EsotericAppeal
January 29, 2012
The World’s Greatest Detectives Face Off

Batman: It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Holmes.

Sherlock: Likewise, Mr. Wayne.

Batman: How’d you know?

Sherlock: Elementary. When you approached you came down 34th street, indicating that you left from a position north of city. Financing for all your gadgets would be hugely expensive, and Mr. Wayne is the only man who lives north of the city who’s wealthy enough to support such a task. Plus, your tragic loss as a child would prevent your from entrusting someone else with the job of protecting the city. Additionally …

BATARANG TO THE HEAD.

January 11, 2012

What the what? How is that even possilble?

January 9, 2012

Hey everyone. He’s no Walt Whitman. He wrote nice stories, but they’re not exactly shining examples of the English language at its finest.

January 8, 2012

I find it really unlikely that Apple would have provided India a backdoor into iPhones for the purpose of spying on the US (or for any purpose). But time will tell.

January 5, 2012
December 29, 2011

“Look, my editor said, if you really love it you can have two pages. Otherwise we’ll make it a single. Welcome, then, to my one-page review of Gordon Ramsay’s new restaurant.”

I need to make a practice out of finding and sharing scathing english restaurant reviews.

(Source: Guardian)

December 23, 2011

Video, cropped where the crop lines are.

Also, who taught Sgt. Brody the rule of thirds? I’ve never seen a home confessional shot with the subject off-center.

December 21, 2011

You wouldn’t know it from the headline, but those are two totally unrelated stories. Not, as the punctuation would indicate, two aspects of one story.

One day, I’m going to go through every TV show and movie where they pretend to be showing you the viewfinder of a camcorder, and actually crop the video where they have the crop lines.

December 11, 2011
We see the library as not being in the book business, but being in the learning business and the exploration business and the expand-your-mind business,