Just got this email from the yahoo account of someone I knew who's since moved out of state. I almost believed that he'd gotten into some kind of stupid trouble with a church group (sorry, dude!) but rest assured, this is a scam. Exactly as I got it except I removed his name ( Read more... )

I could survive for 38 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

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Below is an amateur cinematographer's work capturing Mardi Gras of 1941. It's one of the many films from the Prelinger Archive that is now online. One of the astonishing changes that the internet has given us is that tiny little treasures like these - housed away in archives accessible the few who could find out about them and hunt them down in ( Read more... )

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John Updike, Author, Dies at 76 :


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See the list of nominees.

Best Picture: Milk. Close race but it's a new era, and maybe the Academy feels guilty about Prop 8 and snubbing Brokeback Mountain.

Best Actor: Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon. Historical figures (e.g. Capote) are good Oscar bait and everyone raves about this performance. Any of the others wouldn't be a surprise except ( Read more... )

From Japan's (of course) Gamu Toys:


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From the New York Post:
A US citizen was booted from a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to New York after he complained there were "Arab types" on board, Turkish news media reported ( Read more... )