I never knew

I really hope Stephen Colbert doesn’t get killed in a deer hunting accident in the next few weeks, it would look suspicious within days of him ripping president Bush a new one face to face (torrent, go to about 50:20) at the White House Press Corp dinner. Wow. He basically said everything they’ve been saying on his show and on The Daily Show but to their faces. Balls. Ginornous balls.

Results are in, Yulblog is moving to Laïka, be sure to join us at the new place.

A somewhat over the top but, at the same time, pretty realistic analysis of how men comment. Not so much on low traffic blogs but certainly on sites like digg and Slashdot and quite a bit on old media sites getting into blogs and where readers dont quite know “where” they are and/or how to behave, on top of the lack of actual reading that Anil talks about.

Last week I realised something that I ment to blog, forgot, and remembered tonight at dinner. Next september will be the 5th “anniversary” of 9-11, since then the US (and others because of it) has been living in a… bizarre, somewhat oppressive atmosphere. Five years is pretty important for most people, lots of things can happen in that time, what I realised is that it means that teenagers have spent between 1/3 and almost 1/2 of their lives in that atmosphere, that can’t be good.
(It’s obviously much worse in a bunch of places, I’m just saying.)

Marvel is lining up Iron Man helmed by Favreau then another Hulk (huh?), Captain America, Ant Man (comedic and directed by the Shaun of the Dead guy), Nick Fury and Thor. The shield and hammer flying around should be…. interesting.

I’d prefer more color but otherwise, love this puzzle loft with interlocking volumes.

Seems like I’ve got some movie watching to do, I’ve only seen twenty seven(1) of the 102 movies you must see before…

• * “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) Stanley Kubrick*
• “The 400 Blows” (1959) Francois Truffaut
• “8 1/2” (1963) Federico Fellini
• “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972) Werner Herzog
• *“Alien” (1979) Ridley Scott*
• “All About Eve” (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• “Annie Hall” (1977) Woody Allen
• *“Apocalypse Now” (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*
• *“Bambi” (1942) Disney*
• “The Battleship Potemkin” (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
• “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) William Wyler
• “The Big Red One” (1980) Samuel Fuller
• “The Bicycle Thief” (1949) Vittorio De Sica
• “The Big Sleep” (1946) Howard Hawks
• *“Blade Runner” (1982) Ridley Scott*
• “Blowup” (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
• *“Blue Velvet” (1986) David Lynch*
• “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) Arthur Penn
• “Breathless” (1959 Jean-Luc Godard
• “Bringing Up Baby” (1938) Howard Hawks
• “Carrie” (1975) Brian DePalma
• “Casablanca” (1942) Michael Curtiz
• “Un Chien Andalou” (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
• “Children of Paradise” / “Les Enfants du Paradis” (1945) Marcel Carne
• “Chinatown” (1974) Roman Polanski
• “Citizen Kane” (1941) Orson Welles
• *“A Clockwork Orange” (1971) Stanley Kubrick*
• “The Crying Game” (1992) Neil Jordan
• “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) Robert Wise
• “Days of Heaven” (1978) Terence Malick
• *“Dirty Harry” (1971) Don Siegel*
• “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972) Luis Bunuel
• “Do the Right Thing” (1989 Spike Lee
• “La Dolce Vita” (1960) Federico Fellini
• “Double Indemnity” (1944) Billy Wilder
• *“Dr. Strangelove” (1964) Stanley Kubrick*
• “Duck Soup” (1933) Leo McCarey
• *“E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) Steven Spielberg*
• “Easy Rider” (1969) Dennis Hopper
• *“The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) Irvin Kershner*
• “The Exorcist” (1973) William Friedkin
• “Fargo” (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
• *“Fight Club” (1999) David Fincher*
• “Frankenstein” (1931) James Whale
• “The General” (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
• *“The Godfather,” “The Godfather, Part II” (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola*
• *“Gone With the Wind” (1939) Victor Fleming*
• *“GoodFellas” (1990) Martin Scorsese*
• “The Graduate” (1967) Mike Nichols
• “Halloween” (1978) John Carpenter
• “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) Richard Lester
• “Intolerance” (1916) D.W. Griffith
• “It’s a Gift” (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
• *“It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) Frank Capra*
• *“Jaws” (1975) Steven Spielberg*
• “The Lady Eve” (1941) Preston Sturges
• *“Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) David Lean*
• “M” (1931) Fritz Lang
• *“Mad Max 2” / “The Road Warrior” (1981) George Miller*
• “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) John Huston
• “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) John Frankenheimer
• “Metropolis” (1926) Fritz Lang
• *“Modern Times” (1936) Charles Chaplin*
• “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
• “Nashville” (1975) Robert Altman
• “The Night of the Hunter” (1955) Charles Laughton
• “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) George Romero
• “North by Northwest” (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
• “Nosferatu” (1922) F.W. Murnau
• “On the Waterfront” (1954) Elia Kazan
• *“Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) Sergio Leone*
• “Out of the Past” (1947) Jacques Tournier
• “Persona” (1966) Ingmar Bergman
• “Pink Flamingos” (1972) John Waters
• “Psycho” (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
• *“Pulp Fiction” (1994) Quentin Tarantino*
• “Rashomon” (1950) Akira Kurosawa
• *“Rear Window” (1954) Alfred Hitchcock*
• “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) Nicholas Ray
• “Red River” (1948) Howard Hawks
• “Repulsion” (1965) Roman Polanski
• “The Rules of the Game” (1939) Jean Renoir
• “Scarface” (1932) Howard Hawks
• “The Scarlet Empress” (1934) Josef von Sternberg
• *“Schindler’s List” (1993) Steven Spielberg*
• “The Searchers” (1956) John Ford
• “The Seven Samurai” (1954) Akira Kurosawa
• “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
• “Some Like It Hot” (1959) Billy Wilder
• “A Star Is Born” (1954) George Cukor
• “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) Elia Kazan
• “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) Billy Wilder
• “Taxi Driver” (1976) Martin Scorsese
• “The Third Man” (1949) Carol Reed
• “Tokyo Story” (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
• “Touch of Evil” (1958) Orson Welles
• * “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) John Huston*
• “Trouble in Paradise” (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
• “Vertigo” (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
• “West Side Story” (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
• *“The Wild Bunch” (1969) Sam Peckinpah*
• *“The Wizard of Oz” (1939) Victor Fleming*

(1) The ones between *, they were suppose to bold with my text formatting but aren’t and I’m too lazy to go over the list again.

Partisan wrangling over Net neutrality heated up on Tuesday, with Democrats pledging a fight over a broadband bill they say will mean extra fees and content restrictions on the Internet.—Democrats pledge fight over Net neutrality (Intel also backs net neutrality)

My sense of these media organisations that use this argument of incredibly rapid technology change is that they’re screaming that they’re being pursued by a snail and yet they cannot get away! ‘The snail! The snail!’, they cry. ‘How can we possibly escape!?. The problem being that the snail’s been moving closer for the last twenty years one way or another and they just weren’t paying attention.—Is the pace of change really such a shock?