Obama poster parodies

This stuff is dated, but I liked all these Obama "Hope" poster parodies that I just stumbled across:

Apparently, making these posters is a popular pasttime.

L4D: What a wonderful Z-Day

This is a pretty great L4D trailer. I wonder when the new campaign, crash course, is going to hit.

The last 15 seconds of this video (the finale of Dead Air) is great with the soundtrack.

Fractally Weird: Cryptonomicon

So I really like this concept from Cryptonomicon that the narrator calls "fractally weird". To paraphrase, his friends life is so odd that you could isolate & examine any small part of it, and it would be equally as strange as his life as a whole.

Clever.

What I'm Reading Now: Cryptonomicon

All I have left on my Sansa MP3 player is Niel Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and a very fuzzy copy of Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James. Cryptonomicon wins on the basis of audio quality.

What I'm Reading Now: Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Here we go again with more PKD fare: Transmigration is full of religion, insanity, scizophrenia, narcotics. At least this time the narrator is generally reliable - it's the surrounding characters with questionable sanity.

Cast is developing for A Song of Ice & Fire

The "Winter is coming" blog is apparently the best place to keep up with casting announcements for HBO's upcoming production of A Song of Ice and Fire.

http://winter-is-coming.blogspot.com/search/label/Casting

So far I'm pretty happy with all the selections they've made. I can't imagine why so many fans would prefer to have Catelyn played by the X-File's agent Scully than Pride & Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennet.