Holy shit, several of my worlds are colliding into entertainmagasmic nirvana: Bourne Identity, Knight Rider, and Transformers.

Tubewad reports NBC might pick up a new sans-Hoff Knight Rider that Bourne 1 director Doug Liman is calling more “Transformers-inspired.” Say what? For real.

But the article hints that KITT and other “evil cars” may, in fact, transform.

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I watched KR religiously as a kid, as I’m sure we all did; Bourne Identity was wholely-inspired; and the Transformers were my preferred childhood religion. Put them together and its like pure Columbian cocaine is dripping from the seams of my TV.

Labels: Television

The home is compact and stunning, with gorgeous xeriscape landscaping, and the most high-tech green materials and sustainable systems available,including a greywater recycling system, green roof, solar panels, and even a spot to plug in your electric vehicle for charging!

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My uncle had a prefab home out in the sticks, but it looked like an overgrown trailer home on cinderblocks.

Labels: Design, Technology

Japan is the worst country for frequency of getting it on, so says this obscure chart on Flickr, which I’m prepared to put my faith in. America is the next least frequent. Which means that I, an American married to a Jap, am getting laid every leap year.

Update: Actually, I misinterpreted this chart. It does not state the frequency of sex per week, but rather how many people responding have sex (at least, I presume) weekly. It’s more about ratios in pairing up than frequency.

Labels: Race

Guns are the answer in heart-pumping new thriller

Trigger-happy Jodie Foster dispenses satisfying justice

Two black thugs create mayhem on a New York subway train, stealing a young hippie’s iPod and roughing him up. An old Negro gentleman sitting with his grandson protests to the youths, and they smack him around. The two thugs look—and laugh at disbelief—as they see a lone, small white woman at the back of the train-car (Jodie Foster) giving a steely glare of loathing contempt, echoing society’s stare of contempt for the black criminal underclass.

They approach the woman, taunting her, threatening her. She continues her cold, icy stare, with not a flinch or movement to betray her emotionless disconnect. The disgusting criminal gets in her face and asks, “You evah gotten fucked by a knife?”

KABLAAAHM!!—NIGGA GETS HIS FACE BLOWN AWAY! BLAAHM!—NIGGA’S FRIEND TAKES ONE IN THE SKULL!

She wasn’t pretending! She’s a woman on fire! She pulled out a 9-millimeter semi-automatic and again tasted the satisfaction of dealing out immediate justice that only a bullet to the brain can, again wrongly making right (by making dead) a member of society’s ills. It’s vigilante-justice at its absolute best as Jodie Foster settles the score in this thrilling, exhilarating movie, The Brave One.

Foster’s performance was fantastic as a woman who’s had enough after her fiancé gets a pipe to his face by a miserable Mexican thug, and who herself was beaten to a pulp and left to die, all the while these vicious thugs videotaping their rabid behavior. Flushing away pills and booze to which any weaker person would have turned, Jodie decides to live her life sans fear, fully armed.

The amount of criminal mayhem she comes upon once she puts herself into the role of vigilante is more than what would be real, but the film feels realistic which makes it more satisfying when she sends a bullet through the eyeballs of criminals. Its like I, the audience member, get to do it myself, after having fantasizing about it for so, so long. This movie allows all of our, the viewers’, anxious frustrations of the perception that our society is falling into chaos—being led there by black criminals—to be released. It’s as if I finally get to do something about it, whatever it is. Fun.

Verdict: This movie literally made my heart pound and is a can’t-miss for people who need to let loose their revenge fantasies.

Labels: Best of, Movies

One of the human biases called Hindsight Bias

2) Hindsight Bias Known more commonly under “hindsight is 20/20“ this bias causes people to see past results as appearing more probable than they did initially. This was demonstrated in a study by Paul Lazarsfeld in which he gave participants statements that seemed like common sense. In reality, the opposite of the statements was true.

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This is classic portfolio management. Apple is positioning the iPod Touch initially as an entertainment device. Apple wants to minimise the potential for the Touch to conflict with the iPhone. By omitting these productivity functions Apple will succeed in the short term, but Apple still leaves the way open to add features back in to the first generation iPod Touch through software/firmware updates.

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I thought it was weird, too, that the wifi device also did not have the weather and stock widgets. Apple wants to maintain the disparity between iPod touch and the premium iPhone.

Labels: Apple

Though outrage over “racism” is ever fashionable, African-Americans have long had far less to fear from the violence of racist whites than from the mayhem of the black underclass.

But the data aren't in dispute. Though outrage over "racism" is ever fashionable, African-Americans have long had far less to fear from the violence of racist whites than from the mayhem of the black underclass.

Though blacks account for just one-eighth of the US population, the BJS reports, they are six times more likely than whites to be victimized by homicide — and seven times more likely to commit homicide.

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Blacks don’t like the idea of whites not liking blacks. But, blacks don’t like blacks, it would seem.

Labels: Crime, Race

In a recent post on his Apple blog, John Gruber reminds us that Apple will refund to you the price difference if they cut prices on something you just bought. New iPhone price cuts mean that people who recently purchased the Jesus-phone can receive the $200 difference between the old price of $599 and new, $399.

Apple Price Protection

From Apple’s Sales and Refund policy:

Should Apple reduce its price on any shipped product within 10 calendar days of shipment, you may contact Apple Sales Support at 1-800-676-2775 to request a refund or credit of the difference between the price you were charged and the current selling price. To receive the refund or credit you must contact Apple within 14 business days of shipment.

So if you just bought an iPhone in the last 10 days, you can get $200 back. I wonder about the 30-day refund period, though — the $200 cut is far more than the restocking fee.

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The point in his quote—which I have italicized—is moot because Apple maintains a 14-day return policy, not thirty [1]. You have the same amount of time to get your price difference OR a refund, with or without the restocking fee of ten percent [2].

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Reviewing the Pussy Pounder log files on the server exposed a curious mystery involving Wikipedia and a post I created where I detail why Molly Wood is a douchie cunt. [1] 1. A post which turns destructive criticism into con-structive educational tutorials about photo previews in Mac OS X. A small amount of links were coming from Wikipedia, of all places!

Molly Wood’s wiki entry no longer contains any reference to The Pounders. Damn.

So my guess—and it is only guesswork, I was unfortunate to not see the tasteful decoration—is that one of our Asian Pussy Pounding minions edited Molly Wood’s Wikipedia entry to more accurately describe the extent of her cuntieness. Let it be known, I didn’t do this. I don’t know how to do this, as I am too busy pounding Asian pussy to worry about the wiki-what’s-it.

Still, rock on!

Labels: Molly Wood

I don’t like lockstep, even if it’s lockstep about being open-minded.

Dennis Miller contrasting himself with the left and right.

Well, listen. I must say that I never considered myself a secular progressive. I know you’re familiar with that mindset. Sec-prog is what I call them. I didn’t consider myself that then, and I don’t consider myself to be Curtis LeMay now. I have always thought of myself as a pragmatist. And I began to see a degree of certitude [1] on the left that I found unsettling. I don’t like lockstep, even if it’s lockstep about being open-minded.

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He’s always a funny guy who makes a lot of sense.