May 2010
20 posts
I hate this time of semester.
Particularly when you don’t want to do any of the five assessments due in the next week and a half.
So um, who's job is it to come up with this? →
The pentagon’s 26 page recipe for creating chocolate brownies to official American Military specifications. I’m not making this up.
Man I love tumblr.
It’s like twitter but with…more…
Texas Approves Textbook Changes - NYTimes.com →
newsweek:
skybarn:
It is unethical for any publishing company to follow this curriculum. Shame on them if they sell this shit.
Because sometimes one must simply laugh at such things, we present our list of the 10 strangest changes in the Texas textbooks. Our favorite:
Thanks to a successful lobbying effort by a Barbara Cargill, a Republican from suburban Houston, Texas textbooks will now...
Why 'Heavy Rain' ultimately fails as "video game... →
My opinion? We don’t need wanky video games pretending to be movies to validate the form as an “art”. Many video games, taken on their own terms, fulfil the criteria.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/06... →
A fascinating glimpse inside the social side of the American presidency.
William Friedkin on the Car Chase Scene In THE...
newsweek:
tanya77:
americanfilm:
William Friedkin talks about shooting the gripping car chase scene from THE FRENCH CONNECTION.
You have to watch this. “We had no permission. To do anything.” Here’s the link.
Seconded. Stop Everything and Watch this. So cool.
If only I had an enemy greater than my apathy I could have won.
– Mumford and Sons, I Gave You All