The major search engines were all founded in 1994 and major players including Yahoo!, eXcite, and "notable minor players" like AltaVista all occupied the top search engine slots both in terms of quality and popularity. The market was already mature, and had had its upstarts and acquisitions of companies like Lycos and…

Dying in the line of duty is rare for a police officer, and being a police officer is quite a safe profession. The idea that an officer is constantly at risk of his or her life, when compared to actual dangerous professions like industry, forestry, mining, fishing or indeed the entirety of the social services except…

You should see the vibrators on display at the A.C. Gilbert children's museum in Salem, Oregon, since the company that manufactured erector sets also made other items involving small electric motors.

This is actually a theme, and something that people forget, and which is counterintuitive. Execution, not innovation, matters. Apple never innovated a damn thing, but during certain periods of their history relentlessly focused on perfect execution. Google was so late to the search engine party it was ridiculous, yet…

Only Littlefinger survives!

I would probably like General Hospital with dragons and boobs and shit quite a bit more than Game of Thrones—and I like Game of Thrones a lot. In particular, total soap and melodrama, disturbing monsters, frequent sex and nudity of all stripes and a Terry Gilliam-esque commitment to the grime and muck and misery of a…

Oh, I guess the White Walkers only wanted to advance five or six miles past the Wall. Dany got dysentery or something and her fleet turned back. Tommen's advisors seem to be doing a 'meh' job, everyone says 'fine.'

I felt the same way and recommended a re-watch to someone else. Even the much-criticized repeated story beats are actually not that major when you watch it again (for example, the "another trench run" is actually really incidental, and what someone was criticizing as its frenetic pace with no room to breathe actually…

I think that's maybe more about the tone of the show and how you receive it than its length. Even for two seasons, if all you get from it is misery that's going to be monotonous. I didn't experience that from the show—there was misery, but also delight and humor and some heisty adventure. It didn't feel like all one…

It's an appealing and obvious thing to do, kind of, just because of how musical his poetry inherently is.

It depends how much effort "try" implies. I wanted to write a musical based on Poe's life, with his poetry set to music. I did two or three songs and a sort of biographical outline before laziness made me say "eh, fuck it."

She cites Pixar’s Inside Out as an example of Hollywood’s new-found understanding of the mind and of the basic emotions that guide people’s thoughts and actions.

Yup. Well, basically. Beyonce and her troupe were good dancers. But I have no idea if they were attempting to perform a song or what it sounded like. Was it bad sound? Was it that popular songs just kind of spit rhythmically instead of having a melody anymore? Am I old?

You know, I really really like Jack Black. I think he's tremendously talented and charismatic as a performer, and does manic really well. His turn in Bernie was great, and I'd love to see him push his manic comic energy into "desperate and heartbreakingly unfunny" territory by a director like Bobcat Goldthwait.

Can we all just look at the bright side and thank fuck the Trivago guy was nowhere to be seen?

I hardly knew 'im!

Yes, but police police police police police.

I hate mock hangings in shows because I find they're so distracting for my sense of safety. Like prop guns, I much prefer stage productions to let me see the safety wire or that the gun is fake, it's much less distracting to me.

It's in accordance with the approach to workplace safety in general, though, not unique to films.

I'm with you. Especially when adapting or remaking or remixing a fantasy cartoon why not make it a hotchpotch?