awesome web comics, Basic Instructions is both hilarious and educational. I’ve decided to live my life according to these instructions, and I can already see improvements in certain areas. For example, no one knows when I’m yawning anymore.
Also, I know how to share a movie I love with a person I love:
Granted, [...]
If you aren’t reading White Ninja Comics then your life is empty and meaningless.
Here is a sample:
It works on so many levels, but as a guy who’s had mono before I especially appreciate the punch line. It’s funny because it’s true.
After stumbling upon the StarCraft origami I decided to hit the web up to see what else is out there. I came across the website of Brian Chan: MIT student by day, ridiculously awesome origami master folder by night. How ridiculously awesome are we talking about? Behold:
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason, and [...]
Long story short: Koreans are awesome.
A wide shot of a battle:
A Protoss Scout:
A Protoss Carrier w/ Interceptors
A Zerg Hydralisk:
A Zerg Ultralisk:
A Terran tank in siege mode:
A Terran Battlecruiser:
You can check out the creator’s blog to see a lot more of these, along with pictures of him making some of these guys. A word of warning, [...]
For that last post I ended up at BillOReilly.com and saw a link titled “ACLU challenging ‘Jesus is Lord’ sign”, which takes you to this article. Long story short, a town in Illinois put the phrase “Jesus is Lord” on their city welcome signs, and the issue of “separation between church and state” has been [...]
It is incredibly fitting that just after I post about the asshats at News Corp that I would be reminded of why it is said asshat’s Fox News Channel is killing it’s competition in the ratings. I watched both Bill O’Reilly’s (of Fox News) and Keith Olbermann’s (of MSNBC) coverage of the Minnesota bridge collapse [...]
WSJ.com published an article titled “Ten Things Your IT Department Won’t Tell You” which is a list of things you shouldn’t be doing with a work computer, and some nifty tricks to do them anyway.
What are we talking about? Tips like “How to use software that your company won’t left you download” and “How to [...]
Paul Thurrott is taking his iPhone to Paris, and gives a rundown of how expensive that will be. He explains,
Before doing so, however, you have to call AT&T and set up international roaming. This involves dialing a toll-free number, wading through AT&T’s annoying but typical automated phone system and, if you called on a weekend [...]
If you’re viewing this site outside of a feed reader than you’ve undoubtedly noticed that things look a bit different here. That’s because I decided to redo my site design, flipping the contrast from light (text) on dark (background) to dark-on-light. The reason isn’t so much for aesthetics (which I think are served by the [...]
