Today would have been the 53rd birthday of D. Boon, singer and guitarist for the San Pedro punk band Minutemen back in the 1980s. He died in 1985 at the age of 27, killed in a car crash.
Here’s a video of one of my favorite Minutemen songs, “This Ain’t No Picnic.” It’s funny, it’s short, it’s a typical Minutemen song in theme and execution and it stars their nemesis, then-president Ronald Reagan:
Robin Williams last night after making his Broadway acting debut in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.
Don Draper fans can relax: Mad Men is coming back for three more seasons.
Saoirse Ronan poses with Amy and Catherine Quinn, her co-stars in the 2008 film City of Ember.
The Google Doodle for the day celebrates scientist Robert Bunsen on his 200th birthday. And a lovely Google Doodle it is! (Although technically, shouldn’t the Bunsen Burner flame be colorless?)
“My point is that the sorts of people you are charged to fight represent a grave, grave threat to all of us. We can’t afford to have you distracted because you’re yanking up your top all the time like a poorly-fitted bridesmaid at a hastily planned wedding.
Today is the birthday of painter Vincent Van Gogh. Born in 1853, he would have been 158 years old if he hadn’t shot himself and died when he was 37.
Wonder Woman is back, in the form of Adrianne Palicki (of Friday Night Lights fame) in a new TV show produced by David E. Kelley (of Ally McBeal fame). Here’s a …..
Our new Andrew Garfield biography is now live, which gives us the chance to run this photo from the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.
Paul Baran, a giant of early Internet technology, has died at age 84.In the early 1960s, while working at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, Mr. Baran outlined the fundamentals for packaging data into discrete bundles, which he called “message blocks.” The bundles are then sent on various paths around a network and reassembled at their destination. Such a plan is known as “packet switching.”