Summer blues
The Onion AV Club isn’t very excited by the movies coming out this summer, and neither am I. I was particularly bored by the recently unveiled Superman Returns trailer. I will likely see Mission Impossible III , but more for Phillip Seymour Hoffman and director JJ Abrams than anything else.
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Wired on the emergence of high-tech cuisine. How about a restaurant where the food is served on a robot? Although the Nintendo Gyroscope robot came pretty close…
(0) #5/3/2006
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BBC News presents five ethical situations where you have to choose whose life (or lives) to save. Mostly variants of “would you save one life if it killed five.” (thx, brian)
(0) #5/3/2006
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Overly long article complaining about how released music gets louder, and less subtle and dynamic, with each passing year, using the new Flaming Lips album as an example. Interesting, but it doesn’t require a full read.
(0) #5/2/2006
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Update: Video.
Update 2: Transcript.
(0) #5/1/2006
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The Boston Globe gets direct: Bush is disobeying (or more accurately, challenging) more than 750 laws enacted since he took office.
(0) #5/1/2006
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Gas prices are going up, and politicians are going through their usual shenanigans addressing the symptoms and not the disease. Andrew Sullivan, via Charles Krauthammer, captures my sentiments with near perfection.
(0) #4/28/2006
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Neil Young’s new album, Living with War, is being fully streamed on his website. It includes such numbers as, “Let’s Impeach the President.”
Update: A first listen is proving to be not-so-inspiring.
(0) #4/28/2006
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The Mexican Congress just voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, and yes, heroin, and President Fox is expected to sign it into law. What will this mean for their relationship with the U.S., w/r/t the Drug War?
(0) #4/28/2006
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Will religious discrimination within the Republican party hurt one of their own? Mitt Romney, governor of Massachusetts, is a strong, relatively moderate candidate for president in 2008, but Evangelicals aren’t likely to tolerate his Mormon religion. Can he pull a Kennedy?
(0) #4/27/2006
Errol Morris’s Oscar Short
Part II of Errol Morris day. (Re-)watch this Morris short, which played during the 2002 Oscar telecast, depicting a bunch of people talking about their favorite films. The people include Shawn Fanning, Susan Sontag, Iggy Pop, Donald Trump, Tom Brady, Laura Bush, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Michael Gorbachev, Harvey Silverglate, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, and a bunch of other people, famous and non-famous.
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Today is a small Errol Morris day. Start with Errol Morris interviewing fellow documentarian Adam Curtis, who directed The Power of Nightmares. (Read the Wikipedia description – it sounds fascinating.)
Update: Watch The Power of Nightmares. Conspiralicious.
(0) #4/27/2006
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A flash video proposing that bunker busters could have negative unintended side effects. The more I learn about the explosive test planned for June 2nd 60 miles northwest from my home, the less excited I get. (via lvgleaner)
(0) #4/26/2006
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Purity balls, wherein young girls pledge their sexual purity to their father until marriage. Today is a disturbing day. (thx, flea)
(0) #4/26/2006
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And speaking of nuclear fallout, a breathtaking photo essay on the victims of Chernobyl. Not for the faint of heart. (via kottke)
(0) #4/26/2006
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono: the Playboy interview. I believe this was published around the time of his death.
(0) #4/25/2006
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Jane Jacobs, revolutionary urban planner and thinker, is dead at age 89. I still haven’t read the The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
(0) #4/25/2006
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102 movies you must see before you die. As with most lists, all the usual warnings apply. I’ve seen 57 of these, but I’m not terribly excited by most of the ones that remain.
(0) #4/25/2006
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Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon. “All of a sudden, he pulled out of his pocket a string of firecrackers and asked, ‘Where can we set these off?’” (thx, matt b)
(0) #4/24/2006
