Poles Apart

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Rinkworks’ Reader Polls is a treasure trove of interesting and sometimes funny polls. A Sampling:

• Which of the following words is the most intrinsically funny?

• What do you believe concerning time travel?

• Have you ever been on the Internet?

I am definitely interested in doing regular polls here at Kaedrin, but I have yet to find a good free service to use… Speaking of polls, go check out 4degreez.com’s Famous People Recognition Survey. Its probably one of the best polls I’ve ever seen. Four chose an extremely diverse group of famous people and historical figures, ranging from well known to highly obscure. Only about 150 people have taken the poll, but some of the results are astounding (for instance, 7 people did not know who Jesus was!?!).

The Nerddom that is Star Wars

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Check out this humerous look at the deleted scenes of the Star Wars Trilogy. Wery spiffy. Especially cool is the Wampa ice creature subplot that was dropped from Empire. A more comprehensive source for the deleted scenes from the Trilogy can be found here. I’m still looking for the scene in The Phantom Menace where R2 has a conspicuous”Intel Inside” sticker showing…

Light the Lamp

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Lets go Flyers! Hockey season doth rock, and the Flyers won their season opener 6-3. Young Justin Williams looked mighty impressive, but rookies have a way of starting strong and dropping off fast. The Flyers themselves looked ok, but they were still making a bunch of stupid mistakes that could have cost them the game. I predict that they will get clobbered by Boston on Saturday (by a score of 5-1).

I have eaten this brain, and I want to chat about it.

Computers & Internet / /

This is an interesting parody of Amazon.com aimed towards Zombies who would like to choose from a wide array of brains to eat “because some brains are just naturally better, juicier, and formerly smarter than others.” Some people have too much time on their hands. Now, if you’ll excuse me, Oprah’s brain just arrived in the mail. Mmmm, celebrity brain… ahhhgglaaaahhhggg…

Bert is Evil!

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Hold on to your crackpipes, kiddies, its time for a piece of classic web trash: Bert is Evil!. One of the funniest things I have ever seen on the web.

All that is gold does not glitter…

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Ok, so RedRival is still in the process of “upgrading”, but I’m going to start posting stuff anyway.



Salon recently ran an interesting article about the new “Lord of the Rings” Trilogy that is presently in production. I am currently reading The Fellowship of the Ring, which is the first book of the trilogy. When I first heard that Peter Jackson would be directing, I was a bit suprised. This is such a high profile film that I would have expected a “safer” director to be chosen. While Jackson is best known for his mainstream work (The Frighteners and Heavenly Creatures, neither of which did blockbuster business), he was also known as a bit of a B-film maker, with some real disgusting movies under his belt (Meet the Feebles, Bad Taste).

Also suprising is that all three films are being filmed at the same time. Generally, the first film is made and released, and, if it does well, the next two are put into production (the scream trilogy and the matrix trilogy are two recent examples). To have all three put into production at once, without a proven box office draw, is unprecidented.