I think I was run through the whole emotional spectrum during that Banksy movie, and now, I’m actually feeling somewhat disillusioned.
Mild “spoilers” warning.
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Foursquare app: Badge and mayorship finder
Random thought that crossed my mind while I was wandering the CBD at lunch for all the Foursquare addicts out there.
Wouldn’t it be great to have an app, that, checks your location, and then says something like…
Badges
There are 3 badges that you can acquire within 500m of your location!
[List badges, their descriptions and how to acquire them]
[Insert Google Map with markers for each location, with markers being the actual badges]
Mayorships
There are 2 potential mayorships within 500m of your location!
[List venues and how many check-ins are required to obtain mayorship]
[Insert Google Map with markers for each location]
Does an app like this already exist? Does anyone want it? Am I talking absolute shit? Well, this is my blog, dammit, so deal with it!
This post was inspired by a discussion with @kazwalla last week around having a badge night; a night dedicated to acquiring Foursquare badges.
AudioSurf
Did you ever play Grand Theft Auto on PC, load the mp3 directory with all your music, and just drive around for hours on end? Well, I sure did, and probably spent more time doing that in-game than anything else. I’ve missed that feeling, and I’ve missed my PC’s music library, while I’ve not-so-secretly been gettin’ comfortable with The Cloud servicing my musical needs.
Well, no longer! I’ve just rediscovered my music library tonight, and fallen in love with it all over again thanks to AudioSurf!
LOST – The End [spoilers, duh]
LOST began with the black credits fading into Jack Shephard’s right eye opening, while he lay there in the bamboo field, and it ended with Jack Shephard’s right eye closing, lying in that same bamboo field, fading into those same black credits. Why not just call the show ‘Full Circle’ or ‘Mirrors’? I’ve watched the last 30 seconds several times now, and the finale twice, and the whole series twice, and I’m satisfied with the end.
I’ve slowly come to a realisation over the years that The Island and the mythology that came along with it was just a backdrop for a show about people, and that more than came through in the finale. Sure I want answers, and I feel I’ve got more than enough of them, but for the diehards that watched LOST until the very end hoping that every answer would be presented in a box, nicely tied with a ribbon, I’m sorry, you probably didn’t get what you wanted out of the finale.
You can test your streaming video speeds on YouTube now?!
Since when did this get introduced?! Maybe it was part of the new video player that started showing up a month ago? I accidentally right-clicked the YouTube video [Gym Class Heroes – On My Own Time [great song, btw]] I was watching and one of the options was ‘Take speed test’. Who am I to refuse The Google? I took the test and was then directed to a page with some funky graphs and benchmarks of how my speed holds up against the average speed of my ISP, city, state, country and globally! Not sure how big the sample size is for the comparison data or anything, but nifty nonetheless.
You can even click ‘Show Test Video’ and see your streaming information in real time. If that’s your thing, that is… /shrug
Anyway, it was geeky and cool to see, and between this and the interactive Pac-Man Google logo, my love for Google continues to increase. Take the test and let me know what you get!
LOST – What They Died For [spoilers, duh]
Thoughts:
- Ok, wtf is up with the neck bleeding? And why is it slowly getting worse, from the minor scratch in episode 1? This is obviously the connection to the Flash Sideways, but what exactly is happening? We’ve only seen it on Jack, and I’m writing this after watching the whole episode, so I might as well assume that it’s directly related to Jack becoming The Candidate. What’s going to happen to him as a result of becoming The Candidate in the Flash Sideways though?
- Why was Jacob in kid form? Was there ANY reason why that needed to happen? Surely the writers still didn’t think it was a mystery to anyone, so, what gives? Seemed completely unnecessary to me, considering Hugo is pretty much looking for Jacob every second anyway.
- So it was Widmore that rigged the explosives on the plane. How did MiB know to pick up a wrist watch and use it as a timer?
- Oh, Richard, you’ve only been on The Island a couple of hundred years, what else did you expect to happen except get tossed aside? Maybe MiB knew Richard was a lost cause, but since they showed no body, he’s probably still alive
- “He’s hiding in my closet”
- “We insist; even if we have to kidnap you!” Lovin’ this dark humoured mirrored dialogue!
- Speaking of completely unnecessary, Zoe. Good. Lord. She didn’t die quick enough. They could have at least got someone hot to play her.
- No gripes with Widmore dying. He was an asshole, even if Jacob brought him here. Good for you, Benjamin! Michael Emerson got his groove back this episode
- Jacob made MiB the way he is. He knows that he’ll die, and that someone needs to take his place, hence the candidates. Why were these particular people picked? Because they’re like Jacob. They were alone, looking for something they couldn’t find in their current lives/existence. They needed The Island as much as It [he] needed them. That’s it, that’s the explanation for the names on the wall, the candidates, that’s it. I’m fine with that really. This season has pretty much hinted at all these things anyway.
- “I thought that guy had a God complex before” Amen, Sawyer.
- Why was Kate’s name crossed off? Because she became a mother. She found her calling/purpose; fair enough
- How can the new candidate kill MiB, if Jacob can’t?
- Where’s Desmond? It was just Sayid that helped him out of the well, wasn’t it?
- They’re going to a concert, outstanding! Any chance of a Michael Giacchino guest appearance?
- Desmond is a “last resort…a failsafe” because he can destroy The Island? How exactly? If Widmore and co. were setting up something at all the pockets of energy, surely that plan has failed now since they’re all dead? Is he going to blow up the Frozen Donkey Wheel?
- MiB keeps talking about “leaving” The Island, but it almost seems like he’s resigned to the fact that the only way he’s going to get his wish is if he leaves The Island through death
Bring on Monday, bring on the surprises, bring on the tears, and hopefully, bring on a quasi-satisfying conclusion, because you better believe this thing is ending, dammit!
LOST – Across The Sea [spoilers, duh]
Can you say “mythology overload”? Then, add one, multiply it by infinity and square it. Good. Lord.
Thoughts:
- Jacob and MiB are Twins!
- Allison Janney as Jacob and MiB’s “mother”? Inspired casting. She was amazing, and ever so creepy at first.
- So that kid MiB saw in the jungle WAS a young Jacob
- “They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt, and it always ends the same” This was Janney’s reasoning for killing those that came to The Island. This would imply that she WOULDN’T want others coming to The Island, and she made that clear to Jacob and MiB, so why is Jacob bringing people to The Island? Purely to find a successor? Isn’t he jeopardising The Island by giving MiB the chance to leave? Not like he can die or anything.
- “Because a little bit of this same light is inside of every Man, but they always wan’t more…and if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere” So what is this “light”? “Goodness”? Jacob? The Guardian, whoever that may be? We’ve heard the other side of this story already,with the wine/cork analogy, which was all about “The Darkness” [MiB] being contained within The Island, and if that gets out, it spreads
- everywhere
- “One day, you can make up your own game, and everyone else will have to follow the rules” He sure did take that to heart
- MiB created the Frozen Donkey Wheel! Although it wasn’t so frozen back in the day
- “It’s a wheel. We’re going to attach that wheel to a system, a system that channels the water and the light, and then I’m going to turn it, and when I do, I’ll finally be able to leave this place” Why can’t MiB turn it in present day? Obviously someone finished building The Wheel, no doubt due to him, so why not use it? Why did he have to get Locke to turn it? Is it because he isn’t inhabiting a real body?
- “life, death, rebirth, it’s the source, the heart of the island…promise me you won’t go down there…it’d be worse than dying Jacob, much worse” Does that mean MiB is bound to The Island?
- What was in that cup? MiB’s blood? Janney’s blood? Water from that pool in The Temple?
- Who woulda thunk that Backgammon scene in season 1 between Locke and Walt would be replayed over and over in so many different ways? Jacob and MiB were playing Senet apparently , an old Egyptian board game, possibly the oldest board game in the world. The name means “game of passing”
- Where did Janney come from? That I don’t think we’ll ever find out, due to the whole, “you’ll only find out what mysteries are important to the characters on the show” I think I’ve come to accept this
- SHE caused that massacre at MiB’s camp?!
- *sound of knife into flesh* *jumps from chair*
- ADAM AND EVE = MiB and his mother! NO ONE would’ve picked that!
- And so Smokey was born, via Jacob of all people. What happened when MiB was thrown in there? Did the “light” get corrupted and turn into “darkness”?
- Damon and Carlton made it unequivocally clear last week that MiB was the evil one, but you can’t say MiB was wrong with his “my mother was a terrible person” line a few eps ago
- I just asked a lot of questions…
The White Ribbon
Controversy-courting director Michael Haneke (CACHÉ) earned the Palm d’Or at Cannes in 2009 for this arresting drama set just before World War I. In a small German village, a number of unexplained accidents beset the schoolchildren and their parents. Though they at first appear coincidental, it begins to seem that they are not, in fact, accidents at all.
One of the simplest indicators to me, in terms of how much I’ve liked a movie, is the amount of time I’ll spend at home that night reading about it. It’s bordering on 2 hours now with Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon; suffice it to say, it got my attention.
LOST – The Candidate [spoilers, duh]
This… this was a weird episode, well, to summarise anyway. Theories and speculation kinda went out the window, and stuff just HAPPENED. @warlach and @marawlings were on the money with their tweets >.<
Thoughts:
- Wow. That first glimpse of Anthony Cooper sent chills up my spine
- Did Locke plant that C4? Didn’t look it, but why else would Widmore rig the plane? Is he in cahoots with him? Where the hell did he get it from, otherwise?
- Jack didn’t need that “little push” this time around to get the Apollo Bar; is that symbolic of a Jacob free world?
- Sayid tells Jack to go save Desmond, but tells Jack that he’s “the one”; is he The Candidate? Surely.
- *BOOM* goes Sayid
- Sun and Jin die together. Thank you for ending it in Korean.
- Lapidus gone too? If not, what the hell is he still doing on that island?
- Screw you, Sawyer!
- Once again, Terry O’Quinn knocking that Flash Sideways scene with Jack out of the park
- Ok, so, MiB is 99% evil, as of the end of this episode. Obviously I am now expecting a MiB/Jacob backstory that will once again flip things on its head
- Three characters from season 1, episode 1, gone in minutes. I think it’s safe to say LOST just kicked into ending mode
UPDATE:
The Official LOST Audio Podcast: May 7th, 2010 (25:26)
Executive Producers Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse discuss the rules & why Sawyer didn’t know who Anakin was.
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Batman: The Killing Joke
I’d heard about this graphic novel for a long time, and finally got around to reading it after an impromptu Customs House Library visit with @renny510.
Hilary Goldstein of IGN Comics was right, it really is “the greatest Joker story every told”. Drawn and re-coloured by Brian Bolland, and of course, written by the genius that is Alan Moore, this is a must read for any Batman fan! It’s relatively short too, as I got through it in one morning.
As soon as I finished it, I tweeted that I needed to get the .cbr and steal some of those panels, but what I meant was, share some of those panels. Below are a few of my favourites [embiggenable!]:
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