Archive for December, 2011

Why Movie Revenues Are Dropping

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This was the worst year for movie revenues in decades. Roger Ebert takes a stab at it:
The message I get is that Americans love the movies as much as ever. It’s the theaters that are losing their charm. Proof: theaters thrive that police their audiences, show a variety of titles and emphasize value-added features. […]

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Recent Movie Viewings

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
As I said when I saw the Swedish version, the US version by David Fincher did turn out to be a million times better than the original. The material suites Fincher’s style, and the movie moves along at a much better pace and you actually understand whats going on. […]

Steve Jobs : Billion Dollar Hippie

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Get it whilst you still can - an hour-long documentary by the BBC on Steve Jobs with great insights and interviews by The Woz, Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee, etc.

Accounts of a Massacre in Iraq by US forces Found in Baghdad Junkyard

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Accounts of a Massacre in Iraq by US forces Found in Baghdad Junkyard.
The documents — many marked secret — form part of the military’s internal investigation, and confirm much of what happened at Haditha, a Euphrates River town where Marines killed 24 Iraqis, including a 76-year-old man in a wheelchair, women and children, some […]

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FAA Approves use of iPads in Cockpits

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So if pilots are now allowed to use iPads in the cockpit, why are we expected to turn them off during take off and landing?

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Best Viral Photos of 2011

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TIME picks the best viral photos of 2011. Of course ‘The Kiss’ was the best one I think.

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Single Lane Superhighway

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Remember the brilliant Wilderness Downtown? This is his new project: Singlelane Superhighway.

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    Think you need 8 hours of sleep every night to be healthy? Think again.

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    Epic Funny: The most awesome responses to celebrities’ tweets.

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    Amazing see-thru church in Belgium.

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    See this and weep at your insignificance as it relates to the size of the universe.

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    How much would the Death Star cost to build? How much steel would we need?

    Scaling up to the Death Star, this is about 1.08×1015 tonnes of steel. 1 with fifteen zeros.

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    Yep. Pretty much.

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    Looks like the latest issue of SI swinsuit edition with previous “Crush of the Week” Kate Upton was airbrushed to make her look less sexy. Yea, huh?

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    Wait what? Iran has an army of highly-trained female ninjas? This is literally blowing my mind. As a kid, and even today, I call veiled and women that wear the hijab ninjas! These women are literally ninjas. Like literally! Mind blown.

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    Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon.

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    Wouldnt it be nice if the US had real democracy? Like the one in say… Pakistan? Oh thats right… Pakistan is lawless. I forgot.

    One constantly hears in American political discourse that Pakistan is so terribly un-democratic because the shadowy, omnipotent ISI functions with no accountability or transparency. Yet here they are being ordered by that nation’s highest court to account for serious detainee abuse (this, despite the fact that Pakistan’s problems with Terrorism are, at the very least, as pressing as those faced by the U.S.).

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    Video of production of the second season of Game of Thrones, taking place in Iceland. Without spoilers, in the second book Jon Snow spends considerable time “north of the wall” and this is what is depicted here. Looks like its actually the Jökulsárlón area.

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    New Scientist on the power of math equations.

    Without equations, most of our technology would never have been invented. Of course, important inventions such as fire and the wheel came about without any mathematical knowledge. Yet without equations we would be stuck in a medieval world.

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    Finally - the new Air-like design comes to the MacBook Pro line by March.

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    V for Vandetta creator talks about the origins of the mask and its role in the Anonymous movement.

    Today’s response to similar oppressions seems to be one that is intelligent, constantly evolving and considerably more humane, and yet our character’s borrowed Catholic revolutionary visage and his incongruously Puritan apparel are perhaps a reminder that unjust institutions may always be haunted by volatile 17th century spectres, even if today’s uprisings are fuelled more by social networks than by gunpowder.

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    [NSFW] From the “Why?” Files: A “butt-cleavage” dress.

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    Self-driving BMWs yo!

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    The long never-ending recession in Japan is causing a long-term effect: Japanese are no longer importing American or European items - but making them locally and perfecting them.

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