London photo of the day: rainbow over the Golden Jubilee Bridges
Spectacular rainbow earlier tonight looking south over the Golden Jubilee Bridges.
Month: August 2011
Saturday cute: Keep Calm and Cookie Rocket T-shirt
If you’ve seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes, then you know that we finally have a catchphrase of the summer…
question of the weekend: Why are people terrified of creative ideas?
A fascinating and distressing article at science news site Physorg.com yesterday reported on a study that people are biased against creative ideas. Even relatively innocuous ones…
London photo of the day: inside Darwin’s greenhouse
Another image from Down House, the home of Charles Darwin: creepy-cool plants inside the greenhouse he used for experiments and observations.
remember that diamond planet from the ‘Doctor Who’ episode “Midnight”?
Astronomers found it. No, really. Scientific American says so…
deep thought (re weather and box office)
How will Hurricane Irene impact the excuse-making for poor box office for all the not-screened-for-critics flicks opening this weekend in North America?
the end is nigh! Hurricane Irene shuts down Film Forum in NYC!
I’m so glad I’m in London at the moment, where we only have to worry about riots, not the cinemas shutting down.
Friday night fortune cookie: Aaron Altman says…
“Wouldn’t this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?”
‘Attack the Block’ is expanding across the U.S. and Canada this weekend…
Not a lot, but some. Detroit, Denver, Nevada, buncha places in the Midwest, Montreal, Baltimore…
Swinging with the Finkels (review)
I love Martin Freeman, I really do, but what the hell is this shit?
