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Floyd Mayweather Defends (read, “Has secret crush on…”) Ronda Rousey Against The Trolls

from E! Floyd Mayweather Defends Ronda Rousey From Backlash After Surprising UFC Loss: “Everything Happens for a Reason” by SAMANTHA SCHNURR Rex/REX USA; Getty Images From one former champion to another, Floyd Mayweather has a few supportive words for Ronda Rousey After suffering the first loss of her career during an Ultimate Fighting Championship match against Holly Holm on Nov. 15, […]

Apocalypse Wagner

from Nautilus How I Tried to Transplant the Musical Heart of Apocalypse Now Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch describes the surprising idiosyncrasies of film scoring. BY WALTER MURCH In 1979, sometime during the barely controlled chaos of the last months of finishing Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, someone in legal affairs had the presence of mind […]

Seattle Wheel Attacked By Drone

from BBC News Seattle’s Ferris wheel hit by drone Getty Images Seattle police are investigating after a drone collided with the city’s giant Ferris wheel on Wednesday afternoon. There were no injuries in the incident in which the drone hit the wheel and then a table as it fell to the ground. The incident has […]

Kid Wins $250k Explaining Einstein

from The Washington Post This high school student just won $250,000 for his film explaining Einstein’s theory of relativity By Emma Brown Ohio high school senior Ryan Chester became the inaugural winner of a new college scholarship on Sunday night, winning $250,000 for his 7-minute film that uses simple props and hand-drawn graphics to explain Einstein’s special theory […]

THE HATEFUL EIGHT Exhibited Right – Thanks, QT

from The New York Times Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Resurrects Nearly Obsolete Technology By BEN KENIGSBERG Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kurt Russell in “The Hateful Eight,” scheduled to be released on 100 screens in 70-millimeter projection. PHOTO: Andrew Cooper/SMPSP/The Weinstein Company LOS ANGELES — When Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” is released in a special roadshow version (with overture, […]

Shaq Debuts LITTLE SHAQ

from The New Yorker Big Shaq by Jonathan Blitzer ILLUSTRATION BY TOM BACHTELL There are fifty-two million items in the New York Public Library, if you count the artifacts, like pieces of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s skull and the walking stick that Virginia Woolf carried to the river’s edge. The other day, Thomas Lannon, a curator, […]

Amazon Picks Up THE KICKS, Woo-hoo!!

from VARIETY Amazon Picks Up ‘Shaun the Sheep’ Special, Greenlights 3 Kids’ Series Original shows ‘Dino Dana,’ ‘The Kicks’ and ‘Lost in Oz’ coming to Prime in 2016 Todd Spangler / NY Digital Editor Amazon is tapping more tyke TV: The company has licensed a “Shaun the Sheep” special exclusively for the U.S. and ordered three kids’ […]

Terminator Time II – Phantom X

Equalizing Internet Via The Extensions

from WIRED The Land That the Internet Era Forgot by W. RALPH EUBANKS Photo by  TABITHA SOREN FOR A GUY born and raised in Mexico, Roberto Gallardo has an exquisite knack for Southern manners. That’s one of the first things I notice about him when we meet up one recent morning at a deli in Starkville, Mississippi. Mostly it’s […]

Terminator Time

from The Washington Post The significance of an MIT drone weaving around tree branches at 30 mph By Matt McFarland To get his PhD, MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west. Barry’s destination was a farm in western Massachusetts.  It had […]