The original Myst is revamped for the new millennium, in 3D: dynamic and fully interactive with day and night condition cycles, changing weather, and real-time lighting effects. Unlike in the original version, with its "screen by screen" navigation and..
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me the most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." That is the inimitable power of literature, to give context and meaning to the trials and triumphs of living.That...
That nation's cinema legacy can be traced back to 'The Phantom Carriage,' a silent classic about a carriage that picks up the souls of the dead at the end of each year. In typical Swedish-movie fashion, there's plenty of discourse on life, death and the meaning of it all. The primi...
These are shows that I will not, under any circumstances delete or stop recording. They are just that good. Modern Family, The Middle, Suburgatory, New Girl, and Happy Endings are the comedic non-negotiables. I watch Modern Family and The Middle with Real Man, and we both enjoy them. ...
That nation's cinema legacy can be traced back to 'The Phantom Carriage,' a silent classic about a carriage that picks up the souls of the dead at the end of each year. In typical Swedish-movie fashion, there's plenty of discourse on life, death and the meaning of it all. The ...
and man’s place in a universe of which the earth was no longer the center. And here we are, 400 years later, embroiled in similar arguments. Science, it seems, has not lived up to its promise of providing all the answers to the meaning of life. It hasn’t even provided all the ...
There are so many charlatans around the place to fish in “Right” waters (even the meaning of the political description “Right” seems to have been turned upside down in the US, like so many things) or among discontented people to deflect them or lead them astray. Its all to be foun...
ByAnatoly Liberman The adverb is an endangered species in Modern English. One should neither wring one’s hands nor weep on hearing this news. In the course of the last thousand years, English has shed most of its ancient endings, so that one more loss does not matter. Some closely relate...
athat he doesn’t think you deserve your luck. [translate] aWhy do we go wrong about our friends –or our enemies? Sometimes what people say hides their real meaning. And if we don’t really listen, we miss the feeling behind the 为什么我们出错关于 [translate] ...
Eating week-old rui tsai from my well-meaning mother is Out.Of.The.Question. She was so desperate that she even offered to FedEx the vegetables to me. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if after all of this, the thing that does me in is stir-fried “lucky” vegetables? I was worried though...