November 30, 2002
Blade II
I watched Blade II on DVD this evening, having somehow failed to catch up with it during its cinema run despite my having hugely enjoyed the original film.
I did enjoy the sequel, but not as much as I expected to. Partly it was that the story was fairly predictable and unfocused, lacking the single enemy for Blade to work against which Deacon Frost provided first time round. Partly it was the overuse of CGI people in action scenes - it worked better than in, say, Attack of the Clones, but it still wasn't particularly convincing. To a degree it was that the female lead just didn't have the same sort of chemistry with Blade as the heroine of the first film. Finally, the storyline this time round didn't really give us much reason to care which side won: the battle was essentially to decide whether humanity would be the prey of vampires or Reapers. You can get away with that sort of thing in a TV series like Buffy, where the writers have time to let us get to know the characters on all sides, but in a film running less than two hours there just wasn't time. Finally, the way the story pressed the Reset button with respect to the fate of Whistler was awful: within the first ten minutes of the film he's been de-vamped, and that just ain't right.
I don't want to be entirely negative: there were plenty of spectacular fight sequences - which, after all, is the main selling point for the franchise - and Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson make a good team. The film was beautifully shot, with several action sequences which worked every bit as well on film as I'd imagine they would have in the original comic format. Snipes can certainly handle both the martial arts duties and the laconic one-liners convincingly. It's just that it would be nice to see the writers deploy the characters in the service of a really good storyline next time round.
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And I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords.
Millions of spiders have woven a web which stretches 60 acres across a field in British Columbia.
Bang goes any prospect of my having a nightmare-free sleep this evening.
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War of the Worlds
In the comments on my post about whether Michael Crichton is a science fiction writer, Ray Girvan mentioned H G Wells' The War of the Worlds. Coincidentally, I've just spent half an hour inspecting a terrific collection of covers from more than a hundred editions of the novel over the last century or so.
My three favourites (in no particular order) are: Vincent Di Fate's unused cover for Pocket Books in 1982, the rather elegant Eaton Press edition of 1984, and Chris Hopkins' view from afar as London gets trampled by the Martian War Machines.
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Get Your War On #17
Just read it.
Well, at least Timmy had a good ten years without having to know who Henry Kissinger was.
There's something so precious about a young child's first encounter with Henry Kissinger. At least it takes their mind off terror threats and Saddam Hussein.
Mommeee! Who's the scary old man standing at the podium with President Bush? And why is there a huge pile of skulls and dead bodies all around him?
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Space
A terrific quotation from Fred Hoyle:
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."
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November 29, 2002
Michael Crichton
Patrick Nielsen Hayden has posted a tantalising excerpt from an article by Oliver Morton in the New Yorker's book review section about why Michael Crichton isn't a science fiction writer, no matter how often he writes about genetic engineering, chaos theory, dinosaurs and robots:
[Chrichton is] forever describing things that could change the world--but don't. The Andromeda strain of space germs mutates into harmlessness and goes away; the lost city of the Congo is wiped from the map by lava; in Sphere, the discoverers of the extraterrestrial artifact of untold power use that power to wish it into retroactive nonexistence. The fact that Crichton has no interest in showing what might have happened is what makes him a writer of suspense fiction, rather than of science fiction. A science-fiction writer would naturally want to see what would happen if the technologies stayed out of control (as most do), and might even want to ask whether the consequences would be all bad (as they often aren't). Might not free-range dinosaurs make Costa Rica an even more interesting place than it is today?Unfortunately the full article isn't available online, so I'll have to see if I can lay my hands on a copy of the magazine before I can decide whether I agree with the writer's argument.
The segment quoted above is true as far as it goes, to be sure, but I'd like to see if the full article tackles another facet of the question, namely whether anyone who could mangle chaos theory as badly as Crichton did could possibly be considered a science fiction writer?
(OK, that's a little over the top. Scientific accuracy isn't an essential requirement for a science fiction writer, provided that they make it clear that they're not trying to predict the future but to use the standard props of the genre to tell an interesting story - see, for example, Iain M Banks' Culture novels. But it would be good to see Morton spell out how addle-brained the thinking of Ian Malcolm, the mathematician played by Jeff Goldblum in the film of Jurassic Park, was.)
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Mozilla 1.2
Mozilla 1.2 has been out for a couple of days now. The most notable new feature is Type Ahead Find. The idea is that you bring up a web page and type the text you want to find, and as you type Mozilla highlights the matching text on the page. There are prefixes you can type to tell Mozilla to search only links or to search all text, and once Mozilla has highlighted the link you want it's a simple matter to open the link from the keyboard.
In short, a lot less mousing around is required: this can only be a good thing.
I looked at the first public beta of Opera 7 the other day, but nothing I saw suggests that it's significantly better than Mozilla, in terms of features and usability, and the difference in performance when it comes to rendering pages is too small to matter. Bear in mind that I'm running Mozilla on a PC significantly below the minimum recommended specification. When I finally replace this PC I expect Mozilla to fly.
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Pong as you've never seen it played before
Pong: The Text-Based Game. Words fail me.
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November 28, 2002
My So-Called Life
A combination of Demon Internet having severe connectivity problems tonight and my having worked later than planned means that I haven't done any web browsing this evening, so I'm afraid I don't have any interesting links to post.
Happily my day wasn't a total loss, since I took a trip to my local sorting office to pick up the box set of My So-Called Life on DVD which I ordered from Amazon after AnotherUniverse turned out to be untrustworthy.
I've just watched the pilot episode for the first time in about five or six years since the show was last repeated on Channel 4, and I'm delighted to report that it's every bit as terrific as I remembered. Although the DVD presentation is nothing to write home about (very basic packaging, tacky menus) the content is just fine. After all, the bottom line is that I've got one of the five all-time classic US TV shows of the 90s on DVD, and that's what counts.
For what it's worth, the others on that list are Twin Peaks, Homicide: Life on the Street, Murder One and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Roseanne would have made the list, probably displacing Murder One, but it started in 1988.
Babylon 5 doesn't quite make the cut, but it comes very close. Although it deserves credit as an ambitious and successful attempt to plot a complex but coherent science fiction story across the course of five years, on reflection some of the acting and dialogue was sufficiently workmanlike that it can't quite live with the standards set by the Top Five. (But then, none of them had any planets blowing up, cool spaceships or multiple, overlapping, millennia-spanning alien conspiracies!)
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Fly me to the Moon...
A Californian firm has signed a deal which will allow it to use Russian ballistic missiles to dump rubbish on the Moon.
Or rather, to put items in orbit around the moon for about three months, after which the capsule will crash-land on the lunar surface and stay there until the first lunar colonists get round to establishing a litter patrol.
Ain't capitalism wonderful?
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November 27, 2002
And Why Not?
Naked Blog presents the 100 Greatest Gay Britons competition. The list of nominations to date can be found here.
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User profiling gone wild
Dan Hon has spotted a wonderful story about what happens when your TiVo decides it knows you a little too well.
Not that it's just TiVo. Amazon have some very strange ideas about what I like, and seem to be given to wild spells of enthusiasm for a particular sub-genre or product type. When it comes to science fiction novels or books about computers and the internet they've got a reasonable sample size so they do an OK job, but as soon as I added the DVDs of Yes, Minister to my wishlist they immediately added every 70s UK sitcom available on DVD to my DVD recommendations. As I've ordered very few music CDs through Amazon, their idea of what music I might like is similarly subject to wild fluctuations. After my first ever music CD from them (Danny Elfman's Music From a Darkened Theatre) they started recommending Britney Spears' current album to me. Then again, as a male in my late thirties I was already in one of Britney's major customer demographics...
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Festival of Fools
The early word from Danny O'Brien on Festival of Fools, the forthcoming novel by Charlie Stross, is very promising:
It's great fun, especially if you like singularities, time-travelling godlike posthumans, sassy future UN weapons inspectors, and superintelligent space-faring viral hive minds that appear to be based on the cultural flotsam of the Edinburgh Festival. Or, indeed, if you've ever wondered what would happen if Imperial Russian Navy tried to take on a post-scarcity nanotech orbital flotilla.What's not to like?
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November 25, 2002
The butterfly collectors are back...
In the New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson writes In Praise of Amateurs in all fields of science.
In recent years the field of astronomy has seen notable contributions from amateurs who have exploited the power of cheap computers and the global communication network made possible by the internet to coordinate and carry out long-term, intensive observations of astronomical phenomena. The most notable example is Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which memorably disintegrated and crashed into Jupiter almost a decade ago, but amateur observers like part-time air-guitarist Sir Patrick Moore have been reporting detailed observations of the Moon and other objects within the solar system for years.
The real question, Dyson suggests, is simple: which field of science is going to be next to move back into the age of the amateur?
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Switching stories
Earlier this year, Tim O'Reilly asked for comments on switching to Mac OS X from readers of the Interesting People mailing list. He posted a follow-up article a few weeks later.
This is of interest to me because now that I've got the move to soreeyes.org out of the way I want to focus on my other major computing-related change: deciding what to do about replacing the five year-old Pentium-166 I'm using to post this message. I still intend to give SuSE Linux a serious try as a desktop OS, but there seems to be a lot of evidence that Mac OS X in general (and 'Jaguar' - aka Mac OS X 10.2 - in particular) is the way to go if you want a stable, easy-to-use desktop PC.
The major software-related stumbling block I've identified so far is the question of application software. I'd use Mozilla as my web browser, but I'm not sure what email and usenet clients I'd opt for: I'm so accustomed to Forté Agent that I might just end up running it under a Windows emulator.
For the limited amount of word processing, spreadsheet and database work I do I'd probably go with AppleWorks, at least until OpenOffice for the Mac is stable.
Any purchase is some weeks away yet, not least because I'm still waiting for some of this year's pay rise (backdated to April), which is earmarked to go towards the cost of my new toy. In the meantime, I'm open to suggestions: would anyone care to try to persuade me that Windows XP is the way forward? Do any Mac lovers have any utility software they can't do without? Is anyone convinced that Linux has finally reached the point where it's a usable desktop OS? Come to that, do any users of the aforementioned operating systems have any horror stories? Mac users: what five things do you not like about OS X?
Do tell...
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The Greatest Briton
So it turns out that Winston Churchill is the Greatest Briton with 27.9% of the vote, some 3% ahead of Brunel.
My choice was Darwin, but he and Shakespeare came joint fourth behind Diana, Princess of Wales. I'm quite impressed that Brunel's vote held up so well; some of the credit for that probably has to go to Jeremy Clarkson for his very persuasive documentary in support of the master engineer. On the other hand, I'm dismayed that Diana made it into the top three, for obvious reasons.
In the end this was a fun exercise. If nothing else, it provided a good excuse to broadcast some worthwhile mini-documentaries in support of the various candidates.
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November 24, 2002
Inside-out Usenet
Matt Webb quotes Tim Hall:
(Speaking of which, I met Tim Hall the other night and he mooted that weblogs were an inside-out Usenet. That Usenet hangs conversation threads off posts made by people, the threads classified by topic; that weblogs hangs (sic) comments threads off posts of single topics, classified by person.)It's true as far as it goes, but only if you accept that comments threads are a defining feature of a weblog.
Don't get me wrong - since the move to soreeyes.org I've enjoyed reading and responding to everyone's comments, and I look forward to getting plenty more. But here's the thing: I had a weblog for two and a half years before I added comments. Plenty of the weblogs I read every day either don't have a comments feature at all, or else attract relatively few comments per article. The early weblogs didn't have comments features, at least in the beginning. If someone wanted to comment at all on what a weblogger wrote, they did it by making a post on their own weblog, or they emailed the author of the original post, who would sometimes post the email's contents - with permision - to their site and respond on the weblog.
Is it time to coin a new word or phrase to describe the personal site which is updated more-or-less daily with links to other sites? Would it be better to refer to such sites as "linklogs"? Is there a better title? Or should I just accept that I was way behind the times for the last couple of years?
[Yes, I'm aware of the irony of my asking people to post a comment in order to respond to my point that a weblog need not have a comments feature.]
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More about Tablet Computing
Further to my post from earlier this week, Dan Bricklin goes into more detail about the history of Tablet PCs.
It's always helpful to be reminded by someone who was there at the time that Microsoft's "innovations" are rarely as shiny, new and wonderful as they seem. Which is not to say that it's bad news that Microsoft are pushing the tablet PC again. Bricklin is right that if Microsoft follow through we could see a revival in third party software for tablet PCs, which should lead to a period of innovation and open up some new market niches for companies based outside Redmond to fill.
What we definitely don't need is for everyone to settle for using the pen-based extensions for MS Office to run the same old software. Let's see someone develop a word spreadsheet application which takes full advantage of the ability to use a pen to link cells together, or a database with a user interface expressly designed to work with a pen and tablet interface.
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The People's Pop Star
Jarvis Cocker interviewed by Deborah Ross.
He may, now I think about it, be the absolute opposite of butch. Not so much caveman, more concave man? And, yes, he wears those funny Larkin specs. He has tried contact lenses, but a rather slapdash attitude towards any kind of cleansing regime led to infection after infection and then, one night, he stored them in a couple of spice jar tops, but one of the spices was chilli powder, and when he put the lens in the next day his eye practically exploded. He ended up in Moorfields Eye Hospital "where it was suggested to me that I go back to glasses".
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Construction at night
From caterina.net, a striking photograph of a construction site at night.
The thing is, every time I look at this photo I wonder where Glory is, and whether Spike is about to come into shot as he plummets groundwards. Do you think I might have watched a couple too many episodes of Buffy?
(Come to that, is it even possible to watch "too many" episodes of Buffy?)
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Recommended Reading
Mark "Dive Into Accessibility" Pilgrim has written a neat little web application which will offer a list of sites you might like, based on the links present on the page you feed it.
When I fed it this site's URL I got this list. A couple of them I read already but not necessarily at the URL cited by Recommended Reading, others I've read but decided not to link to, and some I visit occasionally. I'm not sure that I wouldn't have done better just checking out sites from the link lists of weblogs I particularly like, but it's a neat concept. (The one user interface element of Recommended Reading which I dislike a lot is that every time you click on a "not interested" or "already reading" link for a site the entire page is reloaded. Wouldn't it be better to add a series of checkboxes, so I could pick out all the sites I want to in one go instead of waiting for twenty page reloads?)
Interestingly, if I feed Recommended Reading the old URL for Sore Eyes I get a very similar list. No doubt this is because my list of links (which I transferred from the old site more or less unchanged) outweighs the links in my postings in the eyes of the algorithm Recommended Reading uses to pick sites.
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November 23, 2002
Just what the Third World really needs...
The Simputer is a PDA developed by a not-for-profit company specifically to meet the needs of illiterate villagers in India. The idea is that the US$250 device will provide access to information (such as grain prices) and to software designed teach literacy and help them record information. The Simputer uses a smart card to store personal information, so each villager could in principle use one to store his or her data and plug it in when they got their turn with the village Simputer. There's even a simple text-to-speech module.
All of which is very clever, but at that price Simputers are going to be purchased by villages, not individuals. Wouldn't it make more sense to design that custom software to run on cheap standard PC hardware? Where's the advantage of putting the work into developing a PDA platform to run the software?
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November 22, 2002
MyLifeBits
Microsoft Research have found a handy way to fill up our hard disks for decades to come. (And no, I don't mean another update to Microsoft Office.)
The MyLifeBits project aims to create a system which will automagically archive all your electronic documents and emails, all the pictures you take, and even the web pages you read.
It all sounds very impressive, but what happens if some of the content your PC has archived is subject to whatever Digital Rights Management system ends up ruling the world? Will your digital archive have gaps at semi-random intervals, or will you find that every time you look at your life story your credit card is charged by thirty or so companies whose sites you haven't visited in a decade or so?
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Ken MacLeod interview
A good interview with Ken MacLeod about his new novel, Engine City and influences past and present on his work:
[...] the first real SF I read was when I was twelve or thirteen. It was Alan E. Nourse's Rocket to Limbo. It had generation ships, FTL drives, and PSI powers. 'The Koenig Drive had given Man the stars." This was the real stuff! It went straight to the vein and into the brain and sent me out for another fix. It also got me staring at suspended light fixtures and trying to make them swing By The Power of the Mind Alone, but let's just pass lightly over that.I'm very glad he didn't.
[...]
I read Snow Crash when I was between drafts of The Star Fraction, working my way down a mental checklist - anarcho- capitalism, enclaves, drugs, mind viruses, virtual reality - and I was thinking that if he had Trotskyism in there as well I'd just call it a day.
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Sunset
ContinuedAsNormal by digitalkara. A gorgeous shot of a pier at sunset.
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"I got a man bag for my birthday."
No, not me. Jon Carroll.
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Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame
Writing in The Atlantic Online, Rene Chun describes Fischer's decades-long decline. A sad, sad story.
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November 21, 2002
Big Mac Attacked
In the wake of the news that McDonald's will be taking product placement in games to a new level in The Sims Online, Tony Walsh suggests that a game as flexible as The Sims offers plentiful opportunities for ad-busting while online. I particularly like this one:
- Picket the nearest McDonald's kiosk. Stand in front of the kiosk and tell visitors why you think McDonald's sucks. Be careful not to use foul language or hinder the movement of your fellow Simians. Polite protest can't result in your account getting suspended... can it?
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500 military headstones have just arrived in Baghdad from England...
The Guardian tells the story of the efforts of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to remember soldiers who perished in Iraq almost ninety years ago.
I'd never even heard of the Kut siege until I read this article yesterday. Fascinating.
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Microsoft wants your cellphone
Farhad Manjoo explains how Opera and Symbian might yet outflank Microsoft away from the desktop. (This would, needless to say, be a positive outcome for pretty well everyone but Microsoft.)
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November 20, 2002
Tablet PC
Dan Bricklin has been playing with one of the new Tablet PCs.
A decade ago Bricklin did a lot of work producing software for earlier attempts to produce a mass-market tablet PC device, so it's interesting to read his first impressions of Microsoft's latest effort.
Bricklin's major insight is that the time might just be right for the Tablet PC because nowadays so many of us primarily use PC-type devices to read information (be it email, the web or reference materials), rather than to do a lot of writing and content creation as was the case a decade ago. If you're in a position to lug around an A4-sized unit, a Tablet PC with a wireless network connection is much more useful for those purposes than a laptop.
It seems to me that there are two big questions about the Tablet PC:
- How many people - or businesses, more to the point - will be prepared to spend money on a Tablet PC when it's clearly much better suited to taking brief notes than heavy-duty report writing?
- How quickly will Tablet PC makers reach a consensus as to the best inking technique, button placement and so on? This is important because users won't appreciate having to retrain themselves every time they switch laptop models, and businesses won't want to have to support three or four systems of user input.
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Jury Service
Jury Service, a new novella by Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow, is going up at SciFi.com next month. Excellent...
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Make sure your computer has exactly the right amount of porn
PornCheck will reveal the awful truth.
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"I think the movie was so long that I started dating someone."
Pamie goes to see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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High above the Florida Keys
A beautiful image of a red biplane high above the blue, blue sea.
Just what I needed to see on another grey, chilly day in England.
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November 19, 2002
Jamie's Gamble
Jamie's Kitchen continues to be one of the more interesting shows on TV. Considering how much Jamie Oliver has on the line, he's being admirably understanding about how much support his trainees require.
What's slightly frustrating is the way that hints are dropped that there are things going on in the background which we're not being shown but which affect the trainees. For example, single parent Michelle complained to Jamie this evening that she'd been promised help with child support but none had been forthcoming until almost the end of the college course when it was too late. Was it really that whatever administrative backup was in place screwed up, or was she making excuses? It's a rather significant distinction.
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Top 100 80s Albums (Part II)
Having read the second half of Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s, I can now confirm that I quite definitely wasn't a Hip Young Thing in my late teens and my twenties. As was the case yesterday, on average I own about 1 album in 10 of the Top 50. If I hadn't been a huge Prince fan in the 1980s then I'd have done a lot worse.
(For what it's worth, I think they should have reversed the order of Sign 'O' The Times and Purple Rain in the list. The latter was a great album, but SOTT was a great double album. Making a genuinely great double album is a major achievement. Making a truly essential double album should have been enough to earn Prince the top slot on the list.)
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High School Answering Machine
Over at Lots of Co., Max has found a rather wonderful recorded message high school teachers voted that their school should use:
Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listenAs Max notes, it's probably an urban legend, but it's very funny nonetheless.
to all your options before making a selection:
* To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1
* To make excuses for why your child did not do his work - Press 2
[...]
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Introducing ... on air guitar ... Sir Patrick Moore!
I was only half-watching TV a few minutes ago when an ad for some soft rock compilation album came on. Then my subconscious grabbed me and drew my attention to the screen, which showed none other than Britain's most famous astronomer, playing air guitar.
I very much doubt I'll see a more bizarre sight on TV all year.
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Did 007 teach us to love technology?
According to Bob Sullivan, James Bond helped teach the world to trust gadgetry.
As more of 007's gadgetry turns out to be contemporary technology, introduced for reasons of product placement, will audiences find it more difficult to suspend disbelief because they know from personal experience that, say, mobile phone connections just aren't that reliable? I think the gadgetry in the James Bond films needs to be quite a bit more advanced than what's available to the audience if it's to impress us.
[Via Techdirt.]
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November 18, 2002
Fun with Wine
I don't know about "fun": I'd call this masochism myself.
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Top 100 80s Albums
Pitchfork nominates the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s. Today they list numbers 100-51.
So far I'm not doing very well at all - I own perhaps one in ten of the albums listed.
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The Spirit That Made the British Empire Great
Two years ago Colonel John Blashford-Snell delivered a grand piano to the Wai Wai tribe in southern Guyana. As you might imagine, a couple of years of life in the jungle has done nothing at all for the piano. There's only one solution: the retuning team is about to set off on a 350-mile mission of mercy.
[Via MemeMachineGo!]
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If I had one wish...
Steve Martin's Christmas wishlist:
If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be that all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.There's much more in that vein. Apparently this is from a classic Saturday Night Live sketch, but those of us on the right side of the pond haven't had the pleasure.
If I had two wishes I could make this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace. And the second would be for 30 million dollars a month to be given -- to me -- tax-free in a Swiss bank account.
[...]
[Via little ms. "sweet and innocent."]
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Welcome to Sore Eyes v2
Greetings!
Over the next couple of days I'll probably be tweaking the CSS code and generally messing with the layout of the new site, so if you see any oddities in the display of the site please email me and I'll try to put things to rights.
In the meantime, please update your bookmarks to point to the new URL http://soreeyes.org/. The original Sore Eyes site at thebeard.org will remain, but I'll gradually turn it into some other type of personal site - most likely a booklog of some sort.
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