filum review

film review: assualt on precinct 13 (2005), is a remake of the 1976 'assualt on precinct 13' - the new one we watched last night at t' cinema. it was violent, with some slight horror elements, and it seemed a bit 'disjointed' - almost like it was confused about what kind of film it was trying to be. it had some neat twists in it (but they were a bit predictable, and you wonder why the people in the film didn't see em, especially morpheus, he's flippin clever he should have seen it coming). i think it's worth watching just coz 'bishop' (morpheus) is well 'ard in it. (on dvd though).

movie review

movie review before sunset (imdb: 8.4/10, 2004) is a 9 years later sequel to before sunrise (imdb: 7.7/10, 1995). in before sunset, 2 people who met in 'before sunrise' meet up with each other 9 years later, after the bloke writes a book about their 1 day romance in 'before sunrise' - in the meantime they've never been in contact and never seen each other and basically got on with their lives, bloke got married had kid(s?) etc - so they meet up with each other and talk to each other basically all the way through the film, it's them talking to each other. the tagline is 'What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?' and it's basically about them, how they both thought each other was "the one". it's kinda boring but i like the concept of the sequel 9 years later, and it's them 9 years later. i guess if i'd seen the original i would probably be more enthusiastic about this film - but it's fairly boring, but it's also quite different to your average film, so could be worth a watch if you're a bit bored.

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neato webo

sourflash.co.uk a funky lemon jelly fan site.

toastabags

toastabags - you put your cheese in your bread, you put your cheese sandwich in this bag, you put the bag into the toaster and then it pops out as a toasted sarnie. 2 for £7. (reusable)

icWales - Welsh rugby fan cuts off own testicles

Wales won the rugby, so logically a Welsh rugby fan cuts off own testicles. I mean it's the obvious thing to do.

tags. the hip alternative to folders / hierarchical organisation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/salon/story/0,14752,1408451,00.html

lots of new digital cameras

5 new digital cameras from Panasonic, ALL of them with optical image stabilisation (this rocks!), and Leica lenses, plus 2 new compact digicams with 6x optical zoom lens! A budget one (LS1: 4mp, 3x optical zoom, 2" screen), 4mp (LZ1), and 5mp (LZ2) with 6x optical zoom lens, 2" screen (the perfect digicam?), and 4mp (FZ4), and 5mp (FZ5) with 12x optical zoom lens (upgrades to the FZ3).

4 new digital cameras from Fuji - fairly boring in comparison to the Panasonics: 6mp, 3x optical zoom, 2.5" screen, etc etc. Ultra compact 5mp, 2.5" screen, 3x optical zoom Z1, 6mp, 2.5" screen, 3x optical zoom F10, and the 4mp, and 5mp, 3x optical zoom, 1.7" screen: a345, and a350.

Controlling your Mac mini from your Newton - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Controlling your Mac mini from your Newton - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Foxton in the news again. "Intel boffins will this week discuss the creation of the 90nm dual-core Itanium 2 processor and detail 'Foxton', the chip maker's energy conservation system for server processors."

"Foxton is in the Horowhenua region, 30 kilometres southwest of Palmerston North and 15 kilometres north of Levin."

lots of random stuff

sub $100 pc/laptop/build yourself thing. bbc news.
cool looking robot responds to stuff. engadget.
apple itunes lots of money, napster cheap. gizmodo.

setispy man dead.

setispy man dead.
I still thought he was alive. I don't think anyone had mentioned it on NelsonColne.
From the Seti web pages:
November 21, 2004
Roelof J. Engelbrecht, a long-time SETI@home supporter and author of the SETI Spy utility, passed away on Nov. 16.
here's his weblog.
You can probably learn alot about Delphi programming by downloading the source code too.

Guy in Wales sends text messages in his sleep

Guy in Wales sends text messages in his sleep - Engadget - www.engadget.com, plus Mozilla Sunbird is out, the new calendar alternative from mozilla. link, sweet, will have to try this out tonight.

marketing

wowee check out this mouse - inmac catalogue say: "The Labtec Optical mouse Pro is designed to be expressive and powerful." oooh wow, an expressive, and powerful mouse. !???! what!?!??

Labtec have a different take on it, Labtec Optical Mouse Pro: "The Labtec® Optical Mouse Pro delivers precise optical tracking, a comfortable shape, expressive design, and an innovation in mouse performance that will surprise you: four-way scrolling."

oooh how surprising, it does 4 way scrolling. just like microsoft's mice. i suppose if you are in the marketing department of a mouse manufacturer you've got to try and make a fairly basic budget (£9) mouse sound exciting to try and boost sales.

blue peter style fun: print out, cut out, stick together optical illusion dragon.

Gizmodo : Arcade Machine Self Test

Gizmodo : Arcade Machine Self Test

iEmulator PC Emulator for MAC OS X

iEmulator PC Emulator for MAC OS X a cheap ($23) pc emulator for the mac.

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Row over Delhi's errant monkeys

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Row over Delhi's errant monkeys: "The monkeys who have moved into residential areas and official enclaves due to Delhi's shrinking forests, are said to have become a 'security threat'. Last year, the ministry of defence found some of its top secret documents scattered all over the place one morning. It was blamed on the many rhesus monkeys which flock around the colonial-era building. "

this is funny "The presidential palace too has been targeted and staff their have been forced to employ a dark-faced langur monkey to scare away the rhesus monkeys." - last year they sent the monkeys somewhere else, unsurprisingly the place they sent them to doesn't want any more! they should sell them to rich europeans and americans :)

kevin rose dot com

kevin rose dot com - kevin buys a mini mac, and puts a 1ghz via nano-itx board/system in it (pictures on his site) the via system only fits if he takes the optical drive out, so well done apple, pc people can't seem to make something as small and functional with off-the-shelf parts. there's a video here

BBC news article says that over-use of a Blackberry can cause damage to the thumb - because you use your thumbs to type on the keyboard. Similarly, this could mean that overuse of the thumb when using trackball mice like this and this (with the ball on the left) could actually be bad for you rather than good for you.