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Yeah, I was in an advanced program myself, in California, in the mid-70s.
Less 'trons, more math and reading. I was several years ahead, but then we moved north (the life of a Navy brat) and I just slimed my way through the rest of school.
Education, as a subset of life, is something from which you take what you desire.[1]
As much as I enjoyed Animal House/Tommy Boy, the American Asshat archetype is probably the biggest threat to the education system going.
But maybe that's more of a feature than a bug: "Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too." Judge Smails


[1]As long as you didn't pick the wrong location/gender/race/mutations at birth, of course.

Any updates from the Second Life newsdesk on Dave and The Hub?

How is that you think that this movie is so bad? It is at #37 place in this all time imdb chart!

Uh? What do you mean with "bottom"?

Reminds me more of Dumb and Dumber when they ride a scooter across the Rockies.

Don't compare someone to Vanilla Ice unless you can prove that he got his ass kicked by Todd "Willis" Bridges on national television.

...and they don't get the joke? Please, someone rent these people a copy of Shaun of the Dead .

The Straight Story

The idea reminds me of The Straight Story, which was a really charming, honest, pensive film.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/Nnnnnuuuuuuuuuu uurrrrrrddddddzzzzzzzzz!

Mel Brook's History of the World, Part I. :-)

What's left after you acquire arbitrarily large amounts of money and power?

Obviously, women!

Actually, that would be Willy Wonka and the Choclate Factory . Sorry to nitpick, but I am quite the fan :)

The film was released in 1997. It hardly qualifies as a classic.

I know there's a large contingent out there that believes the white male is an "oppressed" group in America due to affirmative action, Title IX, or other assorted anti-harassment and anti-discrimination laws or rules. I'm sure the strain must be unbearable...

I Am Not A Conspiracy Theorist (IANACT?) but there could be something more sinister at work here than some computer algorithm linking the social commentary of "The Planet of the Apes" with Martin Luther King's role in the civil rights struggle.

And speaking as an African American (and I don't get up on this soapbox often, folks), this was offensive and I am not amused.

"Sanctuary exists!"

I was going to post a longer comment, but two Marine officers have arrived at my house in an unmarked car. All they said was:

"Dr Titzandkunt? There's been a fire."

Gotta go!

T&K.

...a clue for the clueless:clicky clicky

the andromeda strain

Reminds me of one of the deleted scenes on the DVD for the movie Rat Race where the group of high rollers are in the casino playing Monopoly using real money...

"The several hundred million consumers who already own DVD players and stacks of DVDs have no urgent reason to jump to the next standard..."

Yeah, they never do. However, funny how the market takes over and people buy stuff. 8-track dies, cassette dies, CD dies, MP3 ... not completely. There will always be fans of the format, but the market will move on. Definitely.

p.s. What's next? "Weekend at DVD's" (Admittedly bad reference to this turd.)

I wonder if the writers of "National Lampoon's Animal House" were thinking of that when they came up with the the name for the character Doug Neidermeyer

Or maybe an engineer uses it to make a perfect flawless lense that can see passed the curve of space and time, thus letting him see the future.

What's next? Soundtracks for toasters?

Already been done.

problems with blogging, in the sense that they've been fired, shunned, etc. because of what they write.

She couldn't see the irony in her favourite film being Clueless, despite the fact that such a dialect originated when her own parents were teens!

is the one used by richard pryor's character in superman iii to steal all of the half pennies from his company's payroll and become fabulously rich

Nah, I think these guys did it better...

La Bestia nello Spazio?

Borowcyzk would be rolling in his grave. If he was dead.

is the one used by richard pryor's character in superman iii to steal all of the half pennies from his company's payroll and become fabulously rich

rip dude

It wasn't Star Trek, it was Event Horizon.

I would be more afraid of the ship if this happened.

There's already a movie on this.

Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension...

A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind?

Seriously, if this other dimension has Joley Richardson in it and I get to roll around in engine coolant with her, then sign me up!

Dogs in Space

That is an Arrested Development quote. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367279/

hmmm, not sure about the tv deal, but the movie was just recently announced:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0471711/combined/

What's "Arrested Development"?

A show so awful that I can't even sit through it just to soak in the beauty of cast member Portia de Rossi.

"I get URGES in my AREAS!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149458/

Minus the fact that the robot pictured has legs versus tank treads, it's nearly a dead ringer for Number 5 from Short Circuit (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/). Well, that and they made him more appealing to the trendy crowd by fashioning his chest to look something like an iPod knock-off.

"When LEGO MINDSTORMS launched, we fundamentally changed the way people viewed LEGO building and play and helped spark the trend of affordable and attainable consumer robotics," says Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO, LEGO Group.

With an expected retail price of $249, I think my $25 Transformer is all the "affordable" robotics I really need.

You feel that sting, big boy, huh? That's pride fuckin' with you!

(source)

"When the movie (with spider sequence intact) was previewed in San Bernardino, California, in late January 1933, members of the audience screamed and either left the theatre or talked about the grisly sequence throughout the remainder of the film. Said the film's producer, Merian C. Cooper, 'It stopped the picture cold, so the next day back at the studio, I took it out myself.' " From imdb.com ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/trivia )

One is not sent to The Corn Field, one is wished there. Isn't that right, Anthony?

Where does the overthruster err. I mean the Plasma thruster fit in?

This is the lyrics from the song "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid.

"There is no "solution to poverty." "

tax the rich
feed the poor
till there are
no rich no more

also everyone in this discussion (especially mr scented cone, who must have a pretty sweet job to be posting all day) should watch status anxiety and the ownership society. it addresses all these issues and more.

basically the guy argues that the culture americans (and indeed the world now adays) lives in is completly based around accumulation of wealth. That should be pretty obvious to anyone who doesnt have alot of wealth. Then he goes on to say that this culture, which has replaced christianity as the ideology of our times, creates status anxiety. Status is being determined more and more by your $ value. He also illustrates why it wasnt always that way.

you can get it from mininova.org its like 2gigs. you people probably wont like it though as it kinda invalidates your life.

Actually, now that you mention it, that would be kind of neat.

At first, I thought: "Passive game? That's just like a movie without the flesh -- boooooring"

But then I thought: What if you have a little world which you can explore, where multiple stories unfold simultaneously. And you're like a ghost, flying around, following people, eavesdropping on them, seeing what they're doing, watching the stories of your choice unfold. Night-time comes, your character of choice goes to sleep, what do you do for 7 hours? Fly over to the bank where there's a robbery in-progress. You could easily have several weeks' worth of scripted storytelling.

Plus, there's very decent replayability value, since you could explore each story separately and their intricate interactions (similar to movies like Go, where the story is told completely differenly from 3 different characters' persectievs).

Then, once this medium of storytelling is mastered (should be rather tricky, intertwining and synchronizing the world like that), they could start adding minute possibilities for interaction. Later on, you could become part of the story by playing a character (think racting, like in Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson).

Lots of potential, indeed.

- shazow

All the relevant information can be found here.

If this is what comes after the golden age, I'm not sure I want that to happen.

Did you mean this movie staring Ben Affleck?

Also, in your signature you refer to ./ (dotslash??), don't you mean /. (Slashdot)?

I've got your proof right here!

For your next monologue can you rant about how flu vaccinations are resulting in ADD for US children?

City of Lost Children. All it needs is a mini camera. Then we can completely shut out our natural senses of sight and hearing.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0112682/