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Here’s a newly released remix of The Postal Service’s The District Sleeps Alone Tonight by Sylvan Esso. In addition to YouTube, it’s also available on several other sites. (via sippey)
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Even if autonomous vehicles work perfectly, they will likely not decrease emissions or crash deaths because so many more people will use them. “How do people respond when an activity becomes less onerous and more fun? They do more of it.”
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Amazon’s series The Rings of Power hasn’t gotten great reviews and Evan Puschak hypothesizes that, unlike movies, TV is not the right medium to tell Tolkien’s stories.
I’m skeptical that the Lord of the Rings, or any other story from Tolkien’s mythology, can really work as a TV series. It’s a square peg round hole situation. TV as a form just doesn’t play to the strengths of Tolkien’s vision.
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I’d missed that Ray Nayler, author of the excellent The Mountain in the Sea, came out with a short novel earlier this year called The Tusks of Extinction. “Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth.”
Colossal, one of my all-time favorite sites on these here interwebs, has launched a spiffing new redesign. Go take a look.
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan are just a couple of ideas men trying to rewatch the 1982 comedy ‘Night Shift,’ starring Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, and Shelley Long and directed by Ron Howard. Watch this episode on our Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
