Cinematic Doppelgangers: Surprising Similarities in Film Stills

If you are already way over the excitement of Google Similar Images, may we recommend The Inevitable, a 2007 film installation project by New York video artist and programmer Kurt Ralske which used custom software to search through movies, looking for frame-by-frame similarities in shape, and leading to some unexpected matches. The results different films were run across six synchronized video monitors, the stills freezing when they converge at ...

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10 Essential Russian Films

A box set containing three early works from Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov arrives on Blu-ray (with two films on DVD) today from Cinema Guild. The masterworks include the poetic Whispering Pages (using Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as its main inspiration), the aural Stone, and a surreal retelling of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, 1990's Save and Protect. Sokurov has had a prolific career, admired by everyone from Susan Sontag to Darren ...

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The 5 Most Ironic Scenes of Utter Destruction

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If Famous Albums Were Retitled With Brutal Honesty

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If Holiday Cards Were Allowed to Kick Ass

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5 Ways High School Really Does Suck (According to Science)

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4 International Incidents Caused By Drunk Boris Yeltsin

From 1991 to 1999, Boris Yeltsin was the first democratically elected President of Russia, leading the way for reforms, rekindling relationships with the West ...Reuters via The Age... and generally hitting the hooch harder than Ulysses S. Grant and Ernest Hemingway's reanimated corpses sewn together like some kind of pickled, two-headed Frankenstein's monster. Throughout his presidency, Yeltsin's tippling habit thrilled world leaders in such exotic ...

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3 Ways the 'War on Christmas' Is Way Older Than You Think

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The 5 Most Baffling Christmas-Related Crimes Ever

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The 4 Worst Lessons Disney Movies Taught Us as Kids

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15 Unexpected Origins of Famous Ideas

An apple falls on Newton's head, BAM -- gravity. Franklin puts a key on a kite, BAM -- electricity. Tesla harnesses said electricity, BAM -- Edison hoodwinks him and makes millions. Point is, you never know where famous ideas might develop from. We asked our readers to show us the gritty origins of some of our most famous inventions. The winner is below, but first the runners-up ...View the original article h ...

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6 Insane Game Shows You Won't Believe Were Allowed on TV

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3 Reasons You Shouldn't Play the Best Video Game of the Year

HomeColumnists3 Reasons You Shouldn't Play the Best Video Game of the YearI'm calling it: Far Cry 3 is probably going to take Game of the Year. It's ambitious but approachable; satisfyingly challenging, yet still casually fun. It's an excellent game, and that's why I'm going to tell you all about ... why you shouldn't play it.Listen: everybody and their mother is going to tell you all about the myriad awesome reasons you must play this game -- I'm ...

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The Mind-Blowing Origin Story of 'Miranda Rights'

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A Letter to My Neighbors About My Dubstep Lightshow

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'Die Another Day' Was All in Bond€™s Head: Conspiracy Theory

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Countdown to the End: Road Warrior

The Road Warrior movies are fantastic. The sense of tension and dread that you feel when you watch the first film is just magnificent. The second movie, Mad Max 2 is perhaps one of the best movies with a post-apocalyptic theme ever made.Of course, they were made in the early days before Mel Gibson was a psycho. I’m not quite sure what happened to him, maybe he fell apart as he got older, or maybe it was all the stress of the coming apocalypse. After ...

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HTC M7 Prepared For A February 2013 Debut

Every smartphone company would need a flagship device to keep the colors flying, and it is no different with HTC. In fact, the rumored HTC M7 is said to be lined up for a February 2013 debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, and we have some leaked details on what you can expect underneath the hood after the jump.It seems that an anonymous (although believed to be reliable) source claims that the HTC M7 will deliver some industry firsts, ...

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6 Mind-Blowing Archeological Discoveries Destroyed by Idiocy

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Polaroid Android Camera In The Works (Rumor)

Right now, Samsung is having the lion’s share of the Android-powered digital camera market with their Samsung Galaxy Camera, but that might change in the future with a leak from Russian social networking site VK that Polaroid is looking to jump aboard the bandwagon with an Android-powered camera of their own, known as the Polaroid IM1836.Right now, Samsung is having the lion’s share of the Android-powered digital camera market with their Samsung ...

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HTC Thunderbolt Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update Coming “Soon”

The HTC Thunderbolt was quite the powerhouse when it was released to the markets earlier last year, sporting LTE connectivity that offered blazing fast Internet speeds on-the-go, but it also drained the phone’s battery faster than you can say, “Ice Cream Sandwich”. Speaking of Ice Cream Sandwich, this long awaited OS update (yes, the Thunderbolt still runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread) is said to arrive soon for the HTC Thunderbolt.Whispers of an ...

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Black Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Coming? (Updated)

It would be an understatement to say that the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is doing all right in the markets where it has been released. In fact, having 5.5-inches of viewing real estate has certainly not slowed down the sales figures of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, and here we are with word on the grapevine that the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 might actually come in a shade that business folk would like - that is, black.This would mean that the Samsung Galaxy ...

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5 Ways to Actually Steal Christmas

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AT&T Announces Galaxy Note 2 Multi-Window Update

AT&T is the last of the four major carriers in the US to deliver the Multi-Window feature for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, and you know what they say about it - better late than never. This Multi-Window feature will come in an Over The Air (OTA) update, so that means you will just have to be patient and wait it out of it has yet to arrive on your phablet. Performing a manual check might help, but I strongly suggest you let things be, and when ...

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Sony Xperia Z And Xperia ZL Press Images Leaked Ahead Of CES 2013

Sony Mobile looks set to rock CES 2013 (which is happening in just a week’s time actually) with their fair share of smartphone announcements, where two of them would definitely be the high end Sony Xperia Z and the Sony Xperia ZL. In fact, the press images for both smartphones have already been leaked as you can see above. Just in case you get that sense of deja vu when you look at the Sony Xperia Z and the Sony Xperia ZL, that is because the former ...

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Countdown to the End: Death Dome

Whether you call it the T-virus, the Z-virus or the M-virus it makes no difference, they all have the same thing in common. Every one of those viruses transform human beings into something sinister, something primal.Zombies are played out, so I’m glad this next game doesn’t actually do the whole zombie apocalypse thing.The game for today is called Death Dome. It’s a post-apocalyptic hack and slash that has a lot in common with Dragon Slayer. In ...

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Samsung GT-I9500/GT-I9505 Might Be High-end Tizen/Android Smartphone

The good people over at SamMobile have received a tip from an anonymous reader that Samsung’s next generation high end device would go by the model numbers GT-I9500 and the GT-I9505, where the latter will most probably be an LTE enabled device. Before we continue any further, let us examine some facts that we are already aware of. For starters, Samsung’s maiden Tizen outing relied on the GT-I9500 as it’s model number, so with what was tipped today, ...

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The 3 Most Baffling Dick Moves in the History of Live TV

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Countdown to New Beginnings: The End App

Well, it’s Friday December 21, 2012, and we’re still alive. There are no catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate, and there have been no world ending incidents. Where I am, located in Sunny Florida within the United States, it rained early this morning, but that was it.As far as we’re concerned it’s a just another beautiful day. That means our Countdown to the End series was actually a countdown to new beginnings.In light of our current predicament, ...

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Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean Update Arrives In Asia

The last day of the year proved to be a fortuitous one for all new Samsung Galaxy S3 mini owners in Asia. New owners of this smartphone have reported, from Indonesia and Vietnam, that they have received the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update right out of the box. In fact, it was as recent as last month that the Galaxy S3 mini arrived with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, so to see it hit Android 4.1.2 is a pleasant way to end 2012 and usher in 2013.The difference ...

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Surviving 21/12/12 With Your Android Smartphone

We all know that the world did not end today, as you are sitting comfortably in front of your computer (or tablet and smartphone), reading this article on just what your Android-powered smartphone is able to do when the apocalypse comes. First of all, don’t just own any Android-powered device, try to get something that has a large screen - the larger, the better. The Samsung Galaxy S3 would be a good bet, and the Galaxy Note 2 (as seen above) might ...

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Samsung GT-N5100 (Galaxy Note 7) Benchmark Appears

The Samsung Galaxy Note family is one that has yielded surprising results since its inception, and you can say that it has certainly grown from strength to strength, with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 being quite the success. Well, an upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note tablet is certainly in the works, where sometime in late october, there was a DLNA certification that pointed in the right direction, followed by a User Agent Profile (UAP) that touted a 1280 ...

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5 Everyday Pieces of Clothing With Shocking Health Risks

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Samsung 5.5-Inch Flexible Display Headed For CES 2013

Samsung has been dealing with flexible displays for some time now, or at least, toying with the idea of releasing such technology into the mass market, but they might have made an important inroad with their subsidiary, Samsung Display showcasing a couple of flexible displays at CES 2013 next month. The first of these two flexible displays will target smartphone users, sporting a rather generous 5.5-inches of viewing real estate at 1280 × 720 HD ...

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Countdown to the End: Gaslight

As I mentioned in the last part of this series, you never know what the end of the world is going to look like. It could end up being a Mad Max style wasteland, a lush and desolate tropical paradise, or an infinite cover of ice and snow.It only makes sense that after the apocalypse, advanced electricity will be gone and right along with it all the luxuries that it provides. Anyone who survives will have to find a new way to live. That includes creating ...

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Countdown to the End: Death Dome

Whether you call it the T-virus, the Z-virus or the M-virus it makes no difference, they all have the same thing in common. Every one of those viruses transform human beings into something sinister, something primal.Zombies are played out, so I’m glad this next game doesn’t actually do the whole zombie apocalypse thing.The game for today is called Death Dome. It’s a post-apocalyptic hack and slash that has a lot in common with Dragon Slayer. In ...

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