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Two from Roger Ebert: on racial intolerance and on why he tweets. On the set of David Lynch’s Dune with Sean Young. Weirdly fascinating. I wonder if it’s at all worth revisiting that movie. I keep thinking I’ll re-read the book, but I think I’m worried it will just encourage me to read them all. [via] Charlie Stross . . . → Read More: Monday various Apparently Texas history has a liberal bias and needs to be fixed. This would be funny if these people weren’t responsible for teaching America’s children. As Mary Helen Berlanga (D-Corpus Christi) reportedly said, “Until we are ready to tell the truth about history, we don’t have a good history or social studies textbook.” [via] I’m not so . . . → Read More: Tuesday various Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. xkcd on the physics of Christmas. (For the record, I’m pretty sure Heisenberg celebrated the holiday.) What’s on the White House Christmas tree? (As if Glenn Beck didn’t have enough to ineptly rant and spume about over the holidays. [via] 15 Toys Not to Buy Your Kids . . . → Read More: Christmas various Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel beat Avatar in this Wednesday’s box office. That can’t be good. [via] George over at Bookninja thinks this is some kind of horrible abomination, but I think this Soft Morphing Blob ‘Bot is actually sort of cool. I find it difficult to believe that a version of Lord of the Rings from . . . → Read More: Thursday various I actually don’t have a problem with new Winnie the Pooh stories by a different author, even if that means the introduction of a new character. I’m not in love with the idea, and would prefer to see something new — if Lottie the Otter is a worthy character, give her her own damn . . . → Read More: Tuesday various The Wiseline Institute imagines the (surprisingly Stephen Baldwin-heavy) Creation Science Fiction Channel fall lineup: With the schedule set, King plans to go on vacation until the end of the season. “There won’t be any changes, since CreSyFy has a rule against things evolving,” King explained. “The thing I dream is this: That some night, a hundred nights, a . . . → Read More: Thursday various Michael Chabon’s essay on the Wilderness of Childhood got a lot of attention when it was first posted, back in July. (It’s been sitting in my saved links since then.) I think Chabon made some interesting points, but I also think Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky’s response is worth repeating [via]: I’m not really arguing with Chabon . . . → Read More: Monday various Jeffrey Ford on undoing the will of God: Today it struck me that, considering the curse that God places on mankind by fracturing language so that we can never conspire en mass, the work of translators is, in a mythic sort of way, an undoing of the will of God. I had this day dream where . . . → Read More: Found in translation |
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