land's end

July 10, 2008

“U.S. Route 491 (US 491) is a north-south U.S. Highway serving the Four Corners region of the United States. One of the newest designations in the U.S. Highway system, it was created in 2003 as a renumbering of U.S. Route 666. With the 666 designation, this road was given the nickname “Devil’s Highway” because of the common Christian belief that 666 is the Number of the Beast. This satanic connotation, combined with a high fatality rate along the New Mexico portion, convinced some people the highway was cursed. The problem was compounded with chronic sign theft. These factors led to two efforts to renumber the highway, first by Arizona, later by New Mexico.”—Wikipedia

(Again, on Lost America)

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“My cans! My precious antique cans!”

(Found on Lost America)

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June 27, 2008

“ What does turn up looks familiar — the slowed bullets, the air that ripples like water, an underground group, here called the Fraternity — especially if you’ve seen “The Matrix.” Although Mr. Bekmambetov and his team take plenty of cues from that film, they have tried to distinguish their dystopian nightmare by borrowing from even farther afield. To that end the Fraternity practices its murderous skills on pig carcasses (much as Daniel Day-Lewis does in “Gangs of New York”) while bunkered in a sprawling factory (that looks like Hogwarts). I’m pretty sure I saw the fabulous recovery room — a concrete spa filled with sunken tubs and lighted candles where Fraternity members go for restorative soaks after a hard day of carnage — in a layout in Vogue. „

Manohla Dargis on Wanted

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June 23, 2008

750,000-Brick Kennedy Space Center Is the Mother of All Lego Models - Gizmodo

(via)

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June 21, 2008

“ Only 35% of stories were rated satisfactory for whether the journalist had “discussed the study methodology and the quality of the evidence”: because in the media, as you will have noticed, science is about absolute truth statements from arbitrary authority figures in white coats, rather than clear descriptions of studies and the reasons why people draw conclusions from them. „

Ben Goldacre: Why reading should not be believing | Comment is free | The Guardian

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June 18, 2008

» Fringe Pilot Leaks Online Three Months Before Premiere

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feathers:

Teach the controversies. All of them. :-) via Boing Boing.

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June 17, 2008

“Basically, what we’re doing is making monsters. That’s what we do, and we do it well.”

—Stan Winston

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June 15, 2008

“ Spider Robinson’s novel adopts the theory that Nikola Tesla accidentally blew up Tunguska while experimenting with a “Death Ray.” Eighty-one years later, his research notes have fallen into government hands, and an (immortal) Tesla is attempting to rescue the universe from obliteration. „

Sci-Fi Solves 100-Year-Old Siberia Mystery With Apocalyptic Plotlines - Wired

File under: Movie plotlines for the 80s OMG OMG it would have been so cool!!!

(Like Flash Gordon, but with more immortal scientists, such as immortal Maxwell and immortal Faraday—who would also have provided for hilarious buddy-film interaction and unintentional homoerotic subtext. What a shame.)

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June 5, 2008

Centralia, PA - The real-life Silent Hill

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