Saturday, November 12, 2022

Miss Cellania's Links

A Twitter thread rounding up the many ways that the paid blue check idea has gone wrong. Contains NSFW text. (via Everlasting Blort)  

The Mesoamerican Influences Behind Namor From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Octopuses hurl objects in rare example of animal throwing behavior. And they have a uniquely powerful method of doing it.

Superman Reacts To His Son Coming Out.

The Murdochverse of Madness! The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.

If you like chocolate, you'll want to check out the podcast OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate. Go deep into the Amazon on the hunt for fortune, glory and chocolate.

Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb.  (via Nag on the Lake)

How Cary Grant Almost Changed the James Bond Character Forever. (via Digg)

Meet the Mama of Dada. Beatrice Wood was the inspiration for the character Rose in Titanic.

An Atlas Of The Human Body That Maps Where We Feel Emotions. (via Nag on the Lake)


6 comments:

chich said...

I don't think twitter is a happy place to be right now.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-information-security-chief-kissner-decides-leave-2022-11-10/

Anonymous said...

Has twitter ever been a happy place? I have not been on much in the past couple of years, but it has always seemed to be a cesspool.

xoxoxoBruce said...

I'm trying to figure out why Fast Company's lead image is 22 figures they made by repeating some of the figures shown in the second illustration of the basic 14?
Of course nobody else cares even if they noticed, I'm just weird. LoL

Miss Cellania said...

Bruce, I guess it's because their template has a rectangular image field, and if they used a square image once it would distort or cut off part of it.

Bicycle Bill said...

Grant might have done a serviceable job as Bond, but I'm glad Connery got the role.  Grant had done so many movies already that that viewers would have been expecting him to do Bond along the same lines as his previous role mentioned.  In fact, we saw that same thing happen when Roger Moore took over ... I never got over the feeling that rather than becoming Bond, he was just reprising his role as 'The Saint' and merely impersonating Bond.  As the writer of the article himself concluded, Dr. No would have been a Cary Grant film, not a Bond film.

Connery, on the other hand, didn't have that many high-visibility box-office films in his curriculum vitae by 1962. He was in effect a blank slate, so he and Cubby Broccoli didn't have to overcome an expected type or style of performance from a known actor, but could create the character of 007 as if from thin air.

-"BB"-

Miss Cellania said...

Well, yeah, that's what the article says.