watch Al Jazeera live online
If you want to see what’s really going on in the Middle East, you want to watch Al Jazeera. Unfortunately, the vast majority of cable companies in the U.S. do not carry the channel…
Year: 2011
question of the day: What movie has made you angriest, and why?
PopWatch wonders whether you saw The Rite this weekend, and if it made you mad. (I wonder why anyone would expect anything at all from a January thriller, but that’s just me.) Which makes me think about the movies that have good cause to make us angry…
what you don’t understand about Twitter; Facebook defriends Roger Ebert; Golden Globes in big trouble; more: leftover links
Plus: Katie Holmes smeared by mean ol’ gossip rags; Syfy picks up Web series The Mercury Men; the Internet stole Obama’s State of the Union address; more…
Saturday cute: “No One Wants To Play Sega With Harrison Ford”
Detail from “No One Wants To Play Sega With Harrison Ford” by Brandon Bird…
question of the weekend: How are your reading habits changing with the advent of ebooks and social media?
I’m certainly giving my Kindle a workout, and expect that I will read more classic novels this year than I have recently, because it’s so easy to find and download good e-versions of them… and because I’m feeling a little guilty about selling and giving away so many books…
Friday night fortune cookie: Donnie Darko says…
“You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up.”
deep thought (re snow days)
You’d think people would have better things to do than veg in front of the TV on a free day off thanks to a foot of snow on the ground.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: build your own Lego TARDIS
Andrew Summersgill really likes the TARDIS. And Legos. So he builds all sorts of Lego TARDISes and puts them into scenarios and photographs them and posts them to flickr. He’ll even show you how to build your own Lego TARDIS… complete with video instructions.
wtf: Egyptian government shuts down Internet access in Egypt
And American politicians want to give the U.S. president the power to do nearly the same thing, without judicial oversight. Be afraid…
The Mechanic (review)
The auteur who gave us Con Air, The General’s Daughter, and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is back, extending his cinema terrible of violent, unthinking nihilism and brutal, pointless action. Oh, and misogyny for fun. Hoorah!
