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Morrison on Morrison - The Art of the Title Sequence
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"We are but beneficiaries of both the depth of design and the intellectual complexities of Richard Morrison’s body of cinematic title sequences. We rejoice in the work put in to this post. Indeed what better than researching a man whose work is a foregone conclusion in heart and wonderment? The son of a film editor, Morrison became a master at internalizing a director’s intent and distilling it for the title sequence. From Morrison, “I look for a nuance, a subliminal energy in a film that I can then work into an idea.”" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet
“The optical effects in Brazil have quite a timeless quality to them. I did not consciously set out to create something so lasting. It was more of a serendipitous happening. Terry Gilliam is a very hands-on director, throwing ideas at you and getting really involved. So, in this case creating the sequence was something of a process. I never quite knew what to expect, until seeing final effect and thinking, yeah that’s it! That’s usually how it all looks when you work with very visually striking directors. They will already have their own ideas and just try to work with me to create them. And so if you work for someone who is visually more inspiring, they tend to give you more rope… It is good experience though because it fuels your creativity and in a weird kind of way turns into something that is ageless, simple and unique. As with Brazil…” - Cee Bee
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Nice nerdy discussion about hypermiling to save on gas money. My experience doing this to a less that creepy degree is in this comment. http://ask.slashdot.org/commen... - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠ via Bookmarklet
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"I was invited to the Virtual Goods Summit yesterday, and got to see quite a few interesting speakers and panels. It got me thinking about what decisions are essential when building a virtual goods product." - Capn' here -> Good information if your startup plans to sell virtual goods a la Second Life. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠ via Bookmarklet
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ساغر :)) - mhmazidi
آدم لذت میبره اینا رو میبینه - Farzad
مزیدی چقدر دوست خارجی داره - دوشیزه شین
:) - Kamangir
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Lindsey Smith posted a message
“I'm off to patch my mom's roof and then later we're all watching Sex and the City movie in high def. What a strange day I have in store o_O”
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Have fun :) - Brandon
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“Cute writer's block”
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FCC report negates free Internet interference claims | News - Wireless - CNET News
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"A Federal Communications Commission engineering report released late Friday essentially backs a plan to open up wireless spectrum to create a free wireless Internet service by dismissing concerns about interference for existing providers." - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠ via Bookmarklet
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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Saturday at 10:50 am - Link
My oldest brother Sean writes in his blog about three of his kids, these 3 cats, that are no longer with us. It is a touching blog entry for cat-lovers and non alike. - Josh Haley
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found via Tad's Flickr Toy - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠
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Parth Awasthi posted a message
“Dogs or Cats? (Preference plz. Both/None are not valid answers)”
Saturday at 8:03 am - Link
Dogs all the way. Cats bite and scratch. - JMakesAwesomeSauce
Dogs, even though I love most animals. - Carmen
I love my dog, but I'm much more of a cat person. - Nine (werepanda)
Location, location. Dogs outdoors, cats indoors. - Jack Carlson
Cats. I love my dog, but, life is so much calmer with cats. - Yolanda
Cats, 'coz my bro likes Dogs. - Yuvi
Dogs. Cats are fine and all but they're not dogs. - Timothy Griffin
Cats for me. Dogs are unconditionally loving animals, perhaps better pets. But Cats are moody and naughty - more interesting to live with. :) - Parth Awasthi
Dogs represent faith. Cats represent knowledge and practical intelligence. I choose faith. - Vijayendra Mohanty
That was an amazing perspective Vijayendra. And I second that. - Parth Awasthi
CATS! - Vincent X
Cats. - AJ Kohn
This explains so much. :-) - JMakesAwesomeSauce
Our cats are watching what I write here.. This is my truthful opinion: I prefer cats :) - Jemm
How about a dog that uses a litter box? No? A cat that can defend your home? Oh, yeah, the second sounds great. Is it possible to get a panther to use a litter box? - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
Cats. - Trent Olson
Dogs, though don't mind cats. I've had a dog in the house for over 20 years. As a youngster we had a cat though. - Kol Tregaskes
Cats. Dogs eat babies. - Grant Fitzgerald
cats - MikeAmundsen
Cats! Cats are uber cute, make funny noises, don't have icky drool and take literally 5 minutes a day to take care of. And they don't take up half the bed. Oh and good cats don't scratch except on accident, which is rare...same with biting if they were socialized properly when young. - Alex "Lasagna" Scoble
You just gave me another reason to love dogs Grant. LOL - JMakesAwesomeSauce
To be fair, I've been bitten by both dogs and cats. (Not my own though, and I've had both.) - JMakesAwesomeSauce
dogs! - Ruth Ferguson
Cats - Dogs bite and maim! - Martin Bryant
Dogs ftw - Evan Sims
cats rule and dogs drool -- sally field in homeward bound (I saw it in the theater years before I had kids!) - RAPatton
I'm pretty sure cats were blamed for stealing the breath of babies. However, my dog will bite me if I hand him a treat. He's so greedy he takes half my arm off to get the food. I'm not talking about tiny dog biscuits, either. Good thing he can catch what I toss him. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
I prefer cats because they are low maintenance but I have both - Lindsey Smith
I like my cats, but they cause my wife to stop breathing and die. - Glen C
Like both. - Roberto Bonini
Dogs. - Brian Newman
Woof! - Jason Brooks
Gotta be DOGS. Highly allergic to cats which works since I love doggies more. - Mlibrarianus
Cats. Dogs are too much work - Alan Simpson
Own cats, but miss dogs. - Mavericks of A-sauce! via fftogo
Dogs - Alejandro S.
If I lived on a farm again: Border Collie. Otherwise, cats (for the comedic value alone). - Chris Luckhardt
Dogs. I've owned two cats, and while I loved them...they never compared to the affection I gave to and received from dogs. - David Cook
wow, that's a really tough question... can't decide I love both - Susan Beebe
my preference is for doggies. - edythe
Dogs. - Russellreno
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Mona N. posted a message
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That cow stole my haircut!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
ha ha - Cee Bee
hahhahahahha TINA!!! - Mona N.
lmao Tina - Carmen
No, Carmen, it's lmoo!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
hahahah Tina! we should call him emoo instead of emo. - Carmen
HOW CUTE MONA AWWW - Caroline
I think I ran into that dude at an Arcade Fire show once. - Akiva Moskovitz
There is nothing cuter than a Highland Cow. - Miriam
Tina, LOL! But I quite like your new do - Sally Church
That is AWESOME! - Brian Norwood
Emoo - Josh Haley
Too funny. ;) - Daynah
Oh an highland coo! :) - Niki Costantini
emoo HAHA - Mona N.
EMOoooo! - Dave Q
hahaha that's hilarious! - Patrik Johansson
udderly preposterous - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
Emoooo hairy coooo ;-) - BeeLing
ridiculously funny! - Chieze Okoye
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Corie "Viper" Jones posted a link
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ummmm, what sort of device is that? - Peter "that one" Ghosh
marital aid? - Mattb4rd
It's an iron! Do I win? - Sprague D
It looks like Zarkov's space ship. - Akiva Moskovitz
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pea ♥s un-Mondays updated their status message on Gmail/Google Talk
“the absence of rudeness does not then imply the presence of friendship”
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I LOVE YOU, PEA! - Kaia is a party pooper.
for this or just in general? most people, when i say this, just say i'm being way mean - pea ♥s un-Mondays
You're fab pea for so many reasons! - JMakesAwesomeSauce
Thank you. Will you call all the people that say I'm bitchy and mean and let them know? We might have to split up the list though. I'm sure you have other things to do on a Saturday! (hee. I crack myself up.) - pea ♥s un-Mondays
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Car Talk ∞ Get Rich Slowly
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"Car Talk isn’t just a radio program — the show actually has an excellent web site, too. Any time a GRS discussion turns to automotive repair, readers are sure to recommend the Mechanic Files, Car Talk’s “ultimate guide to finding a great mechanic”, where users can leave reviews of their favorite (or not-so-favorite) mechanics, or search for a place to take their vehicles." - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠ via Bookmarklet
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Startup Success: Andrew Badera posted a message
“"Web 2.0" "Web 3.0" and beyond ... whatever you call it, I'd like to think that this downturn is going to turn into another innovation pump. In 18-24 months we're going to see LBS and other mobile device applications exploding onto the scene, maybe tied into unified comm. Semantic web will mature.”
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The Instanet is Now..or nigh...or maybe,..yeah why not..The Instanet is Ya.;-) - Jason Brooks
It'll make the barrier of entry higher and sift out the ability for easy success but the internet is ultimately a utility/communications platform and that evolution, more than anything, drives innovation. Video didn't just happen - it took a very long time for the technology to be in place and ready to be able to deliver video as you see it, etc. If the infrastructure doesn't support it, the users won't be there either. - Patricia
The Instanet? Haven't heard that one before - I like it. - tony obregon
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“just a quick note to say thank you to all of you for contributing to this little community in a community. There's some great info & discussions here and i think it's going to be great to get to know one another especially over the course of the next couple of years & the tough times ahead. Cheers!”
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and we just broke the 1000 mark - which is fantabulous. :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
Thanks for inviting me mate. - Steve Spalding
Thanks again Zee :) - Carolyn
Thanks for inviting me Zee, I am reading the previous posts - Taban Khajehnassiri
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Startup Success: Andrew Leyden posted a message
“Just wondering how many startups are still on dedicated servers and how many have made the switch to the 'cloud' of Amazon, Google, etc. We're looking at some cost cutting in the next few weeks and trying to price out different options to keep things alive (cheaper) as the going gets a bit rougher.”
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FWIW, we have several dedicated boxes with an added bandwidth package from our hosting company that runs us between $4,000-$5,000 a month. We're probably going to drop at least one or two boxes, and possibly move some of our heavy storage requirements to the Amazon cloud to save on bandwidth costs. But I've definitely been tasked to look at all options. - Andrew Leyden
We are about to release a widget for Wordpress that we'll quickly move to other platforms. We costed it out a while ago and decided (quite easily) that moving to VMs on the cloud was the best solution. It's cheap initially and can scale fairly quickly. - mike
We're on the verge of going cloud. We'd probably go cloud before going dedicated. The way the balance of our needs work out, we can probably keep our site on a beefed up VPS for the time being, and move the service API workload out into the cloud. - Andrew Badera
Talk to Oren Michels or Scott Rafer at Mashery...entirely cloud based from get go... - Alan Edgett
Unfortunately we are a dedicated hosting environment. Both managed and the cheaper unmanaged. We still see growth in both areas, but the cloud makes sense for certain areas. - Chris
@ andrew leyden You might want to check out BlueLock www.bluelock.com I think their monthly packages start significantly lower then $4,000 a month - Lorraine Ball
I'm hearing a lot more people switching to the cloud. - Steve Spalding
I'm still on a dedicated server for each site. i think until you really (need to) scale up the cloud isn't a huge issue.I'm more interested in scaling 3rd party services (e.g. entry level consumer of 3rd party data) - weblivz
Those of us whose models depend on scale, or anyone whose app takes off suddenly, anyone who has predictable troughs in demand, are perfect candidates for the benefits of cloud computing. And, it's better, IMO, to already be in the cloud, if there's no additional cost associated, rather than trying to go cloud WHEN or AFTER demand hits. - Andrew Badera
I see the latest Twitter blog post - Ev admits, like every startup, they started without scale. I agree the cloud is *easier* to be part of than it used to be (Twitter used s3 for it's images since the start i think), but exclusively? - weblivz via twhirl
Can someone explain how switching to the cloud works? We are a not-yet-started startup. We have a VPS and 12-hour backups to S3. Before we go 'live' we will have a failover to another VPS as well. I understand the concept of backing up to S3, etc. but I don't understand how switching would work unless I am reading too much into the word and it means using the cloud as an extra backup location? - david
Depends on the nature of your needs. Some places, like EC2 or Rackspace, offer fullblown IaaS. Others like Google App Engine lock you in with PaaS, which restricts you to writing Python apps to serve your needs. Hadoop offers a data cloud. Nirvanix offers CDN/SDN cloud-like facilities. - Andrew Badera
If you need Google's BigTable, Amazon's SimpleDB, or Microsoft's SSDS (in beta), then you also need to recognize, and understand how to employ, access, iterate, Entity-Attribute-Value, or "horizontal" data structures. These are all graph or graph-like databases. - Andrew Badera
In my case I have a website that's relatively low traffic, but a web service API that needs to scale. So, I part my service calls out to a cloud service, let the cloud handle the demand, then pump the data down to a data warehouse for conventional OLTP and reporting. - Andrew Badera
david, amazon web services are much more than a storage facility (S3), you can have EC2 (elastic compute cloud) instances running and fire them up as/when needed. They are basically images of a OS of choice running off with the calc power and memory you chose. If a small EC2 becomes unresponsive (for example too much load on that one) you can fire a bigger one up and smoothly (and instantly) migrate to that one. you may want to give a look at the AWS developers doc, there are a lot of very nice examples - lezionidistile
much better and more useful than the ones I can make on friendfeed... you'll find them here: http://aws.amazon.com/resource... - lezionidistile
We have been moving clients (and our own services) to the Mosso cloud system. Capacity scales automatically, the environment is straight PHP and / or .NET from our point of view and we have non of the crazy hoops to jump through to configure for EC2. - Soulhuntre
There are team members in our group actively learning the tricks and traps of EC2 with the goal of moving off a hugely expensive dedicated rack of servers. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠
Care to share some of those tricks and traps? Your team keeping a blog by any chance? I'd love to share in their insights. - Andrew Badera
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What Google Engineers do for Fun: Computerized Lego Art Project | The "Break it Down" Blog
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"What you see above isn’t a horribly pixelated image in 8-bit or something that like… it’s actually a picture of a flower done completely with Lego piece" - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠ via Bookmarklet
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Expect to see start-ups and VCs hit standoff over valuations » VentureBeat
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"In a climate of fear, the power pendulum swings back to the VCs. The VC knows that an entrepreneur won’t be as likely to get money elsewhere, so he plays hardball. The entrepreneur is more ready to cave in on the valuation. That means when a VC gives the entrepreneur money, the VC can claim more ownership of the company with a given amount of investment (because the company is worth less.)" - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠ via Bookmarklet
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Sally Church posted a message
“Just checking out for the day and decided to check my spam box instead of deleting sight unseen. So glad I did... some editor of an industry magazine read my blog on competitive intelligence and web2.0 tools this morning and has invited me to write an article in their magazine next month on....”
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Competitve intelligence and web 2.0 tools - spooky or what? Wow. - Sally Church
Thats great news Sally. - Bored
Hooray!! - Mona N. via fftogo
Fantastic! nice one :) - Kim
Am still in shock and already have two guest blogs I've been invited to write on cancer to do. This blogging thing is suddenly getting hot, w00t! - Sally Church
I did the same (checking spam not deleting) and found an email from someone who was researching an article. - Rob Diana
Congratulations! - Kyle Lacy
lol, I think it's just that you're a hot blogger :)) - Kim
That's great, Rob! - Sally Church
Damn, I am obviously tired, totally forgot to congratulate you Sally! - Rob Diana
Rob, don't be silly man! - Sally Church
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Canadian Politics: Shey posted a link
Harper promises tax break for children enrolled in arts activities
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"Stephen Harper promised $380-million worth of tax credits Monday for parents with young children. Harper would also allow charities and not-for-profit organizations to establish Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) for children of low-income families. - Shey via Bookmarklet
But this isn't support for working artists. It's a slap in the face to cultural producers. This isn't "family" issue, it's a national cultural issue. Additionally, ALL children should have viable arts programs in their schools - programs that parents shouldn't pay for out of pocket. - Mel "VOTE NDP" McB
Umm, school arts stuff is provincial - Feds have no say in that. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠
Harper subscribes to the "my kid could paint that!" school of arts funding. - Chuck LeDuc Díaz
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1.00CAD = 0.84USD
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WOW! I can't believe how far our dollar has dropped in the last few weeks! I wonder if the latest mortgage "bail out" by our feds will help? - Jasmin Smith via Bookmarklet
I dunno, our currency is really tied to commodities like oil not bank liquidity. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠
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Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠ posted a message
“Drunk Pumpkin”
Drunk Pumpkin
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Actually, we've had this smell of burning rubber in the office all afternoon. Makes me feel like that pumpkin. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠
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