Do You Believe in Ripley?
Do you believe in “Ripley’s Believe it Or Not!”
Since 1918 Ripley’s have been challenging the human condition by testing belief, trying honor and tempting our darker side with unknown and wanton wishings.
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Muslim Bashing as Fox Entertainment
We all know Fox News is the mouthpiece of the Republican party — Fox News hates Obama and they hate a freedom loving America — but this week, in the span of two days over two hours, we saw a bright line drawn between Good Americans and Bad Muslims on two entertainment shows broadcast by Fox television — the entertainment arm of Fox News. On the season finale of last night’s “Lie to Me” the bad guys were Muslims blowing up a bus and a mall.
iPhone Baby Shaking for Fun and Profit
I didn’t think the iPhone App store could sink any lower than BulletFlight, but yesterday I was proven wrong with the bouncing new arrival of a 99 cent App called “Baby Shaker.”
Suicide Television
Craig Ewert committed suicide yesterday. His death was televised.
Science and Entertainment Exchange
Scientific Aesthetic has been singing along online in one form or another for at least five years — and the founding of the Science and Entertainment Exchange confirms the validity and sanctity of the ideas that drive us.
Disney Movies Create Greedy Children
Do Disney movies do children more harm than good?
Flickering in Starlight
I miss the old days of watching stars flicker under lingering stars in the open and unprotected midst of a drive-in movie theatre.
McMenamins and The Kennedy School
Gordon Davidescu wrote this article.
When I was a kid and we took a long road trip from New Jersey to sunny Orlando, Florida for our first visit to Walt Disney World, one of my parents made an observation about strip malls.
No matter where we went, it seemed, the stores were pretty much the same. They were the same on the outside and the same on the inside. What a peculiar thing, I thought. At home we had such stores as The Princeton Record Exchange and dozens of other small stores – owned and operated by individuals or small groups of people, not large corporations.
Android Assassins: Inventing the Death Wish
Have we met our match in inventing our own assassins? Is it part of our evolutionary, technical DNA, to foster devices that intend to kill us? Have we have created a death wish covenant with technology?
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After Heath Ledger: Does Celebrity Kill You?
Heath Ledger is dead at 28. If he were not famous — would he deserve the celebrity mega-media coverage being blanketed upon us in the wake of his wake?
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