August 2008
32 posts
Watchwow!
The Photoshop Challenge! →
pearPad →
“That’s thirty minutes away. I’ll be there in ten.”
– The Wolf, Pulp Fiction (1994)
Antikythera →
A paper in Nature details discoveries about this 2,000 year old astronomical marvel, which even reveals the timing of the earliest Olympic games
Movie box office charts →
The Movie Map →
I’ll never forget the first day that I had a pair of drumsticks on my hands and I hit the snare drum. Just one beat. Followed by another, followed by the third. I probably don’t know enough numbers to count the amount of beats that my snare drum has suffered since then. But it still sounds great. I’ve always liked hitting things. That’s why I play the drums, I guess.
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein
I Left My Star Destroyer in San Francisco →
iPhone Japanese Touch Pen Stylus (thank God!) →
“Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not...”
– Mark Twain (via Futility Closet)
“Luce: Don’t forget me.
Rachel: I won’t remember anything else.”
– Imagine Me & You (2005)
“That’s TV, Sammy. That’s what you watch when you’ve got no...”
– Tim, Dogs in Space (1987)
The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci? →
Controller praised for texting pilot down safely →
WALL·E (2008). Andrew Stanton. Voices by Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin and Fred Willard. [9/10].
WALL·E is a small robot who lives in a death life Earth doing what he was supposed to do: collecting waste. But he also was collecting objects that he liked, like a Rubik’s cube or lighters. One day arrived EVE, another robot who was looking for life, and WALL·E gives her what she...
π Is Wrong! →
Tootsie (1982). Sydney Pollack. With Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange and Teri Garr. [7/10].
Michael Dorsey is an actor whose career is over until he becomes Dorothy Michaels and finds out that being a woman make himself a better man.
Comedy and romance. Good film.
“Make me proud… or at least less ashamed.”
– Abraham Simpson, The Simpsons (1989)