Friday, September 30, 2011

IMAGE EXPLOSION

Last time I picked and chose images. This time it's completely random. You get what you get. Hope you enjoy them!


















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Thursday, September 29, 2011

INTRIGUING...



Here is a movie poster that has intrigued me for, I think, obvious reasons, not the least of which is that this movie will be in 3D! Holy crap!


It is such an in-your face image combining sex and violence. It reminds me of another movie poster that was equally intriguing:






Secretary starred Maggie Gyllenhal and James Spader. I saw parts of it on video late one night and, sadly, fell asleep, so i cannot tell you if it lived up to the promise of the poster.


It's a great poster, though.


NURSE (in 3D) is being filmed by Lionsgate and opens sometime in 2012.


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AMERICAN HORROR STORY



This looks intriguing, even if it is made by the producers of Glee. It looks very twisted. I think this may be one to watch out for.





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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

PURE SERENITY



Whatever you feel about rap music, I know you folks love FIREFLY. Here is The Browncoats Mix from genre rappers Adam WarRock.

It's a freakin' Firefly rap song! What more do you want?






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SOUL MAN



I don't know what this is. But it looks really, really cool.




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THE WIZARD



Who knew that Daffy Duck has the same dreams I do.




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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

BABOONS ARE LIKE ENGLISH MAJORS




...because, according to a recent study, they can understand analogies, something that was thought to be the sole provenance of human beings who communicate through language. According to io9, it turns out that isn't exactly so:

That's the finding of researchers Joël Fagot of France's Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive and Roger Thompson of the US's Franklin & Marshall College. They ran an experiment in which 29 baboons were shown two identical squares on a touch screen. When the baboons touched one of the squares, the squares disappeared and two new pairs of shapes emerged. One typical combination was one pair of a star and triangle and another pair of two identical ovals.
For the baboons to get the reward, they had to choose the identical ovals over the dissimilar shapes. This was repeated through several experiments, but each time the specific type of identical shape changed, meaning the baboons couldn't simply pick the ovals - they had to understand why the researchers wanted them to choose the identical shapes. This means they had to recognize why two pairs of identical shapes were similar, even if the specific shapes were different.
It isn't just about recognizing relationships - it's about understanding the relationships between different relationships, and that's exactly what an analogy is. (You might remember the classic "X is to Y as W is to Z", or X:Y::W:Z type of analogy from high school English.) Sure, that's a pretty simple analogy, but there's no way to consistently pass the test without grasping that core concept. And it was hardly an easy task - only six of the 29 baboons managed to figure out the analogy, suggesting this is a form of reasoning that is at the very cusp of what baboons are able to do.
So only six out of twenty-nine apes understand analogies, which, I suspect, is probably  the same ratio for humans who can and can't grasp the concept.
You can read the entire article here.

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THE LUCKIEST DENTIST IN TOWN



I don't know who this is. It's something I came across at work. It's a photo that is to go into an advertisement for a local dental clinic, but it struck me as funny. Here is the dentist surrounded by his harem of hygienists and receptionists. Actually I think some of the other women are dentists as well, but the picture is funnier if the guy is the only dentist in the office -- he''s like a small-town sultan of dental care, even down to the smug, self-satisfied smirk.

These are things that just strike me funny while I'm supposed to be working.


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Monday, September 26, 2011

"IT'S MY SPECIAL DAY!"




You just don't mess up a bride's special day -- even is you are a zombie.



Teaser trailer of [REC]3 GENESIS, directed by Paco Plaza. Spanish release in cinemas March 30th 2012.



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Friday, September 23, 2011

NEIL ARMSTRONG SKOOLS HOUSE COMMITTEE


"For a country that has invested so much for so long to achieve a leadership position in space exploration and exploitation, this condition is viewed by many as lamentably embarrassing and unacceptable," he said. "A lead, however earnestly and expensively won, once lost, is nearly impossible to regain."
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, told lawmakers Thursday that the end of the space shuttle era has left the American human spaceflight program in an "embarrassing" state.


Armstrong was part of a four-member panel of space experts who told lawmakers that NASA needs a stronger vision for the future and should focus on returning humans to the moon and to the International Space Station.
"A lead, however earnestly and expensively won, once lost, is nearly impossible to regain," said the US astronaut, now 81, who was commander of Apollo 11 and walked on the moon in 1969.
Earlier this year President Barack Obama canceled the Constellation program that would have returned humans to the Moon and called on NASA to instead focus on new, deep-space capabilities to tote people to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars by 2030.
Read the rest of the article over at Discovery.com.


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FOX TO FILM ASIMOV'S CAVES OF STEEL



My favourite Asimov novel is about to get the big screen treatment (for better of for worse -- fingers crossed on this one).
Deadline reports that 20th Century Fox, is developing  a live-action feature film version of adaptation of Issac Asimov’s 1954 novel The Caves of Steel.
The Caves of Steel will be produced by Simon Kinberg, the X-Men scribe whose Genre Films banner is based at the studio. Similar to I, Robot (which Fox turned into a hit film with Will Smith), The Caves of Steel is a murder mystery that takes place 1,000 years in the future, on an overpopulated Earth where there is a phobia about robots. The title refers to giant city complexes that are necessary because Earth is so overpopulated. While robots are used for labor in outlying “spacer worlds” where the rich live on spacious parcels, the robots are outlawed on Earth. A Spacer Ambassador lobbying to loosen Earth’s anti-robot restrictions is found dead, his chest imploded by an energy blaster, and a detective is matched with a human-looking robot to solve the crime. Hobson is repped by CAA and Energy Entertainment.
Henry Hobson is attached as director, with John Scott 3 (yep, that’s his moniker)  set to write the screenplay. Hobson is know primarily as a titles designer for films such as SHERLOCK HOLMES and RANGO, while Scott 3 works with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Seems like an odd pairing, but the two are first collaborating on a teenage Zombie film entitled MAGGIE.
Asimov’s The Caves of Steel was first published as a serial in Galaxy Magazine in 1963, and quickly picked up as a novel by Doubleday. The tale is a murder mystery sent on an over-populated Earth about three thousand years in the  future. Here agoraphoic humans live in domed cities and rarely if ever see the outside world.
THE CAVES OF STEEL was previously adapted for live action on BBC televsion in 1964 starring Peter Cushing as police detective Elijah Baley and John Carson as R. Daneel Olivaw. That version, directed by Peter Sasdy, with a teleplay Terry Nation (DOCTOR WHO, BLAKES 7),  is considered lost, with only a few fragments remaining.

Read more about it here.



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Thursday, September 22, 2011

SUGAR IS YOUR BRAIN'S BEST FRIEND

Yes, I know this is a picture of a chimpanzee brain, but it looks pretty cool, right?


i09 has an interesting article about sugar. Here is the point that caught my attention:


Your brain runs on sugar.
Your brain's main supply of energy is the monosaccharide glucose. While your brain only weighs between 3 to 5 pounds, it makes use of approximately 15-20% of your body's daily caloric needs. It has been long thought that the glucose was consumed as a function of cognitive experience, and research on rats shows that when a more cognitively challenging task is placed before them, more glucose is depleted. This phenomenon also appears to extend to humans.
In the journal article Glucose, memory, and aging, published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers observed that elderly patients who were given lemonade sweetened with glucose experienced a nearly two fold increase in short term memory when asked to recall a prose passage compared to those who drank lemonade sweetened with the artificial sweetener saccharin (also known by the brand name of "Sweet'N Low"). Additionally, saccharin has no calories.
Glucose has also been shown to have a large impact on self-control and behavior, with limited supplies causing a quick falloff in behavioral stability at times. I like to call this phenomenon "hanger", hungry-anger, when observed in friends and loved ones.
Naturally, this does not apply to those of us who have a physical problem with the sugar, so I'm not advocating that diabetics chuck their diets and stuff their faces with donuts (and yes, Cal, I'm talking to you). For the rest of us however, a little bit of sugar is not only okay, it is essential to make your brains work.
At least that's what you can tell yourself when you go back for another helping of pie.
You can read the whole article here.


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SO IT TURNS OUT FTL IS POSSIBLE



(Reuters) - An international team of scientists has recorded neutrino particles travelling faster than the speed of light, a spokesman for the researchers said on Thursday -- in what could be a challenge to one of the fundamental rules of physics.
Antonio Ereditato, who works at the CERN particle physics centre on the Franco-Swiss border, told Reuters that measurements over three years showed the neutrinos moving 60 nanoseconds quicker than light over a distance of 730 km between Geneva and Gran Sasso, Italy.
"We have high confidence in our results. But we need other colleagues to do their tests and confirm them," he said.
If confirmed, the discovery would overturn a key part of Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that nothing in the universe can travel faster than light.

I'll believe it when I get to Alpha Centauri... in a week!



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IMAGE EXPLOSION
















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GOD IS A BULLET



This was one of my favourite songs back in the day. I rediscovered it recently and now I can't get the darned thing out of my head, so I'm sharing it with all of you. The band is Concrete Blonde.





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FIRST CLASS



We watched X-MEN: FIRST CLASS on DVD the other night. This was my favourite scene:





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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

A SUPERHERO COSPLAY SUPERHERO!




Here's a new feature at S K Y L A R K I N G: A weekly Cosplay Superhero!


Our inaugural edition features Cosplay Superstar Alisa Kiss. As well a being a bona fide Cosplay geek girl, she also works as a model.


















You can check out more of her awesome costumes and her wonderful posing skills here.



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