History of the World, part N+1
There is a post of the History of the World, part N+1 on Slashdot. This writing is too funny not to read.
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Finish Him!
Every Mortal Kombat Fatality, Animality, Friendship and Bability from MK2. Found on Kotaku.
Michelle Rodriguez’ Pouting Faces of the Week
Some people are unable to appreciate Michelle Rodriguez‘ acting range. She is a gifted performer who can play a variety of roles. To greater appreciate Michelle, I’ve included some pictures for discussion.
First, a picture from her breakthrough role in Girlfight, playing a girl who is “seething with anger” and trains to become a boxer.
Notice here that she started off by just playing her pouting straight. She doesn’t want to needlessly complicate things.
Obviously her acting range has only grown since then. For instance, in Blue Crush, she mastered the art of pursing her lips, thereby mixing anger with frustration. Maybe she was angry at the directory for not getting enough face time, or frustrated at the script for not giver her any lines. But wait, “Rodriguez even smiled once or twice“!
Finally, a sample of her most recent work, as she appeared in a recent episode of Lost, where she plays an angry cop. Note that she has now managed to curl her lips upwards, melding anger with disgust, hitting a pouting triple.
She even shot Shannon, so she’ll have a whole range of anger to demonstrate on this show.
My apologies to those of you wanting to see pictures from Resident Evil (where she plays an angry elite solider), S.W.A.T. (where she plays an angry elite cop), The Fast and The Furious and BloodRayne. I’m betting she added a whole second dimension to her characters in these movies. Sadly, I do not have photos to back up this theory, and it will have to remain untested, for now.
The Microsoft iPod
Rayne found a satirical video of how Microsoft would redesign the iPod packaging. While Apple in particular seems to do a very good job at packing their products, there is some excellent debate on the problems with consumer technology packaging in general on the Channel 9 Forums, with a wide body of various supporting evidence. It seems that Microsoft may have rumor created this video for an internal marketing meeting for their designers. Perhaps they are still trying to get their products down to 6 buttons.
