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"The Thing is regularly viewed by members of the winter crew at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station..."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:12:50 -0800

“The Thing is regularly viewed by members of the winter crew at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station after the last flight out, usually in a double-feature with The Shining.[39] It is also viewed by scientific personnel at the Summit Camp on the apex of the Greenland Ice Sheet.”

- The Thing (1982 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Taxi Driver Sweded by Michel Gondry

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:32:00 -0800

Taxi Driver Sweded by Michel Gondry

lolslater: Word.

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:02:46 -0700

lolslater:

Word.

"And this is the essential broader point—as a programmer you must have a series of wins, every single..."

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:51:22 -0700

“And this is the essential broader point—as a programmer you must have a series of wins, every single day. It is the Deus Ex Machina of hacker success. It is what makes you eager for the next feature, and the next after that. And a large team is poison to small wins. The nature of large teams is such that even when you do have wins, they come after long, tiresome and disproportionately many hurdles. And this takes all the wind out of them. Often when I shipped a feature it felt more like relief than euphoria.”

- Rethrick Construction: The Mythical Man Month (via buzz)

dpstyles: “Buy film, not megapixels” (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:48:06 -0700

dpstyles:

“Buy film, not megapixels” (Taken with instagram)

Rick Ross Interview GQ October 2011: Music: GQ

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:46:00 -0700

Rick Ross Interview GQ October 2011: Music: GQ:

So. many. quotables.

After he finished eating a dinner of fried cheese bread, artichoke dip, roasted chicken with sides, and three pieces of Key lime pie (two of them were to go; come on, son), he pushed his plates away and said, “That’s how you gotta eat. You gotta eat like a don.” He has a habit of handing down proclamations like that about the way bosses should live.

For once he doesn’t have on sunglasses, and you can see that he has the longest, most lustrous eyelashes a 300-pound man could possibly have. His butt crack travels from his Polo boxer briefs almost to the middle of his back. He’s shirtless, of course. If you know anything about Rick Ross, it’s what he looks like with his shirt off.

Frankly, it’s nice to finally see someone enjoy the disgusting excesses of fame and money instead of pretending to despise them, which is what rock stars and CEOs apparently feel they’re supposed to do. Maybe it’s because he wasn’t really successful until late in his twenties and so doesn’t take it for granted. But it’s got to be something constitutional as well. He loves being the Boss. When he signed his deal with Warner Music, he hung out the whole day and met basically everyone who works at the company. No one does that. It kind of violates the snobbery of being the talent. Heavy is the head that wears the crown? Not this motherfucking head.

if this isn’t an appropriate thing to be searching for at...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:52:30 -0700

if this isn’t an appropriate thing to be searching for at one in the morning, i just don’t know what is.

http://www.raredevice.net/item.php?item_id=3291

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:30:03 -0700

http://www.raredevice.net/item.php?item_id=3291:

merlin: “He had never seen a white woman before”

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:50:35 -0700

merlin:

“He had never seen a white woman before”

laughingsquid: World’s Largest Natural Afro

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:46:20 -0700

laughingsquid:

World’s Largest Natural Afro

Video

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:45:52 -0700

i maintain that reasoning with vampires is the best way to [not]...

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:29:22 -0700

i maintain that reasoning with vampires is the best way to [not] read twilight

iwdrm: “TOO MANY SECRETS” Sneakers (1992)

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:06:41 -0800

iwdrm:

“TOO MANY SECRETS”

Sneakers (1992)

laughingsquid: What Snow In New York City Looks Like In March

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:14:14 -0800

laughingsquid:

What Snow In New York City Looks Like In March

Amen break

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:44:45 -0800

Amen break:

bestofwikipedia:

The “Amen break” was a brief drum solo performed in 1969 by Gregory Cylvester “G. C.” Coleman in the song “Amen, Brother” performed by the 1960s funk and soul outfit The Winstons. It gained fame from the 1980s onwards when four bars (5.2 seconds) sampled from the drum-solo (or imitations thereof) became very widely used as sampled drum loops in hip hop, jungle, breakcore and drum and bass music. (via Caleb Madison)

laughingsquid: My God, I’m Delicious!!!

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:00:18 -0800

laughingsquid:

My God, I’m Delicious!!!

10-Year-Old Movies: Hollow Man

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:35:06 -0700

10-Year-Old Movies: Hollow Man:

10yearoldmovies:

Was Paul Verhoven the most underrated director of the 1990s, or the most overrated?

This was what went through my head as I watched a see-through Kevin Bacon twist a supermodel’s titties with his invisible fingers in Verhoven’s 2000 sci-fi thriller, Hollow Man. The movie is the last film…

Great post (click for more), Verhoeven’s movies defined much of the 90s for me (especially Robocop and Total Recall). Also brings up so many questions.

Some Verhoeven fun facts:

He shot the shower scene in starship troopers nudesies (imdb)
He wrote a book about Jesus that “characterizes Jesus as terrorist. He rejects all supernatural happenings and miracles as unproved or unprovable.” (wiki)

"The opening breakup scene with Jesse Eisenberg and Rooney Mara ran eight script pages and took 99..."

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:37:36 -0700

“The opening breakup scene with Jesse Eisenberg and Rooney Mara ran eight script pages and took 99 takes.”

- The Social Network (2010) - Trivia

laughingsquid: Banksy Storyboarded & Directed Opening of...

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:39:27 -0700

laughingsquid:

Banksy Storyboarded & Directed Opening of The Simpsons

This

Thing Labs "the blog": Big news! Thing Labs is merging with AOL!

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:21:43 -0700

Thing Labs "the blog": Big news! Thing Labs is merging with AOL!:

thinglabs:

We are pleased to announce that as of today, Thing Labs is merging with AOL. This deal has been in the works for a little while, and we’ve been dying to tell you all, but today it’s official!

First things first: Brizzly is sticking around. Of course anything can happen in the…