The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell
Registration is currently open, and here's an open thread with a groovy music video by Daft Punk, from the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. [Video] UPDATE at 12/13/10 2:40:37 pm: Registration is now closed for a bit, but may open again later....
Here's a Friday afternoon open thread with a purpose -- post any links to LGF Pages you thought were especially noteworthy this week. And it's OK to pimp your own Pages...
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. -- Confucius
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play. -- Dizzy Gillespie
Here's a Monday midday open thread, as I deal with some analog beeswax...
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. -- E. O. Wilson
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. -- Bram Stoker
I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my Mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain ...
There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. -- James Thurber
Right and Left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future. -- Thomas Pynchon, V
It's Saturday night, and here's a private open thread, restricted to registered LGF users. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. That opens a window ...
It’s funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. -- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. -- Agatha Christie
I'm messing around with Mobify today, and may soon have a workable mobile version of LGF, for reading the site anyway. Commenting will still require you to open the non-mobile version of LGF, but I may be able to let you at least read comments in a stripped down mobile ...
Open Thread, Mobile Browsers, Mobile Phones, Little Green Footballs
A no-frills open thread for a lovely Tuesday evening...
Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future. -- Jigoro Kano
Some people just don't know how to party. -- Stinky Beaumont
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde
We haven't done this for a while, so here’s a private Monday night pre-election open thread, restricted to registered LGF users. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy ...
And we will all bake together when we bake. There'll be nobody present at the wake. With complete participation In that grand incineration, Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak. -- Tom Lehrer, "We Will All Go Together When We Go"
O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -- William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure