Clark's Weblog

Movie Recommendation: Dirty War

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:52:57 GMT

I watched an excellent BBC/HBO drama last night called 'Dirty War' (Netflix).

London sets the stage for this 21st century thriller about a major terrorist attack. The HBO feature follows both the terrorists as they plan the attack and the police and intelligence forces as they uncover the plot and try to apprehend the terrorists. After a detonation in central London, the story shifts to emergency procedures in the aftermath of a "dirty bomb" explosion.

Sobering.

Despair.com "Greatest Hurts" Collections

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 02:38:56 GMT

Despair.com, creators of 'demotivators,' has its holiday stuff available. How about a mug that says:

Ambition: The Journey of a Thousand Miles Sometimes Ends Very Very Badly

Meetings: None of Us Is As Dumb As All of Us

Procrastination: Hard Work Pays Off After Time, But Laziness Always Pays Off Now

for your co-workers?

If You Hate Cats.....

Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:13:32 GMT

If you hate cats as I do, go see this movie (2.2 MB quicktime movie). It's an Air Force movie of a cat being tossed around during zero g. (I'm sure that tomorrow Kerry will accuse Bush of rank incompetence for allowing this sort of thing).

The Professor of Baseball

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:00:44 GMT

In a prescient July 2003 New Yorker article titled The Professor Baseball, the genesis of the Red Sox that just beat the Yankees is made clear:

"The Boston Red Sox really want to beat the Yankees. The team’s president and C.E.O., Larry Lucchino, has declared the Yanks an “evil empire,” and the principal owner, John Henry, speaks of being “destined to knock off Goliath.” Last winter, after a season in which the Sox won ninety-three games—but nonetheless fell short of New York for the seventh straight year—Boston installed a new general manager and replaced more than forty per cent of its roster. Perhaps the club’s most significant personnel move was the signing, to a one-year contract, of a big, lumbering fifty-three-year-old right-hander from Kansas (six feet four, and well over two hundred pounds) who spends far more time on the Little League diamond, where he keeps the stats, than at any big-league ballpark. He is Bill James, a former boiler-room attendant who, almost thirty years ago, set out to debunk the conventional wisdom proffered by television and radio commentators—“baseball’s Kilimanjaro of repeated legend and legerdemain,” as he called it—by using statistical evidence."

Iraq News Report Spoof

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:09:09 GMT

If you like Monty Python humor, you'll like this spoof of a news report from Iraq:

Puree Soiree: News Report from Iraq

[Via American Daughter]