Madeline the dachshund delays the return of a ghost crab to the ocean last summer at Pawley’s Island, SC.
Bonus Existential Wiener moment right at the end.
Author Archives: Niall Murphy
Earlier this week, IMDb user brian_007 (either joking, trolling or, God forbid, neither) wrote a long comment in the IMBb message boards regarding Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, wherein he expounded his (ahem) theories about Tolkien, LOTR, and the Harry Potter series, attracting 100 comments until the post was deleted.
But not before being screencapped:
Here’s the full text:
Overall, I like Lord of the Rings. However, I do feel that Tolkien kind of rips off Harry Potter in many ways. There are several parallels, such as elves, dwarfs, wizards, goblins, trolls, magic (especially invisibility), etc. Sauron is referred to as “Dark Lord” just like Voldemort is. There is also the elder white-haired bearded wizard who serves as a mentor, Gandalf, who is reminiscent of Dumbledore. Some of the character names are similar, such as Wormtongue as opposed to Wormtail, too. There is even a gigantic spider (Shelob) at the end of “The Two Towers” that reminds one of Aragog from Chamber of Secrets. I even noticed that the plots of both series begin with the protagonists’ birthday. Now I see that Tolkien, this unoriginal bastard, is coming out with The Hobbit in December. This would be fine, but why didn’t he just write this book first to begin with? I still like Lord of the Rings, though–don’t get me wrong–but I wonder if Tolkien has ever said in interviews whether he borrowed elements from Harry Potter. I’ll be watching the extended DVDs later this week and I think he’s featured on the commentary track, so I look forward to that.
Matt Groening’s brilliant pre-Simpsons weekly comic strip Life in Hell has been running since 1977. The strip above (number 1669), published last Friday, was the last.
Mmf.
“I’ve had great fun, in a Sisyphean kind of way, but the time has come to let Binky and Sheba and Bongo and Akbar and Jeff take some time off,” Groening, 58, said by email.
‘Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening ends ‘Life in Hell,’ comic that started it all (Poynter)
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As the slow motion sequences in this Veritaserum video show, when a fully extended slinky suspended from above is dropped, the bottom coils hang motionless in the air – seemingly defying gravity – until the rest of the falling Slinky catches up.
(a) Is this the work of Beelzebub and his horny minions?
(b) Are the top and bottom of the Slinky accelerating towards its center of mass as the center of mass accelerates downward?
(c) Are you hearing this song in your head right now?
THE SCIENCE: Modeling a falling Slinky (Wired)