From the aforementioned file of URLs I’d hadn’t got around to… The full text of George Patton’s speech to the Third Army that George C. Scott made famous at the beginning of Patton.
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Impressions after riding a Segway
Dan Bricklin gets some face time with a Segway and makes quite a few perceptive observations about it that cut through the hype and anti-hype.
Capithocommulic art (a.k.a. Ow, my eyes!)
Typecasting
Imagine being so into typography that you get all hot and bothered when period movies use anachronistic typefaces. [via Viridian Notes]
A field guide to Christian Apocalyptic fiction
Fundamentalist Christians have been gradually seceding from America over the last decade. This has signficantly dialed down the gain on efforts to Christianify the world through governmental intervention; it has also given rise to a shadow world of Christian culture: Christian themeparks, movies, and an entire genre of Christian Apocalyptic science fiction, a literature of the end-times
[via bOing bOing]
If you were a character from Daria you would be
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
At my age (36) “Barthelemy Thimmonier developed the world’s first practical sewing machine.” In the words of Tom Lehrer, “It’s people like this that make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”
[via diveintomark]
George Lucas has no clothes
Remember the threadbare attempts to link Star Wars to Joseph Campbell’s studies in meta-mythology? I’ve always suspected that it was Lucas’ attempt to de-emphasize the pulp sci-fi underpinnings to the movies, because pulp SF wasn’t Serious Literature. This Salon article dog piles more criticism onto Lucas, most of it valid, but still takes a couple of unfair potshots at the SF genre. Some worthwhile background on Leigh Brackett (the real screenwriter of Empire Strikes Back) too. Speaking of which, everyone has seen The Hidden Fortress, right? [via Slashdot]
Music from TV Commercials
Mostly complete list of TV commercial soundtrack songs.
Fast forward road trip from NY to SF
A photographer hooked up a camera to the odometer of his car and drove from New York City to San Francisco taking a picture every mile. The whole sequence is up on the web as a QuickTime movie. [via Slashdot]