Good critic disses come from many sources (and include famous one-liners by the likes of George Bernard Shaw) but this one is my current favorite. Who wrote it? Who knows—just another anonymous sad sack halfway down a long comment thread on The Onion AV Club, following one of their “Staff Inventory” features, in which the […]

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This is unbelievably cool! An Apple Software Engineer (big surprise) named Andrew Carol has successfully recreated “the famous Antikythera Mechanism, created by ancient Greeks in 100 B.C. as a way of predicting astronomical events like eclipses” out of LEGO (as documented in a stop-motion film, no less). The interview is very interesting; it’s a discussion […]

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This is one of those rare artifacts that shows off the particular ideosyncracies of two decades: a sublime 1927 Max Fleischer cartoon called “Koko’s Earth Control” (starring Fleischer’s ubiquitous Koko, who, along with his dog, routinely climbs out of the animator’s inkwell)…and, 65 years later, a Liquid Television segment that featured a re-cut version of […]

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