December 2011
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HOBBIT HOLE
So, there’s going to be a 364 day gap between the releases of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There And Back Again, not to mention it’s 364 days until the first one to begin with. This means 728 days (minimum) until Hobbit satisfaction. Obviously, less annoyed about it being a year from release, these things take time to film, and i know that they did the same with...
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Philip K. Dick
Seated where he could catch the readings on the two gauges of the Voigt-Kampff testing apparatus, Rick Deckard said, “I’m going to outline a number of social situations. You are to express your reaction to each as quickly as possible. You will be timed, of course.”
from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the novel that became the film Blade Runner
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spokenlikeachampion asked: They were from somewhere in Surrey, I'm sure. I don't believe that they exist any more.
spokenlikeachampion asked: I saw MMISL in Guildford years ago and they blew my head off.
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YOUR TITLES ARE TOO LONG
I am currently listening to a track by Meet Me In St. Louis. The track is called ‘We Need To Act Like We Dont Need This Shit, Then They Give Us The Shit For Free’ and is taken from the EP ‘And With The Right Kind Of Eyes You Can Almost See The High-Water Mark, The Place Where The Wave Finally Broke And Rolled Back’…
These kind of titles definitely seem to be most...
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24-hours of Flickr pictures
lookatluca:
Erik Kessels printed out all the photos uploaded to Flickr in a 24 hour period.
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Terry Pratchett
It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are - who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled… It rolled a six.
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Douglas Adams
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers.
The introduction begins like this.
‘Space,’ it says, ‘is big. Really bug. You just won’t believe how mindboggingly big it is....
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TFW Fall 2011 Mod 3 Tumblr: Are We Drowning in... →
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The question asked by Dutch curator Erik Kessels was simple: How many photos are uploaded to Flickr in a single 24-hour period? The answer, not surprisingly, is about this many:
Almost a million pictures on any given day. Kessels designed the above exhibit to show the populous how it is…
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I’m happy just to be working. You can’t eat an award.
– Brian Cox on the Oscars, in Total Film 188