Posts Tagged ‘FAIL’
Sunday Afternoon
* New York Times: At UNC, every night is ladies’ night. Via BloggEd, who adds: At my college, the U. of Delaware, the numbers are almost identical: 58 percent female for years, and 60 percent in the largest college, Arts and Sciences. It’s that way most everywhere, other than super-elite colleges and ones that emphasize engineering and the like. Some time back, I posted on how the gender imbalance may play out in admissions offices: affirmative action for boys—the suspicion of which has led to an ongoing investigation of 19 schools by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
* The New York Review of Books has a brief history of Facebook.
* The Onion‘s A.V. Club has a feature on Bill Murray and philosophy.
* The San Francisco Gate reports the “open secret” that the judge in the highly contentious Prop 8 trial is gay, though the response from the right demonstrates that this was actually a somewhat guarded secret.
* And, via @socratic, the Raw Story has today’s first paragraph FAIL:
New Orleans has elected its first white mayor in 32 years, ushering in hopes of a new era in a city still trying to rebuild five years after Hurricane Katrina.
Perhaps you should consider rephrasing that…
Probably Didn’t Think This Article All The Way Through
The soon-to-be ex-vice-chancellor of Buckingham University explains in a startlingly ill-conceived article in the Times that female students are a male academic’s “perk.” Via The Guardian via Dana at The Edge of the American West.
PS: “The fault lies with the females.” FYI.
Tuesday, Tuesday
Tuesday, I’ll never forget you.
* Precision Hacking: 4chan hacks a Time poll not just at the top but all the way down.
* In the fifth and final installment of his Wes Anderson series, Matt Zoller Seitz annotates the prologue to The Royal Tenenbaums.
* You and I know it’s fair and balanced, but believe it or not there are those who argue that the reporting on Fox may show a slight rightward tilt.
* On the making of Swamp Thing #20.
* And Blographia Literaria calls FAIL on failblog.org.
Solved
German police have solved the mystery of the Phantom of Heilbronn, a female serial killer responsible for six murders as well as petty larcenies and break-ins. It was a cotton swab.
BSG: What Might Have Been
If you thought the actual BSG finale was terrible, just take a look at the plotline they almost went with.
Tuesday Links
Tuesday!
* Cold fusion is back. More here. We’re saved!
* Radiology art. (Hat tip: Neil.)
* My pursuit of all Wes Anderson-flavored cultural ephemera has led me to this video from Company of Theives, as well as Tenenbaum Fail. Via Fimoculous.
* The first eleven episodes of Quantum Leap are up at NBC.com.
* Who was dead at your age?
"150,000 Years Later"
Has there ever been a show that misunderstood itself as badly as Battlestar Galactica? As regrettable as the last few seasons have been, I confess I was completely unprepared for the sheer awfulness of this finale. I think I pissed off a few people on Twitter with my up-to-the-minute spoiler-laden despair, so I don’t want to repeat that mistake here—but suffice it to say I can’t think of a television finale less successful than this one.
I wrote not that long ago that
All that said, I think it’s too early to turn Battlestar into Star Wars; the reputation of the series will live or die in what happens in these next few episodes and it could still go either way. Melodrama aside—and yes there was a lot of it last night—I think there are reasons to believe.
Well, now we know. Frak it all.
Put its utter randomness, offensively easy a-wizard-did-it mysticism, and excess sentimentality aside. Battlestar Galactica in its final moments actually seems to view itself as some sort of prophetic warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Delivered by angels. It’s actually that bad.
What a colossal disappointment. Bad, bad, bad.
The Headline Reads
The headline reads, “Mishap leaves skier dangling pantsless from Vail chairlift.“