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Sometimes, Lifetime’s original Christmas movies are so unbelievably “Lifetime Christmas movie”-ey, it’s impossible to exaggerate them. To prove this theory (and more importantly, to make you aware of a bunch of actual, ridiculous Lifetime movies), we’ve devised the following Quiz, entitled ”Are These Lifetime Christmas Movies Real?” We’ll give you a title, cast, and plot description, and you have to decide if it’s an actual movie that aired on Lifetime, or if it’s something we made up (but which will still probably air on Lifetime in the next year or two).
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Sometimes, Lifetime’s original Christmas movies are so unbelievably “Lifetime Christmas movie”-ey, it’s impossible to exaggerate them. To prove this theory (and more importantly, to make you aware of a bunch of actual, ridiculous Lifetime movies), we’ve devised the following Quiz, entitled ”Are These Lifetime Christmas Movies Real?” We’ll give you a title, cast, and plot description, and you have to decide if it’s an actual movie that aired on Lifetime, or if it’s something we made up (but which will still probably air on Lifetime in the next year or two).
Merry Quiz-tmas! Actually ignore that [Click to begin]
“My friend and his roommates took their Christmas card photo today…”
Jeff and Dan need to get home right the fuck now.
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Korean designers Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon have developed an invisible umbrella that will keep you dry by repelling rain. Consisting of a simple plastic stick that creates an artificial wind at the top, the ‘umbrella’ deflects raindrops before they hit you by sucking in air at the bottom. The intensity of this wind-shield can be varied depending on weather condition and number of people sharing the device—the length of the stick is also adjustable.
MY DREAM FOR USING THE ELEMENTS MORE EFFICIENTLY IS COMING TRUE.
My god
Whoaaaa
Am I the only person who thinks a battery-powered umbrella would be less eco-friendly than a classic?
Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, “that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about ‘Basketball Diaries’?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun?” The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office (it grossed only $2.5 million), and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.
The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”
In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.
— Roger Ebert (via taona)(via scrambles92)
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I’ve seen this on my dash quite a few times from some very respectable and intelligent blogs and not a single one has attempted to refute it. Perhaps they simply enjoy the concept of the quote and have no desire to disagree or, and the far worse option, they actually agree with this quote.
Frankly I find the idea of being alone in the universe far more terrifying than not. In fact it brings me much joy to think that we are not alone and even more comfort knowing that if we are not alone, all of our already sturdy scientific theories will become even more embedded and understood. So to say that these two are equally terrifying, while enjoyable in the aspect of sparking our imagination to consider the biological mysteries of the cosmos, is entirely erroneous to anyone with any sort of scientific mindset.
“Anyone with any sort of scientific mindset.” Do you not know who Arthur C Clark is? Only one of the greatest (and eerily clairvoyant) sci-fi writers to ever breathe. His point is that we have no idea what extra-terrestrial life is like.
This image comes from a game called “XCOM: Enemy Unknown.” The premise is that aliens terrorize Earth, and it’s up to your multi-national military organization to stop them. SPOILER: this is the aliens being nice. They’re preparing us, “uplifting us” as it were, to face an unnamed super-threat.
What if that’s our first contact? Aliens who believe in trial by fire? Or desperate refugees who don’t consider us to be sentient, and raze our planet so they can colonize it? What if they’re Vogons? The thought that we are not alone is terrifying because, if we ever make contact, who says it’s going to go well?
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More promo pics for Community 4.01, “History 101” - airing Feb. 7, 2013
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