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07.19.08 by Widge @ 7:30 am  Well, this is a new one on me--how do you keep a vampire down in its grave? Cross or crucifix? Holy water? Silver? Running water? A copy of John Carpenter's Vampires? Nope. Just big stones. That's right--they found a four-thousand year old grave in East Bohemia and within is somebody who would have been thought a vampire by his friends and neighbors. They--and I keep saying they, these are a bunch of archaeologists saying this, it's not like a bunch of fast food workers suddenly got a sudden wild hair to dig a random hole or something--are fairly certain he was thought a vampire because "When buried, the dead man was weighed down with two big stones, one on his chest and the other on his head." And just think: now when you threaten to pin a Vampire LARPer under a boulder, you will at least be historically accurate in doing so. Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.19.08 by Widge @ 1:50 am  Well, we've seen a lot of stuff over at the Consumerist where they're tracking the grocery shrink ray effect on various products. But here's a fun one: a time shrink ray. I thought something was odd when I picked up a new thing of baking soda for the fridge (on the right): "Change Every 30 Days"? I thought it used to be three months. Sure enough, find an old box (on the left): "For Best Results, Change Every 3 Months." Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.17.08 by Widge @ 9:56 am I'm not as familiar with Disneyland, living as I do on the eastern half of the continent. I've spent much more time at its younger brother in Florida. But regardless, it was the first, and it turns 53 today. Here's the live broadcast from the opening. There's a lot to see in this, from Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen doing their Davy Crockett bit to the Firehouse Five + 2 and a crapload more. How cool would it have been to be there opening day? Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.17.08 by Widge @ 6:49 am So I was checking some of our older posts and found that our post about Ricky Jay saving us from the evil mind clutches of Derren Brown has been hobbled by the fact that all four vids have been pulled. I can only assume that this is more of Derren's mind manipulation as he works his wiles over on this side of the pond towards his end of freaky world domination. However, because it pisses me off that they've taken four excellent Ricky videos and removed them, I went and found you four more. Because I'm just that way. Direct link for the feedreaders. That bit is from the DVD that accompanies Ricky Jay Plays Poker, a CD of poker music picked out by the man himself. Yes, that is John C. Reilly among the players. Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.17.08 by Widge @ 2:55 am  Well, this deserves its own post. Lionsgate is making far too much sense for a company in the movie industry. It's scaring the crap out of me, frankly. Here's the story: they've made a deal with YouTube. Rather than fighting to get clips of their films taken down, they're going to monetize the clips. They're going to have their own YouTube channel and let people share, embed, upload and mash up clips. That's what the Variety article says. Pause here for a moment. Upload? That's fascinating. So does that mean they'll let you upload a clip from a Lionsgate movie if it's uploaded to their channel so it can be monetized? That seems fair enough. And as for mashup--does that mean they'll let you download and then re-upload your new version? If so...wow. This covers film and television programs. Now, users don't get free reign. If something's still in cinemas, clips will be removed. But that's perfectly reasonable. Categorized as: Movies and Stimuli
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