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| Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:46 PM |
| Recyclotron |
 by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- I enjoy my friend's Tumblr and its many gifs. Celebrating Ian McKellen, cat being funny, one of the greatest scenes from Clue, a hedgehog, George R.R. Martin being a dick, a statement of principles, and the cutest thing ever.
- I also am a big fan of io9. They've got clips from the special features on the Princess Bride 25th Anniversary release, an essay on the good and bad and in between of time travel stories; and a weird set photo from what will no doubt be a very weird movie, Darren Aronofsky's Noah.
- I guess the all-woman Expendables is going to be a real thing, because Gina Carano just got cast in the lead role.
- A wonderful new Wondermark.
- Twitter repostings! The toaster that burns the weather into your bread (conceptual only, sadly), and clips of David Lynch's guest appearance on Louie.
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| Wednesday, August 8, 2012 09:18 AM |
| (Last updated on Thursday, August 9, 2012 07:18 PM) | | A Griffin-to-English Dictionary |
 by Fëanor |
The boy is getting better and better at speaking, so a lot of the stuff he says now is completely clear and understandable. But some of it still requires a bit of interpretation. Probably I will update this as we remember/notice more of his vocab. (UPDATE 1: I should perhaps note for clarity that he actually knows many more words than the ones listed here - like "hot dog dance," for example - these are just the ones that can be confusing to the uninitiated.)
UPDATE 2: New entries are bolded below.
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| Aa-poh | "Hippo" | | Aa-poo | "Octopus" | | Aa-pull | "Apple", as well as any fruit or vegetable that looks even remotely like an apple | | All-Fahn | "Elephant" | | Bee-bop or Bee-bot | "Robot" or "bug" | | Beed-yeah | We really have no idea what this means. He seems to use it to refer to a multitude of unrelated things. It might just be an all-purpose word for anything he doesn't know the word for. | | Boo | "Spoon" | | Chee | "Cheese" or "tree" | | Ee-ee | "Horse" (it's an imitation of the sound horses make) | | (ee-)Yeah | "Please take this empty sippy cup from me". Yeah, this one's a bit of a mystery. Maybe he's trying to say, "here" as in "here, take this"? | | Ho-ho | "Pirate" or the TV show "Jake and the Never Land Pirates" | | Mao | "Mouse" | | Mo | "More" | | Moo | Usually "milk", sometimes "moon" or "more", and rarely "cow" | | Nake | "Snake" | | Pee-pie | "Pizza pie" or "french fry". Conveniently, the same sound designates his two favorite foods! | | Puh-uh or puh-puh | "Pretzel" | | Shih | "Fish" | | Wa or Wawa | "Water" | | Wah-Shih | "Rocket ship" |
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| Friday, April 27, 2012 04:33 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
I didn't have time to do my usual thorough examination of the entire internet for this entry, but I figure I'll post what I have now and maybe add more later, we'll see.
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| Friday, November 12, 2010 09:39 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Season of the Witch stars Nicolas Cage, and will therefore almost certainly be terrible. Still, the trailer is entertaining, and it looks like the movie could be, as well, in a crazy, over-the-top kind of way.
- Casting rumors have been swirling around the next Batman movie since practically before the last Batman movie was released, but here's another which sounds like it might be vaguely true: a handful of great actresses are being considered for two female roles, one a love interest, and the other a villain. Hmm...
- Ooh, a new White Stripes album could be on the way. Always good news.
- The upcoming Muppet movie (the one with the classic Muppets, not the noir one) just beefed up its cast big time, adding Jack Black, Donald Glover, Jane Lynch, Danny Trejo, Eric Stonestreet, John Krasinski, Ed Helms, Lady Gaga, and Paul Rudd. Lady Gaga will be playing herself (which makes sense; she's practically a Muppet already), Lynch will play a prison guard, Trejo will play her prisoner, and Zach Galifianakis (who was already on board) will play a character called Hobo Jo. We're also getting a new Muppet character named Walter.
- Save the Words! Adopt a word that's fallen into disuse and keep it alive by using it. Cool idea.
- A movie about Merlin set in modern times is on the way. (Oddly, I just watched a special last night about Merlin throughout history.)
- Some guy remade Super Mario Bros. 3 in the New Super Mario Bros. engine. Woah.
- A tattooed lady in an R2-D2 swimsuit with a puppy and a Darth Vader iPhone. You're welcome.
- The stop-motion history of stop-motion.
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| Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:29 AM |
| (Last updated on Friday, August 13, 2010 01:54 PM) | | Book Report - The Epic of Gilgamesh |
 by Fëanor |
Somehow I made it through my entire college career as an English major without ever reading The Epic of Gilgamesh in its entirety. When I found poppy's copy of the 1989 edition of Maureen Gallery Kovacs' translation on the bookshelf the other day, I decided to correct this error. I was surprised to discover how fragmentary our knowledge is of the original source material. In fact, the tablets that the epic was written on are literally fragmentary, so that various sections of the story have to be recreated from other versions of the story, and other sections are just lost entirely. Even the portions that we do have can be a mystery at times; thanks to the obscurity of the ancient language and the alien cultural context of the story, the translation often devolves into guesswork, with certain phrases and terms remaining almost completely opaque (for instance, the mysterious "stone things" on the boat that Gilgamesh destroys near the end of the tale). But out of this mess a rather compelling and universal story ultimately arises, about a man named Gilgamesh who becomes best friends with his enemy, the wild man named Enkidu. Gilgamesh and Enkidu go on various adventures together, but finally Enkidu dies. (Oops, spoiler!) Gilgamesh grieves terribly at his friend's death, not the least because it has made him aware of his own mortality. He goes on a long journey seeking the secret to evading death, only to discover it doesn't exist.
Interestingly, the man Gilgamesh visits seeking the secret to immortality is essentially the prototype for Noah. He was warned by one of the Gods that a flood was coming to wipe the Earth clean of humanity, and that he should build a boat and put himself and his family aboard, along with any livestock he could find. The boat is taken up by the waters and eventually runs aground on the side of a mountain. He releases various birds to discover if there is any other land nearby. The sense I got from the introduction and notes is that a lot of the story of Gilgamesh is made up of earlier stories, and that the story of Gilgamesh was itself then retold and reused in various ways. That's storytelling for you.
I was a little disappointed that there wasn't more to the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. I'd read so much about it, and yet in the story itself, it basically just says, "then they became friends," and that's it. A lot of the story is surprisingly abrupt like that.
The opening of the poem is oddly schizophrenic. It starts by stressing how awesome and amazing Gilgamesh was, only to then move immediately into a story about how he was oppressing his own people in some vague way and that the Gods had to send Enkidu - essentially a wild, beast-like version of Gilgamesh himself - to straighten him out. It's never really clear what's so great about Gilgamesh, actually, as he spends the entire poem either failing to do things, whining about things he has to do, or succeeding in doing things that end up biting him in the ass later. But it's Gilgamesh's failures and his mortality that give the story its humanity and make it accessible (to the extent that it is).
I can't say The Epic of Gilgamesh is a fun beach read or anything, but it is interesting in the way it highlights the places where great gulfs separate us from ancient peoples, and the places where we are not even a footstep apart. |
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| Monday, January 18, 2010 01:20 PM |
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| by Fëanor |
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| Wednesday, October 14, 2009 01:11 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- A graph to help you visualize the value of the billions of dollars getting thrown around these days. (Via Tom)
- Amazing light art.
- 20 awesomely hot slave Leia costumes. As the site points out, this is perhaps slightly NSFW.
- Uh... that doesn't look like a deer.
- An A-Z guide to zombies.
- The dangers of comma misuse. (Via)
- A dragon and a skeleton made entirely out of plastic kitchen utensils.
- Three Teen Wolf Moon T-shirt. Heh. (Via)
- TV's steamiest lesbian kisses. It's a slideshow! Yay! (Via)
- Thundercats, hoe! (Via)
- This is pretty interesting: a list of the median age of viewers for various TV shows, including Dollhouse. (Via)
- This is a long but fascinating video about a new desktop user interface which makes clever use of touch-sensitive technology. It's called 10/GUI. I'd love to try it! (Via)
- A new computer algorithm seems to confirm the hypothesis that Shakespeare's play The Reign of King Edward III was actually written in collaboration with Thomas Kyd. (Via)
- A leaked memo from Adelle DeWitt to her employees at the Rossum Corporation. (Via)
- The latest news about Game of Thrones. Bran has been cast and filming begins soon. Woo hoo! (Via)
- An amusing web comic. (Via)
- A very silly cat gets a drink in an unorthodox fashion. (Via Tien)
- Paintings of insects mutated by radioactive disasters. I had to stop looking at these because they were making me a little ill.
- A look at the Vatican's secret storehouse of space knowledge.
- There could be a movie coming based on Chris Carter's lesser known series, Millenium, with Lance Henriksen returning as Frank Black! Apparently Carter himself would not be involved. I think this is actually pretty exciting news! I enjoyed that show, but I've since lost faith in Carter as a writer. I think if somebody else talented took the creative reins, we might actually get a pretty decent film out of this.
- Some physicists are wondering if perhaps the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged from the future, to protect us from a potential calamity caused by observing the Higgs boson. WOAH.
- Fox is going to run all 13 episodes of this season of Dollhouse, but due to the continued poor ratings, the likelihood of a third season is low. Thus Joss promises to give us some closure in that 13th episode, while still leaving some of his options open, just in case. Sigh.
- A short interview with the writer of Alex Proyas' adaptation of the sci-fi book series Tripods.
- A gallery of vintage robot toys. Included are both smoking and non-smoking robots. Awesome!
- Ian McKellan gives a brief update on The Hobbit. Not many LotR cast members are returning - for obvious reasons - besides himself and Andy Serkis. The scripts will be delivered soon, they'll be budgeted and cast, and then shooting should start next Spring.
- To ensure consumers that they are getting the real deal, Kellogg's is going to start branding its logo onto its corn flakes with a laser. Uh... overkill much?
- The last two Tatsunoko vs. Capcom characters are Zero from Mega Man X and Joe the Condor from Gatchaman.
- Another cool LEGO CubeDude. This time it's Boushh.
- A very cool concept for Super Punch's horror of Star Wars art contest: a Tusken Raider tells a ghost story about a vengeful demon with a fiery sword descending on a camp and killing everyone there, even the women and children. Of course, the demon is Anakin.
- A collection of cool, Disney-related art.
- Game|Life's analysis of Brütal Legend: great story, disappointing gameplay. D'oh. They still give it a pretty high rating, though.
- You can now report spammers on Twitter. Nice. (I know I post a lot, but please do not report me as a spammer.)
- Here's a website where you can play tons of classic '80s arcade games. (Via)
- Check out the first trailer for The Expendables. This looks utterly ridiculous. I mean, I'll still probably see it, because of the cast and the crazy action. But man. The corny dialog, the cliche plot. It looks so terrible.
- Cinematical celebrates those rare times when a great director was able to put out two great films in the same year.
- Cinematical suggests five ways Michael Bay could kill Megan Fox's character in Transformers 3. Heh.
- That "spy comedy romance thriller" previously entitled Witchita and starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz has been retitled Knight and Day. Ugh.
- Call me a nerd, but I find these ridiculously sexy. (Via)
- A brief history of space films since Star Wars, plotted out on a map of the universe. (Via)
- Dracula's greatest comic book appearances. (Via)
- iRobot made a creepy, squishy robot that can squeeze through tiny holes.
- Iron Man 2 concept art and behind-the-scenes video.
- Fun pics from the set of The Green Hornet.
- Amazing Where the Wild Things Are tattoo.
- Jedi Beatles! (Via)
- Jemocalypse! (Via)
- Jon Favreau will not be directing The Avengers. Aww. Well, hopefully they'll find somebody else equally talented.
- Bunny!
- The 14 lamest horror movie killer costumes. C'mon, that image of the pig-headed dude from Motel Hell is iconic! In fact, it's that image that made me stay up late one night to watch that movie.
- Photos from Maxim of two of the sexier stars of Battlestar Galactica wearing not very much.
- Chris "Captain Kirk" Pine will be the next Jack Ryan. I guess I can see that.
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| Thursday, October 1, 2009 11:20 AM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- At long last, after some frustrating stops and starts, the schedule for the 18 1/2 Philadelphia Film Festival is actually, really online. A lot of the movies are missing descriptions and plot summaries, which continues the general theme of frustration and incompetence, but there do appear to be some interesting things in here. I will have to peruse carefully at my leisure and possibly put together a schedule.
- Ah! Another freakout! You can control this one with your mouse. (Via)
- An amusing and unlikely mashup.
- A couple more of my favorite recent Animals With Lightsabers.
- Some pics and videos from the set of the Red Dawn remake, revealing some of the film's amusing set dressing, including crazy propaganda posters.
- This is terrifying: a video game where the aliens you're shooting are files on your computer, and when you destroy them, they're actually deleted!! To win you must destroy every file. If you're killed, the application itself will be deleted. I will never play this game, although I kind of love the concept. Oh, and the title? lose/lose.
- Slings that explain how you injured yourself, via handy pictograms.
- Yesterday's Daily Batman was a beautiful piece of art by Rafael Grampa.
- This is a brilliant piece of writing. I don't want to describe it, because part of the entertainment is slowly figuring out what's going on. Just click!
- A graph helpfully illustrating the Mythbusters method. Too true!
- How about a little peek at pure crazy? (Via)
- Pretty hilarious Facebook status updates by video game characters. (Via)
- Here's a site that will call your phone for you if you lose it, with the idea that you will hear it ringing and be able to track it down. (Via)
- A Zork walkthrough in the form of a rock song. Pretty brilliant. (Via)
- A unified theory of Superman's powers (PDF). I suspect you, like me, will not have the required time or knowledge of math and physics to read and understand the whole thing, so I recommend reading the Cliffs' Notes version at io9. It boils down to this: all of Superman's powers can be explained as the manifestation of just one power - "the ability to manipulate, from atomic to kilometer length scales, the inertia of His own and any matter with which He is in contact." I love it!
- 13 great portable games.
- The funniest foreign titles of American films. (Via)
- Pretty intense trailer for a documentary about Eddie Izzard. Might have to check that out. Izzard rules. (Via)
- The mecha power loader robot suit from Aliens is now a for-real thing! Kind of. (Via)
- Some Twitter clients already offer this service, but now Twitter itself is going to make an official version: Lists! (Via)
- A convenient list of all the free music on Amazon right now. Start downloading!
- The "How It Should Have Ended" for Terminator turns into a crazy mashup with Back to the Future. (Via)
- A wonderful letter from a librarian defending a children's book about gay marriage. It's really, by extension, a defense of all books, and a powerful statement against banning them. (Via)
- Photos of some of the oldest living things on Earth.
- Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Real Steel, a movie about robot boxing in the future.
- It's a wrinkly dog!! The comparisons to Eleanor Roosevelt are a bit harsh, but the dog is terribly cute.
- Really, really awesome White Tree of Gondor tattoo. I WANT IT. I just don't want to have to sit through getting it. How can I reconcile these two desires?
- The pastasaurus! I want this, too.
- A bomb scare briefly interrupted the filming of The Green Hornet. And here's a look at Seth Rogen in costume.
- Another goofy reimagining of classic literature is on the way: Little Women and Werewolves. This has got to stop eventually. Right?
- An AT-AT school bus, and other amusing Photoshop art. (Via)
- "Like the X-men's Wolverine extending his claws, the Spanish ribbed newt slashes through itself with its sharp rib bones to create defensive spines, according to a new study." Awesome. (Via)
- A bunch of Stan Winston's props, costumes, and set pieces are going to be auctioned off next week, including full-scale Terminators! That'd be a nice decoration for your foyer. "Hi, how are- OH MY GOD THEY'VE COME FROM THE FUTURE TO KILL ME!!!"
- The hilarious and excellent South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut will be streamed online for free through October 28th right here. Also, that movie is ten years old now. That totally blows my mind. I'm so ancient! (Via)
- The seven greatest monsters in kid films. Good picks! Except... what in the hell is Purple People Eater?
- Ugh. I was hoping Ninja Assassin would be awesome (it's called Ninja Assassin, for God's sake!), but it sounds like it's pretty terrible.
- Surreal videos from the set of Christopher Nolan's Inception.
- The top ten future sports from movies.
- A creepy, all-clown Last Supper.
- Another pic from the set of The A-Team.
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| Friday, September 25, 2009 02:12 PM |
| Recyclotron |
| by Fëanor |
Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.
- Are you ready for the Dollhouse season premiere tonight?? If you're not sure, you might want to check out the handy chronological recap of (most of) season 1 embedded above. (Via)
- GMail went down again for a little while yesterday. Really, just the chat part, I think. Anyway, here are five things to do when that happens. (Via)
- The interrobang looks like a pretty useful punctuation mark. Also, great name! (Via)
- Beard of monkeys (via) and coat of bears.
- Surrogates comes out today! Here's an interesting promo, and reviews of the film from Cinematical, io9, and Sci Fi Wire. Unfortunately most people seem to think it's pretty mediocre, but poppy and I still want to see it. The movie's release has also inspired a list of the 10 best robot bodies to jack your brain into, and a couple of lists centering on Bruce Willis: the top five sci-fi movie heroes played by Bruce Willis (I'd leave out any mention of Armageddon - *shiver* - but otherwise this is good), and seven arguments for Bruce Willis as a great actor (agreed!).
- An interesting glimpse of The Tourist, a sci-fi movie that may never be made.
- New Daredevil and solo Silver Surfer movies are on the way.
- Cute Star Wars cupcakes, and 17 amazing sci-fi themed cakes.
- This Sunday's Simpsons season premiere features Homer Simpson playing a new superhero character called Everyman, and it was written by and stars the voice of Seth Rogen. I haven't watched a new Simpsons episode in a while, but I'm curious about this one now.
- This list of the top ten sci-fi horror movies has some great picks, but is way off-base on others. I mean, c'mon: Mimic is just bad; Scanners is mediocre, if fun; Event Horizon starts out creepy and then gets stupid and unbelievable; The Blob is boring; and Spielberg's War of the Worlds falls apart as soon as you touch it. I think my list would be something like this: Alien, The Thing From Another World, Aliens, Pitch Black, The Cell, Forbidden Planet, Village of the Damned (1960), Bride of Frankenstein, Terminator, Terminator 2, and Dawn of the Dead.
- Cool conceptual design for a geometric soda can.
- Cool abominable snowman sculpture, and an alternate skin for Operation. (Via)
- This week's Wired Playlist features covers of famous sci-fi TV show themes!
- Gyromancer sounds like it might be a fun game: it's more puzzle-fighting!
- Werner Herzog is going to do something called Rogue Film School where he will teach you how to live filmmaking as a way of life. Wow!
- "A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced that it has successfully implanted electrodes into a beetle allowing scientists to control the insect's movements in flight." Watch the video of the remote control cyborg beetle in action, then freak out!
- So... steakhouse or gay bar? (Via)
- Joss Whedon's best TV episodes ever. Some weird picks, but big yeses to the Angel series finale, the Buffy musical episode, Dr. Horrible, and of course "The Body." (Via)
- Hilariously bad orchestral rendition of the theme to 2001. (Via)
- The top ten science fiction movie soundtracks. A lot of good picks, but... Flash Gordon? Seriously?? That has to be one of the most embarrassing soundtracks of all time! (Via)
- Snow White and the Se7en Dwarfs. (Via)
- Some crazy candid video of wild turkeys attacking people near my old neighborhood. (Via Todd)
- Cool Legend of Zelda art. (Via)
- An autotuned music video-style remix of an episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. (Via)
- Top 10 unanswered questions in geeky movies. By which he means, plot holes.
- Movie poster mashups!
- A trailer for a crazy Russian anime film called First Squad, about a Russian medium fighting an occult order within the S.S. during WWII.
- The famous pop art portrait of Marilyn Monroe recreated with paint guns.
- An interesting report on playing Space Invaders Extreme with the Project Natal motion-sensing control scheme.
- Amusing disclaimer on the Ambien website.
- The 10 most puzzling ancient artifacts and an awesome concept car that's apparently more of a robotic exoskeleton. (Via)
- That Iron Man 2 set footage I posted the teaser for yesterday.
- MGM is so strapped for cash, the company might have to sell James Bond, The Hobbit, and numerous other franchises.
- Scream IV will begin production in April or May and amazingly they convinced Neve Campbell to return! But really, what else was she doing?
- Underwire likes FlashForward, and I'm hearing good things about it from other people, too. Damn! I thought this was one TV show I could avoid after the ads looked really stupid. Now I feel like I have to check it out.
- D'oh! If the Viking Lander 2 had dug its trench just 3.5 inches deeper, it would have struck Martian ice.
- Paul Pope close-ups! (Via)
- A first look at Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Paul.
- Scientists have discovered fossils of a four-winged dinosaur!
- The 100 worst movies of the last 10 years! I am at once thankful and slightly disappointed to say that I haven't seen any of these all the way through, although I have seen bits of a couple. (Via)
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| Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:57 AM |
| An Appreciation |
 by Fëanor |
Vis Major told me Dunkin' Donuts' new waffle breakfast sandwich was good, and it turns out she was right. It's bacon, egg, and cheese on two small, round waffles infused with syrup, a la the McGriddle. It's tasty! I give it a two thumbs up recommendation. It might even be better than the McGriddle, actually.
I'm kind of surprised Vis Major tried it, though. It seems a little weird for her tastes, she being so resistant to the McNuggetini and all.
It struck me the other day why people say it "bacon, egg, and cheese" rather than, for instance, "egg, cheese, and bacon" or "cheese, bacon, and egg." It's because "bacon, egg, and cheese" has a pleasing pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, which no other combination of the words has. |
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