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ToySight Demo Available (Dec 16 2003 17:59 GMT) - Freeverse has posted a demo for ToySight, the motion-detection application that allows you to use your iSight as an interface for select Freeverse games. You contol the games by making movements, and, using the iSight, those movements are detected and translated to action on the screen. Very cool stuff! |
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Controversial storybook re-emerges (Dec 16 2003 17:59 GMT) - An Anonymous Patron writes "Sunday's Boston Globe had an article called about a new version of Helen Bannerman's 1899 Little Black Sambo which landed a spot on the Kirkus 2003 Editors' Choice List. Illustrator Christoper Bing thought the story had everything: 'An exotic hero, an exotic location. It's got danger -- the tigers -- and then he outwits them'. Dr. |
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BBC Big Read Selects Top Book (Dec 16 2003 17:59 GMT) - Anonymous Patron writes "The Big Read project finally narrowed down their book choices into a numbered list. The number one book is The Lord of the Rings." The Guardian has the story and The Evening Standard has a few parting shots on the matter. For The Return of the King fans, U.S. |
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World's Largest Book (Dec 16 2003 17:59 GMT) - According to multiple sources including USA Today, MIT professor Michael Hawley is the inagural holder of a new Guinness Record, for "largest published book". His Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom measures 5'x7', weighs 133 lbs. and runs 112 pages. It costs about $2,000 to produce, and he will sell copies for $10,000. |
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When Books Kill (Dec 16 2003 17:59 GMT) - In reaction to ubiquitous reports of the dangerous examples set by violent films and video games, this neat little Salon piece points out that novels cannot be held blameless. Writer Aidan Doyle gives several examples of individuals and groups led to commit heinous crimes by the written word. They include Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh, and Ted Kaczynski: The Unabomber was a big fan of Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent," an ironic novel in which a university professor turned anarchist is recruited to blow up a scientific icon, London's Greenwich Observatory. A Washington Post article revealed that prior to Kaczynski's arrest, the FBI had suspected the novel's influence and contacted Conrad scholars to help them in constructing their profile. |
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Rachel Carson, you can't hide! (Dec 16 2003 17:58 GMT) - We charge you with genocide!"So I can tell you some facts. I know you haven't read any of what I am about to tell you in the newspaper, because newspapers literally don't report them. I can tell you that DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. I can tell you that the people who banned it knew that it wasn't carcinogenic and banned it anyway. |
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Ronnie Kaye (Dec 16 2003 17:57 GMT) - The prop comic from the comedy club where Jerry performs. He has the expanding nostrils and pulls the fake gun on the bartender which causes George to scream in fear "He's got a gun" and everybody flees ruining Jerry's act. The Fire.... |
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