Sightglass Bingo is a cool little app for playing bingo by spotting items at Sightglass Coffee, a hip and popular café and roaster in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood. These kind of social bingo jokes seem to pop up pretty regularly, and when they're done right they can be quite funny. The iPhone app + Twitter aspect is a very nice upgrade, though. Play bingo by spotting items at Sightglass Coffee in San Francisco.Development by David Kasper. Design by Caleb Elston.Built using parse. (via Sightglass Bingo [...]
Roger Ebert, Film Critic, Dies Roger Ebert, the popular film critic and television co-host who along with his fellow reviewer and sometime sparring partner Gene Siskel could lift or sink the fortunes of a movie with their trademark thumbs up or thumbs down, died on Thursday. He was 70. (via NYTimes.com .) There are other film critics, and new ones come along all the time. But it is hard to imagine another film critic achieving the stature of Roger Ebert. Pauline Kael is enormously popular and influential, [...]
'Doctor Who': This Week's Cover | PopWatch | EW.com . Filed under: TV Tagged: Doctor Who , science fiction
Reblogged from notes from the sinister quarter: Available in: - EPUB format - MOBI format You can convert these into other e-reader formats with the Calibre software . ● Notes on this edition We have brought together the most recent English translations of Guy Debord’s work The Society of the Spectacle , by Ken Knabb; Debord’s 1992 Foreword to the third French edition , [...]
One of the most interesting and exciting contemporary American novelists on one of the most interesting and exciting American filmmakers: Wes Anderson’s Worlds by Michael Chabon The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this period of research “childhood.” read the rest on NYRblog | The New York Review of Books Filed under: Movies [...]
Reblogged from Tor/Forge's Blog: Written by Cory Doctorow On January 11, a young hacker, hacktivist and entrepreneur named Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was 26, and I had known him since he was 14. He was facing 50 years in prison. His crime was to walk into an unsecured computer closet at MIT, near the Harvard campus where he had a fellowship, and plug a laptop into the campus network, with which he proceeded to download a large [...]
Some headlines from the rumpled paper I found on the chair at my table in the cafe this evening, this past Friday's New York Times : 3 Kurds Slain in Paris, in Locked-Door Mystery A Chainsaw-Free Mainstream Visit by Google Chairman May Benefit North Korea Man in Plastic Ball Dies on Russia Ski Slope Monastery from Spain Ends up in California [...]
Borderlands Cafe , the (somewhat) newly minted accompaniment to San Francisco's best science fiction and fantasy bookstore, Borderlands Books , is hiring: We have an unusual job opening at Borderlands Cafe. It's not glamorous, but it would be great for a local high schooler or a nearby person with a flexible schedule. The hours would be 7 pm - 9 pm, Monday - Friday, and the job would include cleaning, busing tables, and doing the closedown work at the Cafe. Considering how short the hours are, the person really should live quite close to the [...]
Frank Capra's 1946 film, It's a Wonderful Life , has become one of the most watched films of the holiday season. I can remember years when it seemed like it was showing on a loop—at least if you had cable. This year, astonishingly, it doesn't seem to be showing anywhere. I know that can't be right. Can it? It hardly seems necessary to say anything about it—like Casablanca it's one of those movies that even if you've unaccountably never seen it, you probably still know the gist of it. [...]
FakeTV FTV-10 Burglar Deterrent The FakeTV simulates the light from the screen of a 273 LCD HDTV, with simulated scene changes, color changes, and on-screen motion. And it comes with a light sensor and timer, and it can be set to run for 4 or 7 hours after dusk, etc. As a burglar deterrent, this seems brilliant—much more effective than leaving a light on, or even putting a few lights on timers and maybe a radio. Everyone has seen the flickering of TV lights in apartment windows in the evenings. I imagine [...]
Some classical music with no obvious, overt connection to the holiday has nonetheless become associated with Christmas over the years—at least in the United States. Bach has a Christmas Oratorio , but his choral movement known as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" also seems to have become something of a Christmas tune (as well as a popular piece for weddings). Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the English title of the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV [...]
I'm dreaming of a media Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the music soothes and the TV moves with classic movies all night long... And to help you find music and movies for the holidays, I've knocked together a few quick guides: Christmas Shows and Movies on TV—When to Watch Christmas Movies and TV on Amazon Christmas Music on Amazon [...]
Generally, I'm very much a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas tunes: carols and Nat King Cole, that sort of thing. But this hits my sweet spot. What it has is sincerity . CeeLo is not snarky. He digs the Muppets, and he's singing from the heart. It may be somewhat slight musically, but it comes from the heart. As they say, it's the thought that counts. Mostly we don't really "buy'" that—because we want someone to buy us that particular something tasty. But CeeLo and the Muppets remind us that all we need is [...]
This is what's making me happy today... Carolina Chocolate Drops, "Hit Em Up Style" - from the album Genuine Negro Jig Ann Powers over on NPR's All Songs Considered turned me on to this. And turned on is right. Jazzed up. Knocked out. Normally, in the past, this kind of roots music didn't appeal to me, but I think Gillian Welch kind of opened my eyes/ears to being more receptive to what I had dismissed as [...]
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Shared without comment for your... edification? Hardcore porn on Netflix Streaming Lets be honest. Youve never heard of most of the movies available to stream on-demand through Netflix. Many are ranked by users between the one and two star range. But, where these films lack in such things as say, plot, they often makeup for their cinematic shortcomings with explicit nudity. The below list of streaming Netflix films containing hardcore sex was compiled in part from titles cross listed on MrSkin.com under the category, "real explicit sex." While I have [...]
The Doctor Who clip I wrote about earlier was taken down, but here is an even longer, better quality version of the same scene from "The Unicorn and the Wasp" - quite possibly the best scene ever in the Doctor Who reboot (though I am sure some would pick a scene with the young Amelia Pond, such as 'fish fingers and custard'): And you can watch the whole episode online through Amazon instant video . [...]
I'm not best pleased that one of America's greatest filmmakers, Clint Eastwood, has chosen to throw in his lot very publically with America's worst political party, and at what is possibly the lowest, most appalingly stupid time in its history. In fact, Eastwood's appearance at the RNC convention is likely to be the only highly-praised Eastwood performance I never see. But I am kind of fascinated, from a geek/interwebz observer perspective, with the publicity/search engine optimization going on around it. Do a Google search on "clint eastwood comedic timing" and you get a full page of entries all [...]
Two tasty quotes concerning our online life: "have you ever wondered why discussions in chat rooms or instant messaging turn nasty so easily? Or wander off topic? It’s because the behavioural cues we use to trigger socially acceptable responses aren’t there in a non-face-to-face environment. If you can’t see the other primate, your ethical reasoning is impaired because you can’t build a complete mental image of them—a cognitive frame." Rule 34 by Charles Stross We have information fatigue, anxiety, and glut. We have met the Devil of Information Overload [...]
Some of my favorite movies are available online, in high quality, for free (with limited ads) on Hulu right now. I suspect these movies will only be temporarily available, as part of ongoing efforts to lure people in to Hulu Plus, so take advantage of them while they last: The Seven Samurai (1954). What needs to be said of this movie? One of the greatest films ever made. Directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring a young Toshiro Mifune and the charming studio stalwart Takashi [...]
Reblogged from Tor/Forge's Blog: Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross recall the nine year writing process that resulted in The Rapture of the Nerds . Cory Doctorow: Charlie, do you remember what you had in mind when you wrote the opening passage to Jury Service ? Were you explicitly thinking of Ken Macleod’s idea that the Singularity was like a rapturous, transcendant end-time for nerds? Read [...]
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You’ve GOT to Hear This: “Enemies”
Prince ensaya con “Even Flow” de Pearl Jam
