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Loving the Bomb

April 24, 2008 2 Comments

Here’s the extended trailer, by Pablo Ferro, for Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, Dr Strangelove.

And here’s a clip. “Well, how do you think I feel about it?”

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Friday Ephemera

April 18, 2008 7 Comments

South Park: Over Logging. Can Kyle save the internet? (nsfw) // Tetris: the Movie. // Box office receipts, 1986-2007. // Nokia’s nanotech Morph. Soon, my pretties. // Theorists, captioned in LOLspeak. Foucault, Haraway, Spivak, made to look… silly. // “A rare and precious space intended for womyn-born womyn.” // Intriguing toilet signs. // Dirty hands are a “human right” in Vancouver. (h/t, Cookslaw.) // How fingerprinting works. (h/t, Coudal.) // Caught red handed. Inevitable, really. // Gateshead Millennium Bridge. // Space junk. // A great moment in Soviet science fiction. // Beyoncé has three arms. // A brief history of LSD. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // Comic book adverts. X-ray specs, ant farms, ugly rubber hands. // Hulk versus the Rain. 1, 2, 3, 4. // Nursey knows. // Astro Boy. // Tilted house, Japan. // The Japanese Uniform Museum. (h/t, Coudal.) // Posters of the USSR. // Total world domination… cancelled. // Hamas MP likes world domination too. Allah willing. // Robert Spencer on freedom of speech in an age of jihad. // Professor Guy McPherson looks forward to the Post-Industrial Stone Age. It’s for the greater good. // “If I can just focus the Sun’s rays…” // Ultimate snooker skillz. (h/t, Cookslaw.) // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Ray Charles.














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The Whole Shebang

April 15, 2008 1 Comment

I gather some of you are looking forward to the upcoming Iron Man film, a clip from which can be found here. Apparently, the trailers are very popular, prompting this item from the Onion.

Wildly Popular ‘Iron Man’ Trailer To Be Adapted Into Full-Length Film

Related: Iron Man: Extremis.














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April 11, 2008 12 Comments

Crammed. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // An illustrated history of computer data storage. // 3000 photos of antique computers, 1961-1989. (h/t, Coudal.) // Newspaper clippings from 1885. Tales of woe and strangeness. // Caminito del Ray, near Malaga. Not for vertigo sufferers. // The spatuletail hummingbird. // The dioramas of Lori Nix. // Control rooms of note. // How to disarm an atomic bomb. // Bomb the Bass: Butterfingers. // Laurie Anderson, O Superman. (1981) // Eugene Sandow’s Physical Culture Museum. (h/t, Things.) // Iron Man clip. Yes, I’d like one of those. // Batman and Robin take on schoolgirls, British hippies and African Death Bees. Wait for the saucy nail file scene. // Laser gloves. Fight crime, impress women. (h/t, Chastity Darling.) // Deter thieves with soiled underwear. Again, impress the ladies. // “Talking like this may get you shunned by polite society (i.e. scared society).” // Saudi cleric says questioning Islam is “barbarism” and leads to terrible things, like freedom of belief. // A Millar on why the left has gone jihadi. (h/t, Cookslaw.) // Ruth Fowler on being a middle-class lefty. “More commonly termed wankerism.” // Lost titles, reimagined. // And, via The Thin Man, Music for a Found Harmonium.














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April 4, 2008 3 Comments

Super Pii Pii Brothers. // Precision seating. // Bubble rings. // Future Me. Send a note to your future self at a time of your choosing. // The Science & Society Picture Library. // 10 differences between brains and computers. (h/t, Stephen Hicks.) // Richard Dawkins’ Royal Institution lecture, 1991. // Pat Condell speaks his mind. // The crime of “close proximity”. // Fabian Tassano on boggling and elitism for everyone. // Andy Warhol on The Love Boat. // Kristen Hassenfeld’s paper sculptures. // Falafel. // Chewing gum wrappers. // The office ejector seat. For when the underlings revolt. // South Park: Cheesing, 1, 2 and 3. // Hitchcock stills. // Film noir moments. // Satellite images of secret places. (h/t, Things.) // How to create an alien invasion using Photoshop. (h/t, Coudal.) // Photoshop makeover from hell. A work of infinite subtlety. // Mastering shadow puppetry. // Derren Brown’s voodoo doll. // The Boswell Sisters: Heebie Jeebies. (1932)














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