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“The Drift”

One of the defining characteristics of the human race is our profound alienation from one another. What if a new technology promised to blur, or even erase, the lines that divide us? Director Guillermo del Toro’s new movie Pacific Rim poses that challenging question, and it is perhaps this otherwise-magnificent popcorn movie’s greatest failure that […]

August 5th, 2013 | Tags: , , , | Category: Entertainment, Science Fiction | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Dirk Gently on BBC

Looks…interesting. Hope it turns out better than Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy did.

February 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Entertainment | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Atlas Shrugged Trailer

This would make a great drinking game at your next Objectivist book club meeting: spot the deviations from the book!

I guess one has to expect many differences from the source material, given that the producers don’t have a Lord of the Rings-scale budget with which to depict the “period” setting of the book […]

February 12th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Economics, Entertainment, politics, PPC, Science Fiction | Comments are closed

James Cameron’s 3D Mars Camera

If James Cameron is so passionate about restoring the 3D camera to MSL/Curiosity, then…instead of lobbying, and urging, and taking his concerns to the NASA administrator, why didn’t he just pay for it out of pocket?

I don’t know that he didn’t, or didn’t offer to do so (the article doesn’t say), but it seems […]

April 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Economics, Entertainment, Space Commerce, Space Science, Space Technology | One comment - (Comments are closed)