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That’s right ladies and gentiles, it’s Stephen Hawking’s birthday today, he turns 59. Which happens to be 31 years longer that what doctors told him in 1963, after being diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).
Stephen Hawking, sex offender(?!), gangsta rapper, voice actor, godless heathen, inspiration to half-assed MP3 artists, and of course, certified genious, we salute you.
Daily Radar has an interview with the folks (or a folk) from the Criterion Collection.
Lots of good stuff here, including “Why the hell did Criterion release Armaggedon?!” (my first question), to “Will you release any porno films?”. They also seem to mention all of the Criterion films that I own, including Rushmore, the Se7en (sic) Samurai, and the Beastie Boys Video Anthology. God, I love that format.
One salivating, titillating tidbit: There was talk of a The Godfather DVD in the works by Coppolla. Oooh… Luca Brasi sleeping with the fishes in full, 1.85:1 aspect ratio, DTS theater sound. I have to clean myself.
First off, lemme explain everything2. It’s a network of information, informally arranged, constantly updated, and always growing.
Essentially, you enter definitions of stuff that you know of, and link words in your definition to other everything2 entries. Needless to say, this makes reading everything2 incredibly addictive. Just about everything (squared, even) is in this web of knowledge. (A sidenote, Dave G. from work notes that everything2 is merely a knock-off of HyperCard, which also sounds intriguing.)
A couple months ago, I was cruising through everything2, and I came across a REALLY interesting node, regarding some really bizarre, but intriguing masterworks.
Criminally
Oh dear… according to FuckedCompany, the “dot com deadpool”, Space.com has closed it’s DC office.
For those of you who don’t know what F—edCompany is all about, in a word, it’s revelling in the dot com bust of late. For each disparaging news item about a dot com, a “severity” is applied (from 1 to 100). Those users who called that company previously (your “picks”) received points based on that severity and how long they have held that company.
So, this “fuck”, as the kids are calling it, was worth 80 points. That’s pretty garish. Well, it was a good idea, I hope that they get picked up by somebody, maybe even the gubment!