Category Archives: amused

Abraham Lincoln enters the Matrix with an ax to kill vampires. Abraham Lincoln enters the Matrix with an ax to kill vampires. Yes! And I hate vampire movies, books, all of it. But I loved Abraham Lincoln enters the Matrix … Continue reading →

“Reality is always more complex than popular visions of the future would have us think. “But, as I said, what I want to figure out are the legacy futures yet to come. Some candidates: “The Singularity “End of Scarcity “Functional … Continue reading →

So, I saw “Brave” and it was very pretty, but… (spoilers ahoy)

“Clearly, I could nitpick the movie to death; a lot of science—stuff important to the plot, and not just little details—got messed up. At some level even I don’t have a problem with science errors, but when they get to … Continue reading →

“As you might have guessed … there’s a comic book connection here. “The fastest way to solve this problem is to break it into parts, then work from piece to piece. “The first part is to figure out who Barbara … Continue reading →

Is not what you think. It’s about getting drivers to stop texting and using their cell phones while driving. But the name is brilliant. Distraction.gov

So, Amazon and pod bring us all some odd things I saw on TV as a kid. Here, in no particular order, is the tip of the media iceberg: Don’t be Afraid of the Dark: utterly terrifying, but has Jim … Continue reading →

So, here’s my latest monovision crush: Date Masamune from Sengoku Basara anime. The anime is based on a fighting game “set” during the Waring States Period, populated with “real” historical figures, and all twenty-four episodes are thoroughly delightful. I’m not … Continue reading →

“Like many, I’ve been slowly rewatching Deep Space Nine ever since it popped up on Netflix. It’s been fascinating. On the one hand: Oh 90s! YOU WERE THE BEST! With your adorable WE ARE SO DARK plots that seem like … Continue reading →

“BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on all the storage lockers and ripped two doors off their frames. But they didn’t touch the computer or the … Continue reading →

My favorite Brit blogger did: “Some lucky bastard would have got one of the two most mature and devastating of Dickens’s novels – namely Little Dorrit and Bleak House. Each concerns itself with the corruption inherent in the material world, … Continue reading →

Makes me feel better about mine. “Even after he published, Prufrock and The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot continued to work his day job at a bank. The new volume of his letters reveals his financial anxieties and his unexpected attitude … Continue reading →

Although crime still pays better, or so I’m told. “The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David … Continue reading →

I can has language play: Construction of Language and Identity in LOLspeak from Lauren Gawne on Vimeo. (via of all places) Linguists. Economists. Kitty creole. Hey, why not?

for those who celebrate it and have a nice day for those who don’t.

“As fascinating as the film itself is the juxtaposition of the two creative geniuses behind it, each bringing his own life-lens to the project — Dalí described the film as ‘A magical display of the problem of life in the … Continue reading →

The Zipper Merge Nice to know there’s a name for it. (via)

You are not so Smart, by David McRaney I like this guy’s blog, too. Such as: “The research suggests you and rest of humanity will continue to churn into groups, banding and disbanding, and the beautiful collective species-wide macromonoculture imagined … Continue reading →

This might be fun when it comes out.