totalfilm:

Luke Evans talks The Hobbit

Total Film recently caught up with Luke Evans to chat about The Raven, and talk swiftly turned to The Hobbit…

Every time I see this picture, all I can think in my head is… Klingon?

sweetpussyflaps:

This is a grave from the Victorian age when a fear of zombies and vampires was prevalent. The cage was intended to trap the undead just in case the corpse reanimated.

Kind of a fun explanation, but not very likely. It was to protect from grave robbers and (possibly) to also protect the grave stone from damage, although I could be wrong about the latter.

(Source: thenotebooktoremember)

theatlantic:

In Praise of Ignorance: Why It’s OK to Tweet, ‘Who Is Dick Clark?’

It’s totally legitimate that younger people wouldn’t know who Dick Clark is. It’s totally legitimate, even, that older people wouldn’t know who Dick Clark is: “American Bandstand” is not the most contemporary of shows, and most of us are doing other things on December 31 than watching “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” What’s interesting, though, is what the tweeters above — and their thousands of fellow “Who’s Dick Clark?” queriers — did with their ignorance. Rather than do a Google search for “Dick Clark,” rather than look him up on Wikipedia, rather than avail themselves of the approximately 5,000 other web-based mechanisms that exist solely to rectify the world’s ignorance, these people asked their followers on Twitter.

For some of them, the question might have been simply ironic — or, more specifically, an ironic declaration of generational/sociological affiliation. (Who’s Justin Bieber?) For many, though, the question seemed like an honest one: “Guys, I don’t know this person everyone’s talking about. Help me out.” It wasn’t just that the “Who’s Dick Clark” crowd were embracing their ignorance; it was that, through Twitter, they were trying to rectify it.

But they were also publicizing it. Rather than taking the relatively introverted route toward satisfying their curiosity — Google, Bing, Wikipedia, platforms that treat a question as a silent transaction between mind and machine — the “Who’s Dick Clark?” Twitterers asked their question openly and publicly. They chose to broadcast their ignorance.

And that choice is a new thing. In the past, ignorance has been, you know, something to be ashamed of. To call someone “ignorant” has been, generally, to insult that someone; and it’s been an insult specifically because ignorance is an accusation that assaults not just a person’s knowledge, but a person’s intelligence. It’s no coincidence that, etymologically, “ignorant” is connected with “uncouth.” We have construed ignorance as a matter of personal failing.

Read more.

Also relevant to anybody asking, “Who is Levon Helm?” (If those people exist.)

Interesting, but broadcasting ignorance is still a defining example of ignorance, with ample doses of stupidity and ridiculous laziness. Either you care enough to look up who this person is, or you STFU and accept that, if you’re young enough especially, there are a lot of names from the past that you may not know yet.

newsweek:

Welcome to tumblr, Beyoncé! Spider suits are indeed the dress code here so you’re all set.

I won’t deny it—she can be pretty cool, but my first instinct when finding out that a major celebrity like Beyoncé had joined Tumblr was to want to back away slowly.

I’m not usually that guy who wants to keep his favorite thing away from the cloying masses, but this time I felt it.

(Source: beyonce)

newsweek:

A tale of two search companies. (h/t Julie Stone)

Amazing. Apparently Yahoo is still a thing.

wilwheaton:

I don’t play this game, so this kind of outrageous platform exclusion won’t directly affect me, but if I did, I would be pissed when I saw this.

(via Reddit)

Oh, yeah, that’s just crazy, but when some dumbass company releases a game for iOs only, and Android users are left without it, that’s not just as crazy? It drives me nuts. Just had to put that out there since I rarely see people as pissed about it as I am.