March 2, 2016
Remakes
Barcelona-based editor Jaume R. Lloret reveals what it means to be faithful in a remake by examining scenes from 25 films alongside their newer versions. (SLV, via)
How brave are you?
Coming soon to a Los Angeles skyscraper near you: a 45 foot long glass slide, a thousand feet in the air. How brave are you?
The Miscarriage Taboo
From The Atlantic: A culture of silence can make it even harder for women to make sense of losing a pregnancy.
Hey, I don't believe that any system is totally secure.
How a chance viewing of Wargames by President Reagan led to America's first policies on cyberwarfare.
Good luck finding parking.
Atlas Obscura brings us a photo-essay of seven places in Europe where humans exhibit an adventurous spirit, ingenuity, and engineering chops.
I've made a lot of special modifications myself
He Loves To Eat Hair
“To begin with I was hoping it was just a phase.”
What should we do about paedophiles? by Sophie Elmhirst [The Guardian] They have committed unspeakable crimes that demand harsh punishment. But most will eventually be set free. Are we prepared to support efforts to rehabilitate them? [more inside]
We haven't won this one yet, aliens could still invade and endorse Dole.
Two decades ago, the world wide web was relatively young and quiet. Now it's not a bad idea to buy up domains to prevent others from mis-using them, but back then that sort of online prank was unknown. Brooks Talley and Mark Pace were among the first to register such joke domains, setting up buchanan96.org (now cyber-squatted and blocked from displaying by robots.txt) clinton96.org and dole96.org, not to be confused with dolekemp96.org (previously). 4president.us has more screenshots of the official '96 pages, if you want to peak back at how presidential candidates presented themselves online twenty years ago.
"This is the best coffee I've ever had."
And then I get to tell it to you over and over again
The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst
"We think kids are so fragile. Tell them the truth. They are resilient."
Researchers have found that students who learn about famous scientists' personal and scientific struggles outperform students who only learn of those scientists' achievements. [more inside]
How microdosing helped me kick my internet habit
Bob Dylan's Secret Archive
The George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa have acquired a huge trove of documents, tapes, and film from Bob Dylan. The (NYTimes) article describes many of the goodies.
How non-compete agreements can work against you
"That Seemingly Harmless Paper You Signed When You Were Hired Can Bite You in the Ass"
Stephanie Russell-Kraft talks about her experience with a non-compete agreement:
Stephanie Russell-Kraft talks about her experience with a non-compete agreement:
Legal experts have spent far too much time debating the enforceability of non-compete contracts, a line of questioning that inherently favors employers because it places the burden on individual employees to challenge their bosses in court. Jonathan Pollard estimates that only about 10-15 percent of the agreements he comes across in his practice are enforceable. But that doesn’t stop the rest from causing damage.
This whole country's just like my flock of sheep
"Those morons out there? Shucks, I could take chicken fertilizer and sell it to them as caviar. I could make them eat dog food and think it was steak. Sure, I got 'em like this... You know what the public's like? A cage of guinea pigs. Good night you stupid idiots. Good night, you miserable slobs. They're a lot of trained seals. I toss them a dead fish and they'll flap their flippers." That may sound like Donald Trump talking, but it's actually Andy Griffith, as huckster demagogue Lonesome Rhodes in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd. WaPo examines the movie that foretold the rise of Trump. [more inside]
What a bum rap for a nice, sensitive guy like me
How a bit of detective work tracked down the original source of a sample that had mystified fans of the EDM/progressive house anthem "You are Sleeping".
Reading and rereading Frank Miller, 30 years after Dark Knight Returns
It's hard to imagine Frank Miller anticipating that his story, with that introduction, would ever fall into the hands of an 11-year-old, mixed-race girl. Susana Polo (Twitter) begins with reading Batman: Year One at 11, then follows Miller's output, and her career and life, from there.
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League 1 America: The Soccer Revolution That Never Was
We need to talk about Dylan
17 years after Columbine, the mother of one of the killers tells her story. A Washington Post review of "A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy" by Sue Klebold. [more inside]
As Bugs Would Say, "What a Maru"
Anime Maru is a site that combines two of the internet's favorite formats: Anime and Fake News. Kind of an Otaku Onion. If you have any doubts, check out the site's list of the Top 27 Anime Series of All Time which include some fictitious entries (#5. Attack on Death Notepunch-Man) and some that are not very anime (#17. National Hockey League). Knowledge of the medium is required to get some of the jokes, but not nearly all.
The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed
34 years after the first book in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series was published, he announced that the film adaptation has begun production. The gunslinger? Idris Elba. The man in black? Matthew McConaughey.
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