May 2013
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April 2013
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Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two...
– Charles M. Schulz
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The Year in Sci-Fi Films
Speaking of Oblivion, it seems like this year will be a banner year like no other as far as science fiction (and/or science fantasy) films go. I can’t remember any year in recent memory with so many of them coming out. Aside from Oblivion there’s Elysium (Neill Blomkamp’s first film since District 9, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster in her last role ever?), Guillermo Del...
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March 2013
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Swedish Lesson #11
Ogooglebar [o:g’o:ɡelb:ar]
You’ve probably heard of this one by now after all the worldwide press it got that Google had pressured the Swedish Language Council into dropping ogooglebar (“ungoogleable”) from its annual list of new Swedish words. A classic case of the Streisand Effect, it backfired in the most spectacular way and birthed the word into several other...
Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in...
– Charles M. Schulz
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