what would happen if critics simply stopped reviewing bad movies?
There’s serious talk in book circles about the value (or lack thereof) of negative reviews. What if film people started wondering the same thing?
Amsterdam photo of the day: someone thought a tree needed a scarf
I don’t know why. It wasn’t that cold.
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.
