Over at the Lost Time Incident sub-weblog, there's a collection of twitterings, ideas for a Twilight Zone relaunch that would certainly be cancelled.

So there's that.

Oh hey. If you stop by The Signal weblog, you'll find a new EP posted. It happens to be the 69th one completed. There is no double-entendre intended. Get yer minds outta the gutter.

Or, if they must stay in the gutter, email me a detailed report of what you find there. You know. For archiving purposes.

I should state up front that I didn't bother to watch any of the Star Wars prequels. No one had anything particularly good to say about them and I didn't consider myself a fan of the franchise, so had not reason to force myself to watch them when there's a world of better movies out there. (And some like Street Fighter which are amusingly terrible as opposed to boring and terrible.)

But I have a soft spot for the nerdist tendency to alchemically create gold from dross by imagining a larger structure around a narrative that makes sense of poor story-telling. I spent hours after watching the second Matrix film trying to puzzle out the things that didn't work within the framework established by the first Matrix film and talking through ways the third Matrix film could synthesize both versions in a stunning conclusion. Unfortunately (I guess) what I thought were clues were probably oversights and the Matrix trilogy burned down like an abandoned warehouse.

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Ever wonder what a 13-story building would look like if it just tipped over?

Wonder no longer. It happened recently in Shanghai with a building that was still under construction. Sadly, a single worker was killed. But the photos of the aftermath are quite striking.

[via i ate a bee]

Over at The Signal weblog, you can get your hands on The Signal: EP068, if you're of a mind to.

It's up to you, though. You're master of your own fate. Setting aside the extent to which your biochemistry predisposes you to action or inaction, or the extent to which society shaped you.