As Iowahawk put it:
“Paleontologists discover video of three dinosaurs discussing approaching sky fireball.”
31 January, 2011
28 January, 2011
Challenger: Twenty Five Years Ago
“The future doesn’t belong to the faint-hearted.”
I can’t help but be struck by a tangential thought: This is what it looks and sounds like when a president says what he really means.
Lost and Found
If you aren’t weeping at the end of the latest Radiolab podcast you’re just broken.
I finished it in the car on the way to work, then switched to my music. The first song up was my dead friend, Jeff Mock, playing I Remember Clifford on the saxophone.
It was hard to see to drive for a minute there.
27 January, 2011
What Should Replace Religions?
Daniel C. Dennett has some very good thoughts on the matter.
19 January, 2011
Hitch on Free Speech
When Hitch is good, he is very, very good. This is one of the best defenses of free speech and free thought I’ve ever heard. My religious readers will need to be sitting down with their minds open. Just try to fault his logic here.
I’ll give you one potential oversimplification. I think that most Muslim haters of the Jews would be that way even without the New Testament. I do like the “badly plagiarized” comment.
11 January, 2011
Gettysburg Address
Reports of Lincoln’s voice being high and unpleasant aside, this is nice.
10 January, 2011
As close as I’ll ever get to being in the Harvard Business Review
I’m glad to have one of my favorite Ed Catmull stories make it to the web.
6 January, 2011
Eviscerating Twain
Ron Powers grinds his heels on the morons who want to disfigure “one of the most challenging, and instructive works of art ever published.” Powers asks:
Is Twain’s inspired irony really so hard to grasp? And are today’s public school teachers really so enfeebled and so intimidated that they cannot teach it?
I’m afraid the answer is yes.
4 January, 2011
Crappy Meal
I’m not a Jon Stewart fan, but this is brilliant. And my friend’s kid is in it. (The little boy at 2:30.)
Little Red Riding Hood (+23)
What do you get if you start with Little Red Riding Hood, and then substitute every noun with the word 23 places below it in the dictionary?
The best thing I’ve seen all year.
So this is what healthy looks like?
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,300 times in 2010. That’s about 18 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 150 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 2,918 posts. There were 4 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 300kb.
The busiest day of the year was November 2nd with 598 views. The most popular post that day was Descriptive Dialogue Track on Pixar Films.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, pixartouchbook.com, iconfactory.com, facebook.com, and thebastidge.blogspot.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for ruins of detroit, detroit in ruins, buttle’s world, buttle, and stunning photography.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
1
Descriptive Dialogue Track on Pixar Films November 2010
2
The Ruins of Detroit March 2009
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3
How to Own a Gun and Stay Out of Jail March 2009
4
Remembering Michael Monsoor July 2008
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5
Islamic Porn April 2008
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Bowdlerizing Huck Finn
This is not only stupid and cowardly, but sickening.
“Race matters in these books,” Gribben told PW. “It’s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century.”
Words matter, Mr. Gribben. So does accuracy.
