tagged w/ Brave New World
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'Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I'm in a coma;
Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny;
Love's as good as soma."
- Aldous Huxley
"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."'Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I'm in a coma;
Hug me,... more
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Thursdays remain an important part in our week, as a new episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is airing tonight at 10:30 pm. But on a sadder note, Budd Schulberg is dead at 95; on a happier note, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra continues to plummet on the Tomatometer as those nasty "critics" see it and Steven Spielberg's Harvey will just have to imagine Tom Hanks is in it. Let's go!
Budd Schulberg, screenwriter for On The Waterfront and author of What Makes Sammy Run? has died. [Current]
Variety has an Aussie review G.I. Joe to get around Paramount's whole "good reviews=screenings" policy. And trashed it. [Variety]
Tom Hanks won't be jumping on Harvey, but possibly Will Smith? Wells' advice: Don't. [HE]
Jodelle Ferland, creepy little girl of Silent Hill, is now a creepy little vampire in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Yay, typecasting! [Current]
The case for Robert Rodriguez' (and oddly, co-director Ethan Maniquis) Machete has arrived. Yay... [EW]
OMFG TWITTER GOT DDOSED EVERYONE FUCKING RUN FOR THE HILLS DOGS ARE MARRYING CATS [DHD]
Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio are both producing with "eyes" to direct/star in an adaptation of Brave New World. [THR]
And finally, the U.S. trailer for Ong Bak 2, which has been on DVD for nearly six months. [Twitch Film]
Also, going to the bathroom at Comic Con. Tee hee!
Thursdays remain an important part in our week, as a new episode of The Rotten... more
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Antiscience and neo-Luddite conspiracy theorists emphasize technology forecasting in their New World Order conpiracy theories. They speculate that the global power elite are modern Luciferians pursuing a transhumanist agenda to develop and use human enhancement technologies in order to become a "posthuman ruling caste", while change accelerates toward a technological singularity — a theorized future point of discontinuity when events will accelerate at such a pace that normal unenhanced humans will be unable to predict or even understand the rapid changes occurring in the world around them. Conspiracy theorists fear the outcome will either be the emergence of a Brave New World-like dystopia - a "Brave New World Order" - or the extinction of the human species.[51][52]
Advocates of transhumanism and singularitarianism, such as American sociologist James Hughes, counter that many influential members of the American Establishment are bioconservative and therefore "anti-transhumanist" as demonstrated by President Bush's Council on Bioethics's proposed international treaty prohibiting human cloning and germline engineering. Regardless, transhumanists and singularitarians claim to only support developing and making publicly available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities for the common good; as well as taking deliberate action to ensure that the Singularity — the moment when technological progress starts being driven by superintelligence — occurs in a way that is beneficial to humankind.[Antiscience and neo-Luddite conspiracy theorists emphasize technology forecasting in... more
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Some books that are considered sensitive with religious degradation or slurs, foul language, violence, racism, political and sexual descriptions with vividness and graphicness have always attracted controversies from the general public, religious or political organizations.Some books that are considered sensitive with religious degradation or slurs, foul... more
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Discover the world of low-cost, do-it-yourself political ads. David Roth sets out to create his very own TV ad with help from Spot Runner. All David needs is a catchy slogan, a few snapshots, and $499.Discover the world of low-cost, do-it-yourself political ads. David Roth sets out to... more
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A judge is using YouTube to punish two boys who used the video-sharing website for a prank that ended with battery and criminal mischief charges against them.
The prank, known as "fire in the hole," has become common in the past year. It happened July 25 to fast-food worker Jessica Ceponis at the drive-through of the Taco Bell in Merritt Island, about 50 miles east of Orlando.
Ceponis handed a carload of teenagers their soft drinks. When she returned to the drive-through window to give them their change, they yelled, "Fire in the hole!" hurled a 32-ounce cup of soda at Ceponis and sped off.
The teens posted a video of the incident on YouTube.com, alongside a number of other videos showing similar pranks. Today, the teens are scheduled to post another video on YouTube: an apology that shows them facedown and handcuffed on the hood of a car.
In a statement, YouTube said it doesn't allow the uploading of videos that show someone getting "hurt, attacked or humiliated" and removes those flagged by users.
Ceponis, 23, said she thought the incident was a personal attack but learned from customers that a video was posted on YouTube. She used the YouTube video to track the boys' MySpace accounts. "They were bragging about what they had done and how funny it was," Ceponis said.
Without revealing her identity, she befriended them online. After she confirmed that they were behind the attack, Ceponis used the phone book to track down one boy's mother who provided the names of the others involved, she said.
The 16-year-old driver who threw the drink and a 15-year-old who was filming were charged with two counts each of battery and one count of criminal mischief.
The teens wrote, filmed and edited the apology video. They also were sentenced to 100 hours each of community service. In addition, they each have to pay a $30 cleaning fee to the restaurant and write letters of apology. The charges will be dropped when the terms of the sentences are met.A judge is using YouTube to punish two boys who used the video-sharing website for a... more
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