Re: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word
Maybe he was trying to be gangsta. Or he was quoting some rap lyrics from 1991 West coast yall! I'm out! Peace! :) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management? July 1, 2010 We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson acknowledged that I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it. But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues. In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy due to legal matters. According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva, including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, You look like a ... pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault. In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying I am going to come and burn the ... house down, adding, but you will [perform oral sex on] me first. There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it, through his lawyer, as a loud argument. It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where. It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast. Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] VIDEO: “Toy Story” Meets “The Wire”
- Email?subject=VIDEO:%20%E2%80%9CToy%20Story%E2%80%9D%20Meets%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Wire%E2%80%9Dbody=http://theurbandaily.com/music/casey-gane-mccalla/video-toy-story-meets-the-wire/ - Print javascript:window.print() - Spherehttp://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://theurbandaily.com/music/casey-gane-mccalla/video-toy-story-meets-the-wire/ « Previous Posthttp://theurbandaily.com/black-music-month/black-music-is/theurbandailystaff2/former-guitarist-for-the-roots-shows-his-versatility/ Next Post » http://theurbandaily.com/gossip-news/Rumors/theurbandailystaff2/writer-of-boondocks-spoof-was-former-tyler-perry-staffer/ VIDEO: “Toy Story” Meets “The Wire” By Casey Gane-McCalla http://theurbandaily.com/author/casey-gane-mccalla/June 30, 2010 4:15 pm [image: toy story the wire] “The Wire” is the greatest TV show ever. Two years after it ended I’m still watching the episodes and reading the books. This is a great mashup of quotes from “The Wire” with some clips from “Toy Story.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0RNhQaxUywfeature=player_embedded#! *Check Out These Joints Too* TRAILER: “Treme” (New Orleans Show From The Creators Of “The Wire”)http://theurbandaily.com/tv/casey-gane-mccalla/trailer-treme-new-orleans-show-from-the-creators-of-the-wire/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word
Brent... I think it's time that Tyler Perry reached out to Melski. Cameo in the next Madea movie. Might help him to understand... On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:33 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management? July 1, 2010 We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson acknowledged that I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it. But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues. In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy due to legal matters. According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva, including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, You look like a ... pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault. In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying I am going to come and burn the ... house down, adding, but you will [perform oral sex on] me first. There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it, through his lawyer, as a loud argument. It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where. It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word
Word! ;-) On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe he was trying to be gangsta. Or he was quoting some rap lyrics from 1991 West coast yall! I'm out! Peace! :) On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management? July 1, 2010 We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson acknowledged that I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it. But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues. In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy due to legal matters. According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva, including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, You look like a ... pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault. In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying I am going to come and burn the ... house down, adding, but you will [perform oral sex on] me first. There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it, through his lawyer, as a loud argument. It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where. It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast. Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word
Keith, having gotten all of the bad jokes out, I'm with you in averting my gaze. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: As reprehensible as this latest outburst of Gibson's is if true, I don't want to know about it. The voyeuristic, leering nature of our society is increasingly bothering me. Yeah, he's a celebrity, so his life is under the microscope. Yeah, he obviously has an inner core of racism and misogyny, so people are on the lookout for stuff like this. And yeah, being a celebrity who's a known racist misogynist with a short fuse, he's an idiot for leaving a record of something this awful. But at the end of the day, it's a private affair between him and his girlfriend, and I don't want to know about it. I mean, what if some of the stuff any of us said in private, on the phone, or in a nasty e-mail to another person were to be made public? So Imma try to avert my eyes to this latest example of what a messed-up person Gibson is... - Original Message - From: brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:33:39 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management? July 1, 2010 We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson acknowledged that I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it. But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues. In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy due to legal matters. According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva, including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, You look like a ... pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault. In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying I am going to come and burn the ... house down, adding, but you will [perform oral sex on] me first. There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it, through his lawyer, as a loud argument. It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where. It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man
No, Keith, I'm there with you. Won't even trouble my wallet to come up with the cash to see this if it lands in the dollar DVD bin at Kroger. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Am I the only one who's completely underwhelmed by the idea of a Spider-Man reboot? Man, the films aren't that old, and yet we're already being given a new gang. What's the real point? Can't they at least wait a generation, like they used to in the old days, before slapping out another version of the franchise? And as far as a new actor to play Spidey, here's a thought: how about getting an honest-to-goodness New Yorker who has an accent to match? - Original Message - From: brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:01:57 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/07/01/andrew-garfield-cast-as-the-new-spider-man/ Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man by Nicole Sperling We have a new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man - and he’s British. Columbia Pictures confirms that Andrew Garfield, 26, has nabbed the highly sought-after role of Peter Parker after a worldwide search. Garfield, while largely unknown in the states, is one of the U.K.’s most highly regarded up-and-comers. He appeared in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus as well as John Crowley’s Boy A, for which he received a best actor BAFTA in 2008. He’s been getting heat in the U.S., too. This year the young Brit will be starring opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake in the Facebook movie Social Network, directed by David Fincher, and will star in the Oscar-bait drama Never Let Me Go opposite Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Keira Knightley. As recently as yesterday, web speculation was high that 17-year-old Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right) would land the webslinger role, which was originated on the big screen by Tobey Maguire. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner
I've heard great things all around about Five Guys. I intend to get to the one up in Roswell one day to try it out. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman'
Exactly what I was thinking, Keith. I immediately thought of One Hour Photo and his appearance in Law and Order: SVU, playing a guy who got his jollies by convincing fast-food store managers that one of the female employees was a criminal and having them strip and tie them up until he arrived. Which was never... he just got off at the thought of what he'd done. [?][?] On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Williams is frighteningly good at playing a psychopath. He'd make an awesome Toyman, if they go with the more disturbed Toyman of recent years. The version that John Byrne crafted after the Crisis even abducted and killed young children. The one in the Justice League cartoon was creepy with that masked face of his, and the disturbing childlike way he spoke. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:28:43 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman' Brent, I saw this story late yesterday as well, and I don't see Williams having a place anywhere in the Bat-franchise. However, I did catch a word on the whisper-stream that Nolan wanted a shot at te next Superman movie. If that happens, then Williams, IMO, is a dead lock for Toyman. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/06/30/14565671-wenn-story.html Williams wants crack at 'Batman' By WENN.COM Robin Williams is urging movie bosses to cast him in the next Batman movie - because he has twice been turned down for parts in the superhero franchise. Rumours over casting for Christopher Nolan's upcoming third superhero film have been rife ever since The Dark Knight, starring Heath Ledger as The Joker, hit cinemas in 2008 - with fans speculating over which characters will be re-introduced. Nolan is said to be considering bringing feline femme fatale Catwoman back for the new movie, along with The Riddler. Williams is adamant he would make a good replacement for Jim Carrey, who played the fiendish puzzler in 1995's Batman Forever, because the part was originally offered to him. The funnyman also reveals he was lined up to play The Joker in the original 1989 Batman movie before the role was later handed to Jack Nicholson - and the snubs have made him determined to secure a part in the next installment of the hit franchise. He tells Empire magazine, I would do Batman in a second. I'd play The Riddler in the next one, although it would be hard to top Heath Ledger as the villain and I'm a little hairy for tights. The Batman films have screwed me twice before: years ago they offered me The Joker and then gave it to Jack Nicholson, then they offered me The Riddler and gave it to Jim Carrey. I'd be like, 'OK, is this a real offer? If it is, then the answer's yes. Don't pump me again motherf**kers'. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik 363.gif361.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed
Now let's see how the neocons can get in the way of this needed advance. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed - By Laura Sanders, Science Newshttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/author/laura-sanders/ [image: Email Author] bma...@wired.com - July 1, 2010 | - 2:43 pm | - Categories: Biologyhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/biology/, Medicine http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/medicine/ - http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/stem-cells-from-human-blood-can-be-reprogrammed/blood_donation_sectionz/ Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem cells that may have the ability to form any type of tissue in the body, three independent papers report in the July 2 *Cell Stem Cell*. The new technique will allow scientists to tap a large, readily available source of personalized stem cells. [image: sciencenews] http://bit.ly/2TwTeSBecause taking blood is safe, fast and efficient compared to current stem cell harvesting methods, some of which include biopsies and pretreatments with drugs, researchers hope that blood-derived stem cells could one day be used to study and treat diseases — though major safety hurdles remain. The findings “represent a huge and important progression in the field,” stem cell biologist Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, writes in a commentary appearing in the same issue of the journal. Three research groups used similar methods to prod certain immune cells in human blood to become induced pluripotent stem cells. Because they are reprogrammed adult cells, these stem cells share many of the same regenerative abilities as true embryonic stem cells but may not have as much versatility in the kinds of mature cells they can become. But induced pluripotent cells are harvested from adults and so don’t face the same ethical mires posed by embryo-derived stem cells. And as techniques for manipulating induced pluripotent cells improve, some researchers think they may be just as useful. The new studies accomplished the reprogramming feat by using viruses to deliver a four-gene cocktail that reverts the cells to a naive state in which any developmental path is open. In theory at least, these induced pluripotent stem cells could go on to form neurons in the brain, muscle cells in the leg or beating heart cells. Scientists’ manipulations turned the stem cells in the new studies into several types of mature blood cells, including infection-fighting T cells. What’s more, all the groups showed that a batch of the stem cells implanted into mice developed into the three main types of progenitor cells found in human embryos. In embryos, these progenitor cells give rise to different tissues. More research is needed to determine whether these cells can be further coaxed to form fully functional tissue, says Rudolf Jaenisch of MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led one of the studies. The concern is that if these cells retain traces of memory from their previous lives as blood cells, they may not be good at forming other tissue types. Past studies have induced other kinds of mature cells to form stem cells. The most common source has been adult skin cells called fibroblasts, which have been manipulated into stem cells and then neurons (*SN: 2/27/10, p. 5http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/55895/title/Skin_cells_transformed_directly_into_neurons *). But harvesting fibroblasts is harder than drawing blood, requiring surgery and sutures. What’s more, inducing fibroblasts to form stem cells can take about a month in the lab, during which mutations can accumulate. The new blood cell techniques can be completed in a few days. Stanford University stem cell biologist Marius Wernig points out that the new method is still less efficient than the fibroblast technique. “But with improving technology, this cell type could very well replace the skin fibroblasts currently mostly used to generate induced pluripotent stem cells from patients,” Wernig says. Researchers are still a long way off from transplanting such stem cells or their mature offspring into people safely. The viruses used to deliver genes into the cells may have unintended consequences, and the cells’ long-term behavior is still unknown. But even if the cells won’t be put directly into patients, Jaenisch says that the new method “opens up access to enormous resources of collected cells from patients” that can be used to study diseases. For example, lab experiments with cells from these collections might be used to study why motor neurons from people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis die, or how healthy liver cells respond to a promising but potentially toxic drug.
Re: [scifinoir2] Kids today?
Mr Worf, I can't really tell. At my niece's school, not all of the kids are super-tall. My niece is (not yet 16 and chasing 5'11, but that's because height runs on my mother's side of the family). On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: There has to be something in the food. Today I was at an elementary school to watch a parade. Why is it that the kids in the 7th grade ( So these kids are about 12-13! ) were as tall or taller than me? I'm 5'10.What the heck is going on? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: July Films, Events, and More
Bring it ALL on! On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Just a sample of whats showing here this month. Cool huh? [image: NEW PEOPLE]http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIZPicturesInc./4b741a53a5/7af5936b7e/598a68dc70/utm_content=darrelllwilli...@gmail.comutm_source=VerticalResponseutm_medium=Emailutm_term=utm_campaign=July%20Films%2C%20Events%2C%20and%20More Upcoming Films • Ghost In The Shell Marathon#1298fc5291a738a7_1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_ghost • Samurai Saga Vol.1#1298fc5291a738a7_1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_samurai • Another Hole In the Head #1298fc5291a738a7_1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_sfindie Special Events • Battle League HORUMO#1298fc5291a738a7_1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_horumo • Tokyo Scope Talk Vol.5 #1298fc5291a738a7_1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_tokyoscope SUPERFROG Gallery • New Exhibition #1298fc5291a738a7_1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_gallery JULY 2010 VIZ CINEMA - JULY: Beyond The Battles VIZ Cinema’s summer gets hotter with fiery fights and good ole’ battles from Samurais to Cyberspace conflicts and more! SF IndieFest also joins us to bring a fascinating line-up of sci-fi, horror and fantasy films as the 8th Another Hole In The Head, a Sci-fi, Horror and Fantasy Film Festival! SUPERFROG Gallery - Yu-Cheng Chou exhibit *Because 64 Crayons Made in the USA* An exhibition curated by Cydney M. Payton [image: VIZ CINEMA] *FILM SCHEDULE* Beyond the Battles *7/2 Fri 7:00pm * * * *Battle League HORUMO * © 2009 Kamogawa Horumo Film Partners Special DVD Release Screening by VIZ Pictures! VIZ Pictures presents the DVD release of the combat action comedy Battle League HORUMO! Get sucked into the underground college tradition in Kyoto! Based on a novel by Manabu Makime, Kyoto University student Akira Abe joins the club “Azure Dragon” in order to get closer to the girl of his dreams. But soon he is swept into the 1000-year-old tradition of Oni spirit battles known as “Horumo.” MORE INFOhttp://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIZPicturesInc./4b741a53a5/7af5936b7e/7f288a59a5/utm_content=darrelllwilli...@gmail.comutm_source=VerticalResponseutm_medium=Emailutm_term=MORE%20INFOutm_campaign=July%20Films%2C%20Events%2C%20and%20More BUY TICKETShttp://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIZPicturesInc./4b741a53a5/7af5936b7e/362fe59768/theaterid=55001event=141screen=bdate=6/14/2010displaydate=7/01/2010edate=TBP=55000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *7/3 Sat – 8 Thu * *Ghost In The Shell Marathon * © 2009 Starz Media, LLc. © 1995-2008 Shirow Masamune/Kodansha, Bandai Visual, Manga Enterainment. Sci-fi Anime Madness returns with the epic masterpiece Ghost In The Shell Marathon! New to the series? Don’t worry! Each film has its own plot so all you need to know is that Motoko Kusanagi is the coolest cyber heroine ever! - Ghost In The Shell (Original version) - Ghost In The Shell 2.0 (3D-CGI version) - Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence - Ghost In The Shell: The Laughing Man - Ghost In The Shell: Individual Eleven - Ghost In The Shell: Solid State Society MORE INFOhttp://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIZPicturesInc./4b741a53a5/7af5936b7e/48d1e29c66/utm_content=darrelllwilli...@gmail.comutm_source=VerticalResponseutm_medium=Emailutm_term=MORE%20INFOutm_campaign=July%20Films%2C%20Events%2C%20and%20More BUY TICKETShttp://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIZPicturesInc./4b741a53a5/7af5936b7e/f8ad76663d/utm_content=darrelllwilli...@gmail.comutm_source=VerticalResponseutm_medium=Emailutm_term=BUY%20TICKETSutm_campaign=July%20Films%2C%20Events%2C%20and%20More - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *7/9 Fri 7:00pm* *TokyoScope Talk Vol.5: Japanese Superheroes* Join hosts Patrick Macias (editor, Otaku USA magazine), August Ragone (author, Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters), and Tomohiro Machiyama (founding editor, Movie Treasures magazine) as they explore the fascinating history and origins of Japanese superheroes using rare film clips and images from numerous tokusatsu, sentai, and henshin hero productions including Ultra Seven, Kikaida, Space Sheriff Gavan, and many others. Ticket price is $10 General. No discounts apply. MORE INFOhttp://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIZPicturesInc./4b741a53a5/7af5936b7e/2ad192a045/utm_content=darrelllwilli...@gmail.comutm_source=VerticalResponseutm_medium=Emailutm_term=MORE%20INFOutm_campaign=July%20Films%2C%20Events%2C%20and%20More BUY TICKETShttp://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIZPicturesInc./4b741a53a5/7af5936b7e/0d5f127382/theaterid=55001event=313screen=bdate=6/14/2010displaydate=7/01/2010edate=TBP=55000 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Re: [scifinoir2] Hulu starts paid subscription TV service
And that's EXACTLY what they're hoping for. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They will only be offering NBC's stuff. This needs to flop or we'll have to pay for everything online. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Adrianne Brennan adrianne.bren...@gmail.com wrote: If they supply True Blood, it'll be cheaper than an HBO subscription and would gladly go for it. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: As the prediction foretold, it has been done... Hulu starts paid subscription TV service Jennifer Saba NEW YORK Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:39pm EDT Related News - Sony's PlayStation near deal with Hulu: reporthttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65O07S20100625 Thu, Jun 24 2010 - Sony's PlayStation near deal with Hulu-reporthttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2423075420100625 Thu, Jun 24 2010 - Hulu in talks with CBS, others for paid TV shows: reporthttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65M0OU20100623 Wed, Jun 23 2010 - Hulu in talks with CBS, others for paid TV shows - Bloomberghttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE65M04L20100623 Wed, Jun 23 2010 - Microsoft Kinect arrives November 4thhttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65D4XP20100616 Tue, Jun 15 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hulu introduced a new paid subscription service for watching TV shows and movies on mobile devices, game consoles, television sets and computers, and joined other media companies trying to strike a balance between paid and ad supported models. Entertainment http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment | ipadhttp://www.reuters.com/subjects/ipad | Technology http://www.reuters.com/news/technology | Televisionhttp://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/television | Media http://www.reuters.com/news/media Until now, Hulu has been free over the web supported by advertisements, but offered only selected TV shows and movies. That service will continue to exist after the launch of Hulu Plus. Hulu's subscription service, called Hulu Plus, gives users access to more than 45 full programs of everything from Glee to The Office for $9.99 a month. Like all media companies, Hulu has its work cut out in trying to get people to pay for programing they are used to watching for free from the broadcast networks. Hulu Plus is hoping to lure consumers to pay a monthly fee for the convenience of watching shows whenever they want. Hulu has the backing of some of the most powerful media brands, with Fox owner News Corp, General Electric Co's NBC Universal, ABC owner Walt Disney Co holding equity stakes in the company. Providence Equity Partners also is a stakeholder. Hulu said it is making its service available on Apple Inc's iPhone, iPadhttp://www.reuters.com/subjects/ipadand iTouch, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's television sets and Blu-ray players. Soon, Hulu Plus will be available on Sony Corp's PlayStation 3. Next year, the service will be available on Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360, Hulu said in its announcement on Tuesday. Netflix Inc already runs a subscription service, while Comcast Corp and Time Warner Inc are developing TV Everywhere, which will allow people to watch shows on demand for free and on any device provided they are already paying customers. In another case, Time Warner's HBO service Go lets subscribers download episodes of True Blood or Big Love as a free ad-on. The Hulu subscription plan and partnership with device makers was a widely anticipated move, reported by Reuters and others earlier this month. In a blog post, Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar described Hulu Plus as incremental and complementary to the existing Hulu service. He said the subscription plan would make available full seasons of current TV shows, as well as back seasons of hit programs like Arrested Development and The X-Files. We believe that any lasting solution to the challenge of making TV show discovery and viewing dramatically easier has to work for all three of our customers, and those are our end users, our advertisers, and our content suppliers, Kilar wrote. CBS Corp is the only major broadcast network without an ownership stake in Hulu and currently does not make any of its programs available on the video website. The company declined to comment on whether it would participate in the paid service. (Reporting by Jennifer Saba, editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Carol Bishopric) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at:
Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010
Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only three people caught that language. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it... How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010 - By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image: Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com - June 29, 2010 | - 8:07 pm | - Categories: Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/ - For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people work. “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could observe how people were using new features. Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Movie Review - RoboGeisha
Movie Review: RoboGeisha Finally released in England on DVD, RoboGeisha takes a sci-fi / dark comedy look at martial art films. What would be the least likely person to be a dangerous killer in Japan? Answer, the lowly and submissive geisha. The film is about a young woman name Yoshie that is quiet and often bullied by her attractive older sister Kikue. While her older sister works as a geisha, Yoshie finds herself cleaning the geisha house and ignored. Yoshie is often bullied by Kikue and we meet her character with low self-esteem. After a fight with Kikue, for ruining her performance for a handsome young ceo, Yoshie is spotted tearing a phonebook in half with her bare hands and is drafted into an evil secret assassin group by the ceo. His organization is a right wing extremist group that plans to use geisha assassins to “correct” what they see as the source of problems in Japan. (Mostly Yakuza members and corrupt politicians.) The company has big plans for Japan and the CEO and his father are ruthless about it. After intense training, Yoshie quickly becomes the most skilled out of the large team of assassins. She enjoys the recognition that she is finally receiving and gains confidence. Soon Kikue becomes the teams discipline enforcer by killing anyone that gets out of line. For their excellent work, the two women are given robotic additions to their bodies including hidden swords and machine guns. (I will not tell you where.) The action in the film is similar to Machine Girl. The people that created Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police also created this film, so if you have watched either film you know what to expect. The special effects are pretty interesting to see and some look as if they are in 3d! There is also a different type of camera shake that they use in the film that is not as bad as American made films. Overall, there is a certain level of silliness that shows up in the action scenes that pokes fun at the tradition of geishas in this film. They also poke fun at sexuality, which seems to appear in many action films as well as anime that come from Japan. It may be a running joke in Japan, but it definitely shows in this film. The director Noboru Iguchi does pull you into his strange alternate universe and makes you want to see more of it. Pros: Some of the effects are very cool and new, Very quirky and funny film. The fight scenes are exciting and contain a high level of silliness that offsets the splatterific gore. Cons: There are some slow spots that take away a bit from the pacing of the overall film but it creates a subplot. Some effects do not look like they were fully rendered. Japanese with English subtitles. Unavailable in the US unless you have a friend that has it. Rated PG13 3.5 stars out of 5
Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010
I remember back in the early 90s a software company did something similar. They offered a piece of software that was an SDK and said that if anyone sells a product with it they would have to pay them $10k, which was an outrageous amount of money at the time. It worked twice for them until there was a lawsuit behind it. The creators of the SDK lost in court. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only three people caught that language. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it... How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010 - By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image: Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com - June 29, 2010 | - 8:07 pm | - Categories: Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/ - For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people work. “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could observe how people were using new features. Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie Review - RoboGeisha
I can't wait to see this. I loved Machine Gun Girl...it's one of the best gore movies ever made. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Movie Review: RoboGeisha Finally released in England on DVD, RoboGeisha takes a sci-fi / dark comedy look at martial art films. What would be the least likely person to be a dangerous killer in Japan? Answer, the lowly and submissive geisha. The film is about a young woman name Yoshie that is quiet and often bullied by her attractive older sister Kikue. While her older sister works as a geisha, Yoshie finds herself cleaning the geisha house and ignored. Yoshie is often bullied by Kikue and we meet her character with low self-esteem. After a fight with Kikue, for ruining her performance for a handsome young ceo, Yoshie is spotted tearing a phonebook in half with her bare hands and is drafted into an evil secret assassin group by the ceo. His organization is a right wing extremist group that plans to use geisha assassins to “correct” what they see as the source of problems in Japan. (Mostly Yakuza members and corrupt politicians.) The company has big plans for Japan and the CEO and his father are ruthless about it. After intense training, Yoshie quickly becomes the most skilled out of the large team of assassins. She enjoys the recognition that she is finally receiving and gains confidence. Soon Kikue becomes the teams discipline enforcer by killing anyone that gets out of line. For their excellent work, the two women are given robotic additions to their bodies including hidden swords and machine guns. (I will not tell you where.) The action in the film is similar to Machine Girl. The people that created Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police also created this film, so if you have watched either film you know what to expect. The special effects are pretty interesting to see and some look as if they are in 3d! There is also a different type of camera shake that they use in the film that is not as bad as American made films. Overall, there is a certain level of silliness that shows up in the action scenes that pokes fun at the tradition of geishas in this film. They also poke fun at sexuality, which seems to appear in many action films as well as anime that come from Japan. It may be a running joke in Japan, but it definitely shows in this film. The director Noboru Iguchi does pull you into his strange alternate universe and makes you want to see more of it. Pros: Some of the effects are very cool and new, Very quirky and funny film. The fight scenes are exciting and contain a high level of silliness that offsets the splatterific gore. Cons: There are some slow spots that take away a bit from the pacing of the overall film but it creates a subplot. Some effects do not look like they were fully rendered. Japanese with English subtitles. Unavailable in the US unless you have a friend that has it. Rated PG13 3.5 stars out of 5 -- Get Social and Follow Me: Read my blog at http://BrandsGoSocial.com Join me on Facebook http://facebook.com/mikestreet Follow me on Twitter Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/streetforce1 Join the Harlem NY Community http://www.facebook.com/harlemny
[scifinoir2] Re: McDonald's menu is getting leaner
Keith, it is obvious you do not have children. You would go broke feeding them at Five Guys, Steak and Shake and Ted's Montana Grill - further, most children would not appreciate what these restaurants serve. In my sane-and-sober youth I used to love McDonald's hotcakes. Now, I realize how truly vile they are (big ups to Milwaukee's Daymaker Restaurant and their Cyclops pancake - a colossal pancake with sausage baked inside and a poached egg in the middle). My eighteen year-old daughter still orders off the children's menu. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Re: McDonald's menu is getting leaner
Five Guys is the epitome of lean. All they serve is burgers, hot dogs, soft drinks, water and fries. No shakes. No pies. No chicken. Word of advice: never, EVER order a large fry (unless, of course, you want a big honking bag of fries) - a regular order will be more than sufficient. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: I've heard great things all around about Five Guys. I intend to get to the one up in Roswell one day to try it out. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
[scifinoir2] Re: [Old Spice - Questions]
Guys, don't hate. Just use Old Spice like the honey says. Then when you morph into him and have diamonds spilling from your hands, call me. I'll be all the lawyer you need. LOL! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Hmmm let me think about that lawsuit for a minute... On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@...wrote: Mr Worf, he's got an outside chance, if no one really looks hard at him. (Though I'm certain the ladies will...) Which reminds me... gentlemen, I'm filing a class-action lawsuit against Old Spice. THis series of commercials has effectively killed all chances we normal guys have to make any progress with the Superior Sex. Who's in with me? On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: This is the latest Old Spice commercial. He did an interview on G4 today and said that he wants to play Luke Cage in an upcoming movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTIowBF0kE -- Danilo -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man
Yeah, it feels like milking a franchise. Batman made this same mistake. They should have stopped back in the day after the first two Keaton and Burton did. .But no, it became a revolving door of actors, and ended up an embarrassment. Letting it rest for so long was a great idea, as it allowed someone like Nolan to come in and craft a great set of movies. But I agree with his take that three is enough, and hope fervently the studio then lets the movie franchise lie dormant for at least a decade. When studios push franchises past three movies, or try to build too much around spinoffs, we get the Batman debacle, the sub-par third X-Men and Spider-Man movies, or completely underwhelming side projects like Elektra or Wolverine: X-Men Origins. One of the few movie franchises that has done well past three films is Harry Potter. But that's because Rowling is writing books for books' sake, not with an eye to making money at the theatre. Hence, she lets her characters get older, their storylines grittier, stakes higher (even death), and it feels more organic and natural. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 6:46:51 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man No, Keith, I'm there with you. Won't even trouble my wallet to come up with the cash to see this if it lands in the dollar DVD bin at Kroger. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Am I the only one who's completely underwhelmed by the idea of a Spider-Man reboot? Man, the films aren't that old, and yet we're already being given a new gang. What's the real point? Can't they at least wait a generation, like they used to in the old days, before slapping out another version of the franchise? And as far as a new actor to play Spidey, here's a thought: how about getting an honest-to-goodness New Yorker who has an accent to match? - Original Message - From: brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:01:57 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/07/01/andrew-garfield-cast-as-the-new-spider-man/ Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man by Nicole Sperling We have a new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man - and he’s British. Columbia Pictures confirms that Andrew Garfield, 26, has nabbed the highly sought-after role of Peter Parker after a worldwide search. Garfield, while largely unknown in the states, is one of the U.K.’s most highly regarded up-and-comers. He appeared in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus as well as John Crowley’s Boy A, for which he received a best actor BAFTA in 2008. He’s been getting heat in the U.S., too. This year the young Brit will be starring opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake in the Facebook movie Social Network, directed by David Fincher, and will star in the Oscar-bait drama Never Let Me Go opposite Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Keira Knightley. As recently as yesterday, web speculation was high that 17-year-old Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right) would land the webslinger role, which was originated on the big screen by Tobey Maguire. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner
They're all over the place. There's one at Lindbergh station, another across the street from the Chamblee Marta station, in the Wal-Mart parking lot, one down the street from the Wal-Mart up Lawrenceville road, another at the big shopping center off Moreland Avenue downtown. The burgers are fresh and good, and they do a mean grilled split hot dog. My only complaint is that they don't do onion rings, chili, or milk shakes, the three staples I prefer with my burger. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 6:50:42 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner I've heard great things all around about Five Guys. I intend to get to the one up in Roswell one day to try it out. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman'
Dude! I don't watch SVU much, but that sounds creepy! He was also good as a serial killer in "Insomnia", notable also for being one of the increasingly rare times when Al Pacino dialed down his often over-the-top acting. The fact that Chris Nolan directed that movie might have had something to do with it too...- Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" martinbaxt...@gmail.comTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSent: Friday, July 2, 2010 6:53:49 AMSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman' Exactly what I was thinking, Keith. I immediately thought of "One Hour Photo" and his appearance in "Law and Order: SVU", playing a guy who got his jollies by convincing fast-food store managers that one of the female employees was a criminal and having them strip and tie them up "until he arrived". Which was never... he just got off at the thought of what he'd done. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Williams is frighteningly good at playing a psychopath. He'd make an awesome Toyman, if they go with the more disturbed Toyman of recent years. The version that John Byrne crafted after the Crisis even abducted and killed young children. The one in the Justice League cartoon was creepy with that masked face of his, and the disturbing childlike way he spoke. - Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" martinbaxt...@gmail.comTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:28:43 AMSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman' Brent, I saw this story late yesterday as well, and I don't see Williams having a place anywhere in the Bat-franchise. However, I did catch a word on the whisper-stream that Nolan wanted a shot at te next Superman movie. If that happens, then Williams, IMO, is a dead lock for Toyman. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/06/30/14565671-wenn-story.html Williams wants crack at 'Batman' By WENN.COM Robin Williams is urging movie bosses to cast him in the next Batman movie - because he has twice been turned down for parts in the superhero franchise. Rumours over casting for Christopher Nolan's upcoming third superhero film have been rife ever since The Dark Knight, starring Heath Ledger as The Joker, hit cinemas in 2008 - with fans speculating over which characters will be re-introduced. Nolan is said to be considering bringing feline femme fatale Catwoman back for the new movie, along with The Riddler. Williams is adamant he would make a good replacement for Jim Carrey, who played the fiendish puzzler in 1995's Batman Forever, because the part was originally offered to him. The funnyman also reveals he was lined up to play The Joker in the original 1989 Batman movie before the role was later handed to Jack Nicholson - and the snubs have made him determined to secure a part in the next installment of the hit franchise. He tells Empire magazine, "I would do Batman in a second. I'd play The Riddler in the next one, although it would be hard to top Heath Ledger as the villain and I'm a little hairy for tights. "The Batman films have screwed me twice before: years ago they offered me The Joker and then gave it to Jack Nicholson, then they offered me The Riddler and gave it to Jim Carrey. I'd be like, 'OK, is this a real offer? If it is, then the answer's yes. Don't pump me again motherf**kers'." -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Granthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: McDonald's menu is getting leaner
You're right about me not having kids. But I'm big on quality food, and it doesn't have to be expensive. My parents used Dairy Queen (back when it was awesome) and What-a-Burger and Jack-In-The-Box as treats. Back in the day, all served up good food that was lightyears beyond McDonald's and they weren't that expensive. Dairy Queen, for example, was about the same in price. But the key was we didn't eat fast food a lot, so when we did, it was a real treat and we went to places that put Mickey D's to shame. I think what disturbs me is the idea that if you have children you have to feed them fast food so much that you could go broke. What about limiting it, making it a treat and then giving them a good meal that's not rushed? It troubles me how we just accept nowadays that McDonald's has to be a regular trip for the family just because they have kids and maybe both parents work. Cut the fast food for the kids down from four or five or six times a week to only one or two, and then you can pay a bit more for quality. I also think people need to learn to slow down and really enjoy a meal. I hate eating fast even at a fast food joint. Some of the mom-and-pop joints I go to for burgers and hot dogs and the like aren't so pricey that you'd go broke over McDonalds. Indeed, for what you get, many are very economical. But the food's better, the meals are longer, and adults and kids have fun. Just because kids may not be able to appreciate a higher quality burger doesn't mean the adults should have to suffer. And maybe it's just me, but even as a wee lad, I could tell the difference in a quality, real beef, burger over the stuff most of the fast food joints put out. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 9:40:26 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, it is obvious you do not have children. You would go broke feeding them at Five Guys, Steak and Shake and Ted's Montana Grill - further, most children would not appreciate what these restaurants serve. In my sane-and-sober youth I used to love McDonald's hotcakes. Now, I realize how truly vile they are (big ups to Milwaukee's Daymaker Restaurant and their Cyclops pancake - a colossal pancake with sausage baked inside and a poached egg in the middle). My eighteen year-old daughter still orders off the children's menu. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: McDonald's menu is getting leaner
agreed! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 9:44:48 AM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: McDonald's menu is getting leaner Five Guys is the epitome of lean. All they serve is burgers, hot dogs, soft drinks, water and fries. No shakes. No pies. No chicken. Word of advice: never, EVER order a large fry (unless, of course, you want a big honking bag of fries) - a regular order will be more than sufficient. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: I've heard great things all around about Five Guys. I intend to get to the one up in Roswell one day to try it out. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: McDonald's menu is getting leaner
rave... order me two of those, if you don't mind. I'll be through to pick them up as soon as I can arrange transport. [?][?][?][?] On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: Keith, it is obvious you do not have children. You would go broke feeding them at Five Guys, Steak and Shake and Ted's Montana Grill - further, most children would not appreciate what these restaurants serve. In my sane-and-sober youth I used to love McDonald's hotcakes. Now, I realize how truly vile they are (big ups to Milwaukee's Daymaker Restaurant and their Cyclops pancake - a colossal pancake with sausage baked inside and a poached egg in the middle). My eighteen year-old daughter still orders off the children's menu. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik 32B.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner
The one in Lawrenceville is right up my alley And the one at Moreland must be new, because I was there a couple of months ago, and didn't see it. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: They're all over the place. There's one at Lindbergh station, another across the street from the Chamblee Marta station, in the Wal-Mart parking lot, one down the street from the Wal-Mart up Lawrenceville road, another at the big shopping center off Moreland Avenue downtown. The burgers are fresh and good, and they do a mean grilled split hot dog. My only complaint is that they don't do onion rings, chili, or milk shakes, the three staples I prefer with my burger. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 6:50:42 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner I've heard great things all around about Five Guys. I intend to get to the one up in Roswell one day to try it out. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman'
Oh, it was, dude! The ep was called Authority ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015439/), and I advise you to keep an eye open for it. It's a performance fr the ages, IMO. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Dude! I don't watch SVU much, but that sounds creepy! He was also good as a serial killer in Insomnia, notable also for being one of the increasingly rare times when Al Pacino dialed down his often over-the-top acting. The fact that Chris Nolan directed that movie might have had something to do with it too... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 6:53:49 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman' Exactly what I was thinking, Keith. I immediately thought of One Hour Photo and his appearance in Law and Order: SVU, playing a guy who got his jollies by convincing fast-food store managers that one of the female employees was a criminal and having them strip and tie them up until he arrived. Which was never... he just got off at the thought of what he'd done. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Williams is frighteningly good at playing a psychopath. He'd make an awesome Toyman, if they go with the more disturbed Toyman of recent years. The version that John Byrne crafted after the Crisis even abducted and killed young children. The one in the Justice League cartoon was creepy with that masked face of his, and the disturbing childlike way he spoke. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:28:43 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman' Brent, I saw this story late yesterday as well, and I don't see Williams having a place anywhere in the Bat-franchise. However, I did catch a word on the whisper-stream that Nolan wanted a shot at te next Superman movie. If that happens, then Williams, IMO, is a dead lock for Toyman. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/06/30/14565671-wenn-story.html Williams wants crack at 'Batman' By WENN.COM Robin Williams is urging movie bosses to cast him in the next Batman movie - because he has twice been turned down for parts in the superhero franchise. Rumours over casting for Christopher Nolan's upcoming third superhero film have been rife ever since The Dark Knight, starring Heath Ledger as The Joker, hit cinemas in 2008 - with fans speculating over which characters will be re-introduced. Nolan is said to be considering bringing feline femme fatale Catwoman back for the new movie, along with The Riddler. Williams is adamant he would make a good replacement for Jim Carrey, who played the fiendish puzzler in 1995's Batman Forever, because the part was originally offered to him. The funnyman also reveals he was lined up to play The Joker in the original 1989 Batman movie before the role was later handed to Jack Nicholson - and the snubs have made him determined to secure a part in the next installment of the hit franchise. He tells Empire magazine, I would do Batman in a second. I'd play The Riddler in the next one, although it would be hard to top Heath Ledger as the villain and I'm a little hairy for tights. The Batman films have screwed me twice before: years ago they offered me The Joker and then gave it to Jack Nicholson, then they offered me The Riddler and gave it to Jim Carrey. I'd be like, 'OK, is this a real offer? If it is, then the answer's yes. Don't pump me again motherf**kers'. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man
Can't argue with any of that, Keith. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Yeah, it feels like milking a franchise. Batman made this same mistake. They should have stopped back in the day after the first two Keaton and Burton did. .But no, it became a revolving door of actors, and ended up an embarrassment. Letting it rest for so long was a great idea, as it allowed someone like Nolan to come in and craft a great set of movies. But I agree with his take that three is enough, and hope fervently the studio then lets the movie franchise lie dormant for at least a decade. When studios push franchises past three movies, or try to build too much around spinoffs, we get the Batman debacle, the sub-par third X-Men and Spider-Man movies, or completely underwhelming side projects like Elektra or Wolverine: X-Men Origins. One of the few movie franchises that has done well past three films is Harry Potter. But that's because Rowling is writing books for books' sake, not with an eye to making money at the theatre. Hence, she lets her characters get older, their storylines grittier, stakes higher (even death), and it feels more organic and natural. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 6:46:51 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man No, Keith, I'm there with you. Won't even trouble my wallet to come up with the cash to see this if it lands in the dollar DVD bin at Kroger. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Am I the only one who's completely underwhelmed by the idea of a Spider-Man reboot? Man, the films aren't that old, and yet we're already being given a new gang. What's the real point? Can't they at least wait a generation, like they used to in the old days, before slapping out another version of the franchise? And as far as a new actor to play Spidey, here's a thought: how about getting an honest-to-goodness New Yorker who has an accent to match? - Original Message - From: brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:01:57 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/07/01/andrew-garfield-cast-as-the-new-spider-man/ Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man by Nicole Sperling We have a new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man - and he’s British. Columbia Pictures confirms that Andrew Garfield, 26, has nabbed the highly sought-after role of Peter Parker after a worldwide search. Garfield, while largely unknown in the states, is one of the U.K.’s most highly regarded up-and-comers. He appeared in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus as well as John Crowley’s Boy A, for which he received a best actor BAFTA in 2008. He’s been getting heat in the U.S., too. This year the young Brit will be starring opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake in the Facebook movie Social Network, directed by David Fincher, and will star in the Oscar-bait drama Never Let Me Go opposite Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Keira Knightley. As recently as yesterday, web speculation was high that 17-year-old Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right) would land the webslinger role, which was originated on the big screen by Tobey Maguire. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: [Old Spice - Questions]
Angela, you're on speed-dial! [?][?] On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:05 AM, angelababycat asrobin...@mindspring.comwrote: Guys, don't hate. Just use Old Spice like the honey says. Then when you morph into him and have diamonds spilling from your hands, call me. I'll be all the lawyer you need. LOL! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Hmmm let me think about that lawsuit for a minute... On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@...wrote: Mr Worf, he's got an outside chance, if no one really looks hard at him. (Though I'm certain the ladies will...) Which reminds me... gentlemen, I'm filing a class-action lawsuit against Old Spice. THis series of commercials has effectively killed all chances we normal guys have to make any progress with the Superior Sex. Who's in with me? On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: This is the latest Old Spice commercial. He did an interview on G4 today and said that he wants to play Luke Cage in an upcoming movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTIowBF0kE -- Danilo -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik 330.gif347.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie Review - RoboGeisha
Chicks tearing phone books in half... where do I buy? [?] On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Movie Review: RoboGeisha Finally released in England on DVD, RoboGeisha takes a sci-fi / dark comedy look at martial art films. What would be the least likely person to be a dangerous killer in Japan? Answer, the lowly and submissive geisha. The film is about a young woman name Yoshie that is quiet and often bullied by her attractive older sister Kikue. While her older sister works as a geisha, Yoshie finds herself cleaning the geisha house and ignored. Yoshie is often bullied by Kikue and we meet her character with low self-esteem. After a fight with Kikue, for ruining her performance for a handsome young ceo, Yoshie is spotted tearing a phonebook in half with her bare hands and is drafted into an evil secret assassin group by the ceo. His organization is a right wing extremist group that plans to use geisha assassins to “correct” what they see as the source of problems in Japan. (Mostly Yakuza members and corrupt politicians.) The company has big plans for Japan and the CEO and his father are ruthless about it. After intense training, Yoshie quickly becomes the most skilled out of the large team of assassins. She enjoys the recognition that she is finally receiving and gains confidence. Soon Kikue becomes the teams discipline enforcer by killing anyone that gets out of line. For their excellent work, the two women are given robotic additions to their bodies including hidden swords and machine guns. (I will not tell you where.) The action in the film is similar to Machine Girl. The people that created Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police also created this film, so if you have watched either film you know what to expect. The special effects are pretty interesting to see and some look as if they are in 3d! There is also a different type of camera shake that they use in the film that is not as bad as American made films. Overall, there is a certain level of silliness that shows up in the action scenes that pokes fun at the tradition of geishas in this film. They also poke fun at sexuality, which seems to appear in many action films as well as anime that come from Japan. It may be a running joke in Japan, but it definitely shows in this film. The director Noboru Iguchi does pull you into his strange alternate universe and makes you want to see more of it. Pros: Some of the effects are very cool and new, Very quirky and funny film. The fight scenes are exciting and contain a high level of silliness that offsets the splatterific gore. Cons: There are some slow spots that take away a bit from the pacing of the overall film but it creates a subplot. Some effects do not look like they were fully rendered. Japanese with English subtitles. Unavailable in the US unless you have a friend that has it. Rated PG13 3.5 stars out of 5 -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik 327.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010
Mt friend stopped doing it because one of the few folks who noticed it threatened to call the cops if he tried to call in the claim. Another friend of ours, a lawyer, said that he had a fair chance of winning the case, but it would cost him cash that he didn't have. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I remember back in the early 90s a software company did something similar. They offered a piece of software that was an SDK and said that if anyone sells a product with it they would have to pay them $10k, which was an outrageous amount of money at the time. It worked twice for them until there was a lawsuit behind it. The creators of the SDK lost in court. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only three people caught that language. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it... How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010 - By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image: Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com - June 29, 2010 | - 8:07 pm | - Categories: Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/ - For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people work. “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could observe how people were using new features. Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010
Majority of the people do not read the end user agreement or terms of service because they are usually very long and complicated. M$ has been tinkering around with their eula for a long time. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mt friend stopped doing it because one of the few folks who noticed it threatened to call the cops if he tried to call in the claim. Another friend of ours, a lawyer, said that he had a fair chance of winning the case, but it would cost him cash that he didn't have. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I remember back in the early 90s a software company did something similar. They offered a piece of software that was an SDK and said that if anyone sells a product with it they would have to pay them $10k, which was an outrageous amount of money at the time. It worked twice for them until there was a lawsuit behind it. The creators of the SDK lost in court. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Makes me wonder how many people even bother to read those end-user agreements. Back in the early Naughts, a friend of mine created a WP software system and posted it, free for all, on his website. In the EUA, he included the line that Any one who downloads this immediately cedes all rights to their immortal soul to me. He had over 5600 downloads, and only three people caught that language. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They have been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it... How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010 - By Brian X. Chen http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/ [image: Email Author] brianxc...@gmail.com - June 29, 2010 | - 8:07 pm | - Categories: Miscellaneoushttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/uncategorized/ - For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people work. “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.” –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2 million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could observe how people were using new features. Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie Review - RoboGeisha
Its not available in the US yet. They released it a couple of weeks ago in the UK but I don't know when they are releasing it here. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Chicks tearing phone books in half... where do I buy? [?] On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Movie Review: RoboGeisha Finally released in England on DVD, RoboGeisha takes a sci-fi / dark comedy look at martial art films. What would be the least likely person to be a dangerous killer in Japan? Answer, the lowly and submissive geisha. The film is about a young woman name Yoshie that is quiet and often bullied by her attractive older sister Kikue. While her older sister works as a geisha, Yoshie finds herself cleaning the geisha house and ignored. Yoshie is often bullied by Kikue and we meet her character with low self-esteem. After a fight with Kikue, for ruining her performance for a handsome young ceo, Yoshie is spotted tearing a phonebook in half with her bare hands and is drafted into an evil secret assassin group by the ceo. His organization is a right wing extremist group that plans to use geisha assassins to “correct” what they see as the source of problems in Japan. (Mostly Yakuza members and corrupt politicians.) The company has big plans for Japan and the CEO and his father are ruthless about it. After intense training, Yoshie quickly becomes the most skilled out of the large team of assassins. She enjoys the recognition that she is finally receiving and gains confidence. Soon Kikue becomes the teams discipline enforcer by killing anyone that gets out of line. For their excellent work, the two women are given robotic additions to their bodies including hidden swords and machine guns. (I will not tell you where.) The action in the film is similar to Machine Girl. The people that created Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police also created this film, so if you have watched either film you know what to expect. The special effects are pretty interesting to see and some look as if they are in 3d! There is also a different type of camera shake that they use in the film that is not as bad as American made films. Overall, there is a certain level of silliness that shows up in the action scenes that pokes fun at the tradition of geishas in this film. They also poke fun at sexuality, which seems to appear in many action films as well as anime that come from Japan. It may be a running joke in Japan, but it definitely shows in this film. The director Noboru Iguchi does pull you into his strange alternate universe and makes you want to see more of it. Pros: Some of the effects are very cool and new, Very quirky and funny film. The fight scenes are exciting and contain a high level of silliness that offsets the splatterific gore. Cons: There are some slow spots that take away a bit from the pacing of the overall film but it creates a subplot. Some effects do not look like they were fully rendered. Japanese with English subtitles. Unavailable in the US unless you have a friend that has it. Rated PG13 3.5 stars out of 5 -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ 327.gif
[scifinoir2] Victorian Star Wars Portraits Paint Characters in New Light
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101634-Victorian-Star-Wars-Portraits-Paint-Characters-in-New-Light (Please note also: http://www.sillof.com/C-Steampunk-SW2.htm)
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie Review - RoboGeisha
ahar...@earthlink.net I saw this film at a special screening at Japan Society and I loved it. I also love Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police. If you love wacky extreme action fantasy - you'll love Robo Geisha! Cheers! Amy Movie Review: RoboGeisha Finally released in England on DVD, RoboGeisha takes a sci-fi / dark comedy look at martial art films. What would be the least likely person to be a dangerous killer in Japan? Answer, the lowly and submissive geisha. The film is about a young woman name Yoshie that is quiet and often bullied by her attractive older sister Kikue. While her older sister works as a geisha, Yoshie finds herself cleaning the geisha house and ignored. Yoshie is often bullied by Kikue and we meet her character with low self-esteem. After a fight with Kikue, for ruining her performance for a handsome young ceo, Yoshie is spotted tearing a phonebook in half with her bare hands and is drafted into an evil secret assassin group by the ceo. His organization is a right wing extremist group that plans to use geisha assassins to “correct” what they see as the source of problems in Japan. (Mostly Yakuza members and corrupt politicians.) The company has big plans for Japan and the CEO and his father are ruthless about it. After intense training, Yoshie quickly becomes the most skilled out of the large team of assassins. She enjoys the recognition that she is finally receiving and gains confidence. Soon Kikue becomes the teams discipline enforcer by killing anyone that gets out of line. For their excellent work, the two women are given robotic additions to their bodies including hidden swords and machine guns. (I will not tell you where.) The action in the film is similar to Machine Girl. The people that created Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police also created this film, so if you have watched either film you know what to expect. The special effects are pretty interesting to see and some look as if they are in 3d! There is also a different type of camera shake that they use in the film that is not as bad as American made films. Overall, there is a certain level of silliness that shows up in the action scenes that pokes fun at the tradition of geishas in this film. They also poke fun at sexuality, which seems to appear in many action films as well as anime that come from Japan. It may be a running joke in Japan, but it definitely shows in this film. The director Noboru Iguchi does pull you into his strange alternate universe and makes you want to see more of it. Pros: Some of the effects are very cool and new, Very quirky and funny film. The fight scenes are exciting and contain a high level of silliness that offsets the splatterific gore. Cons: There are some slow spots that take away a bit from the pacing of the overall film but it creates a subplot. Some effects do not look like they were fully rendered. Japanese with English subtitles. Unavailable in the US unless you have a friend that has it. Rated PG13 3.5 stars out of 5 -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Kids today?
Most of the kids in the 7th grade class were as tall or taller than the teacher. I have noticed that the amount of kids that are autistic is a lot higher now. My nephew is only 4 and he is already over 4 feet tall. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, I can't really tell. At my niece's school, not all of the kids are super-tall. My niece is (not yet 16 and chasing 5'11, but that's because height runs on my mother's side of the family). On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: There has to be something in the food. Today I was at an elementary school to watch a parade. Why is it that the kids in the 7th grade ( So these kids are about 12-13! ) were as tall or taller than me? I'm 5'10.What the heck is going on? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner
The one at Moreland is actually very old. It was there when that complex opened a few years back. It's on the righthand side as you drive into the main entrance, at the end of the road just before you drive into the larger parking lot leading to Best Buy and Home Depot. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 3:09:16 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner The one in Lawrenceville is right up my alley And the one at Moreland must be new, because I was there a couple of months ago, and didn't see it. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: They're all over the place. There's one at Lindbergh station, another across the street from the Chamblee Marta station, in the Wal-Mart parking lot, one down the street from the Wal-Mart up Lawrenceville road, another at the big shopping center off Moreland Avenue downtown. The burgers are fresh and good, and they do a mean grilled split hot dog. My only complaint is that they don't do onion rings, chili, or milk shakes, the three staples I prefer with my burger. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 2, 2010 6:50:42 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner I've heard great things all around about Five Guys. I intend to get to the one up in Roswell one day to try it out. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes Noble already serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last year. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the Big N'asty burger. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. ~rave? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu McDonald's menu getting leaner Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being test-marketed. The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft puts Kin out of its misery
Verizon is as much to blame for the failure of these phones as M$. Buyers were forced to get the full $30/month data plan for a glorified Sidekick. Why in the world would you pay that for a limited phone when you can pay the same and get an Incredible or my next phone, the Droid X. Also, I see that M$ is pulling the plug on on the Sidekick as well. They REALLY need to step up Winblows Phone 'cause Android and Apple are quickly squeezing them out. Gerald Haynes http://thesmallfries.com - Calvin Hobbes who? http://dontarrestus.com - Latino based sci-fi comic strip fun From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 3:48:17 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft puts Kin out of its misery M$ thinks that if they throw enough money at something that they can dominate a market. Totally silly but you know that they will keep trying. I read somewhere that they only sold 500 phones! Wow... That's more than a failure. That is a FAIL. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo. com wrote: This is another in a long line of arrogant failures by Microsoft. I just recently purchased a Droid phone for $48 that has thousands of free apps and Google GPS mapping function. Plus, the Kin is just clunky and ugly. ~(no)rave! http://www.google. com/hostednews/ ap/article/ ALeqM5haOYAKGvpW HM7l7Bg0zx6EdO9V cwD9GLRTIO0 SEATTLE — For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin. The company halted the rollout of Kin One and Kin Two phones after less than two months. Kin phones were aimed at people who wanted a constant stream of updates from social networks and who wanted to share Web snippets, photos and video with friends. But the timing of Kin's arrival was off. Microsoft Corp. had just announced a new Windows Phone system. And during the years Kin was said to be in development, smart phones grew more sophisticated. Kin doesn't have extra apps for download or a GPS mapping function. Microsoft says it won't sell the phones in Europe as planned. It will focus instead on Windows Phone 7. Verizon Wireless will continue to sell the current Kin phones. Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. - - -- Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/scifinoir2 /app/peoplemap2/ entry/add? fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Tyler Perry feels betrayed by TNT
OK, (1) if Perry is really doing that kind of stuff and fired the guy, he should have seen coming in some form or other and (2) I didn't think that episode was very funny. In fact, Boondocks has been leaning more towards vulgarity profanity than humor and social commentary. The last show was abismal and made me cancel future episodes. The only saving grace this season has been the Red Ball kickball episode. Gerald Haynes http://thesmallfries.com - Calvin Hobbes who? http://dontarrestus.com - Latino based sci-fi comic strip fun From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 3:47:33 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Tyler Perry feels betrayed by TNT This explains a great many things, rave. Thanks for the enlightenment. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo. com wrote: http://www.rollingout.com/insideentertainment/the-pulse/9945-madea-vs-boondocks-tyler-perry-not-suing-aaron-mcgruder-feels-betrayed-by-turner-network.html Contrary to erroneous reports on some popular blog sites and the Atlanta Journal-Constitutio n, Tyler Perry is not suing Aaron McGruder over the highly publicized Boondocks episode that lampooned Perry's famous Madea character, blasted Perry's leadership style and seriously questioned his sexuality. But Perry, whose popular pistol-packing, profane Madea character has helped rake in tens of millions at the box office over the past decade, is definitely ablaze with anger for the derisive and embarrassing depictions of him on the popular cartoon series. Perry, according to this writer's inside source, knows the identity of the person who crafted the script that McGruder aired last Sunday titled, Pause. The person, whose name was not available at press time, is a former staff member at Tyler Perry Studios who was fired some time ago and re-emerged on the other side of Turner, working with McGruder. -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft puts Kin out of its misery
M$ needs to figure out what their real strengths are instead of forcing their way into the market all the time. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Gerald Haynes efhay...@yahoo.com wrote: Verizon is as much to blame for the failure of these phones as M$. Buyers were forced to get the full $30/month data plan for a glorified Sidekick. Why in the world would you pay that for a limited phone when you can pay the same and get an Incredible or my next phone, the Droid X. Also, I see that M$ is pulling the plug on on the Sidekick as well. They REALLY need to step up Winblows Phone 'cause Android and Apple are quickly squeezing them out. Gerald Haynes http://thesmallfries.com - Calvin Hobbes who? http://dontarrestus.com - Latino based sci-fi comic strip fun -- *From:* Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com *To:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Thu, July 1, 2010 3:48:17 PM *Subject:* Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft puts Kin out of its misery M$ thinks that if they throw enough money at something that they can dominate a market. Totally silly but you know that they will keep trying. I read somewhere that they only sold 500 phones! Wow... That's more than a failure. That is a FAIL. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo. comravena...@yahoo.com wrote: This is another in a long line of arrogant failures by Microsoft. I just recently purchased a Droid phone for $48 that has thousands of free apps and Google GPS mapping function. Plus, the Kin is just clunky and ugly. ~(no)rave! http://www.google. com/hostednews/ ap/article/ ALeqM5haOYAKGvpW HM7l7Bg0zx6EdO9V cwD9GLRTIO0http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haOYAKGvpWHM7l7Bg0zx6EdO9VcwD9GLRTIO0 SEATTLE — For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin. The company halted the rollout of Kin One and Kin Two phones after less than two months. Kin phones were aimed at people who wanted a constant stream of updates from social networks and who wanted to share Web snippets, photos and video with friends. But the timing of Kin's arrival was off. Microsoft Corp. had just announced a new Windows Phone system. And during the years Kin was said to be in development, smart phones grew more sophisticated. Kin doesn't have extra apps for download or a GPS mapping function. Microsoft says it won't sell the phones in Europe as planned. It will focus instead on Windows Phone 7. Verizon Wireless will continue to sell the current Kin phones. Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. - - -- Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/scifinoir2 /app/peoplemap2/ entry/add? fmvn=mapYahoohttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] As Kin Crashes and Burns, the Droid X rises
I've read that Verizon will charge an extra fee and a data cap to use it as a hotspot. Gerald Haynes http://thesmallfries.com - Calvin Hobbes who? http://dontarrestus.com - Latino based sci-fi comic strip fun From: Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 3:34:39 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] As Kin Crashes and Burns, the Droid X rises Just the ability for it to be a hotspot makes it worth a lot. I didn't know it could do that. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo. com wrote: http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ytech_gadg/ ytech_gadg_ tc2996 While the world continues to line up for the latest iPhone — reception problems and all — Verizon's just-announced jumbo-screen Motorola Droid X has racked up a bevy of admiring reviews. David Pogue at the New York Times calls the Droid X (slated to arrive July 15 for $199, with a two-year Verizon Wireless contract and after a mail-in rebate) a big, beautiful contender with an almost-Imax screen (4.3 inches diagonally, to be exact, or almost a inch bigger than the iPhone's 3.5-inch display). The phone performs like a speed rocket, Pogue gushes, and benefits from Google's open and customizable (and soon Flash-supporting) Android OS, although he also complains about a few nagging quirks (the security warnings before you download Android apps, the wonky screen rotation, the Wi-Fi-less Skype). The Droid X battery gets you through a full day easily, Pogue continues, and there's also Verizon's expensive but not-call-dropping network, as well as the handset's ability to act as a mobile hotspot for other Wi-Fi devices. That said, the Droid X isn't for everyone, Pogue warns, saying that the absolutely huge shell makes you feel as if you're talking into a frozen waffle when you're making a call, and that although Android is a great OS for technically proficient high-end users, it's more complicated and less polished than Apple's iOS.
[scifinoir2] Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630171711.htm Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered ScienceDaily (July 1, 2010) - The discovery in Gabon of more than 250 fossils in an excellent state of conservation has provided proof, for the first time, of the existence of multicellular organisms 2.1 billion years ago. This finding represents a major breakthrough: until now, the first complex life forms (made up of several cells) dated from around 600 million years ago. These new fossils, of various shapes and sizes, imply that the origin of organized life is a lot older than is generally admitted, thus challenging current knowledge on the beginning of life. These specimens were discovered and studied by an international (1) multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Abderrazak El Albani of the Laboratoire Hydrogéologie, Argiles, Sols et Altérations (CNRS/Université de Poitiers) (2). Their work, due to be published in Nature on 1st July, will feature on the cover of the journal. The first traces of life appeared in the form of prokaryotic organisms, in other words organisms without a nucleus, around three and a half billion years ago. Another major event in the history of life, the Cambrian explosion some 600 million years ago, marked a proliferation in the number of living species. It was accompanied by a sudden rise in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere. What happened between 3.5 billion and 600 million years ago though? Scientists have very little information about this era, known as the Proterozoic. Yet, it is during this crucial period that life diversified: to the prokaryotes were added the eukaryotes, single or multicelled organisms endowed with a more complex organization and metabolism. These large-sized living beings differ from prokaryotes by the presence of cells possessing a nucleus containing DNA. While studying the paleo-environment of a fossil-bearing site situated near Franceville in Gabon in 2008, El Albani and his team unexpectedly discovered perfectly preserved fossil remains in the 2.1 billion-year-old sediments. They have collected more than 250 fossils to date, of which one hundred or so have been studied in detail. Their morphology cannot be explained by purely chemical or physical mechanisms. These specimens, which have various shapes and can reach 10 to 12 centimeters, are too big and too complex to be single-celled prokaryotes or eukaryotes. This establishes that different life forms co-existed at the start of the Proterozoic, as the specimens are well and truly fossilized living material. To demonstrate this, the researchers employed cutting-edge techniques that allowed them to define the nature of the samples and to reconstruct their environment. An ion probe capable of measuring the content of sulfur isotopes made it possible to map the relative distribution of organic matter precisely. This matter is what remains of the living organism, which has been transformed into pyrite (a mineral formed of iron disulfide) during fossilization. This helped the researchers to distinguish the fossils from the Gabonese sediment (made of clay). In addition, using an ultra-sophisticated, high-resolution 3D scanner (also known as X-ray microtomograph), they were able to reconstitute the samples in three dimensions and, in particular, assess their degree of internal organization in great detail, without compromising the integrity of the fossils, since the method is non-invasive. The clearly defined and regular shape of these fossils points to a degree of multicellular organization. These organisms lived in colonies: more than 40 specimens per half square meter were sometimes collected. Consequently, they constitute the oldest multicellular eukaryotes ever described to date. By studying the sedimentary structures of this site, which is remarkable both for its richness and quality of conservation, the scientists have shown that these organisms lived in a shallow marine environment (20 to 30 meters), often calm but periodically subjected to the combined influence of tides, waves and storms. In order to be able to develop 2.1 billion years ago and become differentiated to a degree never attained previously, the authors suggest that these life forms probably benefited from the significant but temporary increase in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere, which occurred between 2.45 and 2 billion years ago. Then, 1.9 billion years ago, the level of oxygen in the atmosphere fell suddenly. Until now, it has been assumed that organized multicellular life appeared around 0.6 billion years ago and that before then the Earth was mainly populated by microbes (viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.). This new discovery moves the cursor of the origin of multicellular life back by 1.5 billion years and reveals that cells had begun to cooperate with each other to form more complex and larger structures than single-celled organisms. Several research avenues now need
[scifinoir2] [Somewhat OT] Apatow plans new 'Pee-wee' movie
http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/07/02/14583651-wenn-story.html Apatow plans new 'Pee-wee' movie By WENN.COM Paul Reubens' man-child alter-ego Pee-wee Herman is set for the big screen again - the actor has signed a movie deal with producer Judd Apatow. The Knocked Up director set the project in motion after seeing Reubens' zany revival of the Pee-wee Herman Show, which ran in Los Angeles from January to February. The show was a revamp of Reubens' 1981 stage production that landed the actor and his beloved character a TV show and a film franchise. Paul Rust, whose credits include Inglourious Basterds and I Love You, Beth Cooper, will reportedly pen the new screenplay, which will take Pee-wee on a gigantic adventure. Apatow tells Daily Variety, Let's face it, the world needs more Pee-wee Herman. I am so excited to be working with Paul Reubens - who is an extraordinary and ground-breaking actor and writer. It's so great to watch him return with such relevance. The movie deal follows Reubens' announcement he will take his smash stage revival to Broadway, for a six-week New York run in November. The actor previously took the character to the big screen with Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985 and Big Top Pee-wee in 1988. He retired the character in 1990 after 13 episodes of Emmy Award-winning children's TV series Pee-wee's Playhouse.
[scifinoir2] Some Ancient Stars In Milky Way Were Born Elsewhere
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/milky-way-ancient-stars-collisions-100701.html Some Ancient Stars In Milky Way Were Born Elsewhere By Zoe Macintosh SPACE.com Staff Writer posted: 01 July 2010 Our Milky Way galaxy snatched up many of its most ancient stars from smaller galaxies that shredded each other in violent collisions, a new study suggests. Using new supercomputer simulations, researchers found that some ancient Milky Way stars did not form natively with the rest of the galaxy about 10 billion years ago. Instead, they are actually the leftovers from other galaxies that collided about 5 billion years ago. These stars make up some of the residents in the Milky Way's stellar halo, which extends above and below the spiral galaxy's main disk, researchers said. Effectively we became galactic archaeologists, hunting out the likely sites where ancient stars could be scattered around the galaxy, said researcher and post graduate student Andrew Cooper of the Institute of Computational Cosmology at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Like ancient rock strata that reveal the history of Earth, the stellar halo preserves a record of a dramatic primeval period in the life of the Milky Way which ended long before the sun was born, he added. The new simulations began about 13 billion years ago, just after the universe began, and then used universal laws of physics to chart how the gravitational attraction of the galaxies' dark matter halos accumulated stars over time. Dark matter halos are regions of invisible matter around a galaxy which astronomers only infer exist because of their gravitational effects on visible matter. The simulations are a blueprint for galaxy formation, said researcher Carlos Frenk, director of the Institute of Computational Cosmology at Durham. Frenk said the simulations reveal clues into the early, violent history of the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers credited the unusually high resolution of the new simulation for its results. Capable of zooming in on the fine details of galaxy unraveling, the simulations showed streams of stars being pulled from clusters due to the gravity of hidden dark matter. Most surprising was the similarity between the simulated results and real observations, said Cooper. This shows that the cold dark matter model gives a convincing match to the real universe not just on very large scales, but also for individual Milky Way-like galaxies, he told SPACE.com. The cold dark matter model is the current standard model of cosmology, which depicts galaxy formation in the universe as a process primarily arising from the clumping of dark matter. The research is detailed in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Re: [scifinoir2] [Somewhat OT] Apatow plans new 'Pee-wee' movie
I'm happy to see the show back. There were a lot of people that got their career start from that show. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:17 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/07/02/14583651-wenn-story.html Apatow plans new 'Pee-wee' movie By WENN.COM Paul Reubens' man-child alter-ego Pee-wee Herman is set for the big screen again - the actor has signed a movie deal with producer Judd Apatow. The Knocked Up director set the project in motion after seeing Reubens' zany revival of the Pee-wee Herman Show, which ran in Los Angeles from January to February. The show was a revamp of Reubens' 1981 stage production that landed the actor and his beloved character a TV show and a film franchise. Paul Rust, whose credits include Inglourious Basterds and I Love You, Beth Cooper, will reportedly pen the new screenplay, which will take Pee-wee on a gigantic adventure. Apatow tells Daily Variety, Let's face it, the world needs more Pee-wee Herman. I am so excited to be working with Paul Reubens - who is an extraordinary and ground-breaking actor and writer. It's so great to watch him return with such relevance. The movie deal follows Reubens' announcement he will take his smash stage revival to Broadway, for a six-week New York run in November. The actor previously took the character to the big screen with Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985 and Big Top Pee-wee in 1988. He retired the character in 1990 after 13 episodes of Emmy Award-winning children's TV series Pee-wee's Playhouse. Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] OT: New Cries for Steele to Resign after Afghanistan Comments
You know the saddest thing is not just that Steele is increasingly seen by all quarters as a clown and buffoon. It's not that he's not doing much to improve the image of blacks in leadership positions in a party that's never been a real friend to us. Nor is the saddest thing his ridiculous attempt to lay the Afghanistan conflict solely at Obama's feet as a war of his choosing. Perhaps one can argue he's chosen to continue it, but initiate it? Come on, Steele. No, the idiotic, blustering foolishness of Steele isn't much of a surprise anymore. What's really sad is that as many conservatives are angry at him for *opposing* the conflict in Afghanistan as for his inaccurate statement. Note from the article, Bill Kristol says that the chairman of the Republican Party shouldn't be one of the people who opposes the conflict there? Why the hell not? What is up with this lockstep belief in God, America, and Warfare all going together? Idiot though he may be, embarrassment to blacks that he certainly is, the saddest thing is that Steele in shooting off his mouth often espouses positions that aren't that bad, but then has to back away from them because, after all, to not support guns, war, rampant uncontrolled capitalism, and racists like Rush Limbaugh is just not the American Way in the narrow-minded circles in which he's chosen to travel. ** Image: Michael SteeleGerald Herbert / AP Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has been criticized in the past for gaffes and mismanagement of committee funds. by PHILIP ELLIOTT updated 7/2/2010 9:42:33 PM WASHINGTON — Republican chairman Michael Steele drew criticism from within his own party Friday, including calls to resign, after saying the 9-year-old commitment of U.S. troops to Afghanistan was a mistaken war of Obama's choosing. As criticism swelled, Steele issued a statement stressing his support for U.S. troops, but he did not acknowledge his factual error about a war launched by former President George W. Bush in response for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A senior official in Bush's administration said it would be impossible for the Republican National Committee to speak with credibility on foreign policy if Steele remained chairman. For Democrats, looking at a difficult environment ahead of November's midterm elections, the gaffe was an opportunity to test their strategy of attacking the Republican Party with its members' own words. Conservative columnist Bill Kristol, writing for The Weekly Standard, was among the first to say Steele should resign. There are, of course, those who think we should pull out of Afghanistan, and they're certainly entitled to make their case, wrote Kristol, a consistent supporter of the Afghanistan war. But one of them shouldn't be the chairman of the Republican Party. In remarks captured Thursday on camera and posted online, Steele criticized President Barack Obama and his handling of the Afghan war and suggested the war cannot be won. If he's such a student of history, has he not understood that, you know, that's the one thing you don't do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? All right? Because everyone who's tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed, Steele said. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan. Republican officials confirmed Steele made the comments at a Connecticut fundraiser, which was closed to the news media. The remarks, at odds with the views of most members of the Republican Party, were caught on camera and posted on the Internet. This was a war of Obama's choosing, Steele said. This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in. The United States and allies overthrew Afghanistan's Taliban government after the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. The war lagged as the United States shifted its focus to Iraq, but Obama shifted the focus to Afghanistan and planned to send 30,000 more troops to the country. Dan Senor, who was an adviser to Bush and the provisional governments in Iraq, said that Steele was wrong to combine politics with foreign policy and that he would no longer attend a scheduled foreign policy event with Republican donors in coming weeks. I think as far as Republican and conservative foreign policy experts and advisers, I don't see how they can be associated with the RNC or with Steele in any meaningful way after he says something like this, said Senor, who weighed a U.S. Senate run from New York state. There's no way I can. Looking to mitigate the political fallout, Steele issued a statement saying, There is no question that America must win the war on terror. ... And, for the sake of the security of the free world, our country must give our troops the support necessary to win this war. He said, The stakes are too high for us to accept
