swan2swan:

You know what movie I will always be proud of?

Alien vs. Predator.

Why?

Because it was a stupid premise that was going to get people’s butts in seats for one reason and one reason only, and that was to see the Alien fight the Predator, so they could literally do whatever they wanted with the rest of the movie, they didn’t care, so what did they do?

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Put Sanaa Lathan in as the lead, gave her a shield made of an alien’s crest and a spear made of an alien’s tail and said “go fight alongside the Predator to save the world from an Alien Queen”, and that’s what she did. They didn’t have to do that, they could have had a white guy, they could have had a white woman, a black man, even, but no, they went with a black woman and made her incredible. And when she fought her way to the end of that movie, they made sure that the most dangerous hunters in the galaxy recognized her and respected her, and they marked her because they decided “You are a paragon of your species and we honor you as one of our own” so in this universe when the Predators think of the Best that Humanity has to offer, they imagine the face of black woman of science with long curly hair. 

THAT IS ALL.

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Official Batman: Arkham Knight Announce Trailer - “Father to Son”

In the explosive finale to the Arkham series, Batman faces the ultimate threat against the city he is sworn to protect. The Scarecrow returns to unite an impressive roster of super villains, including Penguin, Two-Face and Harley Quinn, to destroy The Dark Knight forever.

Batman: Arkham Knight introduces Rocksteady’s uniquely designed version of the Batmobile, which is drivable for the first time in the franchise. The addition of this legendary vehicle, combined with the acclaimed gameplay of the Batman Arkham series, offers gamers the ultimate and complete Batman experience as they tear through the streets and soar across the skyline of the entirety of Gotham City.

Batman: Arkham Knight is based on DC Comics’ core Batman license and will be available exclusively for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Windows PC. The game is scheduled for release worldwide in 2014.

Review of Vesper app on iPhone

It’s a gorgeous looking app from some industry luminaries….but as lovely looking as this app is, I cannot bring myself to use it full time due to the lack of sync. I’ve spent the last few weeks simplifying my workload and thanks to a new app that works as a rapid entry front end for Evernote, I am
killing off apps such as Vesper, SimpleNote, SwiftKey and even the default Notes app which held all the snippets of info I jotted down. Gone from my Mac are plain text files and Notational Velocity too. I don’t want to look in many different places for information. Like my paper meeting notebook at work which has EVERYTHING in it, I need a single repository to search through. So now I have gone back to Evernote as a synchronised notebook on my Mac with speedy plain text entry on my iOS devices going through EverMemo. (SwiftKey made a brief appearance but after twice losing my notes went to the app bin.) If Vesper ever gets sync sorted then I might return, especially if it goes for Evernote or perhaps a plain text thing with Dropbox - but that would kill the photo capability - but it needs to do something.

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bluedevilisinthedetails:

Karl doing the Dredd voice.

Incredible - this is a video of Karl Urban reading the opening lines from the classic ‘Judge Dredd: America’ story in his best DREDD voice.

If you don’t know ‘America’ then you should add it to your collection immediately - it’s not only one of the greatest Dredd stories ever, but it also inspired the movie: http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/judge_dredd_america

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