although i'm sure several folks have done this already, i'm going to post about prometheus because it's on my mind. yes, it's a horrible movie, but i liked some of it. note, i took an emergency bathroom break in the middle, so i might be missing something, or a justification for something. spoilers abound, so click through at your own discretion. ( Read more... )

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as it pops and cooks
the consciousness of destruction
wreaked upon that moist sensory flesh
a darwinian millefeuille
burnt at whim
and experienced in a sort of subsidiary way:
the smell as desiccated vitreous humors finally ignite,
the murmuring pops, an echo of the subtle vibrations of boiling
unseeing, felt and then heard

I half-heartedly competed in this http://kaggle.com/chess?viewtype=results, which was a competition to predict chess match outcomes based on observed past matches. ( ... )

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http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/mickey_mouse_medicine_man/mickey_mouse_medicine_man.shtml

Wow.

a nice thing about nyc i hadn't noticed: no one ever asks you anything like "do you have any fives? we're running low."

a deep obsession with liquidity at all levels of life.

Some good media I've experienced recently: Moon (Duncan Jones) and "Mister Squishy" (David Foster Wallace). I also watched District 9 (Neil Blomkamp).
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http://xkcd.com/743/

Also today my roommate complained about how the slack on the DVR had run out and that we were "back in realtime," which was kinda sci-fi for general discussion. The world's catching up in a sense; small premonitory waves, first ignored, expanding outward.

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Fun quiz: these alternate titles were all suggested for which movie?

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