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This flipbook is pretty short, but it's also pretty advanced. 3-Dimensional!
Ben Seberry writes "It appears Dell has been caught red-faced by yet another pricing mistake on their Australian website. Many customers thought they had spotted a fantastic deal when they came across a 55%-off offer. Dell later denied that this was a valid special and telephoned customers to offer them a choice of the standard price, or a cancelled order. Dell's senior manager of corporate communication came out and apologized for the mistake, promising processes would be reviewed to prevent it from happening again. In the days after the original 'incorrectly priced' offer was fixed, Dell made a different error leading to an even cheaper price being advertised. This time, on many user forums and blogs, users are debating Australian contract law as it applies to this matter — it is not as clear-cut as many originally believed."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Screw the backlash to the backlash to the backlash! This must be said: Britney Spears's Blackout is an astounding music record. Go put it on now, and just try to argue that "Heaven on Earth" isn't so much a better faux-Joy Division song than anything in years—and these are the same years that every person with a Y chromosome has been busily trying to write faux-Joy Division songs. (If the great switch-ending of the barely aspirated verse "Your touch / Your taste / Your breath / Your face / Your hands / Your head (: o!) / You're sweet" doesn't count as syllepsis, I'm burning every book I own by Quintilian.) But I'm not here to discuss the recent Joy Division biopic Control; I'm here to discuss the recent Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not Here. Or rather to suggest a user-participatory way to get us the Britney Spears world tour we're all starving for, since Britney Spears the woman seems rather out of commission right now.
Because, as smarty-pants semiotician and
Not There director Todd Haynes has
shown us, performance (or was that performativity?) is all about having multiple people play the same "individual" even if that individual is really famous Bob Dylan and those people are little kids or black or Cate Blanchett.
Thus, because new single "Piece of Me" deserves to be lip-synced to in the middle of an elaborate Cirque du Soleil–style stage show, I propose that some prestigious, and less hazardous, stars take the road as Britney surrogates, each doing a few songs a night. Just like in the movie, different performers will embody her various essences (or is that non-essence?).
But who?!
This is the fun part. I'll start.
As "Baby, one More Time" Britney, Zac Efron!
As "Stronger" Britney, Michele Williams. (Yeah, Heath's Dylan was the lamest one anyway)
As "Gimme More" Britney, Philip Seymour Hoffman. (Great character actor; all about the craft.)
As Umbrella-Bayonet Britney, Delores O'Riordan. (Because Sinead O'Connor is too obvious and even though "Zombie" made the world safe for Rihanna's "Umbrella", who laughed at Brit once like a lunch-period mean girl.)
Who has the je ne sais quoi (or coif) to play the last decade of Britney? "Toxic" Britney? Crossroads Britney? Mrs. Jason Alexander Britney? This (broadly speaking) is really not as hard as it looks. Go on, try.
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons today criticised the lack of concern being
shown by Finance Minister Michael Cullen about the chronic inability of Treasury,
the Reserve Bank and MED to accurately forecast the price of oil, or even whether ...
Kotaku writes:
"After last week's exciting new hardware debuts, the Japanese hardware sales charts calm down a bit. Sure, the Nintendo DSi is still selling like gangbusters, but the PlayStation 3 starts its journey downward into more normal territory, moving less than half of what it did the week prior. On the flip side of the hi-def console war, the Xbox 360 doubles its week-to-week sales in Japan, making this pie chart a lot less red and a lot more lime green."
• Nintendo DSi - 104,897
• PSP - 43,726
• Wii - 24,726
• PlayStation 3 - 18,354
• Xbox 360 - 12,759
• Nintendo DS - 8,381
• PlayStation 2 - 5,743
Kanawha HealthCare automates data mining, saving clients millions and improving care.
Release Candidate 2 of version 6.0 also updates the OS's ability to manage video telephony, pluggable font engine support, and thin-client technology.
China's second biggest mobile operator would be open to talks with Apple about selling the iPhone there.
I tried to find some negative ones, but it was tough.
Mika Reini, the office manager at Remedy Games (developer of Alan Wake,) has confirmed in the official forum that the rumor of a "big Microsoft's first-party title" getting cancelled has nothing to do with Alan Wake. The official forum moderator's announcement:
"Moderator Note:
Alan Wake is NOT the Xbox360 game rumoured to be cancelled. Please see the comment by MikaRMD at the bottom of this thread.
Also please note that Microsoft still has exclusive publishing rights to Alan Wake (regardless of the fact that Remedy is a third party developer and owns the IP) and as such Alan Wake is NOT going to appear on the PlayStation 3. It is a PC and Xbox 360 title."
MikaRMD (Miki of Remedy) wrote: "This rumor has nothing to do with Alan Wake as we're busy developing the kick-ass game you've been waiting for (unless someone forgot to tell us about it... )"
Ah,
Prison Break. I've never actually recapped this show before, but because Amanda is literally stuck in the Netherlands with various occupational obligations hanging over her head (don't get any ideas) and because Umnata has been sacked with a double dose of
The OC, I figured I'd step up and take the baton for an episode or two. I actually was kind of excited to sub in. I've been enjoying my own interior monologue of snark all season long, and now I can share some of it. I mean, is this not the most ridiculous show on TV right now? That doesn't mean I don't enjoy it. Heck, I love the way Agent Mahone can miraculously appear in different parts of the country in a blink of the eye. I'm starting to think that maybe he has a bit of that
Heroes mojo going on. And let's not overlook his brilliant powers of deduction. Nor can we forget T-Bag, the medical miracle of the Western World. Yes, so many plot holes, so little time.
One of the most powerful lines in iCandyi comes from Geoffrey Rush as a heroin addicted chemistry professor warning the scripts protagonists about the perils of drug-abuse: When you can still quit, you dont want to, and when you want to, you cant. Apparently, that theory applies to movies about drugs as well, because iCandyI is intriguing for the first forty minutes and by the time it goes downhill, you have already spent too much time in the theater to justify bailing.
The story is ultimately touching and bittersweet.
Groundhog Day meets LOST, but with Diggs.
