Le Grand Content

“A Film by Clemens Kogler together with Karo Szmit. Voice by Andre Tschinder. Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.”

Your results:
You are Magneto

Magneto 82% Apocalypse 76% Lex Luthor 75% Dr. Doom 74% Mystique 72% Venom 69% Catwoman 63% Mr. Freeze 57% Green Goblin 56% Kingpin 52% Dark Phoenix 52% The Joker 50% Poison Ivy 50% Juggernaut 48% Two-Face 40% Riddler 29%

You fear the persecution of those that are different or underprivileged so much that you are willing to fight and hurt others for your cause.

Click here to take the “Which Super Villain am I?” quiz…

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“Movie experts have named the 50 films you should see before you die.” It is a British list so it’s a little snobby. Via This is London.

1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey
7 North by Northwest
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan
11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
15 Pulp Fiction
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyz n the Hood [CORR]
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich
25 Trainspotting
26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface
32 Terminator 2
33 Three Colours: Blue
34 The Royal Tenenbaums
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands

“There is a Mr. or a Miss Perfect out there somewhere, and I am going to meet this person and everything in my life is going to be changed and be good. We put so much expectation on the other person.” Via Salon

‘The expectation in America is an adolescent expectation. There is a Mr. or a Miss Perfect out there somewhere, and I am going to meet this person and everything in my life is going to be changed and be good. We put so much expectation on the other person. There’s infatuation when we discover them and think, “This is it!” It’s perfect, fantastic. Then after a few months the love hormone leaves the brain and the reality starts showing up. So we say, “OK, I made a mistake, I chose the wrong person. I better find another one.”

In other cultures, expectations are very different. For many centuries, love wasn’t even part of the picture. Children would be married off by their parents at a very early age and it was families making close relationships with other families. This notion that everything should be coming from this one person is a very American, impossible dream.

I always say if you want to understand a culture, look at what the people do at 5 o’clock. In England, they drink some kind of hot water with an herb in it: tea time. In Spain, they kill a bull. The Americans have the happy hour, they get drunk. The French have cinq a sept, a very special thing, it’s sexual. Men and women, who are married but not to each other, after work they go to a hotel and have sex. It’s seen as experiencing pleasure with somebody else. For the French, life is about the refinement of pleasure. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but the cultures do provide very different reference systems.

The American disillusionment with love, by the way, explains a little bit why we work so hard.’

“PS3 will retail for $399 and have a built-in 60GB hard drive, plus older games will run at high resolution.” Via TeamXbox and Kotaku

“Scientists believe the human testicle may provide a less controversial source of cells for stem cell research.” Duh. Doesn’t t-cell scream testicle to you, too? Via BBC News.

The comments are brilliant in response to Mark’s, Men’s Slavish Attraction to Beauty is your Ally Not Your Enemy, “I must take strong stance against Natalie’s attempt to imply that there is a correlation between being hot and a higher probability of getting divorced. I mean, really.”

ecto is in fact very underwhelming and buggy but if you need an inexpensive Windows or Mac client software for your blogging pleasure then give it a go. It offers a trial so you can try it out.

This is an attempt at using ecto. I am not sure if it is full-featured enough. Pretty bare-bones.

Although now anonymous page creation has been disabled, I think that Wikipedia should require everybody to register of they want to add or edit content.

Registration is still essentially anonymous and pretty easy-to-do. Betsy agrees with me.

Its times like this when I really miss my dog Suzi because its getting cold and when it got cold the arthritis in her joits would get sore and stiff and we would need to start secreting glucosamine joint pills into her food. Gosh, come January it will be two years.

The Guardian Unlimited spot-tested Wikipedia on the accuracy of its entries. Any “emergent resource” like a wiki-based encyclopedia is greater than the sum of its parts and shouldn’t be judged ad hoc. Via Furl

It is such a simple idea that I award Michael K. Song with genius-status. For example, I would like to know what sunglasses Ashton Kutcher is wearing. Well, Song’s web site, Visure, should be able to tell me so I can buy them even if I am not in the know. Via AdJab and Times Dispatch.