Trying it last night, I was unable to post through it. When I got to the "preview" or "post" point it kept sending me back to log in again. Once I did that I was confronted with another blank form to write my post on!
Besides lack of date range search, it's not clear to me if author search remains. That would be horrible.
There is at least one improvement: posts are added to the archive as they propagate to the Google servers. In the old system, they were collected throughout the day but then only added 4 or 5 times a day. Note they also munge email addresses in an attempt to, I guess, stop harvesting. I haven't been able to check it out fully since it seems to be broken already.
"Outer space is a province of all mankind," says Sylvia Ospina, a member of the board of directors at the International Institute of Space Law.
Try telling that to a Klingon, lady.
Not only my fave of all time but Al Gore once told Oprah it was one of his faves too. I've made the schlep to that actual (now former) fishing village (Pennan, east of Inverness; the beach scenes were shot on a different coastline on the west of Scotland). The hotel in the movie is really just someone's home. There is a hotel there just a few doors away (The Pennan Inn) and folks come from all over the world to stay there and leave quotes in the guestbook. The phone booth is near the hotel, but on a different side of the shed. At least that was the case in 1990, when I was there.
The most under appreciated film would never show up here, of course, which means we've landed in the Barber of Seville zone. Many of the films here have plenty of critical appreciation and/or are well known. This is really a tip list of "favorite films you may not have seen," (I for one plan to check out Boondock Saints based solely on its multiple appearances here).
Which is not exactly your point, but while I'm at it, Lagaan is my favorite find of the past year. Having received an Academy Award nomination for best foreign film in 2001, it's certainly not under appreciated. But have you seen it?
Bad Timing: Unappreciated and un-getable commercially. The film company that produced this film ("The Rank Organisation") refuses to release it on video/DVD. I think they called it "a sick film." You can see it on IFC from time to time. Dir: Nicholas Roeg. Starring (gulp) Art Garfunkle, Harvey Keitel, and a very naked Theresa Russell. Roeg later(?) married Russell.
Used Cars: Early Bob Zemeckis effort. Jack Warden in dual roles as competing used car lot owners. Kurt Russell, Frank McRae (which reminds me: also check out Cannery Row), and even "Lenny" and "Squiggy."
Recalling another role played by one of the heros of this film, my friend once said: "I'm not afraid of Charles Manson, I'm afraid of Steve Railsback." The DVD "limited edition" has some great extras.
With few exceptions, C & H is not the kind of store you go to if you need to find what you are looking for. You go there to browse the shelves and bins and ask, "I wonder what I could do with that?" or "What the hell is that?" Lots of test equipment, meters, optics, bits and pieces, not a lot of the latest stuff. A lot of the inventory is out of the 70's +/- two decades.
It's not very big, but it is a fun place to kill and hour or so. Just a couple miles east of Caltech, on Colorado.
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and apparnetly date...but wait, they've just pulled the beta version and are back to the old format!
Trying it last night, I was unable to post through it. When I got to the "preview" or "post" point it kept sending me back to log in again. Once I did that I was confronted with another blank form to write my post on! Besides lack of date range search, it's not clear to me if author search remains. That would be horrible. There is at least one improvement: posts are added to the archive as they propagate to the Google servers. In the old system, they were collected throughout the day but then only added 4 or 5 times a day. Note they also munge email addresses in an attempt to, I guess, stop harvesting. I haven't been able to check it out fully since it seems to be broken already.
"Outer space is a province of all mankind," says Sylvia Ospina, a member of the board of directors at the International Institute of Space Law. Try telling that to a Klingon, lady.
Try "friends of the library" book sales. Lots of libraries get encyclopedias donated to them but don't need the extra sets.
At one of these sales I picked up a reasonably recent 30 volume edition of the EB, in great shape, for a whopping $15.
Not only my fave of all time but Al Gore once told Oprah it was one of his faves too. I've made the schlep to that actual (now former) fishing village (Pennan, east of Inverness; the beach scenes were shot on a different coastline on the west of Scotland). The hotel in the movie is really just someone's home. There is a hotel there just a few doors away (The Pennan Inn) and folks come from all over the world to stay there and leave quotes in the guestbook. The phone booth is near the hotel, but on a different side of the shed. At least that was the case in 1990, when I was there.
Which is not exactly your point, but while I'm at it, Lagaan is my favorite find of the past year. Having received an Academy Award nomination for best foreign film in 2001, it's certainly not under appreciated. But have you seen it?
Used Cars: Early Bob Zemeckis effort. Jack Warden in dual roles as competing used car lot owners. Kurt Russell, Frank McRae (which reminds me: also check out Cannery Row), and even "Lenny" and "Squiggy."
A gem. A "guy flick" in a world of "chick flicks." One fan did a site on the film: Fandango website
Recalling another role played by one of the heros of this film, my friend once said: "I'm not afraid of Charles Manson, I'm afraid of Steve Railsback." The DVD "limited edition" has some great extras.
With few exceptions, C & H is not the kind of store you go to if you need to find what you are looking for. You go there to browse the shelves and bins and ask, "I wonder what I could do with that?" or "What the hell is that?" Lots of test equipment, meters, optics, bits and pieces, not a lot of the latest stuff. A lot of the inventory is out of the 70's +/- two decades. It's not very big, but it is a fun place to kill and hour or so. Just a couple miles east of Caltech, on Colorado.
Maybe Scientology claimed the "removing documents page" was theirs?