3D Mandel Bulb

Pictures can do a better job than me in describing how beautiful this is...
http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html

Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990?

What makes this so hilarious and ever so ironic is that the site uses the same 'Straw man' arguments that Glenn uses and is protected as free speech by the same Constitution that he "loves" so much. Glenn, how does that karma sandwich taste?

Glenn Beck Meets Internet, Loses

Where there is life there is hope.
- Grover the Waiter

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso

Guy Fawkes Night

Remember, remember the 5th of November,
the gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.

The Mormon Church is a threat to civil liberties

Rush eats more crow

Yet more proof that Rush is a wind bag...



This is his problem... that it "feels right". Too bad he doesn't THINK about anything before he says it.

'Cancer Won't Wait' by Lance Armstrong

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/26/armstrong.cancer/index.html

Review: What Dreams May Come

This is a love story. A twisted love story of death, loss, sacrifice, and self-discovery. It's a bit of an adventure story as well but first and foremost a "high-brow" love story. It plays with a lot of questions that no one will ever really be able to answer and this can confuse the message of the movie for some people. The acting is good, story decent, and the special effects good. But the thing is, is that all those special effects eventually take over the movie and cloud its story. Every once in awhile the it stops to show you how neat the effects are and ends up losing the message in the process. The effects are not quite dated yet but with a sharp CGI eye you can spot a number of goofs. All in all, I liked it but wouldn't recommend it as a general view to my friends. If you're looking for a serious movie and can get past the special effects then I'd recommend this as a rental.

Life is to short for hate and fear. Open a beer!
- Me

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
- Anonymous

Review: Donnie Darko

Donnie sleepwalks and his imaginary friend Frank won't tell him why. Only that the world will end in 28 days and that he has a plan. Frank is a giant rabbit, an evil looking rabbit at that, that is from the future. He has Donnie do some very destructive things that tie into this future. The movie is Donnie trying to figure out why he is doing these things and why the world ends. All this leads up to the ending which may leave you wanting to watch it again. The whole movie is a bit surreal and it may actually take a second viewing to catch everything and make sense of it all, assuming that any sense or meaning can actually be taken from it. All in all, its a good film that leaves a lot of questions unanswered but nothing keeping it from becoming a cult classic. Put this on your netflix rental list but if you're the cultish type buy the DVD.

Review: The Island

I had higher hopes for this movie with Michael Bay at the helm (or maybe I should have known better). It has a script borrowed from 'The Clonus Horror', which is almost a better film. This is only a slight variation where clones are harvested for their body parts and new-borns. The main story is about two of these clones, Lincoln and Jordan, escaping literally for their lives. The acting is OK, direction is 'eh', and the "action" is unnecessary. The way that it was filmed it would have been much better as a serious drama than an action movie. Any action scenes were marked with shaky-cam and half-second blurred shots. This is unfortunate because it enhanced the flaws of this movie even more than hid them. The scene with our hero's hanging off the side of the building and miraculously making it safely to the ground is the worst offender of this. [Shut-off brain, eat more popcorn.] There was only one bad casting decision that I could see. Lincoln's friend Jones doesn't have the healthy body type of the clones portrayed in the movie. He's a fine actor but this wasn't the role for him. And as far as ending... I'm a fan of Sean Bean. His character was smart, obviously educated, and in control. That is until the very end where he lost it and left him... well... hung out. This barely rates as a rental.

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. - Narrator

Health Insurance PSA

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Review: No Country for Old Men

A hunter stumbles across a drug deal gone bad. He takes the money and is now on the run from the dealers, the law, and a cool calculated killer. But this movie isn't about that. This movie isn't about who or what you think it is. I won't say much but our "hero" just disappears after about 2 thirds of the film. This is mearly a back-drop for the real message of the movie. The title hints at this. The acting was great, the pace worked, but the story needed to find out where it wanted to go. The real point of the film sat in the back waiting for everything else to play out and then never really showed up until the end. This was more like two stories running at the same time with the main message not getting the time it deserved. I found myself more interested in the "back-story" than what was intended. This rates as a rental.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr

Moving over from my Twitter page. 140 characters is just not enough.