Emma Thompson's acceptance speech for the Best Adapted Screenplay Golden Globe in 1995, for Sense and Sensibility:

Thank you very much. Good heavens. Um, I can't thank you enough, Hollywood Foreign Press, for honoring me in this capacity. I don't wish to burden you with my debts which are heavy and numerous, but I think that everybody involved in ( Read more... )

from Wired, The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry.

Before they could start designing the iPhone, Jobs and his top executives had to decide how to solve this problem. Engineers looked carefully at Linux, which had already been rewritten for use on mobile phones, but Jobs refused to use someone else's software. They built a ( Read more... )

interesting New York Times article on the WGA strike and the future of television, written by Damon Lindelof. registration is required, but here's an excerpt:

If this strike lasts longer than three months, an entire season of television will end this December. No dramas. No comedies. No “Daily Show.” The strike will also prevent any pilots from ( Read more... )

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way ( Read more... )

can't wait for Juno.

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Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Rainn Wilson, Jennifer Garner.. someone give this movie's casting director/agent/person a prize!

(thanks for sending me the link to the trailer, Czar!)

that from which things arise
also gives rise to their passing away
according to what is necessary;
for things render justice
and pay penalty to one another for their injustice,
according to the ordinance of time.

i'm not done with this book yet, but so far it's been an okay read with occasional sparks of genius. this is one such spark:

The Belsey children repaired to a nearby cafe. They sat on stools lined up against the windowpane, looking out over the blasted heath of Boston Common. They caught up with each other's news casually, leaving long, cosy ( Read more... )

I FOUND A TORRENT FOR THE COMPLETE HEY ARNOLD SERIES, OMG.

regression for the win!

from the Veronica Mars season series finale (SOB!):

( not really spoilery, but i'll put it under a cut to pacify Lex! )

"We'd hoped vaguely to fall in love but hadn't worried much about it, because we'd thought we had all the time in the world. Love had seemed so final, and so dull -- love was what ruined our parents. Love had delivered them to a life of mortgage payments and household repairs; to unglamorous jobs and the fluorescent aisles of a supermarket at two ( Read more... )