Louise Brooks in Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box; G.W. Pabst, 1929)
The Official 2009 Gizmodo Gallery Recap Video
The fact that we have automatic pancake machines and don’t all eat food pills is a shining example of the actual 21st century being superior to old timey conceptions of it.
Ah, computer dating. It’s like pimping, but you rarely have to use the phrase ‘upside your head.’
House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009)
I’m a happy guy, but I also think about death all the time. And I also think about eating, sex, getting old… Who doesn’t look in the mirror and see these things?
Of all the weird pages on this weird, weird site that sells exotic meat, this one is the weirdest, because of the testimonial for lion meat from a church event. And they want us to help make tiger meat legal to sell. Is this for real?
According to this video report by the BBC, the video of Mr. Clinton’s arrival in Pyongyang was featured in a news bulletin on North Korean state television on Tuesday evening, but not until after a report on the improving quality of biscuits at a local factory.
—Robert Mackey, The Lede. Maybe they were just doing it alphabetically.
[Obama] has been curiously ill-served by a press short of useful criticism, with liberal America prepared only to debate what sort of water he walks on best, while conservative radio hosts argue over when exactly he became a communist.
—I imagine this is a bit of an exaggeration (I have approximately 2 news sources, so it’s hard to say), but I love when The Economist is sassy.
