The Pixar Theory: Every Character Lives in the Same Universe. Jon Negroni spent one year untangling the secret world hidden deep within Pixar films. This thesis (printed in full below) originally appeared on his personal blog and quickly became a viral sensation. Negroni continues to update his post based on interesting feedback from readers. Several months ago, I watched a fun-filled video on Cracked.com that introduced the idea (at least to me) that all of the Pixar movies actually exist within the same universe. Since then, I’ve obsessed over this concept, working to complete what I call “The Pixar Theory,” a working narrative that ties all of the Pixar movies into one cohesive timeline with a main theme. This theory covers every Pixar production since Toy Story: A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Brave and Monsters University.
Every movie is connected and implies major events that influence every single movie. Here we go. Or does he? Enter Toy Story. Feminine Hygiene company’s hilarious response to Facebook comment accusing them of lying about “Happy Periods” Www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/lost-civilisations-under-the-waves-still-fascinate-us/ In 1931, a trawler called the Colinda sank its nets into the North Sea, 25 miles off the coast of Norfolk, and dredged up an unlikely artefact — a handworked antler, 21cm long, with a set of barbs running along one side.
Archeologists identified it as a prehistoric harpoon and dated it to the Mesolithic age, when sea levels around Britain were more than 100 metres lower than they are today, and the island’s sunken rim, at least according to some, was a fertile plain. As long ago as the 10th century, astute observers noted that Britain’s coastlines were fringed with trees, visible only at low tide. Traditionally, the ‘drowned forests’ were regarded as evidence of Noah’s flood — relics of an antediluvian world whose destruction is recorded in the most enduring of all the stories of great floods that sweep the earth and drown its people. At the beginning of the 20th century, another explanation was proposed by the geologist Clement Reid. Oliver’s book has been surprisingly influential. Blogs - Adam Curtis - MRS THATCHER - THE GHOST IN THE HOUSE OF WONKS. Pooja Bhatia reviews ‘The Big Truck That Went By’ by Jonathan Katz and ‘Farewell, Fred Voodoo’ by Amy Wilentz · LRB 23 May 2013.
In January 2010, Jonathan Katz was working in Haiti for the Associated Press, the only American news organisation with a permanent bureau there. Other foreign journalists lived there, and a few more flew in for elections and catastrophes, but for the most part Haiti coverage had become a casualty of slashed budgets at dying newspapers and magazines. Covering a small, destitute island no longer made economic sense. It was a tough gig for a freelancer, owing to the high cost of living and the necessity of speaking Creole, or hiring a translator. I managed on a fellowship, and over the years Katz and I became friends. So when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake destroyed the capital, turned a million out their homes and killed countless others – estimates range from the high five figures to 316,000 – Haiti, though it’s only seven hundred miles off the coast of Florida, was a journalistic backwater.
Katz was an exception. It began with hubris and extravagant promises. And so it goes for Haiti. Dumb Ways to Die. History For Politicians of Today | Rory Stewart MP. Why should a policy-maker study history? After all, the more you examine history, the more bewildered you become. Even for the few periods for which records survive, what we know confuses us. Our forefathers believed in things, which we struggle to understand. They died for countries like the Kingdom of Cumbria, which have now vanished, or out of loyalty to Kings, whose very names are now lost. In the twentieth century, neighbours killed for theories of race, which abhor us, and theories of communism, which seem entirely implausible. Which is perhaps why policy-makers often pay little attention to history. But the theories and jargon of social and political ‘science’ can also be ineffective and dangerous.
Again and again, the most senior figures in government, proud of their research, wisdom and analytical ability, with power, resources, staff, and highly-developed theories, have launched initiatives which were unnecessary. Which brings us to history. Stealing Africa - Why Poverty? Pooja Bhatia reviews ‘The Big Truck That Went By’ by Jonathan Katz and ‘Farewell, Fred Voodoo’ by Amy Wilentz · LRB 23 May 2013. Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod. Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.
Blogs - Adam Curtis - MRS THATCHER - THE GHOST IN THE HOUSE OF WONKS. Watch These Straight People Answer A Question Gay People Have Been Asked For Years. Reddit Users Attempt to Shame Sikh Woman, Get Righteously Schooled. Vacuous ad hominems aside, her belief system's practices in this specific regard don't really affect anyone yet despite that plenty of people are throwing in their two cents, if you do your research I think you'll find I'm not the first to post on this story.
Also, when it comes right down to it, none of these opinions are of any consequence whatsoever but the fact that you chose to get contentious over my opinion rather than dismiss it out of hand suggests that you're the type of wanker that cant resist a pissing contest when it comes to opinions on the internet. I stand by my position that drawing the line on grooming at moustaches and beards is fundamentally arbitrary if there is a mandate on keeping the body "intact" and calling me a "jumbo wanker" ain't gonna change that, a well reasoned argument might but that might be expecting a bit much...
Can't think of any other "unsubstantiated faux facts" I might have vomited up. Kony, M23, and the Real Rebels of Congo. Internet Scamming in Ghana. Frys Planet Word 1. The big picture. What if Money didn't matter. Charlie Brooker | The most dangerous drug isn't meow meow. It isn't even alcohol ... Mephedrone, otherwise known as meow meow. Photograph: Rex Features I'm a lightweight; always have been. I didn't get properly drunk until I was 25, on a night out which culminated in a spectacular public vomiting in a Chinese restaurant.
Ever wondered what the clatter of 60 pairs of chopsticks being simultaneously dropped in disgust might sound like? Not a big drinker, then. I tried other things, only to discover they weren't for me. These days I'm sickeningly lily-livered, by choice rather than necessity. In summary: if I've learned anything, it's that I don't much care for mood-altering substances. It's perhaps the biggest threat to the nation's mental wellbeing, yet it's freely available on every street – for pennies. In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge. But then I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to narcotics. Threat Level. American liberals spent the last decade complaining about the “paranoid” style of their conservative opponents. With each new dire warning, each shift in the Department of Homeland Security’s now defunct color-coded “threat level” indicator (which never once dropped below yellow in nine years of operation), liberal commentators took the stage as level-headed counterparts to the prevailing Republican psychosis.
George W. Bush, everyone knew, governed by fear. Liberals wanted something better, or believed they did. Homeland, now in its second season on premium cable, suggests that liberals may have been fooling themselves. What they really wanted was not to eradicate Republican paranoia, but to overcome what made Republican paranoia so potent: the widespread impression that Democrats were too weak and too plagued by self-loathing to defend us from our enemies. On 24, this scene would have provoked accusations of bigotry. Brody’s own conversion has a similar explanation. Rejoice! The pope is here to save the world from the queers | Roz Kaveney.
The pope has called together a coalition of faiths. The fires of Smithfield and Madrid; the wars that tore apart Germany and Palestine and the Punjab – in the end, none of it was all that important. All that blood and death can be set aside. The acres of print and manuscript that defined the crucial importance of the incarnation and the precise nature of the Trinity, the arguments about the status of different revelations, the verbal and occasionally literal vitriol poured over the heads of theologians and clerics – all irrelevant. From now on, between the faith communities of the world, it is what Tom Lehrer once called National Brotherhood Week. Only this time it's not – as in Lehrer's song – the Jews everyone can agree to hate, because parts of Judaism are joining this particular coalition; it's the queers. Honestly, we should be proud. A thousand years ago, popes called the warring principalities of Europe together for crusades against Islam. "Man calls his nature into question.
At the root of rape is language. In a well-known story from Greek mythology, Callisto, a nymph of the warrior goddess Artemis (also known as Diana in Roman retellings), was raped by Zeus, the king of the Greco-Roman gods, while she rested in the forest, tired after a hunt. After the rape, Artemis exiles her, and Hera, Zeus’ jealous wife, turns Callisto into a bear. Wrenched from imminent motherhood, for a bear couldn’t raise a half-human, half-god child, Callisto is finally ‘rescued’ by Zeus out of pity and turned into the Great Bear constellation.
The myth of Callisto is just one amongst the countless stories, fables and anecdotes of ‘ravished maidens’, a trope so recurrent and all-pervasive in literature, that it can be said for certainty to be an expression of ‘institutionalised rape.’ Cixous’ clarion call to women to investigate, demolish and redesign the ‘grammar and language of men’ was a milestone in the tumultuous history of French Feminism. Sita horrified at seeing Ravaan cutting Jathayu's wing. 'Time to be Awesome'