I don’t get the impression that they were making the Apollo 11 crew “rubes.” I think more than anything it highlighted that every experience is shaped by your own frame of reference. For the astronauts, the things that come to mind, the moments that stuck out aren’t the things Philip wants to hear. Meanwhile, being at…

Sooo we have this in Australia and as a casual I haven’t noticed any difference. Influencers can still show how many distinct ‘likes’ they get, it’s just an extra step? Maybe it pushes down engagement, but if people are only liking your images because they can see that 10,000 other people have already liked it (and…

I think we may be disagreeing about semantics. From my view, ‘faith’ suggests belief in the absence of evidence (or even in the face of evidence to the contrary). It sounds as if you’re referring to a more humanist ‘spirituality’, which is fine. Atheism does not reject love or morality, merely superstition. Belief in…

And how, pray tell, do you measure “lasting impact?” Did you expect the film to launch a franchise? Sell merchandise? Become the next hot IP? Fact is, it’s one of the most acclaimed films of the entire decade, and an opus in the crown of one of today’s leading American auteurs. That’s plenty impact.

As others have mentioned, Inoreader actually is in the class of Feedly. For my purposes (which amount to replacing Google Reader), it's the same thing but cheaper. 

I’ve been using Inoreader since Pulse was bought by LinkedIn [and, IMO, completely borked its experience]. I’m sure there are other fabulous services out there, but Inoreader serves me just fine with its high-contrast dark mode, multiple layout viewing options, multiple sort-by, reading stats and…

I think what often happens is that the relationship starts to crumble and the couple gets married to try to save it, that doesnt work, and they get divorced. 

Dear Apple:

I’m 38 and I remember her for lots of things, especially Meet me in St. Louis, and A Star is Born (which was literally just remade so there’s interest in the original). Sorry you’ve never spent time watching the classics. Not to mention she’s a fucking gay icon! A million biopics are released every year about crusty…

My favorite Judy Garland story:

“I’m tired of all these well crafted popcorn movies. Where are the vacuous pseudo-highbrow melodramas Hollywood used to make?”

I’ve never been able to reconcile my feelings about the book. On the one hand it’s meandering, poorly paced, has a truly unlikeable lead, and can’t seem to decide what it’s about. On the other, it’s weird and compelling and I had no trouble breezing through it. Perhaps ‘haunted’ is a good term. I don’t think I’d call…

I’m in the “perfectly acceptable in a vacuum but bewildering and dumb in the context of the season(s) that preceded it” camp.

Lindsay’s criticisms are way off here. ‘Bloodless’ is probably the wrong word to use in the script, but Tyrion’s anxiety about being too brutal in war–and, for that matter, Daenerys’ eagerness to be brutal as a show of strength–was long established.

I would argue that each season up until season 5 (the last I watched, though I did come back for the finale) was worse than the one before it, but there are reasonable arguments to the contrary, and mine is a very book-centric perspective; the logistical/plotting impact of early-season adaptive changes turn out to…

As a pale person who religiously puts on sunblock, I still get a little darker on my arms even with protection, so I imagine you could get a similar effect by putting a sticker over sunblocked skin. It would not be as noticeable, but it wouldn’t be any more risk than you were going to get anyway.

It’s not at all clear to me why most of the quoted action is a problem. It’s not like “They both failed geography” led to the actors playing the scene in a confusing or tonally inappropriate way, so what does it matter if it was framed a little flippantly?

I was never crazy about Top Gun as a teenager, but watching it now it’s really amazing that for most of its length the only thing at stake is a good performance evaluation at work.

If “The Leftovers” isn’t among your answers then you didn’t watch it and you get a pass. But seriously, go watch it.

I agree about Parks and Rec. They left nothing up to the imagination and just spelled every single part of the character’s lives out, no struggles or open ends, just 100% fairy tale endings for all the people involved. Too much fan service. I love Fringe and I’m glad people are bringing it up in the comments section.