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May 31st
From momeld:
Like a dark obsession with arachnids,...
May 30th
A very friendly-looking spruce grouse, captured by Julie...
May 28th
This is crazy awesome.
Emily Lakdawalla (Planetary Society...
May 27th
Film-studies professor David Bordwell's...
May 27th
The proxy at work has removed Tumblr from the filtered-sites list! Huzzah!
Of course, I’m...
May 27th
Memorial Day parade in Southington, Connecticut, 1942. Via...
May 26th
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Rock Fujiyama!
Marty Friedman (ex-Megadeth), Paul Gilbert (ex-Mr. Big) and Rolly (fine guitarist)...
May 25th
Squid-friends, Here I Come
The upcoming San Luis Obispo trip is destined to be terrifically splendid, but the promise of...
May 25th
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A scene from Jean Renoir’s The Grand Illusion.
The clip doesn’t have subtitles, and I...
May 24th
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Enya and her Caribbean Blue.
May 24th
The 21st Century Dials Up the 17th C.
Ordering sourdough starter on the Web is a lot more exciting than I expected it to be. On the other...
May 23rd
How to make your eye feel like it's closed,...
May 22nd
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Gotthard’s Lift U Up.
This is…pop music, right? I like it. As for the video, I’d...
May 21st
The Entreaty Muxtape
May 20th
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Time for a look at the Upperclass Twit of the Year competition. Always a great contest. Brave...
May 19th
Concert for Israel’s 60th!
Update later: And no,...
May 18th
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Aqua Jelly, made by German engineers Festo. From Zooillogix and Deep Sea News, where the similar Air...
May 18th
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Within Without, a Jem Godfrey composition that was cut during Frost* production. Sounds good to...
May 17th
The always-great Toshiro Mifune (as Akama) and Masayuki Mori...
May 16th
Setsuko Hara (as Taeko Nasu) in The Idiot.
May 16th
“Heroic Bloodshed is a genre of Hong Kong action cinema...”
— Heroic bloodshed @ Wikipedia....
— Heroic bloodshed @ Wikipedia....
May 15th
It’s over!
May 15th
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May 15th
Opeth and Dream Theater show.
May 15th
Adventures Gamers reviews Portal
May 14th
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I’m sold, and even the original couldn’t sway me!
Via.
May 13th
Hello Pyramid Head
May 13th
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Rhapsody of Fire’s video for Unholy Warcry. This album’s been out for years, and I had...
May 12th
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Blind Guardian’s Battle of Sudden Flame from the Nightfall in Middle Earth album.
As part of...
May 11th
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I always did like Joe Satriani.
May 10th
The Bad Astronomer is here!
May 9th
“Co-writer Roger Avary wrote me that, indeed, it [Beowulf]...”
— Roger Ebert, via his excellent...
— Roger Ebert, via his excellent...
May 8th
Hint: Look at the hands (or where the hands should be)....
May 8th
Criterion Collection Coming to Blu-Ray
May 8th
A bit of a hold-up
On the current Oblivion play-through: Unless the Nine do something about it, the world will...
May 8th
“The world is going global in real time and that creates...”
— E-mail sent to my work...
— E-mail sent to my work...
May 7th
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Apropos to Jem Godfrey’s making-of video of Black Light Machine, here’s the finished...
May 7th
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Jem Godfrey, writer-player-producer of prog. band Frost* (and featured here many times), shows a bit...
May 7th
Eden Grace Fassett is a good-lookin’ kiddo, as seen...
May 6th
Formulaic
Over the weekend I learned that no such exists as “just one hour of Oblivion.” The...
May 5th
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Crow by Psyop, a station ID for, oddly enough, MTV HD. MTV has never looked so stark and restrained,...
May 5th
“It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he...”
— Harry G. Frankfurt, On...
— Harry G. Frankfurt, On...
May 4th
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ATLAS, one of the detectors in the Large Hadron Collider, is a big ‘un, aye? Via Phil Plait,...
May 3rd
Nothing to see here
Ha! I did use windmills after all!
May 3rd
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Another Place by Antony Gormley:
“The sculpture consists of 100 cast iron figures which face...
May 3rd
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Some footage from Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Start around 5:30 3:45 if you want to...
May 2nd
Not Necessarily
From a statement Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) issued to meet this week’s Grand Theft...
May 1st