This is an actual thing in the world: Dino D-Day. I discovered this as an ad on Steam while playing Civ 5 yesterday. I still haven’t decided if this is brilliant or completely offensive. Adolf Hitler has succeeded in resurrecting dinosaurs. The reptilian horde has trampled Europe and the Mediterranean. Can nothing stop the Nazi’s dinosaur army? Dino D-Day is a frantic, action-packed multiplayer game that will transport you to [...]
I woke up at 6:30am yesterday morning so I could go on down to the pub for the Liverpool vs Wolves match. Imagine my surprise and joy when I discovered that one of the assistant referees was a woman! Surprise because I didn’t know there were any in the EPL and joy because, hey, that’s awesome! But, of course, not everyone thinks this is awesome. Before the game started the [...]
FAQ Roundup « Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog Steve Thomas: Star Wars Travel Posters Batman and Robin fight a shark This is outstanding and I’m depressed I’ve never seen it before. I’m also thrilled it plays on a loop. CSS3 Design Contest Results – Smashing Magazine Some pretty cool stuff in here! List of unusual deaths – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Getting Made The Scorsese Way “Yes, indeed, The Godfather [...]
There goes my theory that Kate Winslet divorced Sam Mendes for signing the Roman Polanski petition: Academy Award winners Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster and Christoph Waltz will join Matt Dillon in director Roman Polanski’s previously announced film adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play God of Carnage, according to Deadline.com. The film will be set in Brooklyn, though the production will film in France. The film is being co-produced by French [...]
Stay away from the History Channel "There are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning. I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called ‘World War II’.” Sociological Images » Why Not Gender Neutral Clothes? "Not for girls. Not for boys. We make clothes [...]
ZURB – Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA Nonpareil #04 : To Marry a Thief | Nonpareil Online Wedding Magazine I love turquoise and yellow together. WordPress 3.0 RC2 & enabling network in sub-directory I love how the one thing I wanted multi-site in WordPress 3 to do… it can't. Awesome! Hyperbole and a Half: This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult This is a daily cycle in [...]
12 Terrifying Jell-O Recipes After first learning about aspic in "Julie & Julia", I have since found this topic at once fascinating and horrific. Snoop Dogg "Oh Sookie" True Blood Music Video Besides the fact that this is a really terrible song, I think the Merlotte's back up dancers might be wearing more clothes than I've seen in a music video in a long time. The True Blood Round Table [...]
Racialicious Presents…The True Blood Roundtable To counter my spectacularly uncritical opinions on True Blood, here is some good food for thought about the show. Lightswitch cover – Time Out New York It's shaped like… A VULTURE. Awesome. 18 Cool Inventions From the Past I love how most of them are cool transportation devices and other fun stuff until you come to Canada's contribution to this list: face protection from snowstorms. [...]
Remember when I complained about Disney deciding to rename “Rapunzel” because boys won’t see a movie about a girl? I saw the trailer in front of Toy Story 3 on Friday and guess what? The male hero Flynn Rider dominates about 90% of the trailer, with Rapunzel not showing her face until halfway through and then getting a single line of dialogue (“Woo! Best day ever!”). Does it count that [...]
Things that annoy me: not having a “Ms” option when being forced to select a courtesy title when signing up for a service. I resent being forced to choose a title at all (what if I don’t identify with any of the options, period?) but for the love of god if you’re going to go the rather antiquated route of forcing me to have a heteronormative title, could you at [...]