Brain Drippings

Don’t you love it when you read a story based on the headline and realize that the headline was a complete fabrication, often in complete opposition to the story it is headlining?
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The first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E take place on a desolate future Earth which is, quite literally, buried under mountains of garbage.  The film is free of almost any dialog at all and on its own is as good as anything Pixar has made to date. In fact, the first 40 minutes are just about as close to perfection as it is possible for mere mortal film-makers to get. (continue reading…)

Guy Kawasaki (yeah, him) sent me this link of artwork made from planting varieties of rice in rice fields.

The well known hate-monger, so-called Christian, Evangelical leader James “Gays are deviants” Dobson continues to get coverage in the main-stream media despite his borderline psychosis and well-documented record of hatred and intolerance.
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Rich Seigel (yes, THAT Rich Seigel) pointed this out on twitter.  Ah, the Irony.

The first moving skyscraper.

George Carlin died late Sunday evening. (continue reading…)

Today’s CEOs make the early 20th Century Robber Barons like Carneige look like great guys by comparison.

A week’s worth of food, from around the world.

Due to a series of complex circumstances, revival efforts continued for longer than usual for a patient whose heart was not responding to treatment, until doctors started preparations to remove organs.

It was at that point that the astonished surgeons noticed the man was beginning to breathe unaided again, his pupils were active, he was giving signs that he could feel pain – and finally, his heart started beating again.

Let me get this right.  He was breathing.  His pupils where active, and then his heart started beating?

Maybe I’ve seen too many movies, but I think I would have been quite tempted to reach for the nearest Mr Pointy.

Read about it yourself.

A fascinating movie showing global temperature averages over the last 130 years or so.

Jared posted about this “Scottish Delicacy“.  Ah yes, Glascow salad!  Near enough a reason all on its own to visit Scotland.