January 2008


People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

E. B. White
  1. Breach
  2. Firewall
  3. Swordfish
  4. Takedown
  5. The Matrix
  6. Office Space
  7. Pirates of Silicon Valley
  8. Enemy of the State
  9. Independence Day
  10. Goldeneye
  11. Hackers
  12. Strange Days
  13. Sneakers
  14. Real Genius
  15. Wierd Science
  16. War Games
  17. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  18. Tron
  19. Star Wars
  20. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  21. Dr. Strangelove: or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

I don’t necessarily agree with the ordering that they placed them in, especially since some of them couldn’t exist with their predecessors; and I haven’t seen all of the movies on the list; but I did notice that the original Planet of the Apes movies and Colossus: The Forbin Project weren’t on the list so there could be some disagreement about “Best.”  You can read the Baseline magazine article for yourself to see the commentary about each of the films.

Satirical sites

via email from Duane McDowell, Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:56:42 -0800

Fewer workers were worried about losing their jobs last month, maybe we’ve already hit bottom

Tim Bosse, executive vice president of IT staffing firm Hudson, via email 30-Jan-2008

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

You’ve got to love our older Veterans.  This man, 73, wears a protective flap over his ear while Senator Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton address the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

via email from Bob Rosen, Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:17:31 -0800

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