Sorry About My Face. I too share the same problem - often my face reads bitter even if I’m actually daydreaming about nice things. And nobody takes “it’s just my face” for an answer, which leads to episodes in which I feel a significant other is acting like someone in a club suddently asking me “where are you looking at?!” and trying to pick a fight, etecetera. Perhaps I need to find an early XXth century Virginia Woolf-looking girlfriend… ¶

A conservative politician calls for science. Despite being mostly on the other end of the conservative-liberal spectrum, I wish there were more politicians like this. Far too many people people - in the left and right alike - believe and act as if the Outside World would fit with their preconceptions. It won’t: because that’s the very definition of Outside. ¶

Film is on its way out, as the last 35mm cinema cameras were built. Am I being sacrilegious by saying and it was about time!? Film has its charm, but is wasteful bordering on the insulting - like printing a whole sheet of paper for every word a writer types. ¶

Warner Brothers is developing a film based on a Reddit discussion: could a single battalion of US Marine soldiers fight and destroy the entire Roman Empire? This calls for the ghost of Philip K. Dick. The entire episode, not just the film premise. ¶

And also speaking of film: Peter Bogdanovich’s Blogdanovich. ¶

Lecturefox links to a mountain of free university lectures. ¶

The Golden Grid System. This makes me want to redesign this whole thing, dammit! ¶

A funny read every once in a while: the problem with n00b time-travellers that keep killing Hitler. ¶