"It costs about $1,500 to print one copy of a movie on 35 mm film and ship it to theaters in its heavy metal canister. Multiply that by 4,000 copies — one for each movie on each screen in each multiplex around the country — and the numbers start to get ugly. By comparison, putting out a digital copy costs a mere $150." —LA Weekly – who else? — foretells the death of 35mm film and everything it'll take to the grave with it including your local art-house theater. Oh, and all the prettiest moving images imaginable. 

"February: Beyoncé’s newest perfume, Pounce, is unveiled in a crystal egg lowered into Times Square, where it knocks over the statue of Father Francis Duffy. Beyoncé apologizes for damaging 'the guy in the Nazi coat.'" —Michael Rottman of The Morning News lives in Toronto, "like a lord," and can forsee the future, like a wizard. And, per his gift, March is going to be crazy.

You remember M.A.S.H. It was sort of like the paper fortune-teller game, but requiring fewer impossible-to-master origami skills. It was also like going to a psychic at age 10, if the soothsayer had the savvy to put Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Andrew Keegan on your list of potential suitors, and setting your honeymoon at Six Flags Great Adventure. Plus M.A.S.H. belied our still hyper-positive, adolescent outlook on the future: Of the four-or-five choices in each category, most of them bestowed upon you a sparkling home, a sleek red car, and a choice profession, while only one option stuck you in a shack, put a jalopy in your driveway, or [...]

My favorite way to waste time at work is by worrying about my future. Horoscopes are one way to get my fix, but better is Llewellyn.com's secret free tarot card-reading portal, which I stumbled across years ago, and which I've since visited daily to learn about the mysterious men and bad omens about to influence my destiny.

It's well designed, easy to navigate, and about as good as a free online tarot card-reading site could conceivably be: You get your choice of nine different card decks, ranging from Llewellyn's signature deck to the druid-inspired "Sacred Circle Tarot" to the glitzy "Gilded Tarot," and your pick of spreads (the [...]

Just spent seven minute watching this trailer? ad? something for a new, uhhh, video game "engine" (whatever that is!) and I'd do it again. Seriously, I have no idea what I'm talking about other than this little film was pretty if you imagine it being a game you can actually play or, ahem, watch someone else play in your living room while you make dinner/practice calligraphy. NSFW due to android nudity (think Barbie) and a few mild swears like the ones your grandma says when she stubs her toe. [via]

… Among them, a "Science of Happiness" badge (to the left), which is earned when a girl spends a month pursuing something that's "generally believed" to bring her well-being, and then reports on how it all went down. One example of a generally believed pursuit is "being forgiving toward others," but another should be "looking at that pretty rainbow badge," because that is one pretty rainbow Girl Scout badge.

Other new badges include Money Manager, Budgeting, Financing My Future, Good Credit, Meet My Customers, Business Plan, Customer Loyalty, Computer Expert, The Science of Style, Digital Movie Maker, Website Designer, Geocacher, and Locavore. Geocacher? The Girl Scouts are taking over [...]

Which, um, sad? But honestly, it's like teaching people how to make quill pens, not in a "weekend at Colonial Williamsburg" way, but actually devoting months of curriculum time to it. Typing: the wave of the not-even-the-future.

There's always the "but what if we have a nuclear apocalypse and all the computers disappear" school of thought, but, again, printing, you know?

Also, this is that thing you secretly worry about with vibrators, where it's all, what if we get too used to Japanese Engineering Mastery, and then we enter a new climate-change-induced ice age in which electricity and battery power disappear, etc., and we can't cope and become [...]

The day my husband announced he was leaving, two days before Halloween, a pack of Rider Waite tarot cards arrived in the mail. Tarot folk wisdom suggests that instead of seeking out your own cards, you should wait for them to come to you. (Although I don’t think deliveries from Amazon were what anyone had in mind.)

Of course I had ordered the cards myself. When I picked out the pack, I was already predicting my need for them. My husband was on tour in Australia, operating concert lighting for a musician's world tour. Most times his absence didn’t bother me — I knew what I was in for [...]

I'm not even gonna pretend to be able to summarize how this was done (read about it here or in the video summary), but basically now you can look at something and an MRI and computer can sort of jumble together a pretty good representation of what you're seeing just by reading your brain activity. And "sort of" is close enough to INSANE since it's literally a machine scanning your brain and it might work with dreams and did you even watch that video? Boom! The future. We're all gonna die.

"Remote virtual love making would allow individuals to 'connect with their partner' while away from home, although lenses could be worn to adjust how their partner looks." —The future is looking bright, according to "futurologist" Ian Pearson. He used some kind of magical portal to peer all the way into the year 2030, and the news is good. Not only does it seem like our civilization still exists (though no word on whether it is still cool enough to safely go outdoors), it also turns out our hotels are fantastic! You see, they're loaded with fancy technology that can do things like diagnose medical conditions, control our dreams, and [...]