Yesterday we looked at examples of Lost-style non-linear storylines. Today, in honor of 24, we’ll run down some examples of real-time TV and film. The most obvious for Keifer Sutherland fans is Phone Booth, in which a man answers a ringing telephone and comes to regret it. Sutherland is the voice of the man making […]
Did you know that the belief that people only use 10% of their brains is a myth? Or that a brain has 100,000 miles worth of blood vessels, and over 100 billion neurons? Hit the jump for other interesting facts about the the organ that makes us, human beings, so special.
We all know that bachelor parties are typically a great excuse to get completely wasted, and do some veryย regrettableย things with your male friends. One of my favorites recent comedies The Hangover, which if you haven’t watched you should, centers around the crazy situations that can occur at these parties, like proposing to a stripper or […]
Rickrolling originally began as an Internet prank where one person would be provided a link to something allegedly awesome. When they clicked on the link, they would be taken to Rick Astley’s video “Never Gonna Give You Up”… something decidedly not that awesome. Hit the jump for other interesting facts about “Rickrolling.”
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If you haven’t had a chance yet, go play the video game mashup of Super Mario Bros. Crossover The game is playable for free online. The programmer went to great detail to bring Link from Legend of Zelda, Bill R. from Contra, Mega Man, Samus and Simon from Castlevania into the world of Super Mario. […]
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Steve Jobs does his best to convince a skeptical Rebel Alliance that the iPad really is a game changer. [Via Digg]
In the following clip, you’ll see an absolutely amazing quadrotor drone making making a bunch of crazy maneuvers in some really tight spaces. Check it out: I, for one, welcome our new autonomous quadrotor overlords.
Among the many storytelling techniques which made Lost what it was were the non-linear approaches. In a major twist, flashbacks became flash-forwards, flash-forwards became flash-sideways (or, as it transpired, flash-intotimelessafterlife), and much of season 5 involved brain-frazzling time travel. If that captured your imagination, there are many other examples of non-chronological film and television shows […]
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