It could very well be a fine movie, although we can’t quite tell since it hasn’t been released yet. However, the book it’s based on, Northern Lights in the UK and The Golden Compass in the US, is anti-religious. The author, Phillip Pullman, reportedly is an atheist who pursues an anti-Christian agenda. According to Wikipedia, which may or may not be factual, he writes:
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I’m not sure if there’s an actual full-length movie to go with this, but the simple Flash-animated story is incredibly inspiring. The background soundtrack is quite catchy, too. Take a look:
I visited Joel Comm’s blog today and saw that he’d been Simpson-ized.
And I have no idea how because I still don’t see where their ads are. This is the video that earned me fifteen cents. It’s a Voss vs. Costco bottled water taste test:
From October 29 to November 2, I’ll be out on a cruise with my grandpa. I’m really looking forward to it because this is just the kind of thing that taking a semester off from school allows me to do. This is our cruise itinerary: Read the rest of this entry »
I was browsing for info on the wildfire when I saw this headline:
The 10 Places to Visit in the SCV Before You Die
StarCraft fans understand why this is amusing. SCV is the Terran unit in StarCraft and stands for Space Construction Vehicle. Read the rest of this entry »
This is simply amazing. Popular Science reports that cloning operations in China have already created a fake copy of the Apple iPhone.
“The country’s ability to produce indistinguishable replicas of any moment’s must-have item is legendary: Manufacturers have serviced knockoff air conditioners as if they were their own; stores have refunded bootleg purses without batting an eye. Perhaps the only thing trumping the clones’ quality is their speed. The hotter the product, the quicker the bootleg.”
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I was on the third hole of Albatross18’s White Wiz course. Albatross18, for those unfamiliar, is an online multiplayer golf game. It’s a fun game to play with my sisters. I pressed the spacebar to begin my shot. Suddenly, I got the much-dreaded blue screen of death. This is not a common occurence. I use a Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows XP, and I often run it for days at a time without problems. Not so this time. And it was a double pang weekend, too! Oh well. See Microsoft’s explanation after the break.
I just got back from the JEOPARDY! 2007 College Championship here at the University of Southern California’s new Galen Center. Here’s an awesome little towel they gave us.. I taped my free admission ticket to it and hung it up in my dorm room in Marks Hall.
A short audio clip (about one minute) from This Week in Media episode 46. I thought it was amusing 
