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After watching this I wondered what the sequel might be called. Let the Left One In, maybe? Or perhaps it should be a trilogy, with the latter two titled Let the Right One Out and Let the Right One In … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Paul Krugman’s Sunday column does a clear job of summarizing why the European mania for austerity has been a failure. This obviously doesn’t mean that austerity — cutting government deficits by cutting spending — is always a bad idea. In … Continue reading
Here’s something many of us ponder at some point: Do you get wetter walking through the rain or running, given that running causes you to hit more drops per second from the side? The answer isn’t terribly surprising — you’re … Continue reading
Writer-director Michel Hazanvicius and actors Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo of OSS 177: Cairo, Nest of Spies are back, this time in a film set in the late 1920s and early 1930s. And once again Hazanavicius uses cinematic techniques appropriate … Continue reading
Here’s yet another example of entertaining education on YouTube. Kids no longer have an excuse not to know stuff. Link: http://youtu.be/Yocja_N5s1I I particularly liked the answer to “Will this be on the test?” in the first minute. (Short version: Yes, … Continue reading
This keeps getting funnier as it goes along: Link: http://youtu.be/fSgpR71fM1Y by … Continue reading
Three years after the frequently hilarious OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, director Michel Hazanavicius and star Jean Dujardin return with a sequel (released in French as OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus — Rio is no longer answering) that … Continue reading
Here’s a quite funny spy film parody from the director and stars of the Oscar-winning The Artist. In 1949 a French writer named Jean Bruce launched a series of spy novels about an American of French descent named Hubert Bonisseur … Continue reading
Welshmen wire up sheep with battery packs and LEDs to produce weird patterns in the night, assisted by sheep dogs. I’m not sure I actually believe this… Link: http://youtu.be/D2FX9rviEhw by … Continue reading
Here’s how to climb to the top of a broadcast transmission tower. It keeps getting worse as it goes along, but you do wind up with a clear view to the horizon, something we’d all like to have at the … Continue reading