December 2009
18 posts
OkTrends →
blog.okcupid.com
This blog should be required-reading. It’s like fivethirtyeight.com, except for gender politics.
Titanic - The Jack Edit →
fanedit.org
“This is the courageous attempt to create a version of Titanic, which is bearable for men. It’s the story about Jack, who with a lucky hand won a ticket – on the Titanic.”
Things That Are Easier To Understand Than Google Wave →
easiertounderstandthanwave.com
Having spent some time with Wave, I can safely say that I understand why this website exists.
“Downey plays the detective as if he were — and there are literary grounds for this — under the influence of any number of substances… Yes, [Holmes and Watson’s] relationship does have a latent homoerotic undertone.”
—THR’s review of Sherlock Holmes
“
Enter GORDON
GORDON: Here. I have heard. Gather my generals.
SECOND MESSENGER: The beasts are sick from plague of foot and mouth!
GORDON: Gather my veterinarians. And shoot the cows.
THIRD MESSENGER: The rains fall hard upon the western towns!
GORDON: Gather my meteorologists. And bring my wellies.
FOURTH MESSENGER: The people run upon a northern bank!
GORDON: Nationalise the sucker—eventually.
” —Excerpt from “A tragedy: Gordon Rex”, a play in iambic pentameter by The Economist.
“‘I haven’t seen [the original ‘Bad Lieutenant’],’ Herzog told MTV News outside the Academy Awards this year. ‘So I can’t compare it. [My movie] has nothing to do with it.’”
—MTV Movies Blog
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Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users.
But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it.
‘We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography,’ said Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse. ‘We couldn’t find any.’
Although hampered in its original aim, the study did examined the habits of those young men who used pornography – which would appear to be all of them.
” —Telegraph.co.uk
My Life Is Twilight →
mylifeistwilight.com
Cue: apocalypse.
