Cliff Pickover's RealityCarnival April 1st Submit a Link (04/01/13) "If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for 10 minutes, what would you read?" (03/31/13) The broken walls of fractaloid Carthage, in the math-encrusted city beyond your dreams. Click to mag. (03/30/13) Imagine the joy of weaving Jupiter out of yarn (03/29/13) I was elected a Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry for "significant contributions to the general public's understanding of science, reason, and critical inquiry through scholarship, writing, and work in the media." (03/28/13) Recent interview at a math/science blog (03/27/13) Squids sprout wings, fly, ascending the evolutionary "chain of being" to become one with their humanoid brethren. (03/26/13) The fractal legs of your antediluvian arthropod gods. (03/25/13) A graphical timeline of all world religions (03/24/13) Octopus teapot? (03/23/13) Mystery clock embedded deep in NYC sidewalk (03/21/13) The creator of Pringles was buried in a Pringles can
ruby lou's Riceboy Sleeps Fotolog - Click FotoBlog - FotoBlog - Flog - Diário de Fotos Clockwork Orange Film critic, Pauline Kael, writes a lot about how little she thinks of Kubrick’s creation. Literal-minded in its sex and brutality, Teutonic in its humor, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange might be the work of a strict and exacting German professor who set out to make a porno-violent sci-fi Comedy. Is there anything sadder — and ultimately more repellent — than a clean-minded pornographer? Burgess’s 1962 novel is set in a vaguely Socialist future (roughly, the late seventies or early eighties) — a dreary, routinized England that roving gangs of teenage thugs terrorize at night. Stanley Kubrick’s Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is not so much an expression of how this society has lost its soul as he is a force pitted against the society, and by making the victims of the thugs more repulsive and contemptible than the thugs Kubrick has learned to love the punk sadist. This picture plays with violence in an intellectually seductive way.
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