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Films & TV

How do you like my Krug?

After subjecting myself to the extended cut of Uwe Boll‘s hysterically terrible In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, I had to compile a list of the best/worst quotes in the film.

“Give me the chicken! Ar! Ar! Ar!”

“I can’t read you.
I can read most men like reading scrolls of flesh.
But you…
you I can’t see past your scowl.
Why is that?”

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Music

The Run

The Beetroots have done it again with another great video.

This time with Italian director Jacopo Rondinelli. ‘Butter’ is just an amazing track and the video is a perfect fit. You gotta love the ending.

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Web Design

Why IE will never go away.

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Web Design

Who said the internet is killing journalism?

Chris Hedges did.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and tech-pessimist, recently gave a lecture at the University of Mississippi about the decline of newspapers. Which, in his view, inevitably leads to the death of journalism, literacy, and even democracy. You can read or watch the lecture on the University’s blog.

Talk about a slippery slope.  Yes, the medium, business model, and definition of “news” is changing rapidly, but I fail to see how this signals the journalistic apocalypse.

Some of his views seem to be based on misconceptions about the internet. Here are a few:

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Music

1, 2, Whoop Whoop

The Bloody Beetroots have produced a fairly amazing music video for their latest single “Warp”.

The Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki – Warp from Francesco Calabrese on Vimeo.