TWENTIETH CENTURY

It's good for a movie that is 5 hours and 17 minutes long, in the sense that I could force myself to watch it till the end.

It's a metaphorical representation of the class structure in Italy, starring an American, a French guy, and a Canadian, all poorly dubbed by Italian actors.

“You’re the psychologist, aren’t you?”

“Robopsychologist, please.”

• The dogs playing poker paintings are over one hundred years old, and are still immediately recognizable pop culture objects. Is anything else that old still a part of pop culture? Here's an in-depth analysis.
• One professor describes being repeatedly harassed by copyright trolls over old public domain recordings of classical music.
• Fancy command line tricks.

• A huge steam engine decorating a mall in Portugal, in 'Norte Shopping', near Porto.
• Something reminded me of The Cremation Of Sam McGee, which we all learned at a young age in school in Canada. Probably the finest peace of literature produced in Canada, for whatever that's worth.
• "A quote from Ricky Gervais in Home entertainment (Friday Review, page 23, April 12) which mentioned a Bob Dylan song allegedly entitled If You See A Sailor was mangled by an editing error. The track, from the album Blood On The Tracks, is called If You See Her Say Hello." (from the Guardian corrections page)
• Freeze your Ruby constants!
• In the late 90s/early 00s, Seanbaby would write dozens of paragraphs of hilarious comedy every day. He still comes out of his hidey hole once in a while to write NSFWish articles for Cracked. Here's one of his funnier ones.
• A tropical storm in Vietnam.

• Archive.org is amazing. Here are the first few issues of Astounding magazine (now Analogue), which published works by most of the great science fiction writers before 1960.
• Wikipedia's article on Bat Boy. "Bat Boy has a chaotic sense of morality. He has been said to steal cars and not to come to the aid of the needy".
• I'm obsessed with Wiktionary's words of the day. This week had the Finnish word poronkusema, "the distance a reindeer could travel without stopping to urinate".
• A German zoo which had been covertly anti-Hilter during the war accidentally ended up with a Nazi parrot.