(2006) dir. Andrew Currie – w/ Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly as a boy’s best friend, Dylan Baker as a man who has problems with zombies, K’Sun Ray as a zombie’s best friend, and others, in roles such as: Zombie Grandpa, Zombie Paperboy, Human Milkman, Dr. Hrothgar Geiger, and Poacher Driver (Zombie Poaching apparently being a […]
The future is here
Mildly frightening robot cat. Just don’t let it eat the robot chicken. (Somewhat surprisingly, not that robot chicken.) (via Consumerist)
Posted by Ben on November 4, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-future-is-here/
Super Massive Run-Down
Books You Can’t Read, via The Millions. Next installments, foods you can’t eat, cows you can’t milk. How easily can you get There From Here? A quick snap-bang-whiz online calculator to give you a “walkability” index for your neighborhood (or the address of your choosing). Based on respectably sensible things like the proximity of grocery […]
Posted by Ben on November 4, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/super-massive-run-down/
Less surprised to learn I’m some sort of giant robot, more surprised I’m from the Great Lakes
I AM81%JAZZTake the Transformers Quiz I am: Kurt Vonnegut For years, this unique creator of absurd and haunting tales denied that he had anything to do with science fiction. Which science fiction writer are you? What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak “Standard English straight […]
Posted by Ben on October 28, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/less-surprised-to-learn-im-some-sort-of-giant-robot-more-surprised-im-from-the-great-lakes/
We animals have a good time, too!
Casper The Friendly Ghost – The Animal Square Dance (via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, where there are plenty more songs to listen to)
Posted by Ben on October 28, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/we-animals-have-a-good-time-too/
Elefantenrüsselfisch…
…can “see” with their chins. (Image via Flickr. Story via ScienceBlog.)
Posted by Ben on October 23, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/elefantenrusselfisch/
Yes, that coal
If you don’t have time to pick up a copy of Jeff Goodell’s Big Coal, then you ought to at least take a read through his compact Washington Post article, King Coal: What It Costs Us. Related: George Orwell writes about coal mining. (via Gristmill)
Posted by Ben on October 22, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/yes-that-coal/
Pollution deaths
Numbers can be stifling and boggling, but more amazing (and depressing) than the fact that 40% of deaths, worldwide, are related to pollution, is the statement that some 57% of the world population is malnourished. Which is shocking to me, but not. More shocking, however, is that in 1950, the percentage was 20. (via EurekAlert: […]
Posted by Ben on October 19, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/pollution-deaths/
In the future…
…we won’t need the advice of our friends for anything, and giant birds will terrorize shoppers everywhere. Oh, wait–the future’s here now!
Posted by Ben on October 17, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/in-the-future/
Anagrams, by Lorrie Moore
This is the last, best novel you will ever read. The last you will ever need to read; you could just read it over and over again, filled with the crushing immensity of its hope, despair, and comedy. You will read other fiction, eventually. And then you will feel guilty. “Life is sad. Here is […]
Posted by Ben on October 13, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/anagrams-by-lorrie-moore/