Category: Culture

  • Halo-inspired Lolcats

    The dreaded fashion of Lolcats has found a new sub-genre with the Halo-inspired Lolcats: Halolcats. The video game, Halo, mixed with Lolcats…

  • Free movie: Star Trek episodes

    Download from CBS Movie information from IMDB.org Star Trek nearly defined what a SciFi TV series is or should be. Of course, there is something slightly ridiculous to the coloured pajamas used by the actors to convince the spectator that they are in the far future with advanced technology. But despite all its drawbacks, Star…

  • Screenplay for “The Wall” (Pink Floyd)

    We do not often see the sceenplay of a movie we like. Maybe it’s fortunate because they are hardly exhilarating except when they come from Alfred Hitchcock (the man was a maniac of detailed preparation) or when they describe all about animation movies. The Wall, the Alan Parker movie created with the eponymous music album…

  • Pilosity and Co.

    Pilosity and Co.

    For all those respecting the choice of growing a beard or a moustache, there is a reference web site: Moustache and Beard Quarterly.

  • Free movie: Terminus

    Free movie: Terminus

    Download from the film website Movie information from IMDB.org Trevor Cawood is a movie director that has been noticed in a number of short movies in the world of advertising. Personally, I noticed ads for Citroën and for GMC. But you must remember him for his participation to the special effects of The Matrix Reloaded…

  • Supercomputer in a chapel

    Supercomputer in a chapel

    The most powerful super-computer in Europe (and the 13th in the World), MareNostrum, is located in Barcelona, Spain, and has been installed in an old chapel. This gives us the most beautiful supercomputer in the world (this is nearly computer soft-pron photo).     Photos by Simon Norfolk and Ronald Halbe. Barcelona, Centro Nacional de…

  • Woody Allen love story with a typeface

    Woody Allen love story with a typeface

    For those who did not notice, a disproportionately large majority of the titles to Woody Allen movies are written in one and only one font: Windsor. Apparently, this comes from a conversation with Ed Benguiat, famous American typographer, where Allen wanted to know what a good typeface was. Source: KitBlog.

  • Musical scores

    Musical scores

    Some musical scores are really out-of-this world: One musical score drawing up the map of the whole world: Play Song Buy Song: World Beat Music PI, the mathematical constant, can easily be transformed into a curious musical score may be honoring the memory of Bach and Pythagoras: But I really love the work of Atushi…

  • End of the Odyssey

    One of the greatest minds and authors of the 20th Century just died. Arthur C. Clarke was very well known for some of his highly acclaimed books (think about 2001: A Space Odyssey and the collaboration with Stanley Kubrik on the movie with the same name). Some of them were only known to Science Fiction…