Best TV Hair
One of our writers over at Film.com wrote an article about the characters with the best hair, and I don’t know why but it makes me laugh.
Laura Roslin is the president of the last remnants of humanity, but she is also the president of having the best hair ever in the history of the universe. Laura Roslin’s hair is the reason the phrase HBIC was coined. When I look at Laura Roslin’s hair, I am overcome with love, and also jealousy. It’s a complicated feeling.
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Grab a chocolate, grab a Band-Aid holder
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I didn’t have the milk-to-cereal ratio right so I got back up.
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Fla. lawmaker wants to bring back firing squads
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As soon as the movie ended, I thought to myself, ‘I have to do something courageous and epic. I have to throw a hot dog on the green in front of Tiger.’
Recently, we talked to someone who’s working on another way for computers to identify you in the real world: by the way you walk.
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Week Five of the Occupy Wall Street movement finds couture-and-pearls-bedecked actress Elizabeth McGovern preoccupied with America’s growing income disparity at the New York Film Festival premiere of “My Week With Marilyn” in a swank New York City hotel on Sunday.
(via @tcarmody)
A Few Remarks
I sat next to him for almost two years. Inches apart, in fact, but there was a wall of sorts between us. Blue tweed-looking stuff stretched over a metal frame and filled with a thin layer of sound deadening material. It was not enough to prevent my hearing his chronic wheezing and throat-clearing.
The first week was not too bad. I was kind enough to welcome him into our little dysfunctional family. Show him how to do things and avoid the obvious rookie mistakes. He was slow to pick up departmental procedures and obstinate about what he thought he knew.
At what point did I stop trying to help him? It was when he took credit for projects that were not his own, compounded by a reluctance to admit he never knew what the fuck he was talking about. He couldn’t support an opinion or back up an assertion based on his own experience–Googling an answer was his method of showing how smart he was.
The Ides of March
Has anyone seen The Ides of March yet? If not, I highly recommend it. I haven’t been this excited about a movie in a long time, and I was pretty surprised at my reaction.
After discussing it a little, it became apparent that there were at least two ways of reading the overall storyline — I preferred to read it as a sort of Fall story, though that interpretation has some flaws (which I’d like to discuss), but on the other hand, it’s a story where no one, except perhaps Paul, has any real integrity. Any reactions? Who do you think is the hero, or are there any heroes?
1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trapardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout
The world’s oldest running car sold at auction last Friday for $4.62 million.
The Runabout had been in the same family for 81 years prior to the sale, and is one of six De Dion tricycles known to still exist. A total of 20 of the three-wheelers were built. When new, the trike had a top speed of 38 mph and a range of 20 miles on one tank of water. The vehicle that sold last night was the only car to show up for the world’s first auto race, where it averaged 16 mph over a 20-mile course.
We failed
in our mission, but we learned from our mistakes and will try again.
Next time: different tools.
I did, however, stand in the pouring rain “in a lonely hollow” and scream, “I hate God! I hate the Devil! I hate the living, and I hate the dead!”
And dare lightning to strike me.
So that was all good.
Oh my god, what do I have? I don’t have a stick. Holy crap! Uh, I mean, excuse my language.
Siri can learn…
…how to hate you.
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Touchscreen Braille Writer Lets the Blind Type on a Tablet
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“They are to vertebrates what a small country church is to Notre Dame cathedral — the basic architecture is there though they lack a lot of the complexity,” says Linda Holland at the University of California, San Diego.
“Violence arises due to the structure of boundaries between groups rather than as a result of inherent conflicts between the groups themselves,” write Bar-Yam’s team in their Switzerland study, released Oct. 6 in arXiv.
The hot-water drill will need to operate continuously for three days to create a 36cm wide borehole through the ice.
To the Moon
This is a game in development worth paying attention to.
my current desktop
spam name
Fabian Penn.
one more thing to watch out for when riding a bike
I just hope that there’s someone right behind me with a video camera when something like this happens to me. (via)
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Bad Handwriting Foils Bank Heist
Our bodies, our flock: Parthenogenesis.
I’m sorry to have neglected “Our Bodies, Our Flock” for so long (previously), but I’m lazy. Here’s a new one for you, on parthenogenesis!
Humans, like all mammals, are incapable of performing parthenogenesis.
A Siri Demo
I know this iteration of Siri makes for a lot of amusement — and the ever increasing potential defilement of the public contract — but it’s hard to remember another technological innovation1 that makes my head immediately imagine ten years from now.
1Except for the last time Apple introduced a new technology.
(via stuff.tv)
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Saul Bass wasn’t just an artist who contributed to the first several minutes of some of the greatest movies in history; in my opinion his body of work qualifies him as one of the best film makers of this, or any other time.
They did it on a Friday and my follow up was that Monday and the Burn Unit said it was healed, completely healed.
During the interview with Lesley Stahl, Henner explains that it’s “like putting in a DVD and it queues up to a certain place. I’m there again, so I’m looking out from my eyes and seeing things visually as I would have that day.”
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Brooklyn performance artist to give birth before audience in gallery
