Halb Mensch. Halb Ding.
It’s a good thing Viacom has thrown around their weight and forced NBC’s Conan off of Youtube; after all, how else would I ruin my near-perfect hearing, if I didn’t have the absolutely horrendous audio compression on this otherwise quite funny quantum physics clip with Carrey, Conan and the guy on the drums…?
And another thing! Can my rants be any more weird?!
I promised Joen a while back that I would put together a list of the podcasts I listen to on a regular basis, and I’ve finally finished crafting my list. Now despite my enthusiasm for the medium, I’m not nearly as nutcase-worthy as some people out there in the (blargh) podcastosphere…
But there is no denying that there are some genuinely great shows available, across a disturbingly wide spectrum of topics. Personally, I find my interests falling into a fairly narrow array.
Because podcasting is such a choice medium, I don’t hesitate for a moment to unsubscribe from shows that annoy me (The Movie Blog), are poor quality (iTunes New Music Tuesday), long-winded (Binary Bonsai… wait…)
Sometimes the timing of events in the world is just impeccable. You may recall that Rikke and I were recently in Paris. While there I took a shot of three invaders, from the classic game, on a wall in Montmatre.
In nature it seemed like modern nerdcore streetart, but the care with which it looked to have been made was almost too intricate.
Then, a few days ago, the ever verbose Kotaku posted another invader, this one from Amsterdam! What the?!… And then today, yet another from Switzerland.
I had in other words stumbled onto a public secret, the work of an artist called Invader, present in cities across the world and with more flickr groups than you can shake a small colored tile at.
Well, now you know.
I was a massive fan of Battlestar when I first started following it. As you may recall, I was down and out for about a week due to a serious infection in one of my molars and the following rootcanal work, and during that week, in between squirming from the pain, I managed to take in the mini-series and most of first season. And I was hooked. Bad.
Generally speaking, season 2 also had me glued to the tube every week, and while not every episode was the next coming, it was still very very enjoyable. The mid-season cliffhanger with the Pegasus had me clawing at the walls for months; only to have the entire crisis blow over in the first five minutes of the follow-up episode.
Man. I was bummed.
This is not an intended pun, I just cannot be bothered with rephrasing the fact that I’ve been spending a lot of time over at Time’s new website. It’s so inviting… Anyway, I came across this neat little photo essay, detailing a few of the high points in Ennio Morricone’s career as a film composer. More of those please.
It’s not a topic I touch on often, mostly because I can’t be bothered with all the fanatics — of all persuasions — it tends to bring out of the woodwork. I nonetheless decided to republish a reply I made (still caught in the moderation queue) to a Science vs. God thread over at Time Magazine (which is sporting a swanky new design, I like it!).
Basically the question posed was:
Can the disconnect between science and religion be bridged?
Another more pertinent question, in my mind, is: “Should it be bridged?”
In what must certainly be the best example of the stupidity of the masses, I present to you SFX’s top ten science fiction movies ever. Yes; ever; as voted on by 3000 readers of the magazine:
1. Serenity (2005)
2. Star Wars (1977)
3. Blade Runner (1982)
4. Planet of the Apes (1968)
5. The Matrix (1999)
6. Alien (1979)
7. Forbidden Planet (1956)
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9. The Terminator (1984)
10. Back to the Future (1985)
Puh-lease. Serenity is great, I love it long time, but there is no way it belongs higher up than 9 or 10. Sorry Joss, I loves ya, I do; but in this company even a tenth place isn’t a bad trophy. You should be hella happy that your grass-roots fanbase is as active as it is!