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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Mmm, mmm, good: Via Sci Fi Wire, which has more flavors: Bisque o’ County Jr., Autolycus Cheese, Gumbo Ho-Tep. (Got a photo or image that’s adorable and at least vaguely pop-culture related? Found such a photo online? Send a link or an image, and I might post it!)
The “aftermath” of a “brutal recession”? Sure feels like we’re still in it… Investing in alternative energy is good. We should also be disincentivizing the use of fossil fuels. Like by upping — a lot — minimum MPG requirements for new cars. If we could shift our factories in a matter of months in 1942 … more…
I can across an article a while back that mentioned sleep as a “lifestyle” topic: you know, on a par with fashion and cooking and the like. And that notion initially struck me as silly. How could a basic biological function become a “lifestyle” issue. But then it occurred to me that our basic needs … more…
“You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.”
Long has the mystery haunted humanity: Just what kind of creature is Oscar the Grouch, anyway? Irrefutable evidence gleaned in a recent scientific study points indisputably to one answer alone: Oscar the Grouch is a a Time Lord. At least, so says BillChas at the blog The Elegance of Humanity in America. The evidence, m’Luds, … more…
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…
Look, I love white people. Some of my best friends are white. But that doesn’t mean that I want to see white people in every movie, particularly if they don’t belong there. Like in The Last Airbender, which is based on a cartoon in which the characters are clearly from Inuit- and Asian-flavored cultures and … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, wow. Helen Mirren is just totally bad-ass, ain’t she? This looks a helluva lot better than The Expendables, which appears to be working from a similar idea. But it doesn’t have Mirren, for one. That was their first mistake. Red opens in the U.S. and Canada … more…
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