December 2010
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Hey everyone, we get it. Brian Williams made a funny with his tongue-in-cheek observation that the media story of the year is that the NY Times discovered Brooklyn.
Now we don’t need this reblogged for the 57th time on my dashboard tonight… Oh great, now I’ve contributed to it!
I felt that CGI Jeff Bridges entered the uncanny valley in the new Tron, which worked in the parts where he’s a bad guy in the grid, but not in the real world back in the 80s.
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Bundle Up, It’s Global Warming
The earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside.
All of this cold was met with perfect comic timing by the release of a World Meteorological Organization report showing that 2010 will probably be among the three warmest years on record, and 2001 through 2010 the warmest decade on record.
How can we reconcile this? The not-so-obvious short answer is that the overall...
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Thundersnow over the NYC area right now. Crazy stuff.
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My ranking (based on enjoyment) of all the movies...
The Social Network
Shutter Island
How to Train Your Dragon
The Kids Are All Right
Black Swan
Inception
Toy Story 3
Due Date
Despicable Me
The Town
Unstoppable
Hot Tub Time Machine
Going the Distance
Iron Man 2
The Other Guys
She’s Out of My League
Get Him to the Greek
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Date Night
The American
Alice in Wonderland
The Book of Eli
The...
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My ranking of the movies I saw in theaters in 2010
The Social Network Shutter Island How to Train Your Dragon The Kids Are All Right Black Swan Inception Toy Story 3 Due Date Despicable Me The Town Unstoppable Hot Tub Time Machine Going the Distance Iron Man 2 The Other Guys She’s Out of My League Get Him to the Greek Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Date Night The American Alice in Wonderland The Book of Eli The Losers Knight and Day Salt...
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Ebert's best feature films of 2010
1. The Social Network
2. The King’s Speech
3. Black Swan
4. I Am Love
5. Winter’s Bone
6. Inception
7. The Secret in Their Eyes
8. The American
9. The Kids Are All Right
10. The Ghost Writer
Really, The American made the list!? That movie could have been reduced to 35 minutes and still told the same story by cutting out all of the real time scenes of George Clooney walking from point A to...
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Hey Northeast? Are you guys ready for a White...
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“To begin with, I was planning a trip to Cabo with my kids for Christmas...”
– Thanks for the Tax Cut! By Larry David
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Facebook story: A mother's joy and a family's... →
Woman uses facebook to update friends and family on the birth of her first son and ends up giving a play-by-play account of her own death…
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CNN covers Tumblr outage
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I showed Caroline the hipstamatic app for my iPhone. She thought it was called hipstermatic because it took “hipster photos”.
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Alien Bacteria: More Details on the NASA press...
At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don’t have to be like planet Earth. NASA will reveal the news at 2 p.m. today.
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