Category: culture
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Terminator Genisys: A Fart in a Wind Tunnel
Devin Faraci: The script is the biggest problem with Terminator Genisys – it is stupid and it is riddled with cheap, lazy callbacks to movies that have technically never happened after this reboot – but the casting gives that shit script a run for its money as The Biggest Problem. Jai Courtney is a disaster…
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Playstation 4 gets DLNA Media Player
Scott McCarthy: Hello PlayStation Nation! Every time we announce new features for PS4 here on PlayStation.Blog, I love going into the comments to answer your questions and see feedback on which features people really like and which ones people still want to see. One of those questions I have been able to count on has…
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TempleOS and Bubsy 3D
Richard Mitton on Terry A. Davis’ TempleOS: TempleOS is somewhat of a legend in the operating system community. It’s sole author, Terry A. Davis, has spent the past 12 years attempting to create a new operating from scratch. Terry explains that God has instructed him to construct a temple, a 640×480 covenant of perfection. Unfortunately Terry…
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Almost Lost Big Bird
Rob Crilly: Big Bird, the giant yellow-feathered Sesame Street character, was offered a place on the doomed Challenger space shuttle mission but had to withdraw because his oversized costume would not fit in the craft. The extraordinary revelation is contained in a new documentary I Am Big Bird, which tells the story of the Jim…
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The Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Dan Benjamin (of many fine podcasts at 5by5) and Merlin Mann (of Back to Work and Roderick on the Line) recently recorded a podcast about the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski is such a great movie in all of its nonsense, and as Dan and Merlin point out we all know a Dude but…