Needs wheels
Upgrading an Ipod Nano to 200gb. Aesthetics sold seperately.
Uncle Orson Reviews Everything
Orson Scott Card reviews Serenity and speaks of sci-fi movies in general:
This is the kind of movie that I have always intended Ender's Game to be (though the plots are not at all similar).
And this is as good a movie as I always hoped Ender's Game would be.
And I'll tell you this right now: If Ender's Game can't be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made.
I'd rather just watch Serenity again.
This is the kind of movie that I have always intended Ender's Game to be (though the plots are not at all similar).
And this is as good a movie as I always hoped Ender's Game would be.
And I'll tell you this right now: If Ender's Game can't be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made.
I'd rather just watch Serenity again.
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A leaf on the wind
Saw Serenity, enjoyed, as did the audience. A few jolts, much laughter, a few audible gasps. But I'm interested in the reactions of non-fans to the flick, either you or a friend who've seen it without the luxury of any of the series. Does it stand on its own merits? Call it idle rumination on the gentle art of moviemaking. (Warning: spoilers in comments.)
Point, click, kill
The idea of this project was to create a fully-automated sentry gun, capable of picking out a human target and accurately tracking and shooting him or her in the heart. Really, the idea was to find a cool robotics project for the summer while I was working at an advertising agency, and I'd only ever seen sentry guns in movies (like Congo) and video games (Half-Life 1, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress Classic). I couldn't find any record of anyone building one, even the military, although it seems likely I just didn't look hard enough. It's a pretty simple technology. One of my friends did mention the Phalanx anti-missile gun, which is of similar design, but uses radar for tracking instead of an optical method. The Phalanx has been around since the early 80's. He was also quick to add that there are some pretty good reasons for not building an optical sentry gun, a big one being that it's generally a good idea to shoot down any missile headed in your direction, but that same philosophy may not be the best when applied to humans. If you're here just to see my little brother get shot with it, scroll to the bottom. :)
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Can't take my bricks away from me
Serenity in Lego. Also with cast. And don't miss the Block Head Iconizer, a nice addendum to the MiniMizer or the more-realistic but less-imaginative Minifig Generator.
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Insomniac grab bag
Free RPG! Violence: The Roleplaying Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed has been released under a Creative Commons license. Warning: may not be playable.
A Flickr magazine-cover generator. It's...cute. Wish there were more styles, though.
A Flash timeline clock. Not complicated, but elegant somehow.
And one of my new matters of trepidation: MRI scanners. Oh, I do hope I never have to get one....
"Spike the Vampire" movie front-burnered? And helmed by Tim Minear? Sweet.
A Flickr magazine-cover generator. It's...cute. Wish there were more styles, though.
A Flash timeline clock. Not complicated, but elegant somehow.
And one of my new matters of trepidation: MRI scanners. Oh, I do hope I never have to get one....
"Spike the Vampire" movie front-burnered? And helmed by Tim Minear? Sweet.
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The goggles do nothing!
Emotion-induced blindness: If your partner seems to be ignoring you after a flash of nudity on the television screen, it might not be his or her fault: A new psychological study finds that when people are shown violent or erotic images they frequently fail to process what they see immediately afterwards. Complete with Flash demonstration.
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Ebert's smackdown
Roger Ebert's review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Two paragraphs on the plot, inasmuch as there is one, several more on the Rob Schneider feud with an LA Times movie critic over the fact that this movie was even made. And Ebert's take is gloriously brief in its finality. (Hint: zero stars.)
What, no Dilberts?
A Flash webcomic generator. Fun to try, but don't miss others' creations, which run the gamut from "mildly intriguing" to "utterly inexplicable."
Thundastrook
Lightning strikes airliner -- with animated .GIFs. Oh, good, because two of my favorite remaining anxieties needed to collide like this.
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Ah, New Onion Day
Highlights: Headline only: Disgruntled Bolton Shoots 17 UN Delegates, Self
Bush Vows To Eliminate U.S. Dependence On Oil By 4920
What Do You Think? Dog Cloning: "I heard that cloned dog is highly unstable. Supposedly, if you pet it, its head'll, like, blow up." -- "Did they rip the dog in two? Because that's how I cloned my starfish."
Bush Vows To Eliminate U.S. Dependence On Oil By 4920
What Do You Think? Dog Cloning: "I heard that cloned dog is highly unstable. Supposedly, if you pet it, its head'll, like, blow up." -- "Did they rip the dog in two? Because that's how I cloned my starfish."
I...no, Aardy got it!
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aardy1 successfully snurfled up my lost word as if it were a Pay Day bar covered in ants.
My description: in the structural ballpark of "ambivalent" or "ambidextrous" but which means essentially composing a system of two essentially equal but diametrically opposed forces. (Okay, I was on crack on the "structural" part.)
Aardy came up with dichotomy: Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions: “the dichotomy of the one and the many” (Louis Auchincloss). And that's it. I'll sleep well tonight. Dichotomy, dichotoyou; lobotomy, lobotoyou.
aardy1 successfully snurfled up my lost word as if it were a Pay Day bar covered in ants.My description: in the structural ballpark of "ambivalent" or "ambidextrous" but which means essentially composing a system of two essentially equal but diametrically opposed forces. (Okay, I was on crack on the "structural" part.)
Aardy came up with dichotomy: Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions: “the dichotomy of the one and the many” (Louis Auchincloss). And that's it. I'll sleep well tonight. Dichotomy, dichotoyou; lobotomy, lobotoyou.
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omg omg omg
So I sent media guru Jim Romenesko an e-mail about the aforementioned LJWorld blunder that cost a woman her apartment's content -- it was so scary to me, not just the idea of losing everything you own, but of such a simple little mistake that I'm sure I've made dozens of times but in this context being responsible for such a horrible loss -- mentioning the thread which prompted it. I figured he'd be as intrigued with the story as I was.
What I didn't expect -- but is a pleasant surprise -- was for the news bloopers link to get reposted to the left-hand bar of the Romenesko page -- with credit to the LJ post!
If I were biologically capable of doing so, I would express this emotion pulsing through me in a sound I believe you refer to as "squee," possibly with exclamatory emphasis added. But I'm not. So let's just say I am...pleased and flattered. I think I'm at about 1.45 Percocets of happiness.
Also: taunt not Nathan Fillion.
Also also:rewil! Paper critters! Paper hedgie!
A^3: The LJ database is acting weird today. I've seen comments disappear, reappear, reappear only after I post another comment, comment counts go from five to one to seven.... There's a glitch in the Matrix somewhere. Must be Agents.
What I didn't expect -- but is a pleasant surprise -- was for the news bloopers link to get reposted to the left-hand bar of the Romenesko page -- with credit to the LJ post!
If I were biologically capable of doing so, I would express this emotion pulsing through me in a sound I believe you refer to as "squee," possibly with exclamatory emphasis added. But I'm not. So let's just say I am...pleased and flattered. I think I'm at about 1.45 Percocets of happiness.
Also: taunt not Nathan Fillion.
Also also:
rewil! Paper critters! Paper hedgie!A^3: The LJ database is acting weird today. I've seen comments disappear, reappear, reappear only after I post another comment, comment counts go from five to one to seven.... There's a glitch in the Matrix somewhere. Must be Agents.
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- pain,
- television,
- w00t,
- webjunk
Blood, truth and more blood
I think these were all mentioned in Revelations at some point. Anyhow, the miscellany:
A page from Fillerbunny #3, featuring his new friend Bee Bee. I don't even need to tell you how it ends.
brucha gets props from Lore for disproving the "Penn Jillette is screwing with us" hypothesis. The Force is strong with this one.
BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow reacts to the revelation that Apple's new OS will use Intel's "Trusted Computing" hardware. This may prompt Cory to remove his Mac tattoo on his right bicep (no, really). Could alienating your core support group -- one which could be fairly accurately and occasionally charitably described as fanatical -- be the big red fruit's death knell?
Via MeFi: Urban Dead, the browser-based zombie game! It's like Neopets, but...not...really.
Today's Image of the Day: porcupine vs. dog. That didn't make me cringe as much as watching the awesome Bloody Suckers on PBS last night, though (instead of The Simpsons -- how sad).
A page from Fillerbunny #3, featuring his new friend Bee Bee. I don't even need to tell you how it ends.
brucha gets props from Lore for disproving the "Penn Jillette is screwing with us" hypothesis. The Force is strong with this one.BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow reacts to the revelation that Apple's new OS will use Intel's "Trusted Computing" hardware. This may prompt Cory to remove his Mac tattoo on his right bicep (no, really). Could alienating your core support group -- one which could be fairly accurately and occasionally charitably described as fanatical -- be the big red fruit's death knell?
Via MeFi: Urban Dead, the browser-based zombie game! It's like Neopets, but...not...really.
Today's Image of the Day: porcupine vs. dog. That didn't make me cringe as much as watching the awesome Bloody Suckers on PBS last night, though (instead of The Simpsons -- how sad).
A stunt that took a lot of balls
These photos document the release of 10,000 small superballs at the San Francisco hilltop corner of Filbert and Leavenworth.
This sounds exactly like something one of my former cow-orkers would've done. Wish I'd been there. Via, appropriately enough, BoingBoing.
This sounds exactly like something one of my former cow-orkers would've done. Wish I'd been there. Via, appropriately enough, BoingBoing.