Foresight

The Joe just loves Titanic jabs...

Histerical Perspective

I've often had discussions on this with colleagues. When does a tragedy stop being tragic and start being a social gag? At which point does society start looking at a unfortunate event in our history and start laughing at it like your neighbour getting accidentally sacked in the nuts? 

We never did come up with an appropriate answer, but it's apparently less than 100 years, according to this trailer: 

Titanic Mistake

April 2012 is almost over... so a few days ago I thought I should commemorate the sinking of the world's most famous ship by watching the 3D re-release of James Cameron's Titanic. So how was the 3D? Meh.  Though, I will give credit where it's due: it's hard getting accurate depth perception from a movie originally filmed in 2D. But I was interested to find this out about the new edition, courtesy of everyone's favourite astrophysicist:

Also, can't miss this gem from Memebase:

Put On Your Life-vests...

Every once in a while comes some revisionist history so bad, so awful, so devoid of good taste that one has to wonder: what where they smoking??? Kudos to Doug at Thatguywiththeglasses.com for digging up this stinker: