Sunset to light is a new short film – images and music – by some friends. It’s London, now, and it’s quite lovely. The musos involved are beloved to many Wgtn folk as members of the Dukes of Leisure. Not embedding it, because it really needs to be seen in its native environment as embiggened as your screen can handle. Nice work guys. Go see go see go see.
As I write this, people are getting out of the NZFilmFest screening of Kubrick’s The Shining, and tweeting about it. Mr David Ritchie sent me this link the last time I got all Kubricky on here: The Overlook Hotel, ephemera from The Shining
Darth Vader in love (by Peter Serafinowicz)
Oven temperatures LIE TO YOU man
Medical reviews of every episode of House
8-bit covers to classic novels
The Truth about Colbert-style Truthiness – more stunning research out of Maryanne Garry’s lab
Christian fundamentalists vs. set theory
HP Lovecraft answers your relationship questions – this is exactly what you expect it to be, executed to perfection (via Mike Upton)
Juan Cole’s list of the top 10 differences between white terrorists and other terrorists has been going rapidly viral, and for good reason. Check it.
6-minute excerpt from a charlie kaufman keynote address, adapted into an evocative short film that is pretty inspirational really
Public transport decorated like Versailles. Wow.
Why Silver medallists look so blue
Infographic of the 100m race across history – the rate of improvement here is quite astounding. How long can this possibly continue? How much of this improvement is physiological, how much is technique? Wow.
Five friends take the same photo every five years for three decades (via Gem Wilder)
Via Dave Ritchie: cutting edge science on the effect of peanut butter on the rotation of the earth.
TED as a whole gets a blistering serve in this review of some recent TED ebooks. (via Allen Varney who probably gave me half these other links too.)
Half-drag portraits (via Allanah)
Good advice for when there’s a creepy dude in your circle of friends (via Jess Pease)
And finally… the Moby song.
The Shining ain’t all that. Kubrick is the most overrated filmmaker of all time.