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Alphabet Shoot

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Use the ASDF keys to gratuitously murder the corresponding letters. This will be equally satisfying regardless of whether you hate dental, fricative, or sibilant consonants. What? No linguistics jokes? Well, forget it then. (Via Kottke .) View

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Tagged bennyhollywood, equally-satisfying, forget-it-then, hate-dental, Hollywood, kottke, murder-the-corresponding, TMZ

What Your Neighbors Are Netflixing

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20… This NYT map of Netflix trends in 12 cities is almost as much of a timesuck as Netflix Instant. More of my neighbors should see Duplicity ; it was completely charming

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Tagged almost-as-much, completely-charming, duplicity, Hollywood, kottke, links, neighbors, neighbors-should, netflix, nyt, timesuck-as-netflix

Warzone Tower Defense

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Finally, a new defense Flash game that lives up to the standard set by Desktop Tower Defense. A thoroughly enjoyable time waster, with a wider-than-usual array of towers to choose from and multiple maps. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

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Tagged desktop, desktop-tower, flash, Hollywood, kottke, links, new-defense, standard, the-standard, thoroughly-enjoyable

The Official Hugh Grant Aging Timeline

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Inspired by this tragic photograph. We're a long way from Four Weddings and A Funeral (or Divine Brown). Woof.

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Tagged all-take, answers, divine, explanations, Hollywood, inspired, know-how, kottke, only-tower, weddings

David Foster Wallace Grammar Challenge!

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Link: http://htmlgiant.com/?p=19945 Hey, you know what's fun? Grammar. Let's all take a grammar challenge courtesy of the great DFW himself

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Tagged all-take, answers, challenge, explanations, know-how, kottke, links, mortar-launchers, only-tower, reach-the-doors

The CIA Manual Of Trickery And Deception

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

In the '50s, the CIA hired magician John Mulholland to teach them espionage tricks. The resulting manuals, which have recently been declassified, are kind of awesome. Here are a few fun ones from the new book on the topic, illustrated by The Boston Globe .

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Tagged boston-globe, deception, from-the-new, hired-magician, Hollywood, illusion, kottke, magic-book, Robert, robert-wallace

Remaking "V" Into "Tea Party TV"

Posted on November 5, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Last night, ABC aired the pilot episode of a remake of “V.” The political drama of the original was replaced by a ham-handed metaphor for President Obama. This is not just a right-wing worldview but the worldview of the paranoid Tea Party movement. Maybe the calculation is that Glenn Beck will start urging his viewers to watch.

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Tagged calculation, carrie, kottke, party, pilot, president, the-day, the-original, worldview

Bikini Leia and her stunt double nap under the Tatooine suns

Posted on November 5, 2009 by | Leave a comment

In what has to be the best found image of the day, Kottke came across this photo of Carrie Fisher and her stunt double napping during the Tatooine shoot in “Return of the Jedi.”