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Tuesday, August 24 2004

30-minute Planet of the Apes

Yowza! Over at The Forbidden Zone, they've cut up the original Planet of the Apes movie and added Rod Serling narration to make it into a 30-minute Twilight Zone episode. (Rod Serling, of course, wrote the Planet of the Apes script.)
(The project, of course, violates copyright law. And demonstrates why the current copyright system needs to be fixed/replaced.)
(UPDATE, Sept 3 2004: the video kinda sucks. As in, given the way it was reduced to the length of a Twilight Zone episode, the storyline is completely lost. It's kind of nice to see some of the key scenes from the movie, but it's incomprehensible if you haven't seen the movie before, and not that compelling if you have. Oh well.)

Mending Fences

In case you haven't seen it: Will Ferrell. As George W. Bush. Down in Crawford.

Kerry Under Attack: A Good Thing?

Lots of Kerry supporters are concerned about Vietnam Vets who never served on the same boat as Kerry attacking his war record. But, a random comment from a Daily Kos thread presents some upside:

"look at Bush's play... All he has is his peculiar sock-stuffed flightsuit approach to looking like a bad-ass action figure. Boo-yah! Go America! Eat Hot Lead, Bad Guys!
"How can Kerry effectively attack that?
"Well, he could try pointing out that he, John Kerry, actually is a bad-ass war hero who jumped off a fucking speedboat to run straight at a guy with a rocket launcher, like some combination of Rambo and every gun-wielding private eye in television history; but bringing it [up] himself would seem kind of like, you know, bragging, which Real Men don't do.
"So — let's think here — how can John Kerry get his Sgt. Rock Combat History mentioned constantly without bringing it up himself? If only... if only he could somehow get his opponent to keep bringing up Kerry's manly and heroic adventures in combat! That would be perfect!"

Sunday, August 22 2004

Right About Iraq? We Don't Care.

A "Democratic moderate" on the war in Iraq:

"He said he considered support for the Iraq war to be a necessary prerequisite to assuming any powerful role in the party. It showed that the person in question was willing to project U.S. force abroad. But wait, I asked. Do you still think the Iraq war was a good idea? After some hemming and hawing, he admitted that he'd rather we hadn't gone in. Then why make support for a mistaken policy a litmus test? Because, he repeated, it shows that the person in question is willing to project U.S. force abroad."

Blepharoplasty

"Approximately 75 percent of all Koreans and 50 percent of all other Asians are born without the double eyelid crease.
"At the cost of about $2,000, a rapidly growing number of young girls – both in Asia and the United States – are opting to have the crease surgically added."

Saturday, August 21 2004

Remember General William 'My God Is Bigger' Boykin?

Late last year:

"The Pentagon has assigned the task of tracking down and eliminating Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and other high-profile targets to an Army general who sees the war on terrorism as a clash between Judeo-Christian values and Satan."

Texas Hold 'Em

The comeback of poker - especially Texas Hold 'Em - is attributed to the wins of Chris Moneymaker:

"Anybody who watches ESPN probably already knows the story: A man named Chris Moneymaker wins a $40 Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament on the Internet, qualifies to play in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, then outlasts a colorful cast of characters to win $2.5 million."

Wednesday, August 4 2004

Professional Responsibility

Neat story related by the folks at WorldChanging.org: architect William J. LeMessurier discovers, years after he helped design the building, that the Citicorp Building in New York has a flaw that, under rare circumstances, could cause it to collapse. Rather than ignore the problem (one for which he couldn't even be called completely culpable), he figures out a fix and convinces the right people to implement 'em.

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