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- Hi, has been along time since i have posted here, but do read it often. I'm in the middle of an upgrade and was wondering how much of a difference there would be between the x800xt and the x800xt PE? Thanks for any info, |
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- TV News: NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" grabbed a big audience Monday for the show's first telecast since the death of former host Johnny Carson. |
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- Film News: Projects falls under 3-year first-look deal with WB -- Alfonso Cuaron is developing a film version of Ron McLarty's 1988 novel "The Memory of Running," with an eye to directing the pic. Frida Torresblanco will co-produce the road movie with Cuaron. |
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- TV News: Eye stares down competish in 1st half -- CBS found the ratings end zone in a big way Sunday, with the AFC championship game putting a cap on the first half of a season that has the Eye leading its rivals across the board. |
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- Business News: World Brief -- Cinepolis, Mexico's largest exhibitor, has donated $200,000 -- a day's box office receipts nationwide -- to victims of last month's tsunami disaster. |
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- Film News: World Brief -- The Aussie B.O. improved by nearly 5% to a record A$907.2 million ($680. |
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- International News: World Brief -- Thomas Rabe, finance chief at pan-European broadcaster RTL Group, will succeed Siegfried Luther as chief financial officer at RTL parent Bertelsmann next January when Luther retires. |
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- International News: World Brief -- Helmer Fernando Meirelles' indie production company O2 Filmes and local No. 1 net TV Globo have renewed their production agreement for three more years. |
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- TV News: World Brief -- Katsuji Ebisawa, president of Japanese pubcaster NHK, resigned Tuesday. |
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Blues Divas (Jan 26 2005 00:30 GMT) - Film Reviews: Eight fabulous femmes strut their stuff in "Blues Divas," newest in a long line of joyous music-themed docus from director Robert Mugge. work's varied assemblages as eight hour-long tube programs, single-artist DVDs and the theatrical feature caught here ensures fest coverage, small-screen play and brisk business in a variety of formats. |
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- TV News: Voelkle takes off from tyke TV -- TV-Loonland topper Peter Voelkle has ankled the tyke licensing and production company in the wake of an investigation by the Munich district attorney's office into alleged tax evasion. |
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- Film News: Nazis, Chechnya among Panorama topics -- Gay Nazis, the legacy of Chechnya, thesp Horst Buchholz and the true story behind "Dog Day Afternoon" are some of the subjects examined in the documentary section of the Berlin Intl. Film Festival's Panorama sidebar. |
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- TV News: B'caster on top due to 'Idol' worship -- Blighty's dominant commercial broadcaster, ITV, has scored a psychologically important victory over its rival, satcaster BSkyB. |
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Heights (Jan 26 2005 00:30 GMT) - Film Reviews: Life throws a famous actress some last minute rewrites in "Heights," an entertaining ensembler marbled with wit and heartache. Chris Terrio's surehanded helming debut intelligently deploys a distinctive cast whose sharply limned characters undergo major changes in an eventful 24-hour period. Urban auds should respond to Manhattan-set drama's overlapping intrigue, although anyone resistant to the notion that all the world's a stage is unlikely to be part of pic's core constituency. |
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- Film News: 'Dalecarlians,' 'Brown' take the gold -- Box office hit "Dalecarlians" and black comedy "Four Shades of Brown" swept the Swedish Film Institute's Golden Bugs on Monday night, shutting out "As It Is in Heaven," which is nominated for the foreign-language film Oscar. |
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- Source: Бизнес и Балтия |
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- Lumikenkдilijдt taistelevat lajin SM-titteleistд Hдmeenlinnan Aulangolla 5.-6. maaliskuuta. Hдmeenlinnaan saapuu lumikenkдjuoksijoita, retkisarjalaisia, harrastajia sekд lajin suhteen vielд toistaiseksi pelkдstддn kokeilun asteella olevia lumikenkдilijцitд. |
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- Billy Blanks, creator of Tae Bo, presents his brand-new, latest and greatest workout system Billy's BootCamp. CLICK HERE to get this deal! Expires: 03.31. |
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- Maxtor has abandoned plans to offer 2.5in hard drives - essentially turning its back on the growing notebook market - the HDD maker said yesterday. |
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- Kayleigh sent me a note saying "Mom!!! I want to go!!!!" accompanied by a link to the following: It actually sounds pretty cool and I am sure she'd have a great time and learn a lot. If only we had... |
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- Since before Robert?s post on this topic, I?ve been pondering grades in general, prompted by this post by Will Baude relating his experience at Yale, where he hasn?t yet ?taken any classes that attempt to draw actual distinctions among the students.? |
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- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced its final proposal to repeal the last remaining protections from critical wildlife habitat and subsistence-hunting territory around Teshekpuk Lake Special Area in the Northeast Planning Area of the National ... |
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- Lee Lynd, a national professor of engineering at Dartmouth College, says there is a scenario in which biomass could replace all of the oil currently being consumed for transportation in this country. “We could shoot for a quarter of mobility demand being met from biomass in a quarter century,” says Lynd. “ |
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Headache (Jan 26 2005 00:28 GMT) - Damn headache. Hate it, can't sleep because of it. I should phone the doctor tomorrow... Maya has her birthday tomorrow, still haven't got her present, suppose I'll do it before going over there. Leah had her polio-shot today, it went surprisingly well. |
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- Check out the opening to the article that Steve L sent in about fish farming: "A humming vacuum hose was sucking silvery 10-pound salmon from their watery pens -- giant plastic cages measuring 230 feet around with 42-foot-deep nylon nets underneath -- and depositing the flapping fish onto a metal slide. There a punch machine rapidly stunned and killed them before workers slashed their gills to bleed them before dumping them into the hold of the 65-foot-long ship." There's a lot more information about the industry, but I don't want to know any more about that. What I want to know is stuff about the kind of people who make machines that slurp and punch fish. |
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- "You got sheep brain in my salad dressing!" "You got salad dressing in my sheep brain!" "Hey, wait a minute..." And then they fell in love. Actually, everyone just got grossed out. |
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- Dave Noisy reports that the EPA has found a way to come up with standards for factory farm pollution: they're going to monitor the farms and get data. Sure, it's a little boring, but that's government agencies for you, right? Of course, it's not easy to get farms to submit to monitoring that could ultimately limit their behaviour, so the trick here seems to be to buy the farms off. In exchange for their "contributions" of pollution data, the farms under study will be immune from Clean Air Act violations until the regulations are final, which the EPA will take 4 years. |
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- Hey, did anyone else know we had a user name Ninja Kitty? That's not the news, although the submission did come from NK: the human stem cell lines have been contaminated with animal cells, which apparently makes them useless for whatever it is that stem cells do, which I think is more than just "show up in newspaper headlines," but what do I know, I trained in physics, not bio, uh, chemi, assy, stem cell-ology. Or whatever. Anyway, the fun goes on, because the stem cell contamination likely came from the equipment and serums and stuff that they use to grow stem cells. |
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