With Martin Scorsese’s lunatic asylum-set thriller Shutter Island pushing audiences to the brink of movie madness this week, we felt it high time to cast our crazy eye across a dozen of the most disturbed — and disturbing — motion-picture mental patients to ever be pumped full of Thorazine on the silver screen.
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10 ridiculously stupid cartoon character makeovers
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Games / Money / Self
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February 18, 2010
Casinos are a psychological minefield. Their architectural design, as well as everything in it, has a methodical function devised to keep you, the player, inside spending your money. Some tactics they use are as conspicuous as the nose on your face, while others are guile and subtle
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I have a special fascination with World War One, a fascination that intensified when my father told me that his dad served in the Marines in 1917-1918. (My other grandfather and my wife’s grandfathers served in World War II, but my dad’s dad was in the first war.) My grandpa had trained as a sniper, but was never sent to France and was discharged after the armistice. The following are 11 fascinating facts concerning the people and events of the finale of the most destructive and bloody war in human history (until World War II, of course), which ended at 11 a.m.
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Movies
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February 17, 2010
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Avatar’ tops the chart this week followed by ‘Sherlock Holmes’. ‘Daybreakers’ completes the top three.
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Super Bowl time is here again and that means parties, food, and beer, preferably at a friend’s house where they have a big screen, someone else cooking, endless beer and bacon.
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TIME charts the top 10 editorial cartoons of 2009
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Freelancing isn’t something you should just jump into, but it makes sense for a good number of workers.
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