Slate has a really good piece on the evolution of the modern cinematic fight scene, with lots of clips over the years. Editing can really make or break an action scene, or any piece for that matter. If I get into trouble and think that something is getting boring or stale, it becomes really tempting to just start rapid cutting over a small section of music. ...

Fifty years before An Inconvenient Truth, there was The Unchained Goddess. via

I can't believe someone took the time to compile this...but that didn't stop me from taking the time to link to it, did it?

Does the Zune suck? I don't know. Like everybody else I have an ipod so I have absolutely no interest in it. That said, these animations are really really neat. (h/t motionographer)

I think I have two favorite parts of the Dark Knight. (My two favorite parts today that is) They prob contain spoilers, so for the two of you that haven't seen it yet, let's talk about that in a second. If you saw it this weekend chances are you saw the Watchmen trailer preceding it. I haven't read Watchmen, although I started to earlier this year ...

I've added a few new blogs to the feed lately and thought some of you might like them, too. My apologies if you've been reading any of these for years and I'm late to the party: Neatorama: I think I saw this once a while back, but it's a fun smattering of all things random from the internet. Today I checked out a pretty cool series of wine glasses ...

Chicken and the egg sort of thing...

Read this today from the AVClub, they had an interview with Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi - AVC: The other night, Larry King was talking about the election with Joy Behar from The View— MT: [Laughs.] There's two intellectual giants debating politics. AVC: Behar was talking about some US Magazine cover where they explore Michelle Obama's relationship with her husband. It's even called something like "Why Barack Loves Her." And ...