Category: Stuff I Like
These Trailers I See, They Call to Me.
Those of you who have read The Shack for a little while know that I don’t often to out to movies. There’s something inside me, perhaps stingy Puritanical blood, that hesitates to spend ten bucks and three hours of my life on a movie I may not like. However, I can be lured by tasty [...]
Intelligence Isn’t Always On
As a conservative who has also read Discover magazine for a few years, I accept that I’m going to get the occasional blast of progressive politics with my science. I tend to skim the interviews before I read them, just to see how much left-wing tripe they’ve mixed in. I always read over the author [...]
So, The Lizard Guy is a Good Guy or What?
What happens when you take The Dark Crystal, Star Wars, The Phantom Zone from Superman II, the post-apocalyptic world from Thundarr the Barbarian, and Crow T Robot’s older bartender brother, put them all in a blender, then spill them out over an 80′s dance pop number? You get this. Answers to questions I know you [...]
Wow. Just…Wow.
This video is impressive and just a little bit scary. It is real footage of a test-firing of an actual nuclear artillery shell we once had in our arsenal. The shell had a nominal yield of 14-kiloton punch which put it on par with the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima. By comparison, Little Boy (the [...]
Romeo and Juliet and Stirrup Pants and High Heels
“Romeo and Juliet” is, for my money, Dire Strait’s best song and easily its worst video. Yes, I’m including the odd video for “Walk of Life” that, for some reason not indicated by the song itself, included baseball blooper clips. Seriously. If you can figure out how what’s happening in the video relates to the [...]
Make Plans Now: Earth to Be Destroyed in 2049.
Is this really how we want to put our best foot forward in a potential first contact situation? A total of 25,880 text messages will be broadcast into space, transmitted 20.3 light-years to Gliese 581d. That world is the outlying planet in the Gliese 581 system, and orbits its parent star every 66.8 days. It [...]
Snow Leopard Without Leopard? Yes You Can!
Well, isn’t this interesting? Even though Apple suggests Mac users without Leopard buy the $169 Mac box set to get Snow Leopard, anyone can purchase the $29 Snow Leopard disc and install Snow Leopard in its entirety without having already installed Leopard. This means the $29 Snow Leopard DVD isn’t an “upgrade” at all; it’s [...]
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