Part of what's creepy here is the string of non sequiturs constituting the performance. Lends an air of unnerving unpredictability to the robot's behavior. The very next thing it *might* do is murder you.

My goodness, you just can't stop posting, can you. It's like an InFluEnza epidemic.

In Doctor Who, it's not the "fixed point in time" rule-breaking that bugs me so much as the fact that death itself, or at least what the show bills as a definitive departure from the show, seems arbitrarily revocable — at least if you're a major character. Over time this has the effect of taking the drama out of the…

Pleasant production design, though not different from other anime of the time.

Yeah. I'm seriously wondering what's going on behind the scenes here.

Great concept for a time-lapse vine.

Yes. I love how the Ash reveal suddenly makes *explicit* what was only *implicit* up that point - that the Company is evil. Also, it suggests that the "cool indifference" of the Company that is implied in the first part of the film is, at bottom, identical to the "active evil" revealed in the second part. Also also,…

Hell of a gallery. Amazed that I've never come across *any* of these before. That underwater Canon prototype looks like Thunderbird 4.

Prediction: Han blows himself and the Falcon to smithereens in some sort of kamikaze run that brings victory to the good guys. (Which basically should have happened in Jedi, along with quite a few other things.)

Be interesting to see a similar photo series on eccentrically individuated houses in Levittown suburbs.

Damn, these are good. Like, *really* good.

Nicely stated.

Look! There's one now!

After articles like this, I'm always amused by the army of people who leap in to defend Ayn Rand... for free.

I'm looking at that top photo and playing Jerry Goldsmith's "Alien" soundtrack in my head and getting rather creeped out.

This is an illuminating article for me b/c it suggests something about Creationists I hadn't quite seen before: namely, that they see evolutionary theory as *primarily* motivated as an attack on a certain kind of biblical worldview — rather than *incidentally* challenging that worldview, as is the actual case. In a…

I'll happily wade in here and assert that Crystal Skull is superior to *both* the previous sequels. *Easily* my favorite since the original.

For the sake of clarification: John Berkey was *not* "one of the classic painters of the golden era of science fiction," if by "golden era science fiction" you mean the same thing as the (more common) phrase "golden age science fiction." Berkey comes later. "Golden age" science fiction generally refers to '40s and…

Silly amount of naysaying here. Talk is cheap, and negativity doesn't automatically equal acumen. (*cough* climate change skepticism *cough*) I'll put my money on the people actually taking action and doing something productive.

I have a good word to say about it. I thought it was great. Thematically appropriate and quite moving. No problem with it whatsoever.