Aug 01 2007
links for 2007-08-01
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““The Simpsons Movie” sold a strong $71.9 million in tickets at United States theaters over the weekend and another $100 million overseas, according to 20th Century Fox.” (Despite 19 years on TV, a change of medium is as good as a holiday!)
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The Times Online lists their “50 best Robot movies” … I disagree with some of their choices, but it’s an interesting list nevertheless
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How to take well-lit macro photographs of bugs and other itty-bitty things!
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Monsignor Geoff Baron who was recorded swearing and abusing teenagers (after some provocation, but not enough, imho, to justify the outburst) has been suspended after the clip was posted on YouTube and viewed widely.
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After asking for video resumes for a PA job, Sean “Diddy” Combs has had over 650 video reponses uploaded on the back of his request! [a href="http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/2007/07/016855.htm">Via]
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Chris Anderson versus Wagner James Au on the future of Second Life and the digital spinefex which seems to be tumbling through this virtual world.
August 1st, 2007 at 10:32 am
[...] Tama links to the Times Online “50 best Robot movies” today. Of course, I have my own reservations about the list (although I am very distracted by SF robots that have only appeared in print, and often don’t think so much about those on film), but the main thing that interested me was looking at all the comments. There were so many little arguments over what belongs in the category “robot”, and just so many people who were absolutely sure they were right and everyone else was wrong! [...]