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- Obituaries: Member of Trenier Brothers song-and-dance ensemble Obituary |
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- Obituaries: Australian singer, actress and musician Obituary |
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Mamay (Dec 10 2003 21:55 GMT) - Film Reviews: Ukrainian submission for Best Foreign Language Oscar is comparatively quite rich and strange for the category. Ravishing looking debut for shorts-and-docu helmer Oles Sanin could be a winner for more adventurous fests and rep houses. Auds will need in-depth program notes to stay in steppe with oblique story of how a Cossack falls for a Tartar beauty across a cultural divide. |
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- Film Reviews: Fraternal love gets put to the test in spirited, urban comedy set in a Budapest housing project which owes much to ribald, gimmicky style of American indie directors like Kevin Smith and Spike Lee. Risk-taking international distribs seeking an exotic niche release for younger, adventurous auds might consider welcoming "Bro'" into the family. |
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- Film Reviews: Occasionally overeager to channel the worst cliches of American teen pics, film is scrappy story of four high school guys living ordinary lives and is a watchable experience -- a sort "Uzbek Pie. Despite pic's use of cute, fest-crowd-pleasing film references, it is unlikely to land on many international distribution runways. |
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The Box (Dec 10 2003 21:55 GMT) - Film Reviews: Multi-hyphenate Kanji Nakajima's pseudo sci-fi puzzler "The Box" shows a spark of promise in the opening minute, but quickly disintegrates into nothing more than wasted film stock. This pretentious feature about a mysterious black cube thumping its way through a poisoned landscape is high on sophomoric metaphors and low on meaningful artistry; pic was inexplicably awarded a special mention by the Turin jury. Programmers would be better off scheduling the authentic statements of Chris Marker. |
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- Film Reviews: A major problem with novice helmer Luis Fonseca's enervating drama "Before Things Change" is that the empty lives of the protagonists show no signs of changing. Their desperation is apparent, their self-destructive actions are more than evident, but not only is there no development, there's no reason to spend 90 minutes with them. Screening at Turin fest won't change pic's slim prospects. |
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- Film Reviews: One man's frustration with the destruction of the environment is at the core of "The End of the Animal Kingdom," but while the message is admirable, it's delivered with an all too numbing subtlety. Joel Brisse's feature debut packs a punch only in the last few minutes. Pic was the unlikely winner of the feature award at Turin, but screenings outside the smaller fest circuit are doubtful. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - ZDNet Dec 10 2003 4:13PM ET... |
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Joulupata (Dec 10 2003 21:54 GMT) - Sarjakuvissa köyhien sankarien lompakoista löytyy vain koiperhosia. Minulla on samanlainen, mutta perhosten sijasta se on täynnä |
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- and caught up on work. It's pretty darn boring, so I thought I'd come over here and bore you with the boring details. heh. Due to an overwhelming demand ... okay, so two people asked but for me that's an... |
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- How you answer your emails? Listen Strong Bad process here (wait 15 sec at the end will ya?). The easter egg of Macromedia Central, the super hero Strong Bad, could be added in a Central app for webcomics that Craig... |
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- 'Twin Peaks' Director Urges $1 Bln for Meditation (Reuters). Reuters - As director of such dark films as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" and the television series "Twin Peaks," David Lynch seems an unlikely leader for a world peace campaign based on mass meditation. [Yahoo! News - Entertainment] |
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- Steve Outing points to David Carlson's interesting timeline of online news. |
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- Science writer Steven Johnson writes on his blog's first birthday: "I suspect the most rewarding part of all of this will arrive ten or twenty years from now, reading through the archives in chronological order, making all the long-forgotten connections ('That's right -- we were just moving into the Brooklyn house when I came up with the idea for that book,' etc.)" I... |
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- Glenn Reynolds says Cameron Barrett's blogging for Clark, covered yesterday by AP, is one of the few things going well the candidate. |
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- Rubbermaid, the corporate spine of the town I grew up in, is closing its headquarters and factory there. In 1993 and 1994, Rubbermaid was named America's most admired company by Fortune. Here's Rubbermaid's history. The jobs will be moved to cheaper production facilities "abroad," so some will see Rubbermaid's demise as evidence for more trade barriers. But here's an interesting argument blaming... |
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- The latest security white paper from Robert Moskowitz explains clearly why hiding Wi-Fi network SSIDs is futile and counter-productive: Moskowitz, the fellow who wrote a month ago about how poor key choices with WPA allows cracking, provides more analysis on the Wi-Fi security front. His WPA paper is also available at that link.... |
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Cxref 1.5e (Dec 10 2003 21:52 GMT) - Program to produce documentation from C program source code. |
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- A while back, the lovely and talented Jodie Gastel pointed to a Digital IQ test at MSNBC. I tested out... |
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- 2003-12-10: The XML Core Working Group has published the XML Information Set, Second Edition (Infoset) as a Proposed Edited Recommendation. The document updates the Infoset to cover XML 1.1 and Namespaces 1.1, clarifies the consequences of certain kinds of invalidity, and corrects typographical errors. |
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- 2003-12-10: Michael Sperberg-McQueen of the W3C and Adam Bosworth of BEA received the XML Cup 2003 at the IDEAlliance XML 2003 conference today in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The cup is awarded to industry visionaries and pioneers for contributions to the Extensible Markup Language (XML). Visit the XML home page. (News archive) |
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- Version 0.5.1 released... |
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- ZDNet Dec 10 2003 4:13PM ET... |
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- The apparel retailer bids its Quarterly magalog goodbye. |
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- Plus, investors withdraw from Washington Mutual, and a new-school IPO. |
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- ZDNet Dec 10 2003 2:13PM ET... |
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- CNET Dec 10 2003 3:48PM ET... |
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- Jay Rosen at the PressThink weblog has a very good entry in response to the most recent NYT Magazine article on the Dean Connection.This comes very close to explaining the "why now, why Dean?" question that we all get very often - to quote James Carville, "It's the freedom to change, stupid". |
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googled (Dec 10 2003 21:52 GMT) - http://www. google. com/search?q=+site: |
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- Invitation to check out an alternative science news website. - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Microsoft has opened enrollment for its Microsoft Partner Program, a program announced in October that will combine Microsoft's traditional partners with those it inherited when it bought Great Plains Software and Navision. |
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- In mijn oneindige quest naar gezelligheid ben ik me eens gaan verdiepen in kerstliedjes.Wat is nu de leukste, de beste of de mooiste? Ik neig zelf naar oude Frank Sinatra (Rat Pack) nummers, met een jazzy achtergrondgevoel. Of die jaren 80 nummers (last Christmas). Meerdere threads in fora gaan over 'The Best Christmas song', onder andere het Sheffield Forum. |
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- 2003-12-10: For many, it's smack-dab in the middle the holiday shopping season. People are out in force spending money. Something I think many tend to forget (and very much need to remember) is the simple fact that every time you spend money, it's an investment in something. And it's not just with what you buy, but where you buy it as well. |
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- Photo from Seattle, WA, USA posted on 2003-12-10. |
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- De lach van de dag van donderdag is hier te bekijken. Jammer dat ze niet verder vooruit werken. |
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