X-Men: First Class Timeline Mix-Ups

X-Men: First Class is not supposed to be a reboot. It has been said that X-Men: First Class was meant to form a trilogy with X-Men and X2 (possibly meaning that X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine are no longer considered canon). This video points out how First Class doesn't fit with the other X-Men films, and makes a good case for why it ought to be considered a reboot if it is to make any sense at all.

Make Way For the Homo Superior

Here's an excerpt from a pretty interesting article that analyzes the works of David Bowie as if they are a religious text comparable to other religious texts.

Like Christ, Ziggy spreads a radical gospel of love. But while Christ admonishes his followers to abandon the nasty, brutish logic of the Mosaic world view (“eye for eye, and tooth for tooth”) and emulate his unconditional, turn-the-other-cheek love for all mankind (a message so revolutionary it convinces the apostle John that God, in a word, is love), Ziggy preaches a gospel of transcendental eros. “Let all the children boogie,” he decrees, in “Starman,” using a mothballed hippie verb that, back in the day, was a euphemism for doing the nasty.

In Ziggy’s erotic beatitude, the solitary self is consumed by an overmastering “idiot love”—a transport of sexual rapture that obliterates the boundaries of the conscious ego and “spark[s] the fusion,” in the song “Soul Love,” with…uh…the Cosmic Whatever. Is Ziggy’s space-hippie sermonizing about transcending adolescent alienation? Or hieing your astral ass off a dying planet through some orgasm-fueled transport of rapture? Bowie’s starman, a prophet who thinks with his crotch, isn’t big on specifics. All he knows is that “the church of man, love, is such a holy place to be,” a proverb that manages the neat trick of crossing eros with agape, reconciling them in the profane sacrament of soul love (“Moonage Daydream”).

Read the whole article here.

LED Binary Watch

I'd buy this, except I don't even have the patience for clocks with hands. I need digital. I figured I had some friends out there who could appreciate a binary watch. I'm not smart enough. More about the watch here at ThinkGeek.

Meteor Over the Midwest

Perhaps you've heard your Midwestern friends talking about a gigantic meteor in the night sky, one that shook houses and "left them speechless" even though they couldn't stop talking about what had just happened. Here's a video taken from a police officer's dash camera.

Pixels by Patrick Jean

Parallel Lines - The Gift