February 2010
9 posts
Hello, this is me speaking :: rogerebert.com →
nickdouglas:
Roger Ebert got a speech synthesizer that uses his own voice culled and interpolated from commentary tracks he’s done for classic films. You cannot get more badass without involving a copter and a skateboard.
you got wtf in my peanutbutter
I was just doing some experiments with RSS Cloud and came across this gem of insanity.
Server: nginx Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:55:02 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: close X-hacker: If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
To clarify: spam, in an http header.
To clarify...
“Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if...”
– Ten rules for writing fiction - Guardian UK (via nevver)
Mobile Shmobile
And if Hulu decides to define the iPad as a mobile device, it would also need its content owners to grant it mobile rights, which it doesn’t actually have. [All Things D]
This sort of nonsense gets to the bottom of what’s wrong with these entertainment executives’ outlook on the world. They want to define everything by arbitrary device types — this is a “TV”, that is a “computer”, this other...
it's not Bob
So I’m shocked by the early Windows Phone previews. Totally unlike the iPrephonedroid… I don’t think anyone could have predicted that. MS would totally own the mobile market if this had come out three years ago. As it is, maybe they’re not quite out of the game after all.
I love the “panoramic navigation.” Even the beloved iPhone gives the impression of...
Dick's Last Stand
I missed the game, but my attention got drawn to this ad and it’s been bugging me for days. At first I enjoyed it for the snarky reference to “vampire movies” and deadpan delivery of “lip balm.” Then an acquaintance — who’s spent years stuck in an unenviable rut — linked it along with his own platitudes, and I saw it for the chilling depiction of emasculation...
a Christian atheist in a foxhole
“The very first time I heard artillery fire, I’ll never forget the sound, the whistling that filled the air. You dive in a hole, smoke rising all around you. There were six or seven of us together that day, and as soon as it’s over, you look around to make sure everyone is still alive. That time, we all made it,” Christian said. “That is your baptism.”
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“Go home to your mother!”
The AV Club is featuring a list of their editors’ favorite cinematic bad-asses.
I immediately thought of David Carradine from Kill Bill; a man blown up to mythic proportions in the first film — a mysterious, faceless stranger whose reputation suggested that he could take on Superman and have a chance — and somehow, in the second film, actually lives up to the promise. He’d make a widow out...
really, your honor?
“I found it fascinating that the people who were editorializing against it were The New York Times Company and The Washington Post Company,” Justice Thomas said. “These are corporations.”
Equally fascinating: most homeowners ironically uphold the ban on murdering children, even though it would preclude those damned kids from trampling on their lawns. A surprising number of college students oppose...