10/30/2007

Mickey?


Some rather interesting renditions of Mickey Mouse.

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11 Great Album Covers

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The Best Horror Movie You've Never Seen


John Carpenter's The Thing.

That's right. Kurt Russell plays the lead role. You think he'll suck. He doesn't. The movie was made in 1982. You think the effects will look dated and stupid. They don't. In fact, this movie does such an amazing job of creating a believable little personal hell that I guarantee it nags at your brain for days.

I'll give you a brief overview. Some Americans manning an outpost in Antarctica find themselves visited by a seemingly crazed man. They soon realize that he was a worker from a nearby Norwegian camp. After investigating the camp (or what's left of it), our boys discover that there's something among them; something that can change it's shape to imitate other creatures. What ensues is contagious, utter paranoia where no one trusts anyone. It quickly becomes a sick, desperate mind game of trying to figure out how you could tell who was real, and how to convince them that you are who you say you are.

All of this is compounded by John Carpenter's absolutely insane genius, which manifests throughout the film in the form of the Thing's stomach turning transformations. I don't know how this man came up with the bastardized, biohazard hell-things that he did (much less make them look amazingly real with 80's technology), but he should be given many awards and immediately locked away.

Not only will this movie suffice for your Halloween action-horror-gore watching needs, but it goes above and beyond, delivering a psychological torment that makes it one of the best movies I've watched in a long time.

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10/27/2007

A God Among Men

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A Good Dog Indeed *Link Fixed*

Mesmerizing

A Love Story

Bad Day


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Why Can't You Buy 40 oz Beers in Florida?


I saw that quite a few people are reaching this page through Google, so I decided to double check the information I had here, as well as add a bit to it. The article I had found before indicated that the statute was enacted in 1965 at the behest of Anheuser-Busch, simply to help it edge out it's rival, Miller. While I have been unable to confirm whether this was the underlying reason for this statute's enactment, I was able to find some other information. First, the answer from the article I had previously found:
The law restricting sizes has been in effect since 1965, and wholesale distributors have successfully defeated bills to repeal the bottle size restriction in the past with arguments that such a change would boost beer prices. They argued more warehouse space and bigger trucks would be needed to handle the wider variety of cans and bottles.

More recently, I looked up the statute in question, which is Fla. Stat. § 563.06(6). The statute states:

(6) All malt beverages packaged in individual containers sold or offered for sale by vendors at retail in this state shall be in individual containers containing no more than 32 ounces of such malt beverages; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall affect malt beverages packaged in bulk or in kegs or in barrels or in any individual container containing 1 gallon or more of such malt beverage regardless of individual container type.


For those of you who are wondering, the statute uses the term "malt beverages" to refer to both malt liquor, and beer. Florida's Legislature did in fact amend the original statute in 2001, however it simply deleted previous language specifying acceptable bottle sizes, substituting instead the current ban on bottle sizes between 32 ounces and one gallon.

Although § 563.06 offers no justification for this statute, the preambles to several related statutes suggest that all this regulation is needed to ensure that relationships between beer manufacturers and beer distributors flow smoothly, so that ultimately, we all get the sweet sweet beer we so desperately need. It seems more likely that the statute was in fact pushed through by a congressman friendly to the beer corporation lobbyists.

We as a (Floridian) people need to stand up, and demand our 4o's.

Those last eight ounces symbolize the rift between our current state, and our freedom.

I plan on further researching whether modification of this statute would be possible through a ballot initiative or referendum. Check back soon for an update.


CNN is effing brilliant.