Archive for February, 2008


Diebold Accidentally Leaks Election Results Early


If you can’t trust your shadowy overlords to keep it secret, what is the purpose, really, of voting in the public democracy?
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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2008 Real Time Oscars


The 80th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Jon Stewart [in real time].

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2008 Oscar “Predictions”


I am, by no means, an expert when it comes to predictions. Some of the films I haven’t even seen. But this is my blog and I do what I want. I only make “predictions” in 21 of the 24 categories. I exclude the three shorts: Documentary, Animated, and Live Action. [...]

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The Spies Who Love You


Awww. Breaking the law can be so cute.

Not to be outdone, the GOP had their own video made to scare the shit out of all of us. It looks like a bad parody of 24, a show they obviously didn’t study very well.

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When Good Actors Go Bad


In advance of Sunday night’s Academy Award’s telecast, Slate V put together this little retrospect of horrible movies that Oscar winners have gone on to make. Missing are the obvious blunders, like Halle Berry’s Catwoman or even Raul Julia’s farewell performance in Street Fighter: The Movie. Instead, Slate looks at the post Oscar [...]

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Fox News: Who is Osama rooting for?


This is utterly retarded. Fox News recently conducted a poll to see who voters would vote for if the election was held today. It’s not the results of the Presidential poll that are interesting though. It’s the very bottom of the article that deals with one of the other questions asked of [...]

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Depp, Law, & Farrell step in for Ledger


Variety reports that Terry Gilliam has found a workaround for his new film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus that will allow for the preservation of the scenes Heath Ledger filmed before his untimely death last month. Instead of recasting Ledger’s role entirely, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell will all play the same [...]

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Terror Strikes the Mushroom Kingdom



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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


Guess what? Indy’s back. Check out the teaser trailer below….

[credit: CrazyRidesRockets]

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Are Americans hostile to knowledge?


The New York Times’ Patricia Cohen elaborates on a couple of new books that discuss how anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way.
I wonder how Miss Information [...]

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