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- I don't know what it is, but there is definitely something in the air. "Things are going to start happening to me, now!" - Steve Martin |
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- This Christmas, divinely resting in our bodies, Sharing with our realized community of beings. Let us sing the Joy... |
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- A trio of positive economic reports - from jobless claims to manufacturing - boosted Wall Street today as investors grew more confident that the economic recovery was firmly under way. The Dow Jones industrials climbed 102 points to a 19-month high. |
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- Edina, Minnesota formed The Edina Education Fund to provide students in the district a pen pal program, AV equipment for a choir, and even a Tablet PC for "Dynamic Math Instruction". Good job, Edina community members. Read more about this local initiative in the Sun Current and edinaedfund.com. |
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- We are experiencing delays on incoming shipments from manufacturers and distributors due to the increase of deliveries for UPS and FedEx. Some packages that would normally arrive on one day are coming in three or more days late. If you are expecting a package for delivery, use the tracking number to watch the planned delivery schedule. Common carrier holiday schedules: www. |
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- Hi, all... Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm sending holiday wishes your way. :) This year's been a bit crazier than others, for obvious reasons -- but the wishes are still the same. I hope everyone has a good Christmas, a great New Year's, and an all-around damned... |
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- Tom from OK/Cancel on the anthropomorphic tendency I've definitely felt towards my Roomba. "None of this makes sense, yet it... |
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- Diebold wins again Since there's nothing in the rules for the Business Idiocy of the Week award that prevents repeat winning, it once again goes to Diebold, maker of fine dubious electronic voting machines. Following their first victory, this enterprise maintained winning ways in the quest for this coveted award by peddling unaudited software in California, thus coming to the edge of losing sales rights in the most lucrative state. Further, they were caught red-handed planning to pad prices on paper output features, for those jurisdictions already locked into their products but deciding they might just want an audit trail. Well done! |
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- Saturn isn't doing near as well as it used to. The company use to be a case study in brand loyalty - consumers loved the... |
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- Das Linux Terminal Server Projekt (LTSP) hat Version 4.0 freigegeben. |
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- Seit dem Mai 2003 ist offenbar der Export von Linux in dem Irak und einige andere Länder verboten, zumindest offiziell. |
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- Die texanische Großstadt Austin hat die erste Phase von Pilotprojekten mit OpenOffice erfolgreich abgeschlossen. |
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- Benutzern von Hochleistungssystemen unter Linux steht nun mit Lustre auch ein entsprechendes Dateisystem zur Verfügung. |
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- Invision Power Top Site List is a web application that is implemented in PHP. Invision Power Top Site List is prone to SQL injection attacks. The vulnerability exists i... |
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- Scott Schmidt, a publisher who transformed the Daily News of Los Angeles from a suburban shopper into a major metropolitan daily, has died. He was 66. Schmidt died at his home early Wednesday of apparent heart failure, said his son, John. |
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- Business News: Ex-banker oversees business development New Line has upped VP of business development Michael Del Nin to senior veep. |
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- Business News: Cabler promises $2 bil flow, share buyback Cash is king for Comcast. |
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- Business News: Comics king makes quick pick up In a bid to get back to its roots, high-flying comicbook licensor Marvel Enterprises has acquired Cover Concepts, a provider of school supplies and ancillary products to kids. |
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- Film Reviews: Vet documaker Rigoberto Lopez's first feature "Scent of an Oak" is a notably lavish and ambitious Cuban production in the politicized tradition of mainstream Cuban filmmaking. Awkwardly mannered treatment of the tragic history of a utopian experiment is artistically below the great work of past generations of Cuban filmmakers. |
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New Boys (Dec 18 2003 23:22 GMT) - Film Reviews: Fourth installment in David MacDougall's "Doon School Chronicles," about an exclusive boarding school in Northern India, focuses on the arrival and adjustment of 12-year-old boys living away from home for the first time. A legacy of colonialism, the school is a training ground for India's elite. Pic could be slotted into public TV curriculum. |
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- Film Reviews: Ethnological filmmakers travel to rural village of Xiaotun to document Guan Suo Opera, a folk-art pageant indigenous to the town. Opera performed for centuries provides case study of turning a traditional quasi-religious art form into an ephemeral cultural commodity. Tedious and somewhat recherche for general or even "Discovery"-type auds. |
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- Film Reviews: Story of the return of political scientist Rangin Dadfar Spanta to Afghanistan following 25 years of living in exile in Germany reps a timely inquiry into a topical subject: difficult attempts of a nation to evolve from warlord rule to democracy. Pic offers an indelible snapshot of post-Taliban life that should be welcomed in docu lineups far and wide. |
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- Film Reviews: Bound for Sundance after its international premiere, collage film reps old-school, verite-style filmmaking, well intentioned but ultimately flatly executed. It ends up like an arty Discovery Channel docu, but without any structuring narrative. Lack of shape will keep its coach from making whistle stops at all but a few upscale fests' stations. |
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- Film Reviews: This year's docfest featured a number of provocative features set in and around Israel-Palestine but none quite as oblique or peculiar as doc-maker Jeppe Ronde's highly personal essay. Pic's ambitious scope and emotive subject should help it to bless more fests, though theatrical prospects will require serious leaps of faith from distribs. |
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- Film Reviews: The familiar theme of the wide cultural abyss between Indians who are FOBs (fresh off the boat) and American born provides the premise for frosh scripter-helmer Manish Gupta's amiable if undistinguished romantic comedy. May head out to cable waters, and do especially swimmingly in Indian markets. |
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Flashback (Dec 18 2003 23:22 GMT) - Film Reviews: A Latvian documentarian's "All That Jazz," Herz Frank's meditation on his life and art, with his open-heart surgery the showstopper, can be as annoyingly self-indulgent as it is sporadically brilliant. Unlikely to wow many audiences, but docu may well send cineastes scrambling back to archives to see more of the maestro's past works. |
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- Film News: Berlin sidebars add Adam, Kinderfest pix The Berlin Film Festival continues to firm up its schedule: Production design legend Ken Adam will talk about his film sets in the Berlinale Talent Campus section, while children's sidebar the Kinderfilmfest has slotted five pics for its 14-plus section aimed at teens. |
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- TV News: Rival co.'s push domestic pix Italy's Mifed market has set up management company Audiovisual Industry Promotion as it forges ahead with its revamp and fights off the threat from the AFM, which is moving into the Milan mart's November timeslot. |
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- Business News: Union comes in wake of satellite launch snafus In a major realignment of Japan's satellite TV industry, broadcasters Sky Perfect Communications and Plat-One Corp. will merge in the spring. |
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- Business News: World Brief Greek entertainment media group Audiovisual has acquired Europlex-Greece multiplexes through its subsidiary Ster Cinemas-Greece. |
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- Business News: World Brief RTL Group subsid CLT/Ufa has appointed Francesco Costadura as managing director of its rights trading activities. |
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- TV News: World Brief "Canadian Idol," the top-rated English-Canadian series of all time, is returning to Canuck web CTV. |
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- Film News: World Brief The British Short Screenplay Competition began accepting entries for the 2004 competition on Monday. |
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- TV News: Drama skeins prove popular sell Granada Intl. has sold a package of eight series and a raft of other titles to pubcaster SVT Sweden, among them new series of "Creature Comforts" from animation studio Aardman and "Prime Suspect 6 -- The Last Witness," starring Helen Mirren. |
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- TV News: Unscripted drama to mix fiction and reality Scandinavian production outfit Jarowskij Sweden has inked with TV3 in that territory for "What Do Girls Want?," a Stockholm-set reality drama a la "Sex and the City." |
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- If you're looking for good things resulting from the recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform, here's... |
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- "Y'a une mégachiée de bébés en ce moment...!" |
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- Parler de l'influence de la virgule dans les phrases qu'on dit à Ector_: ça les découpe en morceaux qu'il peut assembler différemment. Voilà un exemple de conversation (alors qu'il n'a encore aucune connaissance) : |
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- FROM HIM ------------------------------ "La question de l'émergence, non pas du mal, qui est une question plus vaste, mais de la violence est une question extrêmement intéressante, et même fondamentale, au fond. Fondamentale, parce que dans l'ordre politique et social, c'est toujours un problème, une tâche. La violence est-elle un accident ? Inévitable, nécessaire ? Fondement ? |
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