While on my usual rounds of RSS feeds, I stumbled on this particular piece of vandalism in Ann Arbor, MI:

I thought that was a pretty funny idea that could definitely be used. The mod will be along the lines of the Banana Phone, featuring a cup instead of a banana. It’s a really simple idea that can be really funny to execute.

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Have you ever wanted to disable the screen saver, but for some reason or another, couldn’t? Will I’ve run into that problem, so I set out to create a solution. I’m now publishing another simple program I ended up with. It’s a program that I made to disable the screen saver at work. Sometimes, I would leave a process running, but that process would be cut short because a screen saver would appear. To rectify this problem, I threw together this simple program that essentially disables the screen saver, without affecting any software.

What this program does is emulates your mouse, making it move a tiny fraction over a certain time period. This makes the computer think your are still active, and won’t turn on the screen saver. Works great, saves hassle, and of course, it’s Free!
To stop the program, just right-click on the icon in the tray menu and click ‘Exit.’

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Have you seen Zeitgeist? It’s a movie that addresses the Jesus myth hypothesis, the attack on 9/11, and the Federal Reserve Bank.
It’s an eye opening movie that challenges your perceptions of the America you live in.

Don’t Watch this Movie if you are easily angered by blaspheme, confused by conspiracies, or if your name is Leigh.

Skip ahead to about 8:50 to skip the weird intro.

If Acting were the force,
Method Acting would be the Dark Side.

Method acting is basically this: Call upon your real life experiences to create an emotional response on stage for your character. For example, if you’re playing Anne Frank, and the Nazis burst in, you would have to be very scared. The actor would call upon a memory of a real life experience that made her scared; that could be anything from an alarmingly late period, to getting caught stealing shoes. These all elicit the emotion of fear, which the actor then uses for her character.

Frankly, I think that’s stupid. It’s a cheap way to recreate a character for the audience. I feel that an actor should cry because his character would cry; Not because the character remembered that one time he dropped an ice cream cone. Method Acting in its attempt to bring the audience closer to the character ends up separating the actor from his character. What a waste! The actor isn’t an actor when they are on stage, they are the character.
Method Acting is the shortcut, easy way out of actually attempting to act.

But not only is it cheap, it’s also dangerous.

In order to build up ones ‘methods repertoire,’ the past experiences an actor draws upon, sometimes actors will purposefully submit themselves to activities which can then be directly related to their character.

Heath Ledger was a strong method actor, from what I hear. His last, and certainly his best, role as the Joker was what pushed him over the edge…

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