But calicos are adorable. Who wouldn’t start a war humanitarian invention over this little fellow?

Pacta sunt servanda - agreements must be kept.

What I find most infuriating is the luddite, fundamentalist critique of technology as inherently bad, culminating in a finale that can only be described as disturbing: Remember how everyone, and I do mean everyone just magically agrees to destroy the fleet, and with it almost all the technology, agrees with not…

(the interior sets of the ships were monotonous and unimaginative, while the exterior shots were made up of the fugliest CGI since Alex Mack)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark has the same problem, yet is still an awesome film.

Of course the top brass in the military and government of the twelve colonies must have been an incredible band of morons and idiots to make the decision of connecting their entire fleet via “the internet” (the “defense mainframe” as it was called in the show), given that their only antagonist and entire raîson d’être…

Because that’s exactly how it was written.

Which is why Babylon 5, a show that predates BSG for a decade, was such a visionary show for its time and has held up reasonably well (cheap special effects aside). The detailed series bible JMS wrote well before the pilot was filmed ensured that the dense mythology remained coherent right until the end. The man even…

Hollywood seems to love ginger cats.

Wes Anderson raises his hand politely.

Facebook should be renamed to Fecebook.

The defense of free speech used to be the bread and butter of the left, but alas, no more. Even seemingly “well intentioned” curtailing of free speech and policing of language gives the government and monopolist private corporations additional power to censor that they will (ab)use in ways that benefits and protects…

To be fair, I don’t think those days ever existed.

If he starts moving around on a hover suspensor the young interns have cause to worry.

Small correction: The Fields medal is widely considered the “Nobel Prize of mathematics”, though the Abel Prize is certainly one of its highest honors as well.

Divide your net worth with the net worth of Jeff Bezos and multiply it with $200.000 and you know what your dick pick might be worth to David Pecker, CEO of AMI.

And Sargon. That company can’t be trusted. No surprise that a few alternatives for content creators have popped up recently.

Nowadays the conventional wisdom is that you need to leave some money on the table if you want the couple of stars plus deep bench necessary to win a championship. Lebron is getting max money for four years, so he’s not doing that. Understandable, but how will he get the assets needed to make a serious run at another…

Farscape in HD?

For the time being, no AI will be as good as human moderators, and those are underpaid and undermanned. Facebook for instance is known to outsource this job to subcontractors with horrible working conditions. There’s no excuse for that, given that corporations like Google and Facebook are among the richest and most…