Image Separation! It took four hours and a few minutes. After that I watched 8 thirty-gallon garbage sacks ride away in a car never to return again. They were from a pile called “Donations.” The four hours and few minutes weren’t at all what I expected. I had spent them with a love...

I found this completely by accident, and knowing there’s more than a couple Star Wars nerds about the place I thought I’d share: You can also check out this site if you are in the mood for more Star Wars-themed motivational posters for all occasions (including George Lucas’ take on...

At the Liberty Roundabout, which was the scene of a bloody ambush of the Sri Lankan Cricket Team on March03, it has become a daily feature for passers by to stop and pay respects to the memory of the martyred policemen. Six of the men guarding Sri Lankan Team’s convoy lost their lives while ba...

Yes, Role Models is the “big” release on DVD today (read Mr. Sparkle’s original review of the film), but today also marks the release of several small independent films from last year including a film good enough to make Mr. Sparkle’s top ten of 2008, our pal Eric from Scene-...

Mar 09: Queer Conversations On Culture And The Arts at California College of the Arts...

I have one thing to say about the new Jack-in-the-Box logo: Only a   ass would like this redesign. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the Brand New writeup about it and you will also notice a barrage of negative comments regarding the design (just to give my view point a bit more credibili...

If you don’t check out the A.V. Club on a regular basis, here’s just one reason that you’re so goddamned muttonheaded (that’s right, I said it.) This hilarious essay asses the brilliance of Lorne Michaels’ 90s branch of produced films for SNL Studios. This is of course ...

Visualizing a Trillion: Just How Big That Number Is? Courtesy the credit crisis and big bailout packages, the figure “trillion” has suddenly become part of our everyday conversations. One trillion dollars, or 1 followed by 12 zeros, is lots of money but have you ever tried visualizing ho...

In the basement of a nondescript building here at Argonne National Laboratory, nickel particles in a beaker are building themselves into magnetic snakes that may one day give clues about how life originally organized itself. These chains of metal particles look so much like real, living animals, it ...

BLOGGERS RULE at the Vancouver Opera... Live Blogging for Rigoletto! Opera is one of the most intercultural art forms.  It forces its audience to listen to foreign languages, as it tells stories from different cultures.  Okay, it also presents a lot of stereotypes and racial chariactures t...