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Jul 4, 2011, 1:17 pm
The Adjustment Bureau. How to: steal an interesting idea from a first-class science fiction writer (Philip K. Dick); manufacture it into a confused mish-mash of science-fiction, romance, adventure with very light theological overtones; completely balls-up the narrative possibilities and CG-embellish... Comment - Like
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Jul 4, 2011, 1:15 pm
Sucker Punch. A lot of money was spent making this film look good, and it does. Scantily clad girls in mental-asylum/burlesque-strip-club/prison dance their way into violent fantasy worlds while trying to escape in reality. However, it didn't really in any sufficient sense suspend my disbelief in it... Comment - Like
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May 27, 2011, 2:09 am
On the topic of overstatement, I recently read a particularly Dr. Phil-esque ambiguity of cosmological proportions in an Australian daily newspaper's horoscope section a few days ago at work.
In the Virgo section of the zodiac column it states:
"You're not quite sure how you feel or what you feel or... Comment - Like
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May 22, 2011, 12:01 am
There is an art to understatement. To say that after having just today reconnected my broadband connection that I missed it a little bit would be a massive understatement. Like the song lyrics: "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" I found two months sans internet a little like holding m... Comment - Like
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Feb 19, 2011, 10:02 pm
I read an article suggesting that the world's information and news systems were accelerating to a dangerous degree (Media Black Hole: So Much News That We'll Implode?). There would have to be some sort of logical boundary to such a system. Media and information complexity (and mass/density, whateve... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2011, 10:19 am
Yesterday I was jogging and I was thinking about my father. He died in late 2009. I was thinking about how we never truly connected for most of my life. My parents were divorced and I know that my dad had some trouble connecting with me. We sort of did have a shared interest and that was culture... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2011, 9:57 am
I have just seen a most excellent film. I had a strange experience while watching it.
I do some physical training in my backyard. On the ground near where I train there are two small perfect circular holes with little trapdoors where two spiders live. I saw one of them yesterday hiding from me a... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2011, 9:53 am
Mr Nobody. This is one of the strangest and most beautiful films I have ever seen. The choices we make, and those we don't, and the consequences and repercussions in time. The lives we choose, and those we don't. An awesome crazy trip of a film. Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2011, 3:52 am
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid lo... Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2011, 7:05 pm
Cosmetic surgery is a complex entity. It spans across the spectrum from life-saving medical procedures right through to personal "aesthetic enhancements". Other than being a particularly lucrative area of medicine and business to become involved with, the whole area of attempted self-improvement t... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2011, 7:18 am
I met someone today I had not seen for numerous years. This person had experienced some self-inflicted hardship which had more or less demolished their life as they once knew it. I found that I was unwittingly observing the strangest of transformations in the psychology of this undeniably intellig... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2011, 3:37 am
Summer has finally descended upon this town. It was a long time coming but now these endless days of dry, hot winds and sleepless nights of hopeless exhaustion spent praying for a cool breeze have returned. It is a sapping heat, eroding all concentration and will until the darkest hours of the nig... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2011, 6:42 pm
I am at the moment reminded of the scene in the film Amadeus where the Emperor is giving his critical appraisal of Mozart's work:
Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few ... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2011, 7:49 am
I was thinking that human beings in general may not have the conceptual creativity and depth of imagination necessary to fully envision the large-scale environmental consequences of their own collective activity. Like Narcissus staring into the pool and forever transfixed by his own reflection, I fe... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2011, 12:03 am
A really nice cover of the Roberta Flack song "Killing Me Softly" by the Fugees. Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2011, 11:15 pm
It's interesting to me how the power of a beautiful smile or the curvature of a distinguished brow will never fail to fill me with some kind of indefinable happiness. The ubiquitous online availability of so very many beautiful and glamorous images of women is a complex entity with many implication... Comment - Like
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Jan 13, 2011, 7:03 am
It's sort of funny (and more than a bit sad) how what masquerades for so many men as a way to demonstrate their attraction to females is essentially really a misogynistic objectification and disrespectful castigation of misguided and insecure young women who will very likely one day deeply regret th... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2011, 11:20 pm
The confrontation is completely unnecessary. Two opposing ideologies which can not simply "agree to disagree" and get on with life are both demonstrating rank immaturity, incurable intolerance and a bed-wetting insecurity about the ultimate validity of their own beliefs. If a person or group believe... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2011, 8:25 am
I once heard a description of social networking online as having the same relationship to socialising that reality TV programs have to reality. This is surely in many ways not far from the truth. While it is interesting to reflect upon the ways in which social media and online communications have ... Comment - Like
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Jan 5, 2011, 8:25 pm
Now there's a message to "never lose hope". This video went "viral" and Ted has been flooded with offers of work. A nice story. Comment - Like
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Jan 3, 2011, 8:25 pm
I am not generally a fan of television advertising when it is generic and positively mercenary in it's duty to sell product without being even remotely entertaining or thought-provoking but I found myself pondering the strategies used in a television campaign to advertise a particular kitchen and ba... Comment - Like
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Dec 13, 2010, 10:03 pm
Some shoppers in a food court having lunch in Ontario had a nice surprise while having their lunch. Merry Christmas. Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2010, 9:50 pm
This was funny and sort of cool. "I've got another 4 years before Sam wins the X-Factor and drives my career into the ****ing pavement".
What a 15th Birthday present and what a great mum. :) Comment - Like
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Dec 6, 2010, 12:26 am
Sultans of Swing. This song translates to Spanish style guitar very, very well. Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2010, 5:08 pm
Extracting myself from the mafia was not in the end as hard you may imagine. I had a growing criminal empire stretching across several continents and focused in several major cities. I was clawing my way up the food-chain to some distant pinnacle of power and wealth. It was hard and tough, the bo... Comment - Like
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Dec 3, 2010, 9:04 pm
What a voice. This studio version was recorded in one take.
Jeff Buckley RIP. Comment - Like
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Dec 2, 2010, 7:10 am
The Black Keys - Tighten Up. This band rocks. It's a nice filmclip too. Comment - Like
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Nov 29, 2010, 11:15 pm
Michio Kaku discussing just how ultimately underdeveloped our technological level is in comparison to where we are headed. There are three types of technological civilisation in his (and other astrophysicists') view and we are not even yet a type 1. We are in transition to a Type 1 civilisation. ... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2010, 8:46 pm
The vocabulary word for today is:
Eutrophication: Excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, ... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2010, 6:18 pm
Here is an interesting article about how Australians are being fleeced by the whole system of privately owned road tollways and how the story behind the reason for privatising them in the first place is a lie.
Motorists 'sold a line' on toll road model
Extract:
Toll roads and tunnels have been all ... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2010, 8:43 pm
One of my favourite authors and scientists, Michio Kaku, discussing the concept of alien civilisations. Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2010, 8:17 pm
I was just reading in Philosophy Now (June/July 2010) an article about the peripatetic Tim Cooney, husband of Joan Ganz Cooney - the creator of Sesame Street. Cooney was an ethicist whose magnum opus seems to have been blighted by a thoroughly unethical forgery deployed to assure the printing of th... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2010, 11:30 pm
To my dear unknown extraterrestrial friends,
Greetings. I thought now was probably a good time to withdraw all of my psychic requests to be abducted from this planet in return for ultimate knowledge and spiritual enlightenment. It occurs to me that I would probably look quite crap in one of those ... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2010, 6:43 pm
People believe what they want. No great surprise there. However, what if their beliefs clash with yours ? What if they undermine yours ? What if their belief system completely and irrevocably invalidates your belief system ? Well, suck it up, sunshine - if you can feel insecure about your belie... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2010, 6:18 am
The release of the newest in the Call of Duty series on the 9th of November - Call of Duty: Black Ops has proven to be something of a spectacularly dramatic anti-climax. The software as released has some fine and creative ideas (the cutscenes are excellent or would be if it wasn't so damn buggy) bu... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2010, 11:04 pm
I have come to the stunning revelation that there are certain issues in my life which can be resolved only by an event bordering on the miraculous. Even if I had true faith in a Deity I would never be so arrogant as to presume that my problems amounted to more than a hill of beans in this crazy wor... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2010, 1:15 am
To my dear anonymous benefactor:
It seems that the donations you have made to my PayPal account have not yet arrived. However, I have received numerous offers of business relationship from surely reputable Nigerian businessman who are all mysteriously related to ex-ministers, royalty and one is ev... Comment - Like
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Nov 7, 2010, 6:54 am
This is a little bit how I feel at the moment. I really think I need some more sleep. Comment - Like
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Nov 6, 2010, 9:32 pm
The "Plastic Wrap" Photoshop filter mystifies me. The only possible use I have been able to determine is to simulate the aftermath of bukkake. I would be interested to know if anyone has found any other uses for it. Comment - Like
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