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Month: January 2012

question of the day: Should we applaud successful movie marketing when the movie being marketed is a stinker?

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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I’m angry as a filmgoer, and on behalf of all those filmgoers who plunked down for a ticket to The Devil Inside this weekend and then felt like they’d been ripped off.

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London photo of the day: pagan meets police

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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The Horned Goddess casts a jovial spell over a city guard.

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The Hobbit is officially more awesome than The Dark Knight Rises

Sun, Jan 08, 2012
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But Bilbo Baggins appears to be officially less awesome than Bane. If you listen to the Twitter, at least…

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church of awesome: the Large Hadron Collider — in Lego

Sun, Jan 08, 2012
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Unconformed reports say that the Lego Hadron Collider is searching for the elusive null-peg brick, which science proves must exist but which has never been observed in nature.

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The Exorcist (retro trailer)

Sun, Jan 08, 2012
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Does this seem so terrifying that it could not be seen by human eyes?

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London photo of the day: the magical trams of Croydon

Sun, Jan 08, 2012
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Oh, our trams will hit you, but you will be transformed into pretty pretty flowers on the tracks.

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deep thought: the most incredible thing about Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol…

Sat, Jan 07, 2012
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…is that Brad Bird made Tom Cruise human again. Or perhaps for the first time.

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Saturday cute: snuggies for geeks

Sat, Jan 07, 2012
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For when you get cold doing geek stuff…

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seeking a ridiculously awesome living situation in London

Sat, Jan 07, 2012
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I’m looking for someplace cool, central, and cheap in London. Could be a flatshare. Could be a lodger situation. Could be a housesitting gig…

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question of the weekend: If aliens visited, what would you be embarrassed to have to admit about the human race?

Sat, Jan 07, 2012
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Inspired by a tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson…

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