February 2012
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January 2012
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The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They Have? →
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Bitizen in a beanie
Don’t tell me I’m the only one who saw this:
And thought this:
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You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your...
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And it is Cumberbatch’s mesmerising performance as a speed-talking brainiac, so...
– Benedict Cumberbatch: the ideal Holmes
The Telegraph, 30 Dec 2011
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McKellen said Cumberbatch’s Smaug screen-test was amazing, I tell him....
– Benedict Cumberbatch: the ideal Holmes
The Telegraph, 30 Dec 2011
Thanks for making me more excited about The Hobbit than I already am.
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Martin Freeman Had it Right
I kind of want to build a fort and hide behind it in the slew of Sherlock/Irene fanfic that will inevitably be written after A Scandal in Belgravia.
Can I just hope for more of what Martin Freeman called “the gayest story in the history of television”[1]?
Please continue on, Moffat and Godtiss, with Sherlock and John in love but not lovers. Because Mary, and because of the whole...
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A Discussion of Irene Adler
Irene Adler is a fictional character featured in the Sherlock Holmes story “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in July 1891. She is one of the most notable female characters in the Sherlock Holmes series, despite appearing in only one story, and is frequently used as a romantic interest for Holmes in derivative works.
Wikipedia: Irene Adler, emphasis...
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I've Seen A Scandal in Belgravia
This Tumblog now contains spoilers galore.
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December 2011
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Putting the Sci in Torchwood's Sci-Fi
Would the Flynn Effect mean that Jack Harkness and John Hart are smarter than your ordinary 21st century humans? This would also be true of any other member of advanced societies in the Whoniverse.
I’ve read some fic in which Ianto mopes about his impending death, for the average lifespan of a Torchwood employee is x number of years and he just so happens to be nearing that. However,...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Trailer Online Tuesday at 7pm PST
In addition to announcing that the the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will play in theaters with The Adventures of Tintin starting on Wednesday, December 21, Warner Bros. Pictures has confirmed that the trailer will be online at 7pm PST on Tuesday, December 20. So stay tuned!
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