Washington Post writer turns Benedict Cumberbatch into “Bandersnatch Cummerbund”
Yes, on purpose. Really, this reads like something from Thing I Didn’t Click. Take a drink or three, everyone.
A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
Tommy Emmanuel and Pedro Javier Gonzales played a duet arrangement of Emmanuel’s piece “Bella Soave” for the 21st Soave Guitar Festival. Simply beautiful.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Biden (mostly) endorses same-sex marriage
Biden (mostly) endorses same-sex marriage
Nice to see the Obama camp coming out swinging like this. My hope is that this is to draw a strong contrast between Obama and Romney — basically campaign on social issues and not let Romney make the election a referendum on the economy.
Students’ racist tweets about Boston hockey game put schools in a bind
Students’ racist tweets about Boston hockey game put schools in a bind
James Eng, msnbc.com:
Hordes of angry hockey fans – presumably Boston Bruins fans — unleashed a barrage of racist rants on Twitter and other social-networking sites after the Washington Capitals beat the defending champion Bruins a week ago Wednesday on an overtime goal by Joel Ward, the Capitals’ 31-year-old left wing. Ward is one of just a handful of black players in the NHL.
According to local media reports, several students at high schools in Gloucester and Danvers in Massachusetts, the Cumberland, R.I., School District, and Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire were among the tweeters.
What follows is a rather long discussion on free speech of students: what schools can and should do about what students say in and out of school, both legally and morally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAwNTUWeC_0
morgoth, writing a review for Amazon.com:
Before Bruce Lee, there were a few kung fu movie stars. The first huge star was Jimmy Wang Yu who started working in the very first Shaw Brothers sword plays back in 1965. He directed and starred in ‘One-Armed Boxer’ for Golden Harvest in 1971 and is in top form both in front of and behind the camera. While you can clearly see Jimmy Wang Yu is not a real martial artist, he is still one of the best kung fu stars ever. At least 50 people die in this movie and he does the most damage.
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If you are a fan of kung fu movies pre-Bruce Lee, this is a must have. Maybe the best basher ever. It’s one of the movies that started the imaginary world where only martial arts schools exist. So the one martial arts school is a gang, and the other school is made up of good people. You just have to go with it, but it more than works. The movie is serious, but takes place in a complete fantasy world. “Never insult Tibetan martial arts”.
Never heard of this but I don’t see how it can’t be awesome.
- Colin:
- EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT VIDEO IS AMAZING
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
The Hobbit at 48fps: Too Much Information and the Science of Eye Movement
The Hobbit at 48fps: Too Much Information and the Science of Eye Movement
If you haven’t heard, Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Hobbit films are being filmed and will be shown in 48 frames per second (fps), twice the usual rate of 24 fps. Anthony Wing Kosner put together a piece on Forbes collecting Peter Sciretta’s reaction to ten minutes shown at CinemaCon and some of the technology and anatomy behind it.
Bin Laden letter: Kill Obama, leave ‘totally unprepared’ Biden alone
Bin Laden letter: Kill Obama, leave ‘totally unprepared’ Biden alone
Olivier Knox for Yahoo! News’s The Ticket blog:
Osama bin Laden aimed to assassinate President Barack Obama but directed fellow al-Qaida fighters to leave Vice President Joe Biden alone, describing him as “totally unprepared” to take over and predicting a “crisis” in America if that happened, according to a newly declassified letter from the terrorist mastermind.
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“They are not to target visits by US Vice President Biden, Secretary of Defense Gates, Joint Chiefs of Staff (Chairman) Mullen, or the Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Holbrook (sic). The groups will remain on the lookout for Obama or Petraeus,” the Saudi-born extremist wrote.
“The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there. Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis. …” bin Laden continued.
dissed
This photo by Jeff Kowalsky for the European Pressphoto Agency shows some modern pieces at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Michigan. MSNBC’s PhotoBlog has several more photos and a short article on the museum and its founder and curator, David Pilgrim.
Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline
Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline
Weird, a school starts trying to actually help their children and finds it works. Life is strange.
I’ll say it once, and I’ll say it again: treat children and teens like people, and they’ll act like people.
Wife Of NC Amendment One Supporter: Husband Wrote Bill To Preserve “Caucasian Race”
Wife Of NC Amendment One Supporter: Husband Wrote Bill To Preserve “Caucasian Race”
Tom Kludt writing for TPM:
According to the alternative Yes! Weekly, which picked up the remarks from freelance journalist and activist Chad Nance, Jodie Brunstetter told a poll worker in Winston-Salem, N.C. Monday that the reason her husband “wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce.”
You’re uh, crazy.