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I really don't get the cheeck pockets comment: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0183505/Ss/0183505/ 5?path=pgallery&path_key=Zellweger,%20Ren%E9e.

Known quantities I've wanted to remake:

• Miami Vice (GTA: Vice City prompted this, but it looks like Mann is going to do it himself)
• Bullitt (along with everybody else, but this should stand on its own, it likely won't though)
• Star Chamber (1983, starring Michael Douglas, so much relevance today, I may yet write an updated script)
• Fandango (before Coster was big, a great coming of age flick, I'm writing an adaptation already =) )
• Aguirre, Wrath of God (A celebration of Nietzsche, this should be remade in a modern setting (U.S. army in Iraq?), take it to the bank I'm writing an update to this!)

Known quantities I've wanted to remake:

• Miami Vice (GTA: Vice City prompted this, but it looks like Mann is going to do it himself)
• Bullitt (along with everybody else, but this should stand on its own, it likely won't though)
• Star Chamber (1983, starring Michael Douglas, so much relevance today, I may yet write an updated script)
• Fandango (before Coster was big, a great coming of age flick, I'm writing an adaptation already =) )
• Aguirre, Wrath of God (A celebration of Nietzsche, this should be remade in a modern setting (U.S. army in Iraq?), take it to the bank I'm writing an update to this!)

Known quantities I've wanted to remake:

• Miami Vice (GTA: Vice City prompted this, but it looks like Mann is going to do it himself)
• Bullitt (along with everybody else, but this should stand on its own, it likely won't though)
• Star Chamber (1983, starring Michael Douglas, so much relevance today, I may yet write an updated script)
• Fandango (before Coster was big, a great coming of age flick, I'm writing an adaptation already =) )
• Aguirre, Wrath of God (A celebration of Nietzsche, this should be remade in a modern setting (U.S. army in Iraq?), take it to the bank I'm writing an update to this!)

Known quantities I've wanted to remake:

• Miami Vice (GTA: Vice City prompted this, but it looks like Mann is going to do it himself)
• Bullitt (along with everybody else, but this should stand on its own, it likely won't though)
• Star Chamber (1983, starring Michael Douglas, so much relevance today, I may yet write an updated script)
• Fandango (before Coster was big, a great coming of age flick, I'm writing an adaptation already =) )
• Aguirre, Wrath of God (A celebration of Nietzsche, this should be remade in a modern setting (U.S. army in Iraq?), take it to the bank I'm writing an update to this!)

Known quantities I've wanted to remake:

• Miami Vice (GTA: Vice City prompted this, but it looks like Mann is going to do it himself)
• Bullitt (along with everybody else, but this should stand on its own, it likely won't though)
• Star Chamber (1983, starring Michael Douglas, so much relevance today, I may yet write an updated script)
• Fandango (before Coster was big, a great coming of age flick, I'm writing an adaptation already =) )
• Aguirre, Wrath of God (A celebration of Nietzsche, this should be remade in a modern setting (U.S. army in Iraq?), take it to the bank I'm writing an update to this!)

The gate opener in The Goonies pre-dates Lauf der Dinge.

Most of Rube's stuff wouldn't actually work (too many variables, like the reactions of animals), but was funny to look at. Fiscli and Weiss's work wasn't funny, but it is amazing that it actually worked.

"Perhaps the bronze sculptor in Washington state that you linked to isn't the same person as the New York web designer."

Probably you are right. Perhaps we could send the Washington state sculptor to New York to arrange an "unfortunate smelting accident" for the web designer. I certainly would if he tarnished my name.

Actually the only cut in the Honda cog is at the exhaust (muffler) section when it rolls across the floor (because they couldn't fit all the components in), apart from that and the 606 takes later, its all real, we discussed this here when the advert was first released

Of course the big hoo-haa was Honda (or their agency) was taking all the credit and collecting numerous prestigous creative awards when they (or their ad company) blatently "borrowed" the idea from Rube Goldberg's "Lauf der Dinge" (the way things go) without giving any credit to Rube, all while giving some bullshit story about being inspired by Mousetrap (the board game) if you see Rube's film (1987) you will see the plagiarism for yourself.
I guess Picasso was right ? "good artists copy, great artists steal"

That is, award winning multi million dollar production companies certainly do.

The Honda commercial wasn't original - it copied an old short film Der Lauf der Dinge (The way things go)... Imdb link

A Rube Goldberg machine or device is any exceedingly complex apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised and drew several such pataphysical devices. The best examples of his machines have an anticipation factor. The fact that something so wacky is happening can only be topped by it happening in a suspenseful manner.

You can find them in a lot of science museums, tv shows, commercials, or even the beginning of Back to the Future.

For further enlightnment the library of congress recommends the movie _Don's Party_.

There's a lot of initial data for the "people who watched X might also like Y" bit on the Internet Movie Database which covers TV programmes as well as films.

Example

They have a lot of their information available for non-commercial use on their interfaces page.

I can't spot the recommendation data on there though, but perhaps if you asked them very nicely...

There's a lot of initial data for the "people who watched X might also like Y" bit on the Internet Movie Database which covers TV programmes as well as films.

Example

They have a lot of their information available for non-commercial use on their interfaces page.

I can't spot the recommendation data on there though, but perhaps if you asked them very nicely...

There's a lot of initial data for the "people who watched X might also like Y" bit on the Internet Movie Database which covers TV programmes as well as films.

Example

They have a lot of their information available for non-commercial use on their interfaces page.

I can't spot the recommendation data on there though, but perhaps if you asked them very nicely...

Yeah. That, and the small issue that they might have broken a law doing so.

Do you understand that NDAs or any confidentiality agreements would be meaningless if all you had to do was leak them to someone else, who in turn publicly leaks them, all with no repurcussions of any kind nor any recourse for the employer?

Please explain what NDA is signed by a journalist that receives information from someone that is violating an NDA by providing it, such that the journalist's freedom of speech should be constrained.

If you aren't going to do me the courtesy of responding properly to my comment, then I am not particularly inclined to respond to yours (although I do think its telling that Apple accused them of "tortious interference", the very same tool that the tobacco industry tried to use to suppress the 60 Minutes segment on Jeff Wigand, as dramatised by The Insider - go Apple!).

heh, or maybe they are chasing killer tomatoes or the celery stalks at midnight.

larry

larry

That sounds like Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions. The shorts were shown in the US on Atom films in a low resolution format. If you lived in the UK you could get it on a very nice DVD which they refused to ship to the US. (You had to have a friend cross-ship it for you.)

A great series of shorts. The theme got to be a bit much after the 5th or 6th time, however...

There was also a Wallace and Gromit videogame for the PS2. That was available in the US. Fun, but the controls took a bit to get used to. Quite true to the series and saw the return of the evil penguin from "The Wrong Trousers".

I must say I'm surprised that this is their first full-length feature

It's not. Aardman Animations, the people who made Wallace and Gromit, were also the company behind Chicken Run.

Tarantino is back with a great cast of characters (Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, to name just two) and I haven't liked anything he's done in a while (Jackie Brown, Kill Bills) so I hope he's back to his old self.

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are directing. Tarantino is, I believe, just directing one of the "episodes".

movie ref for those not in the know... an awful but silly (awfully silly?) movie, heh.

more importantly, did he join up with a cult, a biker gang and a circus beforehand? if not, i don't want to hear about you and your 'science'.

No kidding. I've enjoyed Sallis's work since Last of the Summer Wine.

They are genuinely useful even if you aren't using them for their intended hardware development and testing purposes.

Shark is part of the CHUD suite, and it's intended for use by application developers. CHUD isn't solely intended for hardware development (the expansion of the acronym is clumsy enough that one might suspect "hardware" was put in the name for reasons other than it being intended only for hardware development and testing).

I guess you haven't seen the preview of "Madagascar" then... and if you haven't, you should :) Hillarious stuff, i'm eagerly waiting. For this and W&G!

Penguins are evil!

I think that Wallace and Grommet should be boycotted by the slashdot community for their negative stereotyping of penguins as evil criminal masterminds!

(you do realize this is a joke, right?)

I thought for a mo that they were taking over for the venerable Peter Sallis, the familiar voice of Wallace. I don't need shocks like that!

your's truly will provide the voice of gromit

If any of you want to remember the crazy days of the tech bubble check out the documentaries Startup.com and e-dreams.

I still remember being somewhat tech savy, going to investors conferences and "not getting" how these companies that would never make significant money were commanding these valuations. It was like being in some sci-fi movie where everyone has been replaced by pod people.

If any of you want to remember the crazy days of the tech bubble check out the documentaries Startup.com and e-dreams.

I still remember being somewhat tech savy, going to investors conferences and "not getting" how these companies that would never make significant money were commanding these valuations. It was like being in some sci-fi movie where everyone has been replaced by pod people.

Charlie Mackenzie: Mom, I find it interesting that you call The Weekly World News "the paper."

Tommy: Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish?
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched miserable servile pathetic trash that was ever shat on civilization. Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to get colonized by. We're ruled by effete assholes. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!

If you want to see a hillarious mockumentary about the rise of fall of a dotcom startup, watch the movie Dot http://imdb.com/title/tt0371647/

You won't be disappointed!

Nah, they had a falling out a few years back - see this incredibly bad conspiracy-theory movie for details.

Well Lewis, http://imdb.com/title/tt0088000/ broke HIS arm playing chess.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1511635/

How do you know that I'm not gay?
Tsk, one obscure reference to Traffic and suddenly I'm oppressing someone!

The Mozilla web page editor. I don't actually write web pages using it, but I do like to hit Ctrl-E every now and then to show coworkers the underlying table structure of a page. It's just a handy visual tool. Especially when I'm doing webdev.

The sidebars. I don't know about you, but I love custom sidebars. I have one for MapQuest, one for IMDb and one for Lorem Ipsum.

Edit->Preferences. The only reason Options is under Tools in Firefox is because it's trying to mimic IE. :)

Mozilla Tools:

Translate Page

Cookie Manager

Image Manager

Popup Manager

Form Manager

Password Manager

Download Manager

The File dialog. I'm sure the new open/save file dialog is easier for easily confused users, but I like having all the file managing options ready when the dialog first opens.

I guess you could call Mozilla the programmer's web browser. Feature rich and not ashamed of it.

Bambi was a dude: http://imdb.com/title/tt0034492/

A similar but harder to find film is e-Dreams. It chronicles the rise and fall of kozmo.com

Does anyone remember those orange scooters that would deliver videos and junk food?

You've got it right except confusing Karl Urban with The Rock.

I should also have mentioned. There is a wonderful documentary called Startup.com that documents a small companies beginnings from obtaining VC funding to their rise and ultimate fall. It was an amazing example of a not atypical experience where a company was organized and obtained VC funding based solely upon an idea. They had no infrastructure, no network, no customers, no product. Yet they were able to secure a significant amount of VC funding. It's an absolute hoot to watch.

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

Granted, its been many, many years since I've seen the film, but according to these 3 summaries, it destroyed everything in its path on the way to Earth.

Spend a few dollars now to take care of our electronic children as they race off into space and maybe they'll be a little less pissed off when they return.

SD

Spend a few dollars now to take care of our electronic children as they race off into space and maybe they'll be a little less pissed off when they return.

SD

I'm assuming "24" refers to the current length of your attention span, in minutes

Ha ha.
No.
Of course, I'm referring to 24, a tv show created by Joel Surnow, about a Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) battling off threats to the United States. It is very similar to the "Nikita" show that used to star Peta Wilson, based on the french movie of the same name.
5 years ago, I would ignore anything modern, concentrating both on High Fantasy and Sci Fi. And I blame most of the games Warren Spector worked on in the past for that.

If you get flagged as troll, it's for the unnecessary personal attack, not your opinion on the matter. I think the fact that comments on the PC->Console conversion of Deus Ex were so good is exactly what kept me off that game. Same thing for Thief 2. I was very active in the Thief community at the time, and eagerly anticipating System Shock 2. A year after, when both Thief 2 and Deus Ex came out, I think I was busy with a brief return to UO and after that trying to tweak my machine to play Ultima 9.
Looking back, I should have skipped that game entirely. The horrors..