Friday, December 10, 2010

First Trailer for Thor



Looks good. I hadn't realized Anthony Hopkins would be Odin. That's a nice choice.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Great Debate Panel







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So this big debate on science and ethics happened at Arizona State. Some heavy-hitters on the philosophy side took part (only one participant was from ASU, and I don't know who that guy is, but the visiting philosophers Peter Singer, Simon Blackburn, and Patricia Churchland are all bigshots). I haven't watched all of it yet, but it looks pretty great.

Update: Click here to go watch it at The Science Network if this post just look like an embed code.

Dirk Gently



It looks like they're making a tv series out of Douglas Adams's "Dirk Gently" books (which are pretty great books). It looks pretty good. How do I get BBC 4?

Friday, December 3, 2010

I Have Mixed Feelings About This



It's mostly a mixture of lots of different very uncomfortable feelings, though.

The Maria Bamford Show



Kelsi pointed out some good Maria Bamford stuff to me recently. I highly recommend all 20 episodes of the Maria Bamford Show, all easily findable on youtube. She was also on an episode of Marc Maron's podcast WTF.

T.O.R.N.A.D.O.