February 2010
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The Bechdel Test
A film* passes the The Bechdel Test if:
It has at least two women in it, who,
Talk to each other about,
Something besides a man.
It’s named after Alison Bechdel, who popularised the rule—apparently formulated by her friend Liz Wallace—in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.
Subsequently, it has had additions made by Alas! A Blog, that the two female characters must...
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Avatar - The Metacontextual Edition →
The Baftas were on last weekend, and I happened to catch the award for best film. Avatar was among the nominees, which reminded me that I never got around to posting the link to this very funny Mad-style parody.
I enjoyed Avatar a lot, but this thorough skewering pretty much sums up why I don’t think it should be winning any “Best Movie” awards.
(via Sore Eyes)
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NO ONE'S TO BLAME!
…yelled the front of the Daily Mail this morning. “That’s odd,” I thought to myself. “Normally the Daily Mail is all for blaming people.”
I got closer, and realised that it was of course being sarcastic: “Up to 1,200 needless deaths, patients abused, staff bullied to meet targets… yet a secret inquiry into failing hospital says NO ONE’S TO...
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Last night my Sky HD box failed to record Lost...
penllawen:
Now the torrent is doing 300kb/sec and will be here in about another hour.
There’s a lesson here, TV broadcasters. You should at least be more convenient and reliable than pirate downloads.
At some point in the near future I intend to cancel my Sky subscription and replace it with DVD box-sets and stealing off the internet. For exactly this reason.
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Wales vs Scotland
Here’s WYWG’s down-but-not-out-blog of the Wales vs Scotland match in the Six Nations this Saturday. As in the England vs Wales roundup last week, my comments are in normal, and contributor Tom’s [look like this.]
Unlike last week, I’m actually watching this match live, and, not already knowing the result in advance, I’m feeling pretty excited.
Stephen Jones kicks...
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“Ultimately, I still feel cheated by Vince Carter and his career with nights like...”
– A year and a half after I described Vince Carter as “somewhat of a joke these days” he has posted a 48-point game, dragging the Magic from behind to beat the Hornets. An impressive achievement, but it just made Hardwood Paroxysm sad. That last paragraph gave me chills.
(via True Hoop,...
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“Whilst traditional news reporting jobs are decreasing, jobs reporting celebrity...”
– —Sarah Rowlands, the head of the Journalism Department at Staffordshire University, defending its new course in Celebrity Journalism.
Depressing.
(Hat tip to diodesign)
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Some more commentry on the Facebook login fiasco here, here, and here.
I offer two alternate hypotheses on the conventional wisdom that these people are all just terminally confused.
These people really can’t login to Facebook. Because they’ve forgotten their passwords, or had their Facebook accounts whipped from beneath them by phishers; they don’t actually think that RRW...
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“Policemen have started carrying guns – big, visible, frightening guns – quite...”
– Victoria Coren: He stepped out of the dark with a gun… | The Observer
penllawen:
Wow. Brilliant writing from Coren. The last paragraph is fantastic.
I could not agree more with the article, and with penllawen’s assessment of it.
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“I don’t care what song you’re breakin’ to. But when you’re breaking,...”
– — Alien Ness
It’s the UK qualifiers of The Octagon tonight at Throwdown.
(via More Than a Stance)
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THE COMMENTS! AHAHAHAHA THE COMMENTS! →
zoya:
laughing through my tears:
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save...
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England vs Wales
After the stunning success of my series of almost-liveblogs of the British Basketball team’s campaign at Eurobasket, I decided to do something similar for Wales’s games in the Six Nations, starting with the game against England, in Twickenham.
After writing it, I sent it to friend-of-WYWG-Tom for fact-checking, and he added his own interjections. I thought I would include these, too....
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“[They follow] the ancient British procedure. First they cordon off a stretch of...”
– Boris Johnson, on roadworks.
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“Science doesn’t work despite scientists being asses. Science works, to at least...”
– Peter Woods on the scientific method.
(via penllawen)
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