This is one in a long series of adaptations of the popular children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (but the only one I’ve actually seen). The heroine (Kate Maberly) is an orphaned girl whose rich parents died in a fire … Continue reading
Aardman, the folks behind Wallace and Gromit, combine old-school stop-motion animation with computer imagery to produce a reasonably entertaining comedy. I found it interesting that the entire lower faces of characters were made in dozens of different expressions and mouth … Continue reading
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I’m (as usual) late getting around to this, but back in May Rob Wile at Business Insider produced a set of 31 charts detailing positive long-run trends. (Some of these overlap with Steven Pinker’s observations in The Better Angels of … Continue reading
In a movie this would be a fairly pedestrian fight scene, but it’s nice to see the same level of professional standards in something done more or less for the fun of it and to show off the talents of … Continue reading
You’ve probably heard about this charming and funny Cheerios commercial even if you haven’t yet seen it: And if you have heard about it, you’ve probably heard that it’s “controversial,” meaning that there are still enough benighted ninnies running loose … Continue reading
Recently when visiting my blog (at least with some browsers) the embedded YouTube videos would start playing themselves automatically. Worse, since by default the front page holds the latest 10 posts, and since a lot of the posts contain embedded … Continue reading
I’m not sure anyone’s reading this — even the comment spammers seem to have given up on me — but after several weeks of being incredibly busy and just too exhausted to blog or much of anything else not strictly … Continue reading
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Full series here. by … Continue reading