Archive for: February 2007

George Takei, actor (”Mr. Sulu”) and gay man, responds to Tim Hardaway on the Jimmy Kimmel show.

UPDATE: I didn’t think about it until I read Frank Deford’s …

So I was reading some reactions to the Superbowl over at Football Outsiders, and it occurred to me why I always rooted against Peyton Manning: because he’s Ivan Drago.

(Drago, of course, was Rocky’s opponent in Rocky IV (The Undiscovered …

Here’s the GTA Coke ad from the Super Bowl. If you have never played GTA: Vice City, the reproduction here is absolutely uncanny - especially as “Tommy Vercetti” …

Just read this story (via Digg), about a “reverse CAPTCHA”. For those of you who don’t know, a CAPTCHA is a “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, and is used on many content …

I was really looking forward to The Driver, by all accounts a tense little crime drama from 1978. The Continental Op and the Nameless Detective are, of course, famous for never being named, but this film one-ups them: nobody gets …