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They're not up to Primer's level of complexity, but for bending your brain a little, try:

eXistenZ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/)

Naked Lunch (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/)

(And other David Cronenberg movies. While I'm at it, although it's completely linear, I'm going to plug: "Crash" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/).)

Jacob's Ladder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/) is almost a great brain-bending movie, but for some damn reason at the very end there's a, "Let's explain what really happened!" scene. F'idiots. (I recommend stopping the movie when you get to the scene where the Jacob and his son (played by Macaulay Culkin) dreamily walk up a back-lit stairway together. Let the movie percolate in your brain for a while. Then, start the movie up again and see how they ruined it.)

Gah. The corporate-speak vocabulary obliterates any sincerity that may have been been in that letter when it was conceived. It reads like nothing more than "damage control".

Ha! That stuff isn't any more "fattening" than a #1 combo, large-sized, from any fast food joint.

Hell the most unhealthful food mentioned in that whole post was probably the Pepsi.

The industry and consumers were much better off with Standard Oil controlling most of the industry. It stabilized markets and led to more efficient crude and refined oil production.

Skype is not promising to protect human rights.

If your doctor won't give you a B12 shot tell him to shove it up his ass, and get a new doctor. It's not like you're asking him to write you a 'script for 300 oxycotin tabs.

The control-freakish nature of many medical professionals astounds me.

Anyway, you can also try large dosage (5000 mcg) sub-lingual B12. Some of it will make it into your bloodstream without going through your stomach.

Journalism is fucking dead. People write these days like they're Charles goddam Dickens and the page should be dense with their words. Like they're crafting great literature when in reality they're writing something that someone (with an iPad) will read while taking a crap at work.

Clarity. Precision. Transparent conveyance of content.

When writers turn in pieces for periodicals, they should be shocked with a voltage in equal proportion to the density of their prose.

Nope, still nothing around that even vaguely competes with the iPod touch. 3,427 announcements of amazing freakin' devices sure to be released any day now!

The only market with more vaporware is alternative-fuel vehicles.

Pre-paid iPhone that only does data through WiFi? Gads, I've been trying to find something like that for over year now.

I think the fact that you'd need a natural gas pipeline, or a propane tank out back, kind of negates the "disconnected from the grid" thingy.

Also, where does one get the energy to heat the magic box to 1800 F?

When did fanboys become apologist?

Lists like this should really contain links to torrents of the films.

I love Jacob's Ladder to death, despite the fact that it once gave me vivid nightmares. Or maybe because of that.

But the ending really sucks. The last minute of the film just fucks the whole thing up by being so simplistic--in a sense it makes the whole movie easy to dismiss. It should just end at the stairway.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4218389/Jacobs_Ladder_(1990)...

>I can bet that woman must be good at something she has never been tested on and probably does not know about.

Hah. That women may very well be average at a lot of things, and bad at the rest.

This idea that "everyone has a special gift!" is just pixie-dust dreaming. Most people simply aren't special, in any sense of the word.

Fight Club: "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact."

The sooner people learn that, the sooner they can get on with their lives of mediocrity.

A vice president of a state university once said to me during an interview:

"I wonder when the state legislature is going to notice that they are giving us money to teach to students the same things they gave high schools money to teach to the same students?"

Did you go to university in the '70s pr something?

All that's "expected" of students anymore is a pulse, AFAICT.

>There’s a reason that Apple has always been the choice of artists and musicians. The machine itself is artful. Yeah, it’s expensive, and it crashes, but it’s artful. And that counts for a whole lot.

What? Apples crash?! Unpossible--Apples are the greatest computers evar!

Flashblock is a popular add-on for Firefox. I would recommend a button on your page that adds your site to the Flashblock "allowed" list.

Speaking of evil companies....

Silliness. Inspired design creates simple solutions for complex problems. That thing is a complex solution for a simple problem. Or perhaps it's a complex solution without any problem at all.

Anyone who wants to positively impact individual's transportation issues should be working on battery development, and similar technology.

Or maybe not. That doesn't seem to be set up for one-person jobs. More like hiring a swarm to sift through data.

I may give www.peopleperhour.com a try. (The Mechanical Turk suggestion did manage to break my brain-lock, though, so it was useful.)

Probably not--there's a lot of text in the charts. And I want to be able to edit them easily in the future.

Thanks, though.

Looks perfect. Thank you.

Sell the Jeep and buy a car with a real trunk. As a bonus it will probably get 2x the gas mileage, and oil changes and tires will cost 1/2. Not to mention insurance.

Where's Symbian in all this?

CoMP

Collective Music Patronage

A website that allows listeners to make donations to support musicians. Donations can be directed to specific bands/artists, or to a collective fund, which is allocated to bands/artists based on downloads of free music directed through the site. (The site is a bittorrent tracker.)

The website also promotes communities of music fans, allowing them to suggest new bands/artists to each other, trade news, schedule meet-ups, etc. In theory, the forums could also allow artists to interact with their fans.

The middle-man in music, the record companies, are a Dead Man Walking. CoMP wold be the new, almost invisible, interface between artists and consumers.