Revelation(s) O:MFG

Lemmings don’t kill themselves unless Disney film crews are pushing them over cliffs. (Snopes.com)

Huh.

China syndrome (plural China syndromes)

Noun

1. (idiomatic, nuclear physics, uncountable) A hypothetical kind of catastrophic failure in which a nuclear reactor melts through the floor of its containment system and penetrates the earth’s surface, continuing downward as if (from a Western Hemispheric point of view) traveling through the planet toward China.

The AV Club: Why did you decide to set the film in San Francisco?

Tommy Wiseau: First, I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

There can only be one!

Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included (Wired.com)

As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement.” … Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to death, so that the lab-monsters can “ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.”

My response to Eric D. Snider of Cinematical’s The Lazy, Misleading DVD Covers for ‘Amelia’ and ‘Love Happens’

I don’t think that they’re as lazy as they are the careful (albeit
unoriginal) design of the marketing team trying to get the videos to
sell at Best Buy and rent in Blockbuster (or on Netflix’s website ?
Red Box’s display).

The little time I worked at a video store was very educational in
this regard.

If you compare the Blockbuster case art to even the regular release
DVD case, you’ll find the same big star faces and layout as you have
on these, on almost every case.

Video box art is as far from a movie poster or album cover as you can
get.  Even those two “art forms” need to sell their product, but most
of them at least have a bit more decency than this.  But the DVD
cases are all about those people wandering the aisles (now more
virtually than physically), looking for something to rent Friday
afternoon to watch that weekend.

It will be interesting to see if the cases change given that the
video stores are dying around the country.