Who is Number One?

The trailer for the miniseries remake of the surreal classic, The Prisoner.

Some observations:

I can already tell Ian McKellen will steal the show.
A friend in the movie-trailer business once warned me that you see the best parts in any trailer.
Remakes always leave me wondering “If the original was so wonderful, why does [...]

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To the dungeon with you!

The site is linked in the sidebar to the right, but I wanted to promote Megadungeon.net as something special: a collaborative, volunteer-based design of of a large, ruined monastery and dungeon in the tradition of the early days of roleplaying games, especially Dungeons and Dragons. Even if you don’t play D&D, the maps are quite [...]

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Headline of the year?

Via Breitbart:
Insane killer escapes on field trip to county fair
A criminally insane killer from eastern Washington is on the run after escaping during a field trip to the county fair that his mental hospital organized.
Why such a dangerous person was out in public was a question many, including Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, were asking [...]

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A murderer’s garden

Popular Mechanics has an article on the 10 Deadliest Plants in the World. My favorite? Oleander. So common, yet so fatal:
This extremely common evergreen shrub is one of the most poisonous plants in the world. “If I were a parent and covering every electrical outlet in the home to protect the kids, I would really [...]

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Gone to the dogs

Here’s a really fun video of a dog-trainer act in, I think, Germany. This guy is good, and the dogs are a crack-up:

(via Wag Reflex)

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The evolution of canine intelligence

I’m a lifelong dog-lover, and I’ve always felt they were much more intelligent than our “dumb dog” jokes make them out to be. In fact, we used to say around the house that, while our dogs couldn’t talk, they certainly knew how to communicate.
Anyway, Time Magazine has a really neat article on investigations into the [...]

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What if it turns out to be porn?

Researchers in Israel claim to have developed a way to decipher previously unreadable ancient texts using technology similar to that of fingerprint readers:
The program uses a pattern recognition algorithm similar to those law enforcement agencies have adopted to identify and compare fingerprints.
But in this case, the program identifies letters, words and even handwriting styles, saving [...]

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