Amsterdam photo of the day: someone thought a tree needed a scarf
I don’t know why. It wasn’t that cold.
Year: 2014
why reader Jay just doubled his monthly subscription from $5 to $10
Because, Jays says: “I used to check Rotten Tomatoes but now I just check FlickFilosopher.com!”
oh my god, Star Trek Continues is amazing
This is so pitch-perfect a re-creation that it gave me chills, then it made me cry tears of geek joy, and then I forgot I was watching anything other than Star Trek.
500 great ebooks you can download for free
You’re welcome.
“the New Zealand Prime Minister publicly denies being a lizard person”
Exactly what you’d expect a lizard person to say.
Amsterdam photo of the day: a leash for your car
So that it doesn’t run away. (I hear this may also feed it go-juice.)
fun fact: Sid Caesar was television’s killer app
If you didn’t want to be left out of what everyone else was talking about — like Caesar’s show — you had to have a TV.
what’s your favorite word that we use today with a different meaning than it used to have?
Apart from the evolution of geek, I kind of love how friend has become a verb…
Amsterdam photo of the day: where to go to get your violin made
To the violin maker’s shop, of course.
is Russell Crowe’s Noah a “crazy, irrational, religious nut”?
Paramount is hoping to sell Darren Aronofsky’s Noah to both secular and religious audiences. This’ll be fun to watch…
