Jess Nevins LoEG Annotations Annotations for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo: River of Ghosts By Jess Nevins Page 4. "Pendant Books" Padraig O Mealoid points out that this is the same publisher that's named on the cover of Sal Paradyse's Crazy Wide Forever in the Black Dossier. I believe this is a reference to the Harold Robbins novel The Carpetbaggers (1961), which became a 1964 film of the same name, directed by Edward Dmytryk. (I confess to not understanding the “Centurion” part of the title). Nevada Smith, a character in The Carpetbaggers, was mentioned Nemo’s Heart of Ice on Page 7 Panel 2. Re Jonas Cord: Centurion: From Wikipaedia Cord personally pilots a gigantic flying boat called the Centurion, "the biggest airplane ever built", to prove its airworthiness in order to meet a naval contract condition. Interesting presumably unintended echo between 'Hughes H-4 Hercules' and Hugo Hercules... “Irving Clifford.” Page 5. This is a reference to the Men’s Adventure genre of pulp-style magazines. Page 7. “Kor”
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4 Surprising App-Design Principles, From The Instagram Of Quick Quizzes When we first wrote about Polar, an addictive app that invites you to make and take “this or that”-style quizzes, we called it “an object lesson in mobile design done very, very right.” Luke Wroblewski, the mobile-first design evangelist behind Polar, tells us four winning strategies he used to supercharge Polar’s user experience. If you want people to actually engage with your mobile app, not just download it and forget it, read on and take notes. 1. Design for distraction No one is paying full attention to your mobile app. Wroblewski wanted to streamline Polar’s interactions so that a user could take 10 polls in less than a minute using just one hand. 2. How often do you download an intriguing-sounding app, only to be confronted with a screen full of boxes to fill out before you can even launch it? This process, called “gradual engagement,” “is kind of controversial,” Wroblewski admits. 3. 4. Results Download Polar here, and read Luke Wroblewski’s blog here
What Should We Call Social Media OK, I am apparently very late to the party, but this was a revelation and I can’t just not share. I apologize in advance if I’m posting something old. So you know this really stupid thing that happens with links? It’s actually the worst thing in the world. WELL, to fix the problem, all you have to do is copy & paste the link here. BRB, crying from happiness. TeacherTube Shaw Brothers Martial Arts Movies RYM relies on advertising income to support the site. Please consider adding an exception to adblock for rateyourmusic.com, or subscribing to help with bandwidth/server costs. Sign up or Log in to catalog your music and film collection, receive recommendations, and create and share your own lists A list by gigiriva Categories: Genre, Films [List232219] | Shaw Brothers Studio is largely known for its martial arts films, but only "few" of the 900 movies produced by the Hong Kong company are actually martial arts movies.
Machine Gun Jetpack The Social Conquest of Earth Edward O. Wilson’s latest book is structured around three questions: Where did we come from, what are we, and where are we going? Philosophers and theologians have been chewing on these questions for millennia, but subjectively—from inside the box, as it were. Only recently have our scientists generated enough hard, verifiable evidence about what we are and where we came from to allow us to step outside ourselves and describe our species objectively. Wilson has done an impressive job of pulling all this evidence together and analyzing it. His interdisciplinary approach, his established scholarship, and his willingness to engage hot-button issues are all much in evidence in The Social Conquest of Earth . So, where did we come from? Homo sapiens , says Wilson, is a highly complex species that has evolved from a series of lucky breaks, evolution-wise. Wilson concludes that we are a complicated lot, and for good reasons.
ESL Teacher Resources, Job Boards, and Worksheets Top 5 'Lost' Western Film Classics — WhatCulture.com Everyone loves a western surely? From John Wayne being an all American hero in John Ford’s early classics… to Jimmy Stewart as the ‘Naked Spur’… Late sixties revisionist years with Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, ‘Once Upon A Time in the West’ and Peckinpah’s ‘Wild Bunch’… and rebirth with Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’. So many timeless classics to wile away an afternoon or evening on the delights of DVD players. Around similar era’s are some ‘lost’ western classics that for one reason or another aren’t held in the same universal regard or even heard off. They’re usually met with western anoraks like myself with critical acclaim as some of the best ever made in the genre. 5. (1980 Michael Cimino) Gasp! It’s a brave film too as if you’re going to fail go for the epic spectacular. 4. (2003 Kevin Costner) I’ll hold my hand up and admit I was dubious about ever watching ‘Open Range’ my first thoughts included – ‘Costner directing a western? …To say I wasn’t disappointed would be an understatement. 3. 2.