MachineMachine /stream - tagged with john https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Hong Kong winner of John W. Campbell sci-fi award stands by ‘fascist’ comments as new name for accolade is considered | South China Morning Post]]> https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3024530/hong-kong-winner-john-w-campbell-sci-fi-award-stands-fascist

Hong Kong science fiction author Jeannette Ng became the city’s first to receive the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer last Sunday in Dublin, Ireland, but not without calling out the influential sci-fi writer whom the award is named after as a fascist. “John W.

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<![CDATA[Practical Magic: Assimilating John Carpenter’s The Thing | VHS Revival]]> https://vhsrevival.com/2017/09/22/practical-magic-assimiliating-john-carpenters-the-thing-cedric-smarts/

In an era of countless reboots, we have come to regard the whole process as a cynical exercise whose primary goal is to slash expenditure, but that was not always the case. There was a time when remaking movies was about taking a classic conception and upgrading it to meet modern standards.

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Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:18:13 -0700 https://vhsrevival.com/2017/09/22/practical-magic-assimiliating-john-carpenters-the-thing-cedric-smarts/
<![CDATA[The suspense is better than the horror in John Carpenter’s The Thing · Scenic Routes · The A.V. Club]]> http://www.avclub.com/article/suspense-better-horror-john-carpenters-thing-244844

In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean. Every year around this time, I find myself pondering the thin line between horror and suspense.

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Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:07:10 -0700 http://www.avclub.com/article/suspense-better-horror-john-carpenters-thing-244844
<![CDATA[Why humans find it hard to do away with religion]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/01/why-humans-find-it-hard-do-away-religion

The new atheists decry religion as a poisonous set of lies. But what if a belief in the supernatural is natural?

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Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:02:03 -0800 http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/01/why-humans-find-it-hard-do-away-religion
<![CDATA[The Beatles - The REAL First Chord of "A Hard Day's Night"]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxPc5MPEuQ&feature=youtube_gdata

Giles Martin shows to Randy Bachman the first chord of A Hard Day's Night. Original here: http://web.me.com/mlutthans/Site_68/Welcome.html

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