By • Feb 20,2009

Remaking bad movies

I’d like to offer a quibble to Mr. Polansky’s argument against the remake of “Friday the 13th,” in which he writes: The original wasn’t remotely frightening, and moreover it represented...

By • Feb 20,2009

Google Earth shows US base in Pakistan

Picking up on Mr. Donadio’s post, I thought I’d link to this story in Slate, which describes how Google Earth accidentally confirmed Sen. Feinstein’s comments about the US having secret...

By • Feb 20,2009

The one that got away

Even as a cartoon, Tom Waits is pretty cool (NSFW, due to some animated nudity). Incidentally, this is an early example of rotoscoping, the technique used in Waking Life. The...

By • Feb 20,2009

America secretly popular in Asia

There’s a front-page story in today’s WaPo about Hillary Clinton’s listening tour in Asia. Not often reported, but included toward the end of this story, is a bit of data...