Tropical cities, esp in SE Asia, when i travel through, I'm always fascinated at how much more gunk comes out my nose when I'm cleaning it via blowing into a napkin or hanky (does anyone say hanky anymore?). In relatively clean air Melbourne, nose gunk is usually green, squishy firm. After a day in which an hour or so…

Hard to imagine Zimmer being responsible for the Inception induced BLLARRRRRGM trailer soundtracks these days... then when you think about it more, you realize no one else could have done it. Zimmer is just amazing with ALL his music. Hard to believe the 80s pop junk stuff he played in that pop band back then. Just…

the carrot nibbling part made me laugh, thanks :-).

in kind of a connection to Annalee's recent post about being bullied as a kid, I was also bullied and picked on as a small dimunitive kid between 11 and 15 years of age. at that time thanks to my older sisters, i picked up their SF books of the feminist leaning (ok, that's a diff spin to this) e.g. mcafferey, tepper,…

It at least looks intriguing, and since this is the first time hearing/reading about a new movie from MNS, kinda comes out of the left field a little bit. Which makes it hilarious to read one of the top comments on youtube saying 'I Am Avatar Legend'. That's worth a lol. It looks pretty visually, and hey its Will…

England kinda kicked their asses last weekend (thanks in many parts to another Polynesian playing for England, rather strangely). guess they forgot to take some of it up north with them...

am too scared to scroll down further to see if someone has posted up Dave Chappelle's monkey segment of one of his standup shows...

whatever. Hans Zimmer just rules. This isn't your father's John Williams tinkle bells. Likely only Elfman would have come up with something close. It hasn't reached annoyance levels yet with me, I get caught up every time I'm in the cinema and the surround sound is blaring this out, so I for one, enjoy it.

As a climate change scientist, and having worked also in national weather services, it goes almost without saying that meteorologists are not media people, and hence a checklist exists to ensure that whatever a meteorologist says about an incoming storm or hurricane isn't going to cause some mass panic (which again…

whoa, "Cedars.." did not deserve that comparison!

Did you mean "According to Rathbone, the Volturi really just want to take Alice Cullen..."?

had to say '"wrong" people' for this particular category of skillset for the Hollywood industry, but you're definitely right that at least in most other categories but especially the Best Film, for me personally.

No. 8. So I'm guessing there's a special dish you order which the accompanying music for the meal means the meal (shrimps come to mind) up and dance around the table to the bass pumping from the speakers, and you spend the time chasing it/them around with chopsticks?

in the island country I live in, the original 300km road would have completely encircled it easily with some to spare... wow

for many reasons but for which i can't specify exactly, this story and pictures made me cry at my desk a little bit

weird and tmi but my gf (now wife) got used to taking showers together immediately after doing the deed. Having just done it on a full bladder and with the sound and feel of running water, i surprised myself and my wife by peeing on her leg. supremely funny now i recall the look on her face but she went with it…

How did Wolverine's pillow get crossed over to Twilight?

As John Mayer once said in his now infamous interview, the best sex one can have is in his/her head, that no real sex can come close to bringing you off as good as your brain/imagination can. While this was in reference to masturbating vs hooking up with women, even this makes sense to those of us (male) geeks with…

oh lawd that 2nd gif...

thanks for the recipe, will try out this Sunday.