Wait a tick. Basil, if I travel back to 1969 and I was frozen in 1967, presumably, I could go back and visit my frozen self. But, if I’m still frozen in 1967, how cou … oh, no, I’ve gone cross-eyed.
M. Joseph Young does rather interesting, detailed temporal analyses of the different timelines created by the Terminator films, the Back To The Future trilogy, Millennium, those Trek films that dealt with time travel, 12 Monkeys, Flight Of The Navigator, Army of Darkness, Lost In Space, Peggy Sue Got Married, the Bill & Ted movies, Frequency, Planet of the Apes, Kate and Leopold, Somewhere In Time, The Time Machine, Minority Report, Happy Accidents, The Final Countdown, Donnie Darko, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Deja Vu.
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Microsoft! now! provides! Yahoo! search!
Microsoft’s Bing now provide Yahoo! seach. Yahoo, a 1994 internet pioneer of search, has now agreed to stop researching search tech and start using Bing. Some say it’s a small deal, a Google deal rerun, and one says it’s a tar pit. As pointed out, nobody yet knows if Yahoo can choose another provider if it all goes wrong.
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Blue Rats.
Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have been testing the possibility that a blue food dye found in Gatorade and blue M&Ms could assist in healing spinal cord injuries, and … oh who cares …. OMG blue rats U gotta look!
The rat before being injected with BBG.
Rats injected with BBG not only regained their mobility but temporarily turned blue.
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Dumbass.
Most parents, whether we listened to them or not, taught us not to play with fire, explosives, zombies and such… But they never warned us about mentos and coke. Click on “Continue Reading” for the video.
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‘Heroes’ season four trailer: ‘Redemption’
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/6555681001?isVid=1&publisherID=769341148
Here’s your first look at “Heroes” season four. This three-minute-plus trailer is slightly different than the version that screened at the “Heroes” Comic-Con panel on Saturday. The preview has scenes from the premiere and the next couple additional episodes. A character or two looks like they’re getting killed, so I’m tempted to shout “spoiler,” but, hey, it’s “Heroes,” right?
You’ll also see scenes of the dark carnival that’s gathering up heroes for some nefarious purpose and um … hmm … what else? Oh, yes: You meet Hayden Panettiere’s new lesbian love interest that producers doubtless hope will boost ratings. NBC cut their kiss that was in the Comic-Con edition of this trailer, guess they didn’t want to just give that away online. Snog the cheerleader, save the show?
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How to cook like your grandmother
Barbecued Ribs, Roast Beef, French Toast, Twice Baked Potatoes, Macaroni and Cheese, French Onion Soup, Rye Bread, Corned Beef, Brownies.
Cooking used to be all about making food that tasted good. But somewhere along the way, we seem to have decided the diet-of-the-week was more
important. How to Cook Like Your Grandmother is a return to recipes and techniques that are based on what tastes good, not on junk science and fad diets. You won’t find the words lite, low, lean, free or skim anywhere. This is all real food, cooked the way Grandma would have done it.
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Peter Pan Got Married!
Dude, Peter Pan got married, wtf.
The Internets Peter Pan has grown up. Randy Constan, proprietor of the site pixyland.org, found his own Tinkerbell and got hitched at a Renaissance Fair. The photos are magical.
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Yesterday’s Energy of Tomorrow…and more
Peak Oil, 1925. In 2000, 20% of new buildings will be solar equipped. By the late 1990s, 90% of the world’s energy will be nuclear-generated. These and other erroneous projections are being collected as part of the Forecast Project on the website Inventing Green: The Lost History of Alternative Energy in America.
That is a pretty awesome blog. I love the article about making jet fuel from algae. Growing up in Newfoundland, we’d always looked as pond scum as something of a gross nuisance. It’s cool to see some people making better use of it.
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Technology and Innovation
Ashoka Tech Blog A blog about women, social entreprenourship and technology (especially in the developing world). Includes such gems as the Peepoo bag.
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CSI: The truth isn’t nearly as entertaining.
CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics Forensic science was not developed by scientists. It was mostly created by cops, who were guided by little more than common sense. And as hundreds of criminal cases begin to unravel, many established forensic practices are coming under fire.
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Number Five is Alive!
Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone. From the NYT: Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man.
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A shapely galaxy
There are many galaxies. The Sombrero Galaxy. The Whirlpool Galaxy. Lenticular galaxies. The occasional irregular galaxy. What types of galaxies do we find in the universe?
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Bikes as art as bikes as art as etc.
The bike racing world has a tradition of attention-getting designs, but some spectators at this year’s Tours of California or France might have done double-takes at some of the art on Lance Armstrong’s rides. As it turns out, Trek and Nike have commissioned custom designs promoting Livestrong, and as I write this Lance is cycling into Paris on a bike covered with butterfly wings, courtesy of Damien Hirst.
Along with the Hirst piece, TdF fans have been able to see Armstrong riding art by Shepard Fairey, Yoshitomo Nara, and Mark Newson.
If you happen to be in Paris, you can attend the Stages (warning: Autoplay Flash video/audio) exhibition, which opened on the 17th and features some of the bikes and commissioned art by Ed Ruscha, Raymond Pettibon, Andreas Gursky, and more. After the show’s over, the bikes will be auctioned off with proceeds benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
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10 Pranks To Play At Wal-Mart
1. Say Something On The Intercom
Intercoms can be found throughout most Walmarts. When you find one, walk by it a few times to figure out which button to press. Say whatever you want. Have a look out.
2. Hide A Friend On The Shelves
Clear off a shelf. Stick someone on it and wait for someone to check out the goods.
3. Fart
Farts are always funny. Walk around the store and fart. See how people react. Film it. Note: This video is at Target, but this prank will work well at Walmart too.
4. Use The CD Players
Record yourself saying inappropriate things on a blank CD. Use the CD players in the electronics department to play it. For a bigger reaction look for small children and old people. Mother’s too.
5. Get An Employee To Say Something Over The Intercom
Go to customer service and pretend like your friend is missing. Give them a funny name, like Mike Hunt. Laugh later.
6. Set Off The Alarms
Use the magnetic bar code found on most merchandise and put it under shopping carts/stick it to your friend. Watch this video to learn how. It’s easy.
7. Collapse
Pretend to be hurt for a short period of time. Fall down and have someone help you up. Try to get something for free.
8. Dance
Do a funny dance. The “Stanky Leg” is funny. Watch and learn.
9. Return Something You Didn’t Buy There
This one’s really easy. Try to return something you know they won’t accept back. It’d probably be wisest to go an older employee for this one.
10. Drop Your Food
Find something filled with liquid. Walk around the store and slip. Drop it and watch it explode.
Note: I don’t recommend this unless you actually purchase the product. I also don’t believe in wasting food. And if you’ve made it this far into the list, I don’t actually recommend any of these pranks (except the intercom ones – I love those). I also feel it necessary to point out that both #7 and #9 may constitute fraud, and therefore may be illegal in your state/province
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Alice in Wonderland Trailer
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Real Hot Bitches set world synchronised dance record
Nationally famous (in New Zealand) dance troupe the Real Hot Bitches set the world record for synchronized dance.
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Harassing women for fun and prizes
Electronic Arts, the video game publisher that is no stranger to either controversy, is sponsoring a contest for its upcoming release of Dante’s Inferno. The contest, taking place at this weekend’s Comic-Con, requires entrants to “commit acts of lust” and take a photo of said act with an EA (or other company’s) booth babes, post the photos on Twitter or Facebook, and repeat the process as many times as possible for additional chances to win. The prize is listed in part as “Dinner and a sinful night with two hot girls”.
Many are understandably outraged at the blatant sexism and the encouragement of sexual harassment. This incident comes on the heels of last month’s IGN contest for a Comic-Con prize package that was originally open to males only.
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Remember: New Glasses Before New Passport
Detained in Kenya for not looking enough like her passport photo, Canadian Citizen Suaad Haji Mohamud has been trapped in Kenya for 2 months while trying to return home to her adopted country.
She’s been declared a fraud by the Canadian government and may be deported back to war-torn Somalia, where she was born. She suggested she be fingerprinted, but after a couple of weeks, the government couldn’t come up with anything to match the new prints to. So now, she’s waiting on results of a DNA test that’s expected to take more than another week.
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…and the Gunslinger followed.
The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions. It was white and blinding and waterless and without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze of the mountains which sketched themselves on the horizon and the devil-grass which brought sweet dreams, nightmares, death. An occasional tombstone sign pointed the way, for once the drifted track that cut its way through the thick crust of alkali had been a highway. Coaches and buckas had followed it. The world had moved on since then. The world had emptied.
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The Man in Black fled across the desert…
“The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions.”
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
For those of you who don’t know, Lost Executive Producer J.J. Abrams bought the rights to The Dark Tower Series for a incredible 19 dollars (presumably in keeping with the recurring number in the books). Abrams is quoted as saying this in regard to the upcoming project’s status:
“Damon Lindelof and I talked to Mr. King. We got the rights for ‘ The Dark Tower’ as a film. Damon is obviously still on ‘Lost’, and we’ve been working on ‘Star Trek’ together. As soon as ‘Lost’ is done, hopefully we’ll begin tackling that.”
The plan is to make seven films out of the seven books in the series, a la Harry Potter.
Lindelof had this to say about the series’ potential:
“The Dark Tower is to me every bit as daunting an adaptation as the Lord of the Rings trilogy must have been for Peter Jackson, except we’ve got seven books we’re looking at. And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable. There are always Dark Tower conversations, but the figuring out of what this will look like as a movie has not begun. If The Dark Tower were in the right hands, I would love to see seven movies executed just right. But you have to get people to see the first one to get them to come and see the second one.”
I think that with J.J. Abrams, The Dark Tower is in pretty good hands. Even if your not a fan of everything he has done, you cannot deny that he takes pride in all his projects and strives to make the best possible movie or TV show that he can.
RobDurdle.com 
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