1. “I Love You” (Barney the Dinosaur)- The Song That Makes Bad Guys Tremble
Why is the opening theme from Barney the most powerful song of the last 25 years? Because it made sure the terrorists didn’t win. In the U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, there’s a special spot, known as “the Disco,” where interrogators use music to get detainees to talk. Naturally, death metal is on the playlist, and so is Christina Aguilera. But according to The Guardian, the most used song in the military’s arsenal is Barney’s “I Love You.” Interrogators refer to it as “futility music,” which convinces prisoners that it’s pointless to keep their silence. After listening to the song over and over, detainees start to feel that life is meaningless, and that it’s time to give up. It really works—Just ask any parent.
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The eyes of anthropomorphized cars are the headlights, not the windshield. And there’s no exceptions here. Having a cartoon car with the eyes in the windshield is wrong, just wrong. And that includes you, too, Pixar. Sure, you’ve done some amazing things, made some incredible movies, but you’ve also ruined the concept of anthropomorphism in cars for a generation of children. Can they recover? Maybe. But it would take nothing short of a remake of Cars and Cars II to even begin to undo the damage.
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The premise of the holiday classic ‘Home Alone’ — that a family would forget their eight-year old as they left on a trip to France — is fairly absurd.
Although when you consider how many kids the McCallister clan had to keep track of, maybe it’s not so absurd. We’ve kept track of all of the actors who played the McCallister youngsters, and you can learn about what they are up to below.
Then: Macaulay Culkin was already a recognizable face before ‘Home Alone’ thanks to his memorable role in ‘Uncle Buck,’ but it was the Wet Bandits-foiling tyke Kevin McCallister that made him easily the biggest child star since Shirley Temple.
Now: Culkin has had a handful of adult roles — most notably in ‘Party Monster’ and ‘Saved.’ But perhaps Culkin has been best known as of late for his nine-year relationship with actress Mila Kunis, which ended about a year ago, and for being a pallbearer at his good friend Michael Jackson’s funeral.
Then: In ‘Home Alone,’ Devin Ratray played Buzz McCallister, Kevin’s jerk of an older brother. During the early ’90s, he also played bullying characters in ‘Little Monsters’ and ‘Dennis the Menace.’ Clearly “the bully” is a role Devin was born to play.
Now: The 34-year old remains a working actor today with roles on ‘Law & Order: SVU’ and the upcoming Ryan Reynolds horror flick ‘R.I.P.D.’ In 2007, a documentary crew followed Ratray around as he attempted to win the heart of then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, resulting in the film ‘Courting Condi.’ So Buzz McCallister and Muammar Gaddafi had something in common.
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Think of a word. A password. Make it at least eight characters long, but no more than 12. Don’t repeat any characters more than twice. Make sure it has at least one letter, and one number. In fact, it has to start with a number. You can’t use a user name or any password you’ve tried in the past. And finally, you have to use one of these characters somewhere in your password: ~!@#$%^&*()-_+={}[]\|;:/?.,<>.
And try to make it memorable. You shouldn’t write it down, but you may need it again in a few months, when you come back to the website.
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The Astor Suite at midtown Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel has four bedrooms, six bathrooms and a library. It rents for a whopping $165,000 a month. The current owner, who remains anonymous, bought the palace from Esprit founder Jurgen Friedisch for $30 million.
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Las Vegas’s built environment is full of absurdities. The city’s development patterns showcase a tension between the natural (desert) and the built (the planned communities that litter the landscape).
They also serve as visual symbols of America’s 2008 housing bubble. Anticipating rapid growth, developments fail to connect to each other, confidently (or, perhaps thoughtlessly) leaving the future to fill the spaces between.
Below is a collection of satellite imagery via Google Maps that showcase some of these bizarre building patterns:
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