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I liked Mark E. Smith’s Audio Guide To Ripon Cathedral more than Werner Herzog’s Note To His Cleaning Lady (through which I found it). Lots of Mark E. Smith love on that site, and that sent me down memory lane. I bought lots of The Fall albums until I understood they’ll just keep ( Read more... )

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Brief thoughts about two random movies seen this weekend-ish:

Fright Night 3D - First, I don’t like 3D movies because they are kinda dark compared to 2D ones. For some reason, the makers of the Fright Night remake thought that filming long scenes in the dark will make this ( Read more... )

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A: “I am Legend!”
B: “I am Love.”
A: “I love you, Man!”
B: “I love you, Phillip Morris.”
A: “I love you too.”
C: “I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry!”

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‪The Pirates! Band of Misfits Trailer HD‬‏ - YouTube.

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We made this!

(Well, Guy did all the hard and creative work, I just wrote some code).

If you have young kids, give it a go. Hebrew version coming soon.

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Our cute press officer is explaining something to the rugged field hand by the water cooler, dropping phrases like “advance your germplasm” and “push your seed”.

Sometimes those double entendres just crop up in the agro-biotech business.

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Remember DHTML? People making those demos that kept tripping over their own ambition and the limitations of your hardware and which probably only worked exactly right with the correct browser on that one version of that operating system and in a precise conjunction of technology, ( Read more... )

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Via Jess Nevins:

The number of people who are fans of both D&D and Mad Men is small - but all four of us think this is brilliant.


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The say, what? part of this BBC news item isn’t what is reported (High-ranking judicial official comments apropos a jury member posting trail details to Facebook), but the bit I put in my title: British Lord Chief Justice is called Lord Judge. No, seriously, that appears to be his ( Read more... )

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