Cute Japanese food
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Hello bento box! And other smiley-face food from Japan. Link (Thanks, JeremyT!)[Boing Boing]
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Boing Boing: Feebs' security advisory about kingpin who turns out to be a video-game character
Boing Boing: Feebs' security advisory about kingpin who turns out to be a video-game character
It just had to happen, so much security, so little time
It just had to happen, so much security, so little time
The FBI issued a terrorist warning after receiving a tip on an evil millionaire -- who turned out to be a character in a video game.
It was the lead item on the government's daily threat matrix one day last April. Don Emilio Fulci described by an FBI tipster as a reclusive but evil millionaire, had formed a terrorist group that was planning chemical attacks against London and Washington, D.C. That day even FBI director Robert Mueller was briefed on the Fulci matter. But as the day went on without incident, a White House staffer had a brainstorm: He Googled Fulci. His findings: Fulci is the crime boss in the popular video game Headhunter. "Stand down," came the order from embarrassed national security types.
(via Lawmeme) [Boing Boing]
Monday, May 10, 2004
The Ten Best Science Fiction Film Directors
Strange Horizons, a weekly speculative fiction magazine
fascinating list of scifi greats
fascinating list of scifi greats
Sunday, May 9, 2004
Yahoo! News - 'Van Helsing' Wins Box Office Over Olsens
Yahoo! News - 'Van Helsing' Wins Box Office Over Olsens
Monsters win again, as well they should
a test
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Has it been 20 years already? "Andy himself stated that were he to fake his death, he would return 20 years later to the day. MAY 16TH 2004 IS THAT DAY." [metafilter.com]
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Hypocrite watch: FCC Swamped With Oprah Indecency Complaints
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Ernest Miller sez: "Howard Stern has been the FCC's indecency whipping boy for some time. After the latest series record-setting fines, however, he asked his listeners to complain to the FCC about an episode of Oprah's talk show that included rather graphic descriptions of sex acts. The Smoking Gun has received copies of more than 1600 complaints about that episode thanks to a FOIA request. It is impossible to know which complaints are real, but many of them are downright hilarious: 'The Oprah show ... was so offensive that my child's head literally exploded. Please ban free speech so this never happens again.'" Link [Boing Boing]
Monday, May 3, 2004
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
Buddhist Hell Theme Park in Vietnam
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height="329" width="275" align="left">Following up on this earlier post, BoingBoing reader Hostile17 says,
"Another example of an Asian site featuring the torments of hell. It's not in a museum though, it's in a theme park in [Vietnam]. I mean, three words: Buddhist Theme Park! I was a little baffled by the concept myself but it was a lot of fun. Rides and stuff, plus this animatronic display of the [twelve] torments of hell for people who'd committed particular crimes. It was a little like Pirates of the Carribean, only incredibly lame, tech-wise.
There was one specific punishment for gamblers, one for adulterers, another for drug-takers. It was kind of amusing how different members of the family I was with laughed nervously at different exhibits. If you're ever in Saigon, you have to visit, it's truly strange."
The park has a website where you can watch short MPEG movies of attractions, including the Hell exhibit. The whole park is surreal -- check out the wicked cool photos these gigantic swimming pools with faux-stone monuments of gods watching over. This one -- an old man with a waterfall beard -- is my favorite.
Link [Boing Boing]
Cool new Mars images
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BoingBoing buddy John Parres says:
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The Mars rover Opportunity has arrived at "Endurance Crater" revealing a variety of strata and rock formations and intriguing sand/salt formations at the bottom. At issue now is not whether Opportunity can roll in but whether she can climb back out for further investigations.
The Space.com bulletin boards are giddy at the possibility of investigating 'water seeps' One poster is reporting that a lead JPL scientists is predicting that Opportunity might last another six months. Another suggests that "the plan for Opprtunity is to head South/South West after it's done with Endurance Crater. The objective being the white area which would be an ideal area to look for fossils. If the rover can last as long as hoped though that puts some of the much larger craters within reach too!"
Image here,, and chat here. [Boing Boing]
Saturday, May 1, 2004
Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Buffy's Brendon Enters Rehab
Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
The obesity racket
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The Guardian has recently published excerpts from a new book by Paul Campos entitled The Obesity Myth. The book argues that the claim so often repeated by your TV, that two thirds of the population of the United States is "overweight" or "obese," is an elaborate hoax designed to move the product. From the perspective of a profit-maximising medical and pharmaceutical industry, the ideal disease would be one that never killed those who suffered from it, that could not be treated effectively, and that doctors and their patients would nevertheless insist on treating anyway. [Kuro5hin.org]
Thursday, April 29, 2004
"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
James Patrick Kelly's wonderful sf stories online as free audiobooks
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James Patrick Kelly, my friend and mentor, is one of the finest short story writers working in science fiction today. His stories are like perfect little gems, and his advice on story-writing was the most important artistic advice I've ever received.
Which is a preamble to some of the best news I've ever imparted: Jim Kelly is releasing audiobooks of his stories on teh net under a Creative Commons license. I know what I'm gonna be listening to before bed and on the tube this month.
$10,000 1965 "kitchen computer"
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Mitch sez, "Another Jetsonian Relic: A $10K kitchen computer ca. 1965. Notice the orange-and-black Star Trek: TOS design."
(Thanks, Mitch!)
[Boing Boing]
Sunday, April 25, 2004
beach zoom
beach zoom
I had a lot of fun creating this slow loading slide show. Original photos were assembled in iphoto and some were filtered through Photoshop filters to get various effects. The original idea was to create a slide show that self played and I decided to try out the export to quicktime feature which took a while to find as I looked first in Idvd and then Imovie, finally finding it in the original program I started with.
I could have done it with a photoshop export to a web show but this was fun.
Hope you enjoy it
macc
I had a lot of fun creating this slow loading slide show. Original photos were assembled in iphoto and some were filtered through Photoshop filters to get various effects. The original idea was to create a slide show that self played and I decided to try out the export to quicktime feature which took a while to find as I looked first in Idvd and then Imovie, finally finding it in the original program I started with.
I could have done it with a photoshop export to a web show but this was fun.
Hope you enjoy it
macc
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Excellent '60s anti-Beatles pamphlet cover
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Cover art from a religious tract titled "Communism, Hypnotism & The Beatles." I wish the whole pamphlet were online. Link[Boing Boing]
Digital camera silliness: secret finger trick
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This page has dozens of photos like the one shown here. Safe for work, but if your boss catches you checking it out, you'll have to let her/him in on the secret. Link (via horkulated)[Boing Boing]
Salon interviews Neal Stephenson
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Every culture can be kind of defined by what they drink in order to avoid dying of diarrhea. In China it's tea. In Africa it's milk or animal blood. In Europe it was wine and beer. Salon talks with Neal Stephenson. [premium/free day pass] [metafilter.com]
Monday, April 19, 2004
Volume Two of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle...
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still working on volume 1--fascinating!
Volume Two of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle The Confusion is just as hulking and dense as the last. It includes "a long, detailed description of the mechanics of 17th-century bills of exchange." And yet everyone I know is excited about... [blog]
Wired News: Mr. Clean Available for DVDs
I'm waiting for the opposite service...
Wired News: Mr. Clean Available for DVDs
Wired News: Mr. Clean Available for DVDs
What Makes A Writer A Writer?
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So You Think You Might Be A Writer? Just because you write? An astute essay by Joseph Epstein poses the uncomfortable question: are you weird enough? There's something very unnatural and unhealthy about writing (as opposed to reading, for instance) - but what is it? [Via Arts and Letters Daily.] [metafilter.com]
Sunday, April 18, 2004
UCLA Geophysicist says major quake to hit LA by September
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Comment: the only thing to do is abandon LA---
A geophysicist with a good track record of predicting quakes based on fault line stress data says Los Angeles will experience a nasty 6.4 quake by September.
The experts predicted in June an earthquake measuring 6.4 or higher would strike within nine months in a 496-kilometre region of central California, including San Simeon, where a 6.5-magnitude temblor struck December 22, killing two people.Link (Via IP) [Boing Boing]In July, they said they predicted a magnitude 7.0 or higher quake in a region that included Hokkaido by December 28. The September 25 quake fell within that period.
Now they predict a major quake will hit an area that stretches across desert regions to the east of Los Angeles, home to around nine million people, including the Mojave desert and the resort town of Palm Springs, which lies near the notorious San Andreas fault.
Mickey Mouse's dwindling brand
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Great NYT feature on the dwindling importance of Mickey Mouse as a character, and the attempts of the Disney organization to reimagine Mickey as a relevant character today.
"I was around 6 when I first saw him," [Maurice Sendak] said. "It filled me with joy. I think it was those primary colors so vivid and pure, taken up with the most incredibly beautiful animation, reminding you of Fred Astaire. Oh! And his character was the kind I wished I'd had as a child: brave and sassy and nasty and crooked and thinking of ways to outdo people." The joy leached from Mr. Sendak's voice. "Not like the lifeless fat pig he is now."
Mr. Sendak is hardly alone in mourning the mouse's decline. "Boring," "embalmed," "neglected," "irrelevant," "deracinated" and, perhaps most damning, "over" are some of the adjectives that cropped up in recent interviews with people in the cartoon, movie and marketing businesses.
(Thanks, Warren!) [Boing Boing]
Web Zen: Vintage Electronics Zen
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web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). [Boing Boing]
There IS a cabal
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Comment: I just knew it---
World Domination LLC (is) a consortium of organizations devoted to the consolidation of global capital by a single cabal or individual, employing the tactics of terror and subterfuge...The most visible public face of our organization is www.villainsupply.com. [metafilter.com]
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Howling at the Moon: Modern-day Lycanthropy
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If the legends are to be believed, lycanthropy has been with us since King Lycaon was transformed into a wolf, in retribution for serving human flesh to Zeus during a dinner party in ancient Greece. Ever since, the werewolf has followed the human race through whispered tales and popular myth, stalking towns and villages from the Caucasus to Colorado. The popularity and seeming irrationality of these stories has been a traditional target for debunkers of the supernatural. Rationalisations of the werewolf myth have stretched from theories of rabies infection to ergot poisoning. More difficult to dispel has been the delusional convictions of people with clinical lycanthropy. Often submerged in intense psychosis, affected individuals report the feeling of transformation into various forms of animal, some experienced as so unusual, the animal has yet to be identified. [Kuro5hin.org]
Monday, April 12, 2004
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
Sex and gravestones
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Online photo gallery exploring the sensual female form in cemetary memorial markers.
Link (Via MeFi) [Boing Boing]
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Sunday, April 11, 2004
Dr. Seuss'"Gerald McBoing Boing" on MP3
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Delightful MP3 of a 1951 children's record about Gerald McBoing Boing, a boy who spoke in sound effects. Link (Halfway down page)[Boing Boing]
Museum of Unworkable Devices
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Nice site covering a bunch of inventions that won't work because they go against one or more laws of physics. It also looks at impractical, but interesting inventions, like this water fountain that squirts water out of a replica of a woman's head. Link[Boing Boing]
Saturday, April 10, 2004
The truth about camel spiders
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Comment: cool spiders---
Here's the myth about camel spiders, the monsters of the Iraqi desert. "Supposedly they leap onto the backs of camels and suck out the blood. I've been told that a couple of these things can kill a full grown camel."Link
"Here's the lowdown on camel spiders, which aren't spiders at all:
In reality, camel spiders aren't some mysterious Arabian creature -- we have them in the United States and in Mexico, where they are called matevenados. They are slightly smaller than the human hand, and while they do run quickly, their top speed is 10 miles per hour, not 25. But they also make no noise, they excrete no venom, and although they can be voracious nocturnal predators, they don't eat camels. They eat delicious crickets and pillbugs, and sometimes scorpions."Link [Boing Boing]
Web Zen -- Music Zen
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web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). [Boing Boing]
New short from Susannah Breslin
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Former BoingBoing guestblogger Susannah "Invisible Cowgirl" Breslin celebrates a birthday today. She also a new short story out in Ducky Magazine. Dig the phat cover art. Excerpt:
One morning, she woke up and discovered that her head was gone. She had reached up to pat her hair, or rub the sleep from her eyes, or scratch her ear, and she had realized that her head was nowhere to be found. Where, she wondered, had it gone? She had no idea at all. She could not recall, in fact, very well what had happened the previous evening. She had been at a bar, and she had gotten drunk, and then she had come back home. From what she could remember, her head had still been sitting squarely on her shoulders when she had climbed into bed. Perhaps, she considered, her head had run off at some point during the night while she lay sleeping.
Link to "The Woman Who Lost Her Head". [Boing Boing]
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Bush photomosaic of American dead in Iraq
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Bush photomosaic of Americans who have died in Iraq since the war president entered office. Link[Boing Boing]
Saturday, April 3, 2004
Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
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Uncovered is a documentary about the way the White House distorted the truth in an attempt sell the American public and the rest of the world on its pre-emptive war on Iraq. I already thought that Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the rest of that gang were being sneaky about it, but this DVD nailed it for for me. The reason Uncovered is so persuasive is that the director wisely chose to interview only "insiders" for the documentary -- CIA analysts, weapons investigators, Pentagon officials, and former White House counsels. Their comments on the administration's exagerations and spin are devastating. According to the director, even people who support the war in Iraq become angry after watching Uncovered, because it exposes the Bush administration as a pack of thoroughly corrupt liars. Buy from Amazon [Mad Professor]
"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
web zen: museum zen
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(1) artifacts
(2) forgotten girlie mags
(3)
adult movie posters
(4)
air sickness bags
(5)
temporary art
(6)
random art
(7)
xerox art
(7)
bad art
(8)
museum of online museums
web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). This vintage magazine cover is living proof that The Dude Abides. [Boing Boing]
DaveGate
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It started out innocently enough. Last Monday, David Letterman, a late-night talk show host with a penchant for sharp humor, aired a clip of President Bush giving a speech in Orlando, Florida. Introduced under the title "George W. Bush Invigorates America's Youth", the video clip showed an obviously bored and exhausted young man attempting to stay awake during a Bush speech. The young man yawns repeatedly, checks his watch, twists his head, and ends up with his hands on his knees trying to stay upright and conscious during the speech. A very amusing clip. Laugh out loud funny as anyone who has seen it will probably agree. After that, things start to get very strange. [Kuro5hin.org]
Friday, April 2, 2004
Batman vehicle models
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This guy has gone through Batman comics from the 1940s on up, and has built scale models of the cars and planes Batman has used over the decades. Super cool. Link (Via The Cartoonist)[Boing Boing]
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Nun Urinals
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Noted without comment. A follow-up to earlier BoingBoing posts on the Virgin Atlantic "kiss" urinal hoo-haa: nun-shaped urinals. Found here (warning: hideous popunder ads abound in parent directory). (via Warren) [Boing Boing]
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Thursday, March 18, 2004
"Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
mister worf, you have a tell. please don't kill me.
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Grubette sent me this informative and hilarious breakdown of poker players as Star Trek aliens . . . [Wil Wheaton]
Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise to bring "War of the Worlds" to big screen (AFP)
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Comment: Its the end of the world, again---
AFP - Movie mogul Steven Spielberg is to make a film version of Orson Welles'"The War of the Worlds," the sci-fi drama that seamed panic across America in the 1930s. [Yahoo! News - Entertainment]
Rumsfeld Caught Lying on "Face the Nation."
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Comment: LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR ---
On CBS's "Face the Nation" on March 14, 2004, United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that he hadn't used the phrase "immediate threat" to describe the situation in Iraq and that President Bush hadn't either.Thomas Friedman of CBS then presented Rumsfeld with quotes from September 2002 where he did describe the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq as an "immediate threat." Rumsfeld's response was that we may still find that they really were an immediate threat after all.MoveOn.org has a video available which cuts off before Rumsfeld finishes his response.You can also read the full transcript from CBS (PDF), or there is a partial transcript below. [Kuro5hin.org]
Peter Bagge's libertarian comics for Reason
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Comment: Let's not forget to laugh---
Brian Carnell sez: I thought it was unfair for you to pull that single strip out unqualified and claim that Bagge is just a right wing Tom Tomorrw.
Yes, that strip clearly exaggerates what the Left says for effect, but the difference between Bagge and Tom Tomorrow is that Bagge is an equal-opportunity exaggerator. For example, follow the link for a similar strip that is a caricature of the claims made by right wing supporters of the war on Iraq (I supported the war and I find it funny, but YMMV). He also lampooned libertarians.
The problem with Tom Tomorrow is that he's always caricaturing the Right, but never the Left (at least not that I can remember), unlike Bagge who skewers all sides.
(Mark sez: You're right, Brian!)
[Boing Boing]Fauxtoblog
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when the truth has found to be lies...
A fellow named Jack posts a series of fake photoblogging documentaries on his website, fauxjob.com. Check out the hilarious fake Friendster UI on his home page. My favorite fauxtoblogs on Jack's site are "STAINS OF WEST HOLLYWOOD RAMADA INN" -- photos of stains on walls and carpet and furniture in an LA hotel -- and this series about (plastic) rats and roaches he discovered in a new Tenderloin district flat in San Francisco. Caption: " IT ALL BEGAN ONE MORNING -- SIMPLE ENOUGH -- WHEN I SAT DOWN TO ENJOY A BOWL OF CEREAL FOR BREAKFAST. HOWEVER, IT SEEMS, A GIANT RAT HAD BEATEN ME TO IT... I REALLY SHOULD HAVE MOVED TO THE CASTRO." (Thanks, J!)[Boing Boing]
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Astronomers find 'new planet'
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Comment: 10 and not 11, 10 and not 9---
A new space telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, named Sedna. [BBC News | Front Page]
Binary LED watch from TokyoFlash
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Comment: geek out---
New from TokyoFlash, purveyors of fine and impractical Japanese hipster novelty watches: the LED by Binary. It's a watch with a naked printed circuit board, on which are situated 10 LEDs, which glow to display the time in binary notation. ¥8900.00 -- about $80. Link[Boing Boing]
Friday, March 12, 2004
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Updated to v7.0.1
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Comment: guess this means I'll keep the flying logo on my home page, cutsey demo of DHTML---
Macromedia has updated Dreamweaver MX 2004 to v7.0.1. This update includes performance and stability enhancements, as well as the return of the "Timelines" feature from Dreamweaver MX.
Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign [MacMerc]
Picture of orangutan hand and human hand
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Stations playing Bush campaign ads for free during news?
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A few nights ago, I was watching the local news on an Hearst-Argyle owned ABC news affiliate, WCVB. They launched into a story about Bush's reelection campaign, and how some of that huge pile of money was being put to action for a new commercial. Then to my surprise they ran it in entirety, full screen, with no voiceover commentary. Our President, with $190M in campaign funds, was getting what seemed suspiciously like a freebie. [Kuro5hin.org]
Should 14-year-olds vote? OK, how about a quarter of a vote?
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California legislators propose letting teens vote. [Christian Science Monitor | USA]
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Steve Martin's script notes from The Passion
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Jason Schultz has reproduced a bunch of Steve Martin's high-larious script notes for "The Passion" from this month's New Yorker.
* Love the Jesus character. So likeable. He can't seem to catch a break! We identify with him because of it. One thing: I think we need to clearly state "the rules." Why doesn't he use his superpowers to save himself?
* Does it matter which garden? Gethsemane is hard to say, and Eden is a much more recognizable garden. Just thinking outloud.
* Our creative people suggest a clock visual fading in and out in certain scenes, like the Last Supper bit: "Thursday, 7:43 P.M.," or "Good Friday, 5:14 P.M."
* Also, could he change water into wine in Last Supper scene? Would be a great moment, and it's legit. History compression is a movie tradition and could really brighten up the scene. Great trailer moment, too.
GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial
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Most modern Unix-based operating systems (e.g. Linux, MacOS X, and BSD) come with a little console-mode utility called GNU Screen. It's a powerful tool in the hands of the console warrior, a veritable Swiss Army knife of text-mode human-computer interaction. This utility, despite its considerable usefulness, goes unused by a great many people. Why is this? Few people even know it's there, and those that do rarely understand the problem it solves. In this article, I will explain what screen does for you, and provide a simple set of instructions for accomplishing basic tasks using screen. My audience is those that are skilled with the command line but who have little or no experience with screen itself. [Kuro5hin.org]
Tuesday, March 9, 2004
New: FileMaker Pro 7
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FileMaker, Inc. announced the release of FileMaker Pro 7 and FileMaker Developer 7, with major new features that include a Relationships Graph, which presents a visual "map" of the database, and a streamlined relational architecture, which stores multiple tables within a single file. [MacInTouch]
Friday, March 5, 2004
Hubble Captures a Starry Night
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The red giant star V838 Monocerotis puts on a show worthy of Van Gogh, and the Hubble Space Telescope takes note. By Lore Sjöberg. [Wired News]
Thursday, March 4, 2004
Transmogrify
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The Calvin & Hobbes Extensive Strip Search (C.H.E.S.S.) is a wonderfully obsessive database of every Watterson strip indexed by keyword & description, with each strip scanned, as well as a book & page # listing of which collection the stip appears in (and original newspaper publication date). It's wildly in violation of copywrite, but it's also very cool. and the geek in me wonders how they do the cool right-mousebutton trick when you click on the strips [metafilter.com]
Movies and fonts: together at last!
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The Movie Alphabet Game is harder than it looks. I'm stuck on C, O, U, and X. When you're through with that, try the second one. [metafilter.com]
Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Bilingual Ewok lyrics
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you know I've always wondered
The Ewok scene from the end of Return of the Jedi, the one where they all sing the victory song? Well, the song has lyrics. And an English translation.
Yub nub
eee chop yub nub
ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g'noop dock fling oh ah
Yah wah
eee chop yah wah
ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g'noop dock fling oh ah...
Freedom
we got freedom
and now that we can be free
come on and celebrate
Power
we got power
and now that we can be free
it's time to celebrate...
Link
(Thanks, kidsoncrack!) [Boing Boing]
Monday, March 1, 2004
Flies, Spiders and Pillbugs, oh my!
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The Insectlopedia has proven to be a fun distraction from human-based work today. Not too many places keep so much info on bugs handy and updated. Mostly a page of links to off-site content, yet it keeps drawing me back for more. Everything from the Social Wasps of Siberia to Live Beecams can be found here. [metafilter.com]
How to Stop Receiving Credit Card Offers
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Tired of annoying "pre-approved" credit card offers? I sure am. According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) of 1970 as amended in 1996, the four major credit bureaus have the right to sell your information to companies that want to offer you a credit card. Fortunately, the amendment also stipulated that credit bureaus must provide a way for consumers to have their names excluded from pre-approval lists. If you're a United States citizen sick of getting pre-screened credit card offers, this article will show you how to avoid receiving them. [Kuro5hin.org]
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