Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (trailer)
Hey! I bet the key Tom Hanks left the kid goes into the automaton that Jude Law left Hugo!
Month: December 2011
question of the day: What is the scariest thing about SOPA, and how scared are you?
I might choose the proud ignorance of America’s elected officials. All the other horrors — the attack on civil liberties, the kowtowing to big corporations, the overarching arrogance of the whole thing — stem from this.
London photo of the day: love Christmas or else
The consumeristic obnoxiousness embodied by this display at a Boots store is one reason why some people despise Oxford Street.
French movie posters for Puss in Boots, Arthur Christmas, Breaking Dawn, In Time, The Rum Diary
I always enjoy seeing how movie titles translated into other languages, so of course I snapped some photos of movie posters when I was in France last month…
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (retro trailer)
The general level of just barely contained family animosity and bad will is what makes this a classic…
church of awesome: the future of science (and entertainment) 2021
Many of these things will also apply to how we entertain ourselves, and how we talk about entertainment…
London photo of the day: the Daleks encourage you to use mass transit
The Jubilee tube line tunnels look like they’re part of some Dalek master plan to take over Earth’s mass transit.
Saturday cute: social networking propaganda posters
Tweet for victory!
another reminder to shop Amazon (and Chapters/Indigo) through FlickFilosopher.com
If you’re still doing Christmas shopping, it would help me out enormously if you’d use these links…
question of the weekend: Does it freak you out to hear that scientists have discovered a “second Earth”?
If you’re any kind of proper geek like me, you probably squee’d at the news. But apparently it bothers some people immensely…
