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(S04E12) Facing the Lions, Coach Taylor said the word of the week was focus. He was wrong. The word of the week was choice. Everybody seemed to be facing impossible choices.
Bigger than right or wrong, yes or no, play or don't play. In this penultimate episode of
'Friday Night Lights,' the problems were everywhere, but solutions -- unfortunately -- were hard to come by. More on the big game, toothpicks, apologies and Habitat for Humanities after the jump.
Continue reading Review: 'Friday Night Lights' - 'Laboring'
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"When I think of Roman. I think of his nose. He smells the truth. He is very intense. Sometimes because he's French and Polish, the frustration to explain what he wants comes out and he's like No, no! Terrible!' And you think, 'I'm more than terrible.' In some ways it was very tense and in some exhilarating." Actress KIM CATTRALL on working with director ROMAN POLANSKI on new movie THE GHOST WRITER.
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Here's one that needs little explanation: one pedal activates Star Power, the other one fiddles with the whammy bar. That keeps your arms and fingers free to
Guitar Hero, and since the React Standalone Pedal is wireless and works with any PS2 guitar, you shouldn't have too much hassle tossing this on to your garishly patterned carpet and proceeding to rock. It's available now for $25.
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Joystiq]
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The VAR Guy: "The big picture: Is Fonality really an open source company?"
Joe Carnahan has been announced as John Singleton's replacement behind the cameras on 20th Century Fox's "A-Team" adaptation, where he'll direct from a script by Skip Woods.
The Nevareth Arcade System is announced for popular MMORPG.
LaptopLogic: "Today our Linux guru Blair Mathis is back to introduce fifty of the most popular applications on this OS"
A significant portion of the RT faithful is younger readers, so here's a movie that'll be of interest. It's a movie about high school! It's got girls! It's got sex! It's...a graphic and bloody cautionary tale about strange women and respecting their private space? We speak of Teeth, a horror/comedy...
After her craptacular performance on Tuesday, Aretha Franklin says the cold and wind made it difficult to sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington. Excuses, Excuses.
GR Writes: As of this writing, we're already three weeks into 2010. The "new" year is already practically ancient, and pretty soon we'll have run out of time to make wild, erratic, entirely factual predictions about things that will happen over the next 11 months. So with January nearly over, we're going for the jugular and answering the question that's on everyone's mind: between the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and PC, which gaming platform will claim victory by the end of this year.
convmv converts filenames (not file content),
directories, and even whole filesystems to a different
encoding. This comes in very handy if, for example,
one switches from an 8-bit locale to an UTF-8 locale or changes charsets on Samba servers. It
has some smart features: it automagically recognises if
a file is already UTF-8 encoded (thus partly converted
filesystems can be fully moved to UTF-8) and it also
takes care of symlinks. Additionally, it is able to convert
from normalization form C (UTF-8 NFC) to NFD and vice-versa. This is important for interoperability with Mac OS X, for example, which uses NFD, while Linux and most other Unixes use NFC. Though it's primary written to convert from/to UTF-8 it can also be used with almost any other charset encoding. Convmv can also be used for case conversion from upper to lower case and vice versa with virtually any charset. Note that this is a command line tool which requires at least Perl version 5.8.0.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes some small bugs, improves the
test suite, and introduces a new check routine
which is called at program startup. Perl 5.8.8
introduced a bug that affected convmv which can be
worked around. Perl 5.10 again introduced a bug
which is now reported to be a Perl bug so that the
user does not wonder why things don't work as
expected.
