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spytap: This guy writes an awesome legal letter to The Pirate...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:31:10 +0100

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This guy writes an awesome legal letter to The Pirate Bay.

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(510): Someone changed my text...

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:25:00 +0100

(510): Someone changed my text...: (510): Someone changed my text signature to “Also, I think I might be gay” last night. Also, I think I might be gay.

Monkey rides a goat - Boing Boing

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:17:46 +0100

Monkey rides a goat - Boing Boing

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spytap: evangotlib: mikehudack: tanya77: Are you guys aware...

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:39:45 +0100

spytap:

evangotlib:

mikehudack:

tanya77:

Are you guys aware that Harold Ramis wrote:

Animal House

Meatballs

Caddyshack

Stripes

Ghost Busters

Back to School

Groundhog Day

Besides being some of the all-time comedy classics, they have together grossed $711.3 M domestically, according to IMDB.

This made me immediately think “Why can’t I just type “Domestic gross of “Animal House” + domestic gross of “Meatballs” + …etc.” into Google and get the response? It already does simple conversions, so that sort of calculation is no problem. It would seem that it’s a natural extension of an “information gathering” service to become an “information collation” service, especially when that information is factual data. Google will never be able to categorize poetry by quality, or come to a decision on the death penalty, but the gathering and then quick analysis or calculation of hard data points would seem to be something at which it could excel.

Granted I don’t expect it to be easy, but neither is scouring nearly the entirety of the web. I know this is some of the ideas behind the Semantic Web, but this would seem to be a far simpler and incredibly useful intermediary step. I’d really appreciate search that isn’t just “here is a mass of info” but “let me help you with that.”

This is already possible, using WolframAlpha: see.

Here is the full query, unfortunately not complete because the gross for Groundhog Day isn’t available.

Take this out, and the partial answer is immediately available: $608.8 million.

WolframAlpha is great for queries like this.

jonnyathan: bricorama: tamburina: Adrian Tomine

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:17:27 +0100

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tamburina:

Adrian Tomine

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Best of Kottke - Kottke reads The Bible

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:20:11 +0100

Best of Kottke - Kottke reads The Bible:

Let’s start with Gutenberg again. In 2008, Jason blogged about Stephen Fry’s brilliant documentary The Machine That Made Us, about Gutenberg’s career and his experiments with print. Fry even…

Fantastic photos of Maho Beach, with its unique location right...

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:04:07 +0100

Fantastic photos of Maho Beach, with its unique location right next to an airport.

Star Wars Infographic | Sign Language

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:58:21 +0100

Star Wars Infographic | Sign Language

Do Movie Sequels Live Up to Their Originals?

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:57:30 +0100

Do Movie Sequels Live Up to Their Originals?

Pulp Fiction - infographic by ~dehahs on deviantART

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:57:15 +0100

Pulp Fiction - infographic by ~dehahs on deviantART

spytap: tanya77: soupsoup: premiere: bay-based: Wow,...

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:36:27 +0100

spytap:

tanya77:

soupsoup:

premiere:

bay-based:

Wow, Inception is currently in IMDb.com’s All-Time Top 250 Movie List with a near perfect average rating of 9.0; pretty good recognition for such a great film. It’s also cool to see two movies from 2010 on the top 10.

In 1994, we were feeling for prisoners and bringing out the Gimp. Now we’re happy to cry over our toys and take a nap.

Sigh.

This vote looks like it was taken of people who haven’t seen very many movies. “The Best Movies of ALL TIME”?

Yeah, it’s probably younger people who spend more overall time online. Added to that is the influx of votes for recent films people see (as is the norm on IMDB) and you get these results. I agree with about half the list though, The Godfather parts 1 and 2, GB&U, and 12 Angry Men are all top 10 for me. The rest of these (aside from TS3, which I haven’t seen) are at least top 25, so it’s not like it goes “Godfather, The Empire Strikes Back, The Hanna Montana Movie.”

Every time I see lists like this I have such a tough time thinking what my own top 10 would be, because so much of it is influenced by who I was at the time and which part of my life that film inserted into. Se7en, for instance, is top 20 for me, because it hit me at the right time in my life to do the maximum amount of artistic damage - twice, in fact. Ditto for Fight Club. Ditto for Empire, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, LOTR, and Silverado.

So where does one put a movie that showed him for the first time that a fairytale ending wasn’t the only option, that violence is far scarier when it’s implied and not seen, and that a villain can, in fact, win? Or that showed him during film school that something of a scale so much larger than he thought possible was not only achievable, but achievable with incredible results? Or that reminds him of watching films with his dad on the couch on sunday afternoons after church and a soccer game? Or was the film that became the reason he decided to go into entertainment in the first place?

There’s no room on a “top 10” list for those films, and they don’t have the same impact on others so you cannot expect them to share the same artistic or intrinsic value. But that’s why films are what they are - they affect you deeply, viscerally, personally, and perhaps completely differently from others.

No need to panic. This happen with The Dark Knight, too.

If I recall correctly, The Dark Knight was in second place for many months: now it’s slipped to a more reasonable position—12th (although this is still too high in my opinion).

gregburek: seanbonner: Yo dawg, you saw this coming…

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:29:55 +0100

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seanbonner:

Yo dawg, you saw this coming…

jonnyathan: Funny kitten can’t jump (via RoAsTLevin)

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:25:33 +0100

jonnyathan: Funny kitten can’t jump (via RoAsTLevin)

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Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:23:47 +0100

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Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:42:35 +0100

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been."

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:08:40 +0100

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:11:02 +0100

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Whoa.

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staree:

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