Il mort di Spock 28 May 2009 Star trek as it should be done? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xga_wchTpW8&hl=en&fs=1] Hat tip to Susan Silberstein. Humor
Censorship No shit! 14 Dec 2008 Here’s an article, by MSN no less, that explains the problems with broad filtering. A fellow named Herman Libshitz can’t get an email account from Verizon because his name contains “shit”. Residents of Scunthorpe in the UK apparently have similar problems. God only knows what the residents of Testiclebreastpenisvaginaville can… Read More
Humor A template for philosophical debates 16 Jul 201216 Jul 2012 [Click through to Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal] Mind, equally popular is this syllogism: If P is true, then my opponent will be sad. I wish my opponent to be sad. Therefore P is true. Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design God acts in mischieveous ways 21 Apr 2010 Hot on the heels of Rush Blowhard declaring that the Iceland volcano is God’s apocalyptic response to the healthcare bill (God, it seems, is Maxwell Smart, missing the target by this much, and hitting Europe instead of the US) comes an Iranian cleric who declares that the cause of earthquakes… Read More
Why not? Star Trek was always good with the classics. The death of logic. But they skipped Khan’s best line: “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee; For hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.” Apparently Melville is still going strong in the 23rd century (and maybe Shakespeare as well, but I can’t remember those lines). I would hope the tradition is being upheld with the new movie, but somehow I doubt it.
If only Bill Shatner was able to sing that well. Oh dear. My ears are bleeding just from the thought of Shatner and Nimoy singing that final duet together.
PHILISTINES! They seemed to have a thing for Melville, though. Who can forget Captain Picard in First Contact misquoting lines from Moby Dick: “And he piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.” The funniest was in The Final Frontier” where Dr McCoy attributes: “All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by” to Melville only to be told by Spock it was John Masefield.