December 2010
69 posts
“Just what was that puzzling David O’Russell quote, referencing a...”
– Uncharted 3 interview: The difference with Drake | Joystiq
I’d just like to take this opportunity to reiterate that Tilda Swinton would make a much better Nathan Drake than Mark Wahlberg would.
Keep it together, tumblr
If you go down, where will I complain about twitter?
“I would hope that some folks could be sensitive enough to be happy for those...”
– BioWare responds to same-sex romance complaints about Dragon Age | Joystiq
That’s right, homophobes: just wait until the gay agenda is fulfilled, and straight people are a persecuted minority. MWA HA HA!
“Seriously. Because if this show gets cancelled, I will kill every puppy I can...”
– I am OBSESSED with Fringe, and Walter Bishop is my… – LESSONS FOR CHILDREN
Indeed.
She won. As of Jan. 3, for the first time, California health consumers will gain the power to click on a state website and scrutinize the infection rates of their local hospitals—rates that Moss believes she should have been told about before taking her son for treatment.
The stakes are huge. Hospital-caused infections kill an estimated 13,500 California hospital patients each year,...
“Ms. Grundy has appeared regularly in numerous Archie comic books since 1942, the...”
– Archie’s Ms. Grundy Loses Battle With Cancer Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ARCHIE IS STILL A THING?
“Here’s a new photo for the upcoming hard-R fantasy comedy starring Danny...”
– Matt Damon wants in on District 9 director’s next film, plus Harrison Ford doesn’t want to kill Indy after all!
I’m pretty excited about that shit.
“We can’t know exactly who killed these twelve Neanderthals, although...”
– Murder scene might reveal why Neanderthals went extinct
Mmm. Brain parts.
Karl Gunnarsson: apparently winter solstice is tomorrow
Karl Gunnarsson: the solstices would be appropriate dates for photographer festivities
Karl Gunnarsson: or... rather, the winter solstice, on the summer solstice they should be out photographing
kukkurovaca: On winter solstice, they should build a ceremonial pyre for their film leader clippings, or something.
kukkurovaca: Oh, and can we sacrifice Nic Cage?
Karl Gunnarsson: that would rock
Karl Gunnarsson: I'm in
kukkurovaca: Because that's my favorite part of paganism.
Karl Gunnarsson: although, that would only work once
kukkurovaca: Well, we'd have to make it count.
kukkurovaca: Also, keep tissue samples for when they get cloning perfected.
kukkurovaca: Or just semi-perfected, really.
kukkurovaca: Actually, if Nic Cage were a succession of lower-fidelity clones, that would explain a lot about his career.
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By the way, I want to clarify: it’s not like if you’re suspicious and critical of religion, you should automatically adore science, or vice versa. If you want to see both religious and scientific history dismantled in a manner both elegant and brutal, just read some Foucault some time.
“Arrogance is another accusation. Which seems particularly unfair. Science seeks...”
– A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ
I think this is an unrealistically rosy view of the (ongoing) history of science….
“Do unto others…” is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is -‐ a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where...
“Yeah, that’s not how anyone actually wants the internet to work —...”
– Wireless carriers openly considering charging per service — Engadget
Gross.
“I almost cannot look at studio photography. The reason is that I consistently...”
– The Online Photographer: The Invisible Context
I often have this problem, too…but what’s more odd is that I don’t usually have this with non-studio photography, even in situations where I’m either familiar with the context or could easily deduce it.
“The effect was also not simply a function of partisan bias, as people who voted...”
– (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography: (Almost) No Comment: Fox News is the American Pravda
Now that is interesting.
From the actor playing Dirk Gently.
A conman, perhaps?
I don’t think he thinks he’s a conman at all. He needs to pay the rent. I think he’s got a good heart. I don’t think he’s a cold manipulator, but sometimes he finds it necessary, for people’s good as well as his own, to bend the truth, slightly.
George Clooney joins Alfonso Cuaron’s space epic Gravity, plus Edgar Wright might...
“The Uncertain Places is the story of two pals, Will and Ben, who, as UC Berkeley...”
– Lisa Goldstein’s The Uncertain Places: Grimm fairytale in California vibrates with believable unreality - Boing Boing
Oh, sweet. If you don’t know her, Lisa Goldstein is one of the great writers of California fantasy — and when I say that, I mean by it that she’s in the...
“The simplest answer is that it takes place in the desert. Creative Director Amy...”
– Uncharted 3 preview: A Drake and Sully story | Joystiq
I demand a glass-blowing segment.
“Yahoo! are shutting down del.icio.us, ending their careless stewardship of a...”
– One Thing Well | Pinboard
Ugh, seriously? I depend pretty heavily on it. That blows.
“I think there’s a fair lot of people so desperate not to take games...”
– Sexy Videogameland: Haute Of Breath
Some 1/125 Search Keywords
“walker evans” — Sure, we like that guy.
“john sypal” — Yeah, we like him, too.
“doisneau café fraysse” — Sure, totally.
“kukkurovaca weston” — That’s just me trying to find a quotation I posted one time.
“show me pictures of black and white gay couples” — I’m guessing the person who did that...
Call it trompe l’oeil curating, a term Wilson coined for what could be described as meta-museology. Since 1992, when he created “Mining the Museum,” a watershed exhibition in Baltimore, Wilson has been making people uncomfortable with otherwise familiar objects—or their absence. Consider two pieces from that show that are included in a Wilson retrospective now at the University of Houston and...
“The best part of us is not what we see, it’s what we feel. We are what we feel....”
– Stephen M. Barrett / My feelings on photography exactly
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The belief that “we’re our mind” is at least as illusory as the view that we are our bodies. Probably more so, because the belief that we are our mind feeds our egotism and our...
“My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI,” Perry details in the email, “Jason Wright and several...
In other words: Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual assault around the world have I ever heard of a case of a man sought by two nations, and held in solitary confinement without bail in advance of being questioned — for any alleged rape, even the most brutal or easily proven. In terms of a case involving the kinds of ambiguities and complexities of...
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“You’ll be low man on the totem pole, just like I was…You ever seen a totem pole? You got like six people and an eagle standing on your head. That’s no way to live, man.”
— Burt Chance, Raising Hope.
Best show ever, more or less.
“There are things that begin in Berkeley that become national jokes but there are...”
– Berkeley bashing: A favorite sport | Berkeleyside
In that case, I hope America is ready for the endless parade of hobos and entitled former hippies that’s headed its way.
Brace yourselves.
When is "just sayin'" scheduled to be retired to...
mrsbadcrumble:
Its pals “happy camper” and “it’s all good” are waiting and holding a spot for it at the pinochle table.
Please God, let it be soon.
The better question is: when is it time for pinochle to come out of retirement? It is by far the most awesome card-based game.
Oakland Police Discuss Use of Force - The Bay... →
Somehow, I don’t think “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for,” is going to fly for OPD.
“The latest J.J. Abrams produced pilot, which is all about a team of cops and FBI...”
– Major Hollywood star could be joinging the District 9 followup, plus hear the cast explain Tron Legacy!
This sounds like a complete train wreck.
“But, second and more importantly, Breyer who himself claims to be a pragmatist,...”
– (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography: Pragmatism, Politics, and Disagreemnt
“Generally speaking, Christians have seen this development as a bad thing. But...”
– Experimental Theology: Letters from Cell 92: Part 4, Religionless Christianity
