Month: October 2005

The Climate Mash is an interesting environmental activism video set to the tune of The Monster Mash.

Check out the Milk Farmers Rap, courtesy of The Dairy Farmers Of Ontario. “We got the big bad Bessie with the M-I-L-K…”

Check out this cool optical illusion…

The Borowitz Report reports:

Beset by such woes as the war in Iraq, rising gas prices, and falling approval ratings… George W. Bush has a new worry preying on his mind: according to close aides, [W] is now afraid that his father, former president George H.W. Bush, likes former president Bill Clinton better than him.

Hilarious as usual…

I really like the T-Shirt design to the right: I Want You To Buy More Ribbons.

I’ve heard rumors of this for some time, but apparently MGM has given Sylvester Stallone the green light for Rocky VI Balboa, which he wrote and will direct. Shooting is to begin in December. I think this will be well worth the wait and not at all derivative or inane. Sorry, it was tough to type that with a straight face…

TomDispatch.com posts about a Nick Turse article entitled Casualties of the Bush Administration:

Nick Turse has created the beginnings of a “wall” to quite a different legion of the fallen; in this case, the governmental casualties of Bush administration follies, those men and women who were honorable or steadfast enough in their government duties that they found themselves with little alternative but to resign in protest, quit, or simply be pushed off the cliff by cronies of this administration. Here are the first 42 names of those we thought might be put on such a wall (and brief descriptions of their fates)

One of the comments in the associated MetaFilter thread was “Heroes all. History will absolve them.” A response (and link) in the thread is quite appropriate and ironic: “Of course, that depends what kind of history we are left with.”

I nominate Jonathan Coulton’s cover of Baby Got Back, which you must download and listen to right now. Visit his site to purchase, download, and/or listen to more “nerd folk songs.”

To continue the sci-fi theme, check out the Sci-Fi Cover Explorer, another project from the creator of Flickr Colr Pickr. The interface allows you to mouse over hundreds (thousands?) of science fiction book covers from the visual index of science fiction cover art, allowing you to get more information if you click. Very cool…

John Scalzi, editor of The Rough Guide To Sci-Fi Movies, has posted about the release of the book. Of particular interest is the chapter “Sci-Fi Canon,” in which he includes “Reviews and commentary on the 50 science fiction films you have to see before you die.” Here is the sure to be controversial list:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Alphaville
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Brother From Another Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
The Damned
Destination Moon
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Delicatessen
Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (serial)
The Fly (1985 version)
Forbidden Planet
Ghost in the Shell
Gojira/Godzilla
The Incredibles
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 version)
Jurassic Park
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
The Matrix
Metropolis
On the Beach
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Robocop
Sleeper
Solaris (1972 version)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Stepford Wives
Superman
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing From Another World
Things to Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Voyage Dans la Lune
War of the Worlds (1953 version)

Discuss amongst yourselves…