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Science saved on 2008-11-24 03:45:20   
Ouch! saved on 2008-11-18 05:10:21
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Mix of short animated clips.
Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to Cleopatra , a new take on the life of the Egyptian queen that will be written by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff. Scott Rudin will produce the adaptation, says Variety .
Baz Luhrmann's 'Australia' borrows from everybody and everywhere. And that's OK.
Lilt 1.0 has been released; it's a utility that enables Sudden Motion Sensor-equipped Mac laptops to trigger actions like opening applications or executing scripts.
After yesterday's Liz Sherman debut, Universal Pictures has updated the official website for writer/director Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army with the second theater lobby display featuring Doug Jones as Abe Sapien. You can check it out by clicking the image below, and stay tuned for one more tomorrow - Hellboy!
Gamer.tm takes a look at what it believes are 21 of the very worst games of the 21st century, for varying reasons. You won't agree with all of them, but some might make you laugh.
The PlayStation 2 title, Buzz! Junior Jungle Party has scooped up the award in the Videogames category at last night?s BAFTA Children?s Awards.
Sponsored by Electronic Arts, the awards strive to celebrate the very best in children?s entertainment across all forms of media. The Buzz! franchise has enjoyed immense popularity since launching on PlayStation 2 back in 2005, and features a diverse range of titles, including Buzz! The Mega Quiz, Buzz! The Music Quiz, in addition to the popular Junior series created as a joint venture by Relentless Software and Magneta Games.
'300,' Jason Bateman and the death of torture porn are among the movie trends we're most thankful for this year.
That super-eligible single woman whos videos are going around is super-sorry about her super-nasty video she released the other night.
Sony Computer Entertainment India (SCEI) has unveiled the new 40 GB PlayStation3 and the slim and light PSP with video out facility for the first time in India. The company also rolled out an assortment of games, including the PSP Spiderman speciality pack, PSP Simpsons speciality pack and three new games for PS3 at the launch of two-day Playstation Expo here on Saturday.
"Gaming is becoming an increasingly accepted form of entertainment amongst Indian consumers and society. We perceive this as an ideal time to expose Indian youth to the complete spread of entertainment that is possible with PlayStation", he said.
The Playstation has 60 per cent market share in virtual gaming industry in India, according to Milestone Interactive Software chairman, Jayant Sharma.
Microsoft moves to have lawsuit's class action status pulled and for the whole darn thing to be dismissed.
You have more pictures than ever. These snapshot printers, photo sites, and free editing tools will help you make the most of your images.
Date Added: This Really Works!!!! 11/19/2008 01:01
I just did it. Worked great. No bundle. Ships today or tomorrow.
Fuck lines. And let us know if you have any good pre-ordering alternatives. – Mark Wilson
Update: Looks like they sold out.
Wii Pre-Order [Radioshack]
Date Added: Ouch! 11/17/2006 00:00
WebGUI is a content management framework built to
allow average business users to build and maintain
complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and
platform independent. It was designed to allow the
people who create the content to manage it online,
rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of
features including shopping cart, subscriptions,
forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs,
SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very
configurable user privilege and profiling system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release includes a few minor bugfixes.
Last week, a select group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs traveled to Tokyo to learn about Japan's tech sector and new opportunities. What they found was a country in transition, a few surprises, and a group of Japanese entrepreneurs itching to plunge headfirst into the international marketplace. The goal was to "build bridges -- geographical, cultural, and topical" between Silicon Valley and Japan.
All about lens caps, cleaning, filters, and more.
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, Cancellations
I know, I know: 69% of you are saying, "what the heck is The Kill Point?" (50% of you might even be saying, "what the heck is Spike?" I call those people "women.")
Spike has canceled the Donnie Wahlberg drama after only one season. The show actually got decent ratings, especially among guys of a certain age, but the network has decided to go crazy on reality shows instead of investing in original, scripted programming. A spokesman for the network gave this quote: "We are out of the serialized one-hour business. We need programming that we can repeat." Oh, I'm sure TV fans are gritting their teeth over that one.
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Poor old lady was on the other end of it.
At its third developer conference in as many weeks, the company announces new tools and processes for making more secure applications.
In the last post we made a real simple flickr browser. Now I am going to modify it to support tags on the search. You can see the results here.
There is now a text box where you can type comma delimited sets of tags to search flickr for. (Hit return to update the results) This feature demonstrates the use of the Converter interface in bindings. We want to bind the TextBox to the "tags" property on the FlickrSearch bean, so we use a converter to split the tags:
VerticalPanel vp = new VerticalPanel();
vp.setHorizontalAlignment(HasHorizontalAlignment.ALIGN_CENTER);
TextBox box = new TextBox(false);
Label title = new Label();
vp.add(box);
vp.add( title );
ReflectedImageGroup group = new ReflectedImageGroup(100, 75, .2, .5);
FlickrSearch search = new FlickrSearch();
group.setRenderer(
new Renderer() {
public Object render(Object o) {
return ((FlickrPhoto) o).getThumbnail();
}
});
Binding images = new Binding(group, "value", search, "photos");
// Here we are creating a child binding for the text box.
images.getChildren().add(
new Binding(
box, "value",
// Add a converter to convert from the Box's String to
// the String[] that the FlickrSearch.setTags() expects.
new Converter() {
public Object convert(Object original) {
if (original == null) {
return original;
} else {
return original.toString().split(",");
}
}
}, search, "tags",
//On the other side, we convert from String[] to a
// comma delimited string.
new Converter() {
public Object convert(Object original) {
if (original == null) {
return original;
} else {
String[] strings = (String[]) original;
StringBuffer ret = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) {
ret.append(strings[i]);
if (i < (strings.length - 1)) {
ret.append(",");
}
}
return ret.toString();
}
}
}));
// Add another simple binding for Title to see what we searched
// on.
images.getChildren().add( new Binding( title, "value", search, "title" ) );
images.setLeft();
images.bind();
//... rest of the code goes on as before.
Why do we need a converter here, rather than just the "Renderer" we used before? Well, because the TextBox is an Primitive type widget, when it sets its own value, it will always be a String. Unlike Selector type widgets, where the one-way opertaion of a Renderer works for display purposes, even if you set a String[] as the value on the text box, when it fires its next change, it will be a String again. So, we simply take this conversion out and make it a pair of Converter implementations on the binding.
You will also notice we are adding these bindings to the images.getChildren() list. This means that when .setLeft() and .bind() are called they cascade into the children, and all the bindings can be managed as a single set.
In this brand new Hype Williams-directed piece, Kanye gets animated Miami Vice-style and walks the streets of an electrifying metropolitan city smoking some cigarettes.
Did I mention Mr. West vents about the coldest bitch on the face of the planet?
Check out "Heartless"...
The Guardian has posted an update on the filming for The Incredible Hulk taking place in Rio de Janeiro.
The two companies have invested millions in new 802.11n gear which is becoming attractive in the enterprise as a wireless alternative.
Sonny Software's reference management and bibliography generation application adds improved ambiguous citation resolution for the MLA format, Boolean NOT live searches, redesigned interface for Boolean online searches, and more.
Acquisition reflects large tech companies continued interest in expanding beyond the enterprise.
ComingSoon.net's Superhero Hype! has learned that Sony Pictures will debut the new Spider-Man 3 trailer on MTV next Thursday, November 9, during MTV's "Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Duel" at 10p.m. ET. The trailer will then play in theaters with the studio's Casino Royale starting November 17.
Japan has way too much time on its hands.
Microsoft Corp. has developed vulnerability assessment and compliance software that it hopes to roll into its Forefront product line.
Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher trilogy (playing this weekend in Los Angeles at the American Cinematheque and then rolling out in other markets later this year) exposes the seedy and dangerous underworld of Copenhagen, where drug dealers and hookers and other sketchy characters seemingly roam free. Or at least, the three films give us a version of that underworld, one certainly informed by the work of Scorsese, with the brutal yet casualness of Tarantino's style thrown in for good measure. The films, taken on their own, stand as strong entries in the long line of street crime cinema, but as a whole the Pusher trilogy is something of a revelation, so uniquely and cleverly does it tie its three parts together while maintaining a clear and focused message throughout. 1996's Pusher introduces us to Frank (Kim Bodnia), a smalltime drug dealer who, little does he know, is about to embark on the worst and possibly last week of his life. The film is broken down into days (title cards indicate Monday, Tuesday, and so on), just as Frank's world begins to break down around him when a drug deal, inevitably, goes horribly wrong. Taken in by the cops, who can't hold him because of lack of evidence, Frank is soon back on the street in 24 hours. His first order of business is to bash in the skull of his buddy Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen), who the police say ratted him out. Then it's on to the pressing matter of making good on the money Frank owes his supplier, the creepy Balkan drug kingpin Milo (Zlatko Buric) — money that remains elusive to Frank throughout the course of the film, and the amount of which keeps increasing every time he misses a promised payment deadline. Soon it's clear that Frank has no way out of this dire situation, and yet just as the film is coming to an end he is given a choice. Does he escape town or face Milo, does he live or die? Refn's film ends ambiguously, just as his character's motivations are never quite clear. Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands followed in 2004. Gone is Frank, with only an oblique mention of him in some throwaway dialogue, but Refn's ingenious way of continuing the saga is to pick up the story of a second-tier character from the first film. Tonny (Mikkelsen again, now a big star in Denmark and on the verge of playing the bad guy in the new James Bond film Casino Royale), somehow still alive after his beating at Frank's hands (though definitely the worse for wear), has just gotten out of prison and seeks out his father while looking for a job. He claims he's ready to go straight, though how straight he means is unclear considering that dear old Dad is a criminal too (he runs a stolen car ring). But even if Tonny's motivations are as vague as Frank's were in the first film, he does at least exhibit the smallest hint of humanity here. He craves his father's acceptance, and when he learns that his ex-girlfriend has given birth to his child in his absence, he eventually comes to show a slight interest in the kid. But as with Frank's tale before him, wrongheaded decisions and bad luck bring the walls crumbling down around Tonny by the final reel… although, one must ask, is that a happy ending that Refn has given the character this time around? The third film in the series (but not necessarily the final one, according to Refn) is 2005's Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death. Lame subtitle notwithstanding, the picture manages to continue to up the ante in its tale of Copenhagen coke and Scandinavian skeeve. This time our hero, or one should say anti-hero, is Milo, the drug lord from the first two films (Buric, reviving the supporting role as a lead here) who was more or less a scary bad guy in the earlier pictures, but now has become the character we are intended to identify with
We check out the online multiplayer in the PS3 debut of Sony's seminal racing series.
Adam Gross explains the SaaS company's widget strategy.
We wrap up our look at what's new with OS X 10.5 by examining the changes to Terminal, X11, and Disk Utility.
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Topping off a month full of
pink gadgetry - with most items
proudly supporting breast cancer
research -- is Sony's own P!nk Memory Stick Micro. Contrary to popular assumption, this 512MB
M2 card is actually black, but similar to its
P!nk-branded PSP, is stuffed in pink colored packaging fit for a pop star, and also touts compatibility with the
K790i / K800i,
M600i,
K610i,
Z530i, Z550i and
W300i Sony Ericsson mobiles. It comes bundled with a MS PRO adapter for use in one of your many flash card readers, and also sports a pre-loaded MPEG4 video interview of the artist as well as a DRM-free (albeit shortened) MP3 of "Stupid Girls." Should you just so happen to be a rabid P!nk fan, or just need a clever excuse to purchase an M2 card, the "special edition" MS-A512A should hit stores in November for an undisclosed price.
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ShinyShiny]
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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Deals, New Releases, Box Office, Tech Stuff, Scripts & Screenwriting, Exhibition, Newsstand
It is sad but true that one of the most important aspects of the movie business is making a profit. An article in the
New Yorker follows two men who might have found a way to mathematically predict the formula for a successful film.
Written by
Malcolm Gladwell, the article focuses on Dick Copaken and Nick Meany, who have developed a system that they say can predict a hit. The process breaks down story ideas into different categories. Each category would have a score attached to create a "report card" for the story, to see which combinations were a success at the box office. They run that information through a data mining computer to search for patterns. Those patterns are what could help predict when a film is going to be a success.
A University of Arizona computer scientist used a similar process to successfully predict the winners of greyhound races. The process spotted a pattern in race grade statistics that would predict winners that human "experts" rarely paid attention to. The objectivity in Copage's system is maybe its greatest selling point: "It doesn't care about maintaining relationships with stars or agents or getting invited to someone's party. It doesn't care about climbing the corporate ladder. It has one master and one master only: How do you get to bigger box-office? Nobody else in Hollywood is like that." Already
motion capture is changing how we look at actors -- is it that far-fetched to think a computer-generated script could be next?
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New Yorker]
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It appears the rumors are true. NBC has decided to cancel ?Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?. The drama cost NBC a pretty penny to produce but like ?Kidnapped?, which was cancelled earlier this season, big names and pricey production costs weren?t enough to draw in enough viewers to beat out the show?s competition on Monday nights.
Week in review. News items include:
Amazon.com this week sold out in advance of the new 40GB PS3 SKU. Later in the week, the retailer began to offer more of the $399 product.
Microsoft Corp. this week posted a Q1 profit in its game division on strong Xbox 360 and Halo 3 sales The company has sold 13.4 million Xbox 360 units worldwide to date.
Nintendo Co. this increased its quarterly profit forecast on strong Wii and Nintendo DS sales. The company now expects to ship 17.5 million Wii units this business year.
E for All: Super Smash Bros. Brawl a hit of Wii
E for All: Super Mario Galaxy a busy bee on Wii
E for All: Ghost Squad a blast on Wii Zapper
A few months ago, the gaming community had its mind set that this generation is the end of 3rd party exclusives, and there will be a big push towards multiplatform. Over the past year, there were a lot of multiplatform games released from the older Oblivion, to the more contemporary Call of Duty, and to the more recent Bioshock.
There seems to be an agreement amongst gamers that the Xbox 360 always had the better version of the game because it's easier to program for, and of course sometimes that is true, but I also picked the above 3 examples to illustrate the point that sometimes the sheep mentality can be quite deceiving. The PlayStation 3 version is not "always" the worst one, and sometimes it may even be the prefer version due to the free cost of PSN or the addition of Trophy (if you prefer it over the Achievement system on your Xbox 360). Or even better graphics (Oblivion), or extra contents (Bioshock/Eternal Sonata). Of course, some of these games are late to the table and I will not argue with you that if you had both machines you would have probably already played Bioshock. But setting these matters aside there is something else worth discussing today...
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Added Domestic Trailer
Mirren and Serkis added to Inkheart.
From the Osaka Midosuji Parade 2007
The second full length feature trailer for
Zack and Miri Make a Porno comes courtesy of
MySpace. The film is about two lifelong platonic friends, strapped for cash and in debt, decide to make a porno. You can see this in theaters starting on October 31, 2008.
