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- We continue our look at the Clone Wars multimedia adventure in our Photo Archives today with Scholastic Inc.'s series of junior novels starring the young Boba Fett. Beginning the day after the Battle of Geonosis, Boba Fett searches for Count Dooku in the aftermath in The Fight To Survive, originally released as a hardcover book. A month later, Boba finds himself in the midst of a battle on Raxus Prime in Crossfire, also first published as a hardcover book. In Maze of Deception, Boba and Aurra Sing are involved in a conspiracy on the planet Aargau, where the pair hope to reclaim Jango Fett's fortune. |
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- I'm glad someone figured out the spam trick of placing links in old comment threads on Movable Type sites (such as L.A. Observed). But what's with all the women coming here to ask for Rick Bragg's email address? Four this... |
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- Microsoft and Vodafone are getting their heads together to frame and promote mobile web service standards based around XML. The... |
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- Prime Minister Ilham Aliev pledged Monday that this week's presidential election will be free and fair, warning that authorities will deal sternly with anyone who resorts to violence. |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Most recent daily statistics (11 Oct 2003): Ranking: 4717, Activity percentile: 65.37%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (11 Oct 2003): Download count: 4 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (11 Oct 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Film News: World Brief Arclight Films has nabbed worldwide sales rights excluding Asia to a cop thriller tentatively titled "New Police Story," the maiden production from Jackie Chan and Hong Kong entrepreneur Albert Yeung's JCE banner. |
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- World News: World Brief Sports marketing agency Sportsfive has taken over ISPR, a sports rights unit from Kirch Media's former assets. |
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- Business News: World Brief Niel van Hoff, managing director of EMI Music Netherlands, will also head the company's German division. |
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- Film News: World Brief "With Love, Lily," Russian helmer Larisa Sadilova's take on life in provincial Russia, won the Grand Prix Nescafe at the 19th Warsaw Intl. Film Festival, which ended Monday. "Since Otar Left," by Julie Bertuccelli, and "Conspiracy of Silence," by John Deery, both received special mentions from the jury. |
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- Film News: World Brief Icelandic director Dagur Kari's feature debut, "Noi the Albino," swept local film and TV awards the Eddas on Friday. Already boasting a string of international awards, the film won for feature, director and screenplay (Kari), actor (Tomas Lemarquis), supporting actor (Throstur Leo Gunnarsson) and art direction (Jon Steinar Ragnarsson). |
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Noises Off (Oct 13 2003 23:27 GMT) - Legit Reviews: "Noises Off" has been a comedy staple since it scored a best play Tony nomination in 1984, and author Michael Frayn's madcap tale about mounting a show retains its convoluted cleverness. In the current version, the noise from slamming doors onstage is often louder than the noise of spectators laughing. |
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- Film Reviews: Lusciously lensed, lubriciously limned costumer that effortlessly transposes classic French novel "Dangerous Liaisons" to 18th century Korea, pic is a 10-course treat for the eyes and ears. With his third feature, 38-year-old E J-yong vaults to the top of Korean directors with a slyly poised entertainment that looks set for international kudos and tasty arthouse biz. |
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- Legit Reviews: The tragedy in "The Dead Eye Boy" is so preordained that there's no chance for surprise or hope, and it's largely a matter of how director Anthony Meindl creates tension while we wait for the inevitable. Caught in this constricting dramatic vise, Meindl demonstrates darkly empathetic understanding of shattered individuals. |
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- India's mobile phone market is experiencing amazing growth with the number of subscribers expected to top fixed-line users by the end of 2004."Each month one million new users are added," says the director of India's Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology,Mr R. N. Jha. India presently has over 18 million people using mobile phones while fixed land line users number 47 million. |
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- Phone manufacturers and mobile network operators have to focus not only on delivering the product functionality and services that the user requires, but on the way the different functions work together to create an overall user experience. There are a number of inherent conflicts within this movement. This conflict and lack of attention to the users' experience lead to very confused situations. Everyone is an individual, and the market for ringtones shows that we will spend money to personalize our phones. Once the new user interface technology is embedded in the phone, it's possible to go far beyond simple ringtones and wallpaper. |
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- When it was reported that a British rehabilitation clinic had begun treating patients for an uncontrollable addiction to text messaging, it sounded like a sign of the times. Close reading of the news reports reveals that the new subset of modern angst targeted by The Priory covered a whole list of "behavioral" addictions. So-called technology or "contact" addictions included not just text messaging but text messaging, was the attention-getter in the bunch. Some patients had spent up to seven hours a day exchanging cryptic messages on their cell phones. What does this new obsession mean? |
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- After a successful introduction in Japan last month, Qrio--Sony's cute little robot--was presented for the first time in North America, last Saturday. Qrio--a toddler-sized machine in an aluminum sleeper and a space helmet--can navigate an obstacle course, right itself after a fall, sense heat and surfaces, recognize people through their voice or face, and respond with gestures or words to questions. The demonstration which happened at a Japan Society of Northern California fund raiser, included, among others, George Lucas, Palm Source CEO David Nagel and Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy. Qrio stands for Quest + cuRIOsity and is pronounced as "curio". Link. |
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- To web guru Jakob Nielsen, it is computers which are starting to control us, and it is time to "rule the computer and put it back in its place", reports the BBC. "Information pollution is information overload taken to the extreme," Jakob Nielsen told BBC News Online while in London for the Nielson Nelson Group User Experience Conference. "It's where it stops being a burden and becomes an impediment to your ability to get your work done. "The entire ideology of information technology for the last 50 years has been that more information is better, that mass producing information is better," he says. But the net is now so much an machine with all the answers instantly, it has mutated into a "procrastination apparatus", which spews information without much prioritisation Dr Nielsen argues. |
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- Geneva International Airport is piloting a wireless application that provides up-to-date flight status information directly to a GPRS phone, PDA or PC. The system tailors the amount of information delivered to match the kind of device being used. The service is being offered free of charge. This year’s ITU Telecom World 2003 is serving as the test bed for the system. |
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- This story is all over the news and since it's hardly newsworthy, as so much as been written about banning picture phones in locker rooms before, this looks more like a politician campaigning on a trendy issue. You have to give him credit though for being the first politician to campaign on banning picture phones from public restrooms. [Link] "Councilman David Bentkowski of the suburb of Seven Hills wants to ban cellphones with built-in digital cameras from the city's public bathrooms. Bentkowski -- who is running for mayor -- says that as society becomes more high-tech, privacy has become more of a major issue. He says someone could pretend they were talking on the phone, but actually be taking a lewd photo". |
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- People using the Internet and mobile devices to organize collective action is the more immediate part of the Smart Mobs story. The smartification of the geographic places where humans swarm, the ability to store and retrieve knowledge and communications associated with physical locations, is the longer range story. Just as the Korean elections, the eruptions of flash mobs, and the Howard Dean campaign are examples of people using mobile media to coordinate their activities, the "Personal Digital Pal" project recently reported by Wired is an example of behavior associated with a specific place through the mediation of a wireless device -- but spread out over a long interval instead of concentrated on one specific point in time, flashmob-style. Like the Philippine citizens who used SMS messages to self-organize political demonstrations three years ago, PDPal is an early indicator. Critical questions remain about who will have the power to both read and write information associated with geographic locations. |
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- NEWARK, N.J. - A man who had been abused by a Roman Catholic priest as a youth, then spoke out about the burgeoning scandal that has rocked the church, committed suicide by stepping in front of a train. |
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- I don't know who to get pissed off at the most over this story (sent to me by LC Richard),... |
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- Paraguay's president named a new interior minister Monday, in a change spurred by a contraband scandal. Orlando Fiorotto was named to the post after the former Interior Minister Roberto Gonzalez resigned in a flap over the seizure of some 1.4 million pirated compact discs whose estimated value exceeded $4 million. |
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Walk (Oct 13 2003 23:25 GMT) - Okay, so for half of the walk home today I was talking on the cell phone, so I got a little winded by the time I was supposed to turn under the freeway and head for home. Another dollar goes... |
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- Russell Gould, managing director of MetWest Financial and a former official in the Pete Wilson Administration, is a leading candidate to serve as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chief of staff, my sources tell me. Another way of putting that: the Schwarzenegger braintrust... |
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- The great thing about the coming of winter? No more fucking Hamptons lawn party benefits for deformed children, or whatever... |
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- Jussi haastaa ihmiset tekemään faviconin blogilleen. Itselläni on mitä |
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- Lu sur Infokiosques.net : "Tout au long des années de formation du Mouvement de Libération des Femmes, on a beaucoup plébiscité les dénommés "groupes sans leadership ni structure", comme étant la principale, sinon l unique forme d organisation du mouvement. L origine de cette idée se trouve dans la réaction naturelle à la société sur-structurée dans laquelle nous sommes plongé-e-s, à l inévitable contrôle sur nos vies qu elle confère à certain-e-s, et à l élitisme constant de la gauche et de groupes similaires parmi celles/ceux qui sont supposé-e-s combattre cette sur-structuration. |
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- Lu sur Actualité de l'anarcho-syndicalisme : "Cet été, il a fait très chaud et il n'a pas plu : tous les survivants le savent. Et je ne parle pas de survivants par hasard : nous sommes dans les 60 millions à vivre aux côtés de centrales nucléaires soi-disant sans danger, mais qui ne supportent pas la sécheresse ! |
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- Lu sur CNT Belgique : "Genk : Ford annonce la suppression de 3000 emplois nets. La FGTB empêche les camarades venus apporter leur soutien aux travailleurs de Genk, d'accéder à l'entreprise...Sécu : |
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- Lu sur Dissident Média : "L'histoire n'en finit pas de se répéter et de se retourner sur elle-même, telle la bobine d'un film, devenue incontrôlable. L'approche des prochaines élections en 2004 fait baver d'envie les « contournables » chefs des partis néo-fascistes, en France, tout comme en Autriche 1. Ces derniers ne renoncent pas à la stratégie légaliste qui conforta plus d'un dictateur au pouvoir. |
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- Lu sur Indymédia Paris : "Depuis maintenant quatre semaines, de nombreux secteurs de la société civile bolivienne sont mobilisés en opposition à l'exportation du gaz vers les Etats-Unis, provoquant une grave crise politique et sociale, hors de contrôle du gouvernement. Les paysans de la région de l'Altiplano bolivien bloquent les routes principales avec l'objectif de couper la capitale administrative, La Paz, de tout contact avec le reste du pays. Ces actions ont été le théâtre de durs affrontements avec les forces de l'ordre qui se sont soldés par la mort d'environs six personnes, dont une enfant de sept ans. |
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