curated: the da Vinci money-laundering scam to benefit Trump that will make a great movie
If the world survives President Donald Trump, that is.
If the world survives President Donald Trump, that is.

Wonderfully, sweetly geeky, and full of the sort of goofy yet intriguing adventures that inspire kiddie curiosity in history and art and science.

Available on a T-shirt, naturally…
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Mathematician, architect, sculptor, writer, scientist, inventor, action hero: Leonardo is James Bond and Q all in one no doubt devastatingly handsome package.
It is leaden where it should be light. It is graceless and charmless. It reels from the painful banter. It is the epitome of empty soulless corporate filmmaking.
Yeah, I bet Christopher Wren was thinking, Better make sure St. Paul’s still looks awesome in case that helical air screw thingie of Da Vinci’s ever gets invented.
With Toy Story 3 about to land at British cinemas — it opens on July 23 (it has already earned more than $250 million in North America, which it did at a near-record-breaking pace) — art and design writer Jonathan Jones in the Guardian decrees that digital animation, especially as exemplified by the works of … more…
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
It’s been a long time since I had to stifle the urge to shout, “No no NO!” at a movie screen in order to ensure that everything turned out okay in the end.