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Excellent article on Firefly on realtvaddict. Just what else could I possibly say? I have so many Firefly-related posts now, I could start a Firefly tumblelog… Watch it!!! |
Apple hug (via Amma. Stephie Val)
My cats wouldn’t even touch an apple though…
Guido Núñez-Mujica, a 26-year-old Boing Boing reader in Venezuela who is an avid gamer, writes in with this extensive personal observation piece about a new law that widely criminalizes video games in the South American country. As you read the piece, please also bear in mind that publishing this sort of thing under one’s full name is not done without personal risk.
These games are a cherished part of my life, they helped to shape my young mind, they gave me challenges and vastly improved my English, opening the door to a whole new world of literature, music and people from all around the world. What I have achieved, all my research, how I have been able to travel even though I’m always broke, the hard work I’ve done to convince people to fund a start up for cheap biotech for developing countries and regular folks, none of that would have been possible hadn’t I learned English through video games.
Now, thanks to the tiny horizons of the cast of morons who govern me, thanks to the stupidity and ham-fisted authoritarianism of the local authorities, so beloved of so many liberals, my 7 year old brother’s chances to do the same could be greatly impacted.
Do me a favor and go read his essay. It’s not just about video games.
“Yesterday I was explaining to my little brother how any computer could in theory, emulate another computer, and how that made it possible to play really old games (Older than him!) on his DS. I was explaining what a terminal window and a program were and how I converted videos to a format that his DS can understand. And he was thrilled, his eyes lit with pleasure, technology was a bridge that got us closer. If we blindly follow the copyright and video game forbidding laws, we won’t be able to do this anymore, and he will stop learning as much as he could gaming and hacking, finding his way to talk to machines to get them to do what he needs.”
This is my fave quote from this, and so very true. Copyright laws are insane, the situation in Venezuela is ridiculous. I hope they can do something about this idiocy!
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A post by the user hafabee on the IMDb Alien Message Board. Such a brilliant thread, and we need to have a great horror classic again, like Alien. Soon! |
| — | An excellent post by the user Squonkamatic on the IMDb message board of Alien. You can read more of this here. |
dbsw:
Stop Motion at it’s best.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Behind-the-scenes (via MoviePictureDB)
via travors
One of the most impressive SFX feats ever.
Browncoats have infiltrated Google:
Firefly Reference on Google Wave: I SEE WHAT YOU DID THAR.
(submitted by mimisaurus)
In fact, Wave itself was inspired by Firefly :-)))))))
In one of my previous posts, I comlained about the new search engine. A few days ago, a revelation came and… voilá:
If you put “+” between your keywords, you’ll find everything. Doesn’t work with space, works with “+”. Let me give you an example:
“copyright ridiculous”
Wrong! You won’t get anything!
“copyright+ridiculous”
There you go! (Without the quotation marks though, obviously (duh))
Hope that helps!
Oh, and the fact that it doesn’t work with space and it used to, is ridiculous. What’s next? Google?
(via fuckyeahfirefly)
It could totally work! Do it already!!! :D
OMG, this is soo funny and sad at the same time…
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Volt egy kedves rokonom, aki gyerekként követte el az alábbit. A család kedvenc macskája kapott némi kaját a tálkájába, de az nagyon forró volt. A macska belenyalt, de el is rántotta fejét. Mire a kedves rokonom:
- Buta cica! Kanállal!
Volt vagy 4 éves… és hogy legyen happy end: ezt követően még élt 90 évet :)
Nice jump!
Agressive marketing.
I’m imagining this with a kickin’ “Yo-yo-yo” background vocal track. Kinda sick :-)
drunkymcgamblingproblem:sati1984:
Oh, this is just brilliant and WONDERFUL!
Although I don’t like Castle, this made my eyes teary…
BRING IT BACK! Please, please, please, ABC or Syfy or any other network, BUY THOSE DAMN RIGHTS FROM FOX ALREADY!!!
How awesome was this? He even says “space cowboy”.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Nathan Fillion is the biggest Firefly fanboy that ever existed!
Yeah, actually he is (But I think I’m close :-)), and I can bet this was his idea!






