The Independent Variable
The Independent Variable
Kevin Humdrum
Welcome to The Independent Variable, the official linkblog of the interwebs covering culture, politics, sports, and tech since 2012.
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worldofreel.comNo word on whether he will actually get credited for the rewrite, but he definitely did extensive work, and this was, according to Sneider, at the request of DiCaprio.I didn’t love Killers of the Flower Moon and after...
aftermath.siteAs does Jensen Huang's commitment to looking like a huge dork.I can’t help but absolutely love the compare and contrast here. It does amaze me that these billionaires like Huang and Musk don’t pay someone to dress them....
m.youtube.comMartin McDonagh has been on a (slow) heater as of late and now he gets to work with a fine cast in John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey.
thehtml.reviewthe html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the webHaven’t gotten to it yet myself, but The HTML Review is always wonderful and always a huge inspiration for how we can do publishing different on...
comicsbeat.comAnouk Ricard's celebrated graphic novel, Animan, is a clever sort of anti-superhero parody that is always working toward the next joke.It's honestly been awhile since I've read some comics given I'm behind in basically ever...
worldofreel.comCoel seems an odd fit to reboot “Bloodsport,” which tells me this must be a total reimagining of the original. Maybe there will be a female lead.Apologies for blowing up feeds with test posts, but I think I’m finally done...
Directed by Nicholas De Marino
JNDThis already did the rounds, but it was fun to give it a go myself. I got a 0.0040 on it.
The VergeDespite that, Mezzell paints the shutdown as temporary, saying, “We’re not giving up. Digg isn’t going away,” with “A small but determined team is stepping up to rebuild with a completely reimagined angle of attack.”I think...
VarietyThis is the news I’ve been waiting for! June 26th!
ESPNAm I the only one who didn’t realize people in Europe even played baseball? Impressive showing by the Italians though!
ManuYou either believe in something and you’re willing to power through, or you don’t, and you do what everybody else is doing.I guess it’s safe to say Manu doesn’t believe in the idea that “the truest sign of intelligence is the ability...
The Heat center, who is known as one of the league’s best defenders, entered Tuesday with a career scoring average of just 16 points per game and has only averaged more than 20 points per game once in his career (20.4, in the 2022–23...
ParsewordA new daily word game from the creator of Wordle. There’s a lot of fun and unique gameplay design that just shines. It took me a few go-arounds to really get the hang of it, but once I did, it just sort of clicked—although I’m...
screamer.newsSo I built something on Friday and it's already gone through a ton of revisions, but it's at a point where I think I'm pretty happy with it. I wanted a simple place I could go to quickly catch up on the major topics of the...