Topic: What I learned today! (Read 195001 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #1580 on:** February 28, 2011, 07:08:07 AM »

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Martin Luther King learned civil disobedience from Mahatma Gandhi, who learned it from Leo Tolstoy – see Tolstoy’s 1908 Letter to a Hindu: “It is not the English who have enslaved the Indians but the Indians who have enslaved themselves.” Tolstoy learned it from Étienne de la Boétie – the young 16th-century French philosopher who was (according to one scholar) “the first person to advocate mass, non-violent civil disobedience.”

Rousseau would surely disagree with the last bit of the article, but it's neat to see the first recorded germ of this idea goes back this far (or course it may go back farther, but of that there is no record).

Brentai · « **Reply #1581 on:** February 28, 2011, 09:51:40 AM »

Literally annoying the British to total ruin is a very French idea.

Büge · « **Reply #1582 on:** March 07, 2011, 02:33:03 PM »

Goliath. David Xanatos.

David and Goliath.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1583 on:** March 07, 2011, 11:02:47 PM »

Yeah, I was floored when someone pointed out that Juggernaut was Cain Marko, or reversed Marko, Cain. Mark o Cain.

Thad · « **Reply #1584 on:** March 08, 2011, 09:33:25 AM »

D'oh. The Cain ref is obvious but I never got the Marko. (Having a Flint Marko running around in Spider-Man does muddy it a bit.)

For my money, the first appearance of Juggernaut is the best X-Men comic ever. Just really great monster-movie suspense stuff; Toth's pencils are fantastic but outshone by Kirby's layouts.

Course, part 2 is just by-the-numbers Stan and Jack "the heroes (and special guest star!) are stymied by the villain for 20 pages until they realize he has a really obvious weakness" formula, but god damn is part 1 great.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1585 on:** March 08, 2011, 09:51:33 AM »

Always loved the old What If starring Juggernaut.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1586 on:** March 17, 2011, 06:46:36 PM »

Bill Maher is a germ-theory denialist.

TA · « **Reply #1587 on:** March 17, 2011, 06:52:48 PM »

He's also an anti-vaxxer. The man somehow has everything about medicine totally wrong.

Thad · « **Reply #1588 on:** March 19, 2011, 10:47:12 AM »

Yeah, one of the reasons (but not the main one) I stopped reading the Huffington Post was because it kept granting a forum for the alt-medicine nuts. (And I'm going to make a clear distinction between alt-medicine proponents and alt-medicine nuts; it's not like I'm in love with big pharma or the medical establishment. There are a lot of positives to things like therapeutic massage, but for fuck's sake vaccinate your kids.)

teg · « **Reply #1589 on:** March 21, 2011, 06:16:37 PM »

Yesterday, I felt like watching Scott Pilgrim.

I grabbed the Blu-Ray and popped it in my PS3. The PS3 automatically turned itself on because it knew there was a disc in it, and my TV automatically turned itself on and switched to HDMI-1 because the PS3 had turned on.
The first thing the disc did was download new trailers from the internet. One of the trailers was for a new movie with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Wondering if it was a new Edgar Wright movie, I pulled out my iPod and used my IMDb app to check who directed the movie.
When the disc menu popped up, I switched my iPod to PocketBlu and used it as a remote to start the movie.

Dude, we live in the fucking future.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1590 on:** March 21, 2011, 06:27:59 PM »

Quote from: ★ on March 21, 2011, 06:16:37 PM

Yesterday, I felt like watching Scott Pilgrim.

I grabbed the Blu-Ray and popped it in my PS3. The PS3 automatically turned itself on because it knew there was a disc in it, and my TV automatically turned itself on and switched to HDMI-1 because the PS3 had turned on.
The first thing the disc did was download new trailers from the internet. One of the trailers was for a new movie with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Wondering if it was a new Edgar Wright movie, I pulled out my iPod and used my IMDb app to check who directed the movie.
When the disc menu popped up, I switched my iPod to PocketBlu and used it as a remote to start the movie.

Dude, we live in the fucking future.

Brentai · « **Reply #1591 on:** March 21, 2011, 08:46:47 PM »

I'm glad I'm not the only person who manages to still be just jazzed the fuck out that my TV and PS3 can turn each other on.

...power each other up.

...activate each other.

...pull each other out of sleep mode.

...have sex.

Friday · « **Reply #1592 on:** March 21, 2011, 09:01:05 PM »

Sol Badguy.

JDigital · « **Reply #1593 on:** March 21, 2011, 11:17:52 PM »

You learned Sol Badguy today?

Mongrel · « **Reply #1594 on:** March 22, 2011, 03:17:41 AM »

No, he learned about Friday.

Niku · « **Reply #1595 on:** March 22, 2011, 05:28:00 AM »

So .. back seat or front seat?

Royal☭ · « **Reply #1596 on:** March 22, 2011, 05:35:29 AM »

William Shatner is 80. 80!

Here he is singing Celo Green's "Fuck You" a few months ago:

William Shatner Sings Fuck You! .avi

Smiler · « **Reply #1597 on:** March 22, 2011, 07:04:51 AM »

Holy shit I never realized he was that old. Damn.

Büge · « **Reply #1598 on:** March 22, 2011, 07:18:32 AM »

I learned that Wonder Woman has her own cosmetics line.

teg · « **Reply #1599 on:** March 22, 2011, 02:17:18 PM »

William Shatner sounds a lot like Bill Cosby now.

I learned that if I switch the camera controls around and re-map the buttons, I'm actually capable of playing Shadow of the Colossus!

So this is what everyone was so giddy about six years ago!

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