August 10, 2009 @ 11:49 am
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This infographic from a 2007 Time Magazine issue shows the spike in people per area that New York City handles during an average workday. It’s no secret that NYC is busier during the day than at night, but it’s always nice to see this fact shown as vertical graphs for a bigger effect.
Thanks Norman!
UPDATE: Steven over at Spatiality has graciously done the research and found out that the image above is part of a larger November 2007 Time Magazine interactive map showing various population rushes in America. The image was made by Joe Lertola. Also, I replaced the image above with a clearer version from Urban Omnibus.
May 28, 2009 @ 9:28 am
Spike has an article entitled The Seven Biggest Loopholes in Terminator Salvation that might make or break the latest Terminator movie for you. It’s no secret that watching a film like Terminator requires a certain level of suspension of disbelief, but Spike does raise several good points about some missing logic in Terminator-land.
Here’s a snippet from top loophole #2:
So as far as Skynet is concerned, here’s the future head of the resistance, snooping around headquarters without anyone or anything giving him much trouble. And then, BOOM, it’s the T-800 (CG Arnold) ready to tumble. But the real question is: why didn’t they sick the whole damn army on him?
Here you have John Connor, Skynet’s Most Wanted, and they send one Terminator to kill him in a factory of Terminators? They’ve been trying to kill this guy throughout time and space, and they finally have him right where they want him – and they send one Terminator? What, exactly, was the point of making all those other Terminators if they didn’t intend on using them at the key moment they might need a few? Talk about understaffing the war effort. Who’s running Skynet, anyway? Donald Rumsfeld? Fail!
I haven’t seen Terminator Salvation yet but I read the entire Spike article anyway. There weren’t really any spoilers and even after reading it all, I intend to go see the film. I love Terminator and nothing — even a bad movie — is going to phase me.
