“Is it true you have lost men in the stars?”

Maggie sent me a link to this article about some of the world’s last remaining hunter-gatherers. Hunting and gathering is what all our ancestors did for thousands of years: spot the chow, bring it in for the clan, eat, and move on. At least one member of the tribe occasionally asks questions about the [...]

what is today’s equivalent of this 1949 commerical?

Doctors prefer Camel cigarettes. What a wonderful video this is. It has a clean, fresh taste–like a mountain spring.
Today’s equivalent….maybe the ads for Vioxx. Speaking of deceptive ads, among my favorites were the ads that seemed to suggest that anyone who’s feeling a little sad or nervous ought to be taking Paxil. Or the Army [...]

“there is not sufficient love and goodness…”

“There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings.”
—Nietzsche
A tip of the imaginary hat to Rebecca Watson on the “Skeptics Guide to the Universe” podcast.

film noir

Maggie’s film noir mania continues. Here are two among the very best of the genre that we’ve seen so far (and there are plenty more to see.)
Woman On the Run
1950. The cops and killers are both after the poor sap who witnessed a murder. His wife goes looking for him, too, trying to save [...]

Potter rises like a phoenix

When my company got a batch of tickets for a showing of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” at the Boeing Imax theater I immediately went for two of them. Over the next several weeks I started to wonder if I had been a little too hasty. It might turn out to be [...]

at the seattle center

ever wonder about the truth behind the truth?

Go to this page and select any link you want. Your thirst for knowledge will be satisfied by a forked tongue.

the giant duck project

http://www.florentijnhofman.nl/ (thanks to Maggie for the tip)