R.I.P. Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle died on 12 December. He was 71.
A moment of ritz, please:

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Chicago Humanities Festival

I will be at the Chicago Humanities Festival until sometime on Sunday. When I get a chance, this post will be expanded into a write-up.
The Chicago Humanities Festival is in its 17th year, having grown from a small, one-day event for Chicago residents to a multi-week festival that draws students from all over the [...]

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…And the Great Cold Death of YouTube

YouTube is no stranger to the news recently. One of the media darlings of the Web 2.0 wave, it is one of those phenomenons that offered nothing more than infrastructure and an iffy interface, but managed to become a brand-name behemoth because of user content. Now it faces two problems: first, how [...]

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I find your lack of pants disturbing

200+ lines from the Star Wars trilogy made funny by substituting the word ‘pants.’
Hat tip: Scott @ ExtraLife

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I can’t stop talking about what an awful liar Tom Cruise is

Katie Holmes was raised a Catholic, but, says fiance Tom Cruise, their soon-to-arrive baby will not have a Catholic baptism.
“No,” Cruise tells Diane Sawyer in an interview on ABC’s “Primetime,” airing Friday night in the U.S. “No, I mean you can be Catholic and be a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and be a Scientologist. [...]

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Another explanation of the Matrix

Apropos of nothing, I saw this the other day, and I was actually quite taken by it. Reading it actually made me feel a little better about the coherency of the trilogy.

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