March 1st marked the (brief?) resurgence of winter, the beginning of the month, and the start of the Salem Film Festival, an all-documentary film festival which screens films from all over the U.S. and the world. Their tagline, “Come to Salem. See the World.” If you look through their roster of films  it is clear that [...]

Spunky may be remarkably stupid, but he is also cute, which makes his stupidity somewhat endearing. He will eat anything, which saves money on dog food; he drinks his own drool, so you never have to refill his water bowl; he provides permanent housing for a tick and a ringworm, what a nice guy; and [...]

A week or two ago I saw a trailer for the documentary The City Dark, which discusses the effects of light pollution on our environment.  I was hooked immediately by perfectly selected sound-bytes, beautiful music, and through my own fascination with the stars.  Check out the trailer on imdb here.  Each time I watch it [...]

  It is now January in New England, and besides a few cold streaks it has not at all felt like winter. For most residents of Massachusetts, this is not only extremely rare, but also a welcome surprise. No winter boots tracking snow into the house, no snow blowing, shoveling, or plowing, no near death experiences [...]

So I just went to see Iron Man 2, I know a little late huh, but better late then never. I went in expecting your typical summer action blockbuster. Instead I got more story then I had hoped for. Don’t get me wrong I love story more then most, but every now and then you [...]

So, wasn’t really expecting to be entertained with this one, but I can say that I was surprisingly shocked at how good it was. It was well written to start with, probably due to the fact that it was a book first. The animation was really good, facial animation and the physics of the animated [...]

  Paris Combo is a musical group based in Paris, France that has an eclectic style, blending elements from the traditional French chanson, American jazz and swing, Roma music and North African music. The group identifies itself as a world music group. They have performed live in Europe, North America and Australia. Belle du Berry, French, lead singer and accordion player Potzi, self-described Gypsy of Algerian descent, guitarist and banjo player François-François (a.k.a. Jean-François [...]

Seeing as this post is our one hundredth post, we found that the only way to commemorate this momentis occasion was to talk a little bit about the history of the number 100. 100 (one hundred) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. One hundred is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standard SI [...]

May 21, 2010 – Google you are awesome. So today I went to google to search something and when I got there, Google had changed their logo to a Pacman game. But that is not the best part. In place of I’m Feeling Lucky, it said Insert Coin. When you click this it allows you [...]

May 18, 2010 – So I found this photo on the web recently and thought it would be fun to have fun with captions. So if you have one in mind contact the captain with your ideas. Below are a few that we came up with.