The topology of Interstellar. An interesting history of space colony design concepts.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Rules Of The Roadrunner
This is great.
What a wonderful document: Chuck Jones's rules for writing the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. ht @AmosPosner pic.twitter.com/o5ziZymEcY
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) March 4, 2015
An Angry Beige Nerd
Spock
How he became a sex symbol.
Lady Gaga
[Update a while later]
Why is everyone so surprised that a classically trained woman can sing?
She's broadening her audience, and reviving classic popular music to a new generation. Good for her.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 23, 2015
[Update few minutes later]
Leftist Privileged White Woman Commits Faux Pas
Top Box
Whenever I hear about records for box office, I always wonder if they really are, in terms of inflation adjustment. Well, here’s the top ten with that adjustment. There are a few surprises, but I’m not at all surprised that Gone With The Wind is number one.
Gamergate
The SJWs have lost the moral high ground, and are on the run.
And of course, this is one of the ways of bypassing the Leftist gatekeepers.
Selma
How the movie distorted history.
The Left always has to whitewash (almost literally, in this case) the past.
Jon Stewart
Kyle Smith isn’t as impressed with him as we’re supposed to be:
Though Stewart has often claimed he does a “fake news show,” “The Daily Show” isn’t that. It’s a real news show punctuated with puns, jokes, asides and the occasional moment of staged sanctimony.
It contains real, unstaged sound bites about the days’ events and interviews about important policy matters.
Stewart is a journalist: an irresponsible and unprofessional one.
Yes, as Jim Treacher put it, the “clown nose off, clown nose on” schtick got pretty tiresome. The tears of all those bewailing his departure are delicious.