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Sandman should be on HBO.

No!

Sandman

Logline: Neil Gaiman’s classic graphic novel about Dream and his siblings, finally appears to be coming to the big screen.

Status: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who probably has the juice to make things happen right now, is producing with the possibility of starring and directing. Jack Thorne (How I Live Now) is writing the screenplay, based on a pitch by David S. Goyer.

From Upcoming Genre Movies That Aren’t Sequels, Remakes or Reboots [io9.com] on io9

Not as a movie! Sandman should be an HBO series. All 76 issues done, basically as is. Spend the money on special effects and whatnot! Not a two hour movie; a movie can’t do Sandman justice. I think only HBO can do Sandman justice.

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Ways not to use text messaging

“[A]fter the airline sent a text message to relatives saying it “deeply regrets that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those onboard survived.”

From ‘All lives are lost’ [cnn.com]
By Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen on CNN.com

What the fuck? A text message? An SMS? Wouldn’t want to be the person who decide that was the best way to inform people their friends and family on MH370 are dead. Worse than firing people by SMS.

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An analog day

Ahem. <cough> A haiku:

I forgot my phone
In the living room at home
I feel so alone

Being separated from the instantaneous global communications and the soft LED glow of mindless entertainment is all well and good, even desirable, when I’m on vacation but annoying when I’m at work.

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The Bad Guys

This post [gizmodo.com] over at Gizmodo shows the official patch for the NROL-39 [wikipedia.org] satellite launch:

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This comment from Mariani [kinja.com] sums it up best:

Any child who saw this logo in a TV show would immediately identify it as belonging to the Bad Guys. Who was the dipshit at NRO who thought this was a good idea? Or have they actually dropped the act and chosen this as their way of owning up to what they truly are, because buying revolving chairs and fluffy white Angora cats for every staff member to pet menacingly is just too expensive?

Yep, 80’s cartoons taught me that a giant octopus devouring the Earth is a bad guys wet dream.

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The internet is for porn

I call bull shit.

According to this Associated Press story [ap.org], researchers are teaching an AI program common sense using pictures on the internet.

In mid-July, [the program] began searching the Internet for images 24/7 and, in tiny steps, is deciding for itself how those images relate to each other.

I call bull shit because if it was really learning anything from pictures on the internet it would mostly know what strange sexual fetishes are.

The internet if for porn. ;-)