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The Star Trek: TNG casting that almost was. Personally, I would have loved to have seen Yaphet Kotto as Picard or Wesley Snipes as Geordi. It is possible to over-think things, even when you’re Superboy. Alligators in the sewers: not just an urban legend anymore! I think I’ve discovered a reason to visit Kansas City. [via] And finally, we are . . . → Read More: Wednesday various It’s just a normal Monday here in New York, but it’s apparently Picnic Day in parts of Australia! Picnic Day is a public holiday in the Northern Territory of Australia which takes place every year on the first Monday of August. It was originally declared a public holiday to enable Darwin’s railway workers to go to Adelaide . . . → Read More: Monday various Last Thursday, I posted this image to Capper Blog, and I planned to follow up with the original source article here. Better late than never. The pictures there actually give you a better sense of these so-called infinity pools, and moreover just how high up and close to the edge they are. I think I’d be . . . → Read More: Tuesday various Apparently, Megan Fox’s latest tattoo is a quote from a writer who doesn’t exist. And I am suddenly imagining tattoo parlors who inscribe quotes from books like those in the library in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, the books of dreams, whose common thread is that none of them were ever actually written. Of course, I’m also reminded . . . → Read More: Tuesday various Could a 3-D printer be used to build moon bases? I don’t know, but it’s pretty cool in action. [via] They really love football in Texas: one of the state’s high schools is getting a $60M stadium. [via] The science of Pokemon [via] I can’t believe I haven’t shared the Most Badass Alphabet Ever yet. [via] And finally, you know . . . → Read More: Wednesday various Did James Cameron plagiarize a series of Russian novels for Avatar? Well, just throw it on the pile with Pocahonatas and FernGully. I mean, Cameron does sort of have a track record with this sort of thing… [via] Will Kiefer Sutherland still be doing 24 when he’s sixty? Well, he’d like to think so. Meanwhile, from someone who . . . → Read More: Monday various Zach Handlen on G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra Sommers’ action sequences have been degrading rapidly since his remake of The Mummy, becoming so disconnected from anything even remotely resembling real-world physics and cause and effect that it’s like watching drunken balloon animals fuck. I haven’t seen the movie, but the clips Handlen provides make me nostalgic for . . . → Read More: That’s one way of putting it Ursula K. Le Guin On Rules of Writing, or, Riffing on Rechy: As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know . . . → Read More: Monday various Movie popcorn is really bad for you. [via] Then again, so too, in another way, is buying a computer at Best Buy. [via] I can’t decide if this – An upcoming film called The Raven posits a story about what would happen if Poe were faced with the very murders he wrote about. In the movie, at . . . → Read More: Wednesday various “US pop star Britney Spears, seen here in August 2009, took aim at some of the tabloid stories that have dogged her through 2009, publishing a list of the top 75 articles deemed to be the most ridiculous.” Number one on the list? That she used to be an internationally famous and successful recording artist. “Everywhere I . . . → Read More: Monday various |
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