September 2011
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“Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in...”
– Gore Vidal
If you have a Wordpress site, this is sorta important: there’s a Wordpress vulnerability going around you should know about. Basically, the issue is with a third party component called TimThumb that handles image resizing. Not every theme has it, but a whole lot of them do. If your site automatically makes thumbnails or does stuff with “featured images,” there’s a good...
According to Wikipedia, here are the city nicknames for Joliet, Illinois:
City of Steel
City of Stone
City of Champions
Prison City
From the Wikipedia article on “Christian metalcore” band The Devil Wears Prada: Despite speculations that the band named themselves after the film with the same title, they were formed before the film was released. They have explained that their band name is actually based on an anti-materialistic mindset and derived their name from the novel, The Devil Wears Prada. At the time of...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: how the costumes were... →
“I thought that lots of these middle-aged men had bought suits 10 or 15 years ago and stuck with them,” [the costume designer] says. “I would look at a character and try to work out where they had bought their suit.”
She decided that everything in the film could have been bought from shops within half a mile of Piccadilly in London: “Things from Savile Row, ...
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"I asked three girls to draw the outfits they... →
I love the Larry David-esque expression on the second girl…
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