The new Nokia 7600 phone is unveiled in Helsinki September 25, 2003. The radically shaped 3G phone is expected to be available in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific towards the end of the year.
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The new Nokia 7600 phone is unveiled in Helsinki September 25, 2003. The radically shaped 3G phone is expected to be available in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific towards the end of the year.
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"hiiiiio misssa thomas"
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/china_japan
China fury over mass orgy, demands Japan teach tourists to behave
BEIJING (AFP) - The Chinese government has ordered Japan to teach its citizens how to behave following an "extremely odious" mass orgy between hundreds of Japanese tourists and Chinese prostitutes.
Responding to mounting fury over the three-day orgy in a hotel in the southern city of Zhuhai on the anniversary of Japan's occupation of China, the Chinese foreign ministry (news - web sites) said it had launched a formal investigation
The Chinese media and Internet chatrooms have been crackling with anger over reports of the September 16-18 sex marathon which reportedly involved 380 male Japanese tourists and 500 prostitutes at a five-star hotel.
"This case is of an extremely odious nature," foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan said in a statement late Sunday.
"Foreign citizens in China must abide by Chinese laws," Kong said. "We hope the Japanese government will improve their citizens' education about this."
The incident has ignited a wave of nationalistic and anti-Japanese sentiment, with many people convinced the orgy was timed to humiliate China on September 18, the anniversary of the start of Japan's occupation of northeast China in 1931.
Newspapers quoted Chinese witnesses as saying the Japanese tourists admitted coming to Zhuhai purely for sex. They said the five-star Zhuhai International Convention Center Hotel was overrun with tourists openly groping and hugging prostitutes in elevators and other public places.
Reports said doors between hotel rooms were left open and that up to three or four girls could be seen or heard servicing clients in each room.
The public security bureau in the southern province of Guangdong has also launched an inquiry into the incident, while the hotel has been temporarily shut down.
The incident underlines sensitive the relationship between the Chinese people its Asian neighbors, despite booming trade and the fact that Japan is China's largest trade partner.
Anti-Japanese sentiment forever simmers under the surface of increasing trade, tourism and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Memories of Japan's wartime atrocities, including rapes and use of Chinese women as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers, remain strong among the older generation, and the history of the Japanese occupation until 1945 is regularly taught to the younger generation.
Despite the official outrage over the incident, China's booming southern cities are a well-known magnet for sex tourists from within China as well as from places such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.
Media reports said the hotel's marketing and sales department, using its contacts in Japan, had organized the group of all-male Japanese tourists to come to Zhuhai. The "madame" of the hotel's nightclub allegedly prepared the large group of prostitutes.
More than 15,000 messages by angry Chinese have been posted on one Chinese website alone, denouncing the incident as "national shame" while some called for a boycott of Japanese products.
the video from jack blacks movie school of rock.. funnnny
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* ingrid shwaiko *
elingro: dude. did i tell you i went to nyc this weekend?
makaveliblaze: you did .. with school right
elingro: i'm moving to the village
makaveliblaze: shut up
makaveliblaze: im comin to visit
elingro: hahaha.
elingro: oh, it's gonna happen
makaveliblaze: can i hang out with your hot model friends
elingro: plus size model friends. i'm not surrounding myself with women who look better than me
ingrid is soo funny
makaveliblaze: you did .. with school right
elingro: i'm moving to the village
makaveliblaze: shut up
makaveliblaze: im comin to visit
elingro: hahaha.
elingro: oh, it's gonna happen
makaveliblaze: can i hang out with your hot model friends
elingro: plus size model friends. i'm not surrounding myself with women who look better than me
ingrid is soo funny
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back by popular demand
DFink2117: hey man that link on your website where you can search court records is really fun
http://208.210.219.132/vadistrict/select.jsp
go to arlington county and search kerby, godbolt, dickie, preston, tillage, or anyone sketchy in atown (nothing personal)
go to arlington county and search kerby, godbolt, dickie, preston, tillage, or anyone sketchy in atown (nothing personal)
A homeless man sleeps in a couch on the sidewalk. Some 1.7 million people in the United States joined the ranks of the poor in 2002 and the poverty rate increase to 12.1 percent from 11.7 percent a year earlier(AFP/File/Hector Mata)
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WET white entertainment television
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=9&u=/nm/odd_cookies_dc
Texas Conservative Group Sets Cookie Price on Race
DALLAS (Reuters) - Southern Methodist University said on Thursday it shut down a bake sale on campus by a conservative political group that sold cookies at different prices, based on a customer's race and gender.
The Young Conservatives of Texas, a nonpartisan group that mostly campaigns for Republican-backed policies and candidates, said the bake sale was aimed at bringing attention to what it sees as flaws in affirmative action policies. The university said the group's actions were offensive.
Cookies were priced at $1 for white males, 75 cents for white females, 50 cents for Hispanics and 25 cents for blacks.
"Young Conservatives of Texas strongly opposes different standards for different races," said David Rushing, the chairman of the group at SMU in Dallas said. He said it was wrong for the university to shut down their sale.
"We find it appalling that a university that is supposed to be dedicated to the enlightenment of its own students and the free flow of ideas would stifle the opinions of a group of students based on objections from a handful of other students," Rushing said.
SMU is one of the largest private universities in Dallas. Other groups have launched similar sales at various U.S. universities since about February of this year.
While the bake sale raised eyebrows about its political message, it was a commercial failure. The group only sold about $1.50 worth of cookies.
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Eminem Produces Track Featuring Both Tupac And Biggie
Eminem Produces Track Featuring Both Tupac And Biggie
Earlier this year we heard Eminem rhyme over one of Tupac's beats. Now the deceased hip-hop rebel is rapping over one of Slim Shady's tracks.
Eminem recently completed production of "Running (Dying to Live)," the first single from the upcoming "Tupac: Resurrection" soundtrack. In addition to the verse from Pac, the record includes a Notorious B.I.G. rhyme for the first verse.
"Check it, I grew up a f---in' screw-up," Biggie says on the song. Later he raps about wanting to be the "the black Frank White," a nickname he adopted, and continues his assault.
"Run from the police/ Picture that n---a/ I'm too fat," he barks. "I f--- around and catch a asthma attack."
Em constructed the beat with hammering piano chords, violins and bass. The King of Detroit also sampled blues-rocker Edgar Winters' "Dying to Live" for the chorus: "Why am I fighting to live, if I 'm just living to fight?/ Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing in sight?/ Why am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try?/ Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?"
Tupac rounds the record off with his militant street-soldier poetry. "A couple of movies now the whole world trying to screw me," he says. "Even the cops tried to sue me/ So what can I do, but stay true sippin' 22s of brew…/ Misery is all I see, that's my mind state ..."
"Running (Dying to Live)" isn't the only record Eminem produced for the "Tupac: Resurrection" soundtrack, according to an Interscope Records spokesperson, who would only add that the soundtrack will also include songs from Pac that tell a chronological story of his life and career.
The "Tupac: Resurrection" soundtrack comes out on November 4 and features four new Tupac songs in all as well as a slew of his greatest hits. The film that inspired the soundtrack hits theaters on November 14 .
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:: Mogadishu ::
A Somali truck loaded with corn is parked on the side of a road in Mogadishu, September 24, 2003. The delapidated city is the capital of the failed Horn of Africa state, where motorists have the choice of driving on the right or the left hand side of the road, such is Mogadishu's anarchy. Car wrecks, goats, cattle and the tent-like homes of refugees line the pot-holed, sandy streets. The country collapsed into chaos in 1991 after the ousting of former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna
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*Medal of Fuckin Honor
http://www.eagames.com/official/moh_alliedassault/home.jsp
yeah i love this game..
multiplayer demo is free ! holller
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+ Mr Jeffries the Bassett Hound +
The dog with the largest ears in the world as recognised by the new 2004 Guiness Book of World Records, Mr Jeffries the Bassett Hound, is seen in this handout photo made available Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2003. Jeffries, whose ears measure 29.2 cm (11.5 in) lives with his owner, Phil Jeffries, in West Sussex, England. Mr Jeffries' full name is Knightsfollie Ladiesman and he is the grandson of Biggles, the face of Hush Puppies shoes. His ears are insured for 30,000 pounds ($47,800). (AP Photo/Guinness World Records)
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+| the pietasters at the 930 club |+
http://www.930.com
The Pietasters
w/ Lost City Angels • River City Rebels • Punchline
FRI. SEP. 26
$12.00
the pietasters are sooo good live.. and they are from dc, bonus
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<< pixelsurgeon interview : Jakob Nielsen >>
http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/interview.php?id=45
Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Until 1998, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and led that company's Web usability efforts starting with the original design of SunWeb in early 1994.
Nielsen's Alertbox column about Web usability has been published on the Internet since 1995 and currently has about 200,000 readers.
Amongst other things, Jakob Nielsen has been called "the king of usability" (Internet Magazine), "the guru of Web page usability" (The New York Times), and an "eminent Web usability guru" (CNN).
Love him or loathe him, his contributions to the internet debate, particularly on the subject of Flash, have made him infamous and raised the important issue of usability amongst web designers.
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* Mary Carey for Governor *
http://www.marycareyforgovernor.com
so her name is mary carey.. and she looks like mariah carey. mmhhmm
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++ va court records ++
search the va court records..
try JT dickie in arlington county... lol
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+ canadian innovates +
quoting the canadainnovates.com article..
Teknision Inc. implements electronic media strategies through a solid background in traditional web technologies with a focus on dynamic Flash applications. Teknision pushes the envelope with internationally recognized design and development.
The Teknision.com website is designed to engage the visitor in communicating with the Teknision staff. That simple idea is revolutionary. Nowhere else can you immediately be included in a forum where you can converse with everyone on the site as well as the people behind the company. Text, audio and video are all there. Visitors can have information pushed to them or have their experience guided by Teknision staff. What is created is an instant feeling of community. This community has seen great rewards for Teknision and is what pushes innovation in digital design. The site has been reviewed by many design portals and magazines around the globe.
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en
World's Beer Drinkers March to Munich Oktoberfest
Thousands of beer drinkers from around the world, many in traditional Bavarian lederhosen, flocked to Munich on a sunny Saturday for the largest and most famous beer festival on earth, the Oktoberfest.
Munich mayor Christian Ude opened the two-week festival at midday, cracking open the first 200-liter keg with the customary shout of "O'zapft is" -- the keg is tapped.
That was the signal for an army of brawny waitresses in traditional dirndl dresses to start heaving liter glasses of specially brewed lager to the thirsty crowds as oompah bands churned out endless jolly drinking songs.
Outside in the brilliant sunshine, crowds eating sausages, ice cream or gingerbread strolled past fun rides and food stalls, while inside the tents, beer drinkers locked arms and roared along with the bands.
"The mood is great, the weather, the atmosphere, everything's just right," said Alfred Niederreiter, on a visit to his home town with his wife after a decade of living in eastern Germany.
By the time the 170th Oktoberfest ends on October 5, some six million visitors are expected to have passed through 14 enormous tents, each capable of holding up to 10,000 people at a time, and to have drunk over 5.5 million liters (1.453 million U.S. gallons) of beer.
The consumption of food is equally impressive. Last year the visitors consumed 219,405 pairs of pork sausage, which lined end to end would stretch for more than 50 km (30 miles).
They ate 87 oxen, 58,746 legs of pork and almost half a million roast chickens, and organizers are expecting a similarly gargantuan total this year.
CELEBRATION
The Oktoberfest began life in 1810 as a five-day celebration of the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildenburghausen and has developed into an annual extravaganza of food, drink and folklore, spawning tributes and imitations from Chicago to Hong Kong.
The festival is one of Germany's biggest tourist events, attracting visitors from all over the world, employing some 12,000 people and generating almost one billion euros ($1.13 billion) for the local economy.
"The color, the warmth of the German people, the beer, seeing everyone having a good time, it's fabulous," said Marco Ferrari, who drove up from Milan with a group of friends.
This year's festival opens a day before state elections which are expected to deliver another landslide win to premier Edmund Stoiber and the conservative Christian Social Union which has governed Bavaria for the past four decades.
Stoiber himself drew huge cheers from the crowd as he entered the festival's main tent although a chorus of boos and whistles also broke out when he mentioned the upcoming election.
Security has been stepped up at the 31-hectare main site after the arrest earlier this month of a group of suspected right wing extremists who police believe were plotting a bomb attack on a Jewish center in Munich.
But authorities have found no signs of any plan for a repeat of a bomb attack on the 1980 Oktoberfest, when 13 people died. ($1=.8852 Euro)
http://www.britishairways.com/
british airways is having a 100$ flight deal to london.. ! from oct to dec. ! the offer expires on sept 25 so act now.
i looked at a flight from wash dulles to london for 100$ each way.. thats hot.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030920/168/5bz7l.html&e=3
Paris Hilton, left, and Nicole Richie pose with Tinkerbelle in this undated publicity photo. The friends star in Fox's new reality series 'The Simple Life,'' a new reality series that ``chronicles two affluent socialites as they make the transition from filthy rich to just plain filthy,'' that will premiere in December, the Fox network announced, Friday, 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Fox, Sam Jones)
http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2003/08/13/1060588454223.htm
from the age.com.au
Graffiti goes upmarket
Technically, stencil art is illegal graffiti. But it is gaining legitimacy as a cultural phenomenon, writes James Norman.
A Melbourne stencil artist who calls himself dlux, wearing a hooded windcheater, tracksuit pants and formidable no-brand runners, leads the way to a warehouse in North Melbourne.
A few empty cans of scotch and Coke lie among the clutter of cardboard and plastic cutout stencils. There are bubble-wrapped canvasses against a wall and a shabby ping-pong table in the foyer. A pile of spent aerosol cans lie discarded around the studio's periphery.
Eight artists share this space, most of them using it as a base for stencil art - a hybrid of graffiti and graphic design that is sweeping Melbourne's public places.
The 25-year-old artist often composes his images on computer, scanning newspapers and magazines or scouring the internet for inspiration. The images are then transferred onto cardboard or plastic templates, over which can be sprayed aerosol paints. Spraying the images onto a wall or canvas can take seconds and is infinitely repeatable.
"Stenciling is graffiti in the legal sense of the word, but it's not graffiti in the cultural sense of the word," says dlux, perched on a stool beside his work table, with a well-organised folio of plastic stencils in a folder in front of him.
It does appear to be gaining legitimacy in the art world. Andrew Mac, curator of the CityLights public art projects, has recently been contacted by the National Gallery of Australia to research the Melbourne stencil art scene. The National Gallery will be staging the Australian Print Symposium in Canberra next year and Mac has been asked to address the conference on Melbourne stencil art.
"Stenciling is quite closely connected to print making," Mac says. "The National Gallery is aware that there is an incredible amount of activity going on, and I guess their job is to be representative of what's happening in Australian art.
"The gallery recognises that people are selling this work now, despite the fact that most of the work is on city walls."
Anne McDonald, the curator for Australian prints and drawings at the National Gallery, says she sees stencil art as a legitimate print medium. "It's the equivalent of the political posters of the 1970s and 1980s that dealt with a whole range of topical issues at the time. We've had exhibitions of poster art in the past. The National Gallery has the premier collection of Australian prints and it's very important for us to keep up with what is happening in the current scene - it seems to be a very vibrant movement."
McDonald says the gallery is becoming increasingly aware of the collectable nature of stencil art.
"There are exhibitions popping up all over the country. Many artists are now appropriating stencil imagery into more traditional art. While the gallery would never condone graffiti, we are interested to reflect what is happening in the contemporary public art scene."
Internationally, stencil art also seems to be the flavour of the month, with San Francisco's Crucible Steel gallery holding an upcoming exhibition it describes as "the first art show to document the vitality, creativity and diversity of the emerging worldwide stencil community and the dialogue that its art creates".
London art publishers Thames & Hudson recently released the book Stencil Graffiti, by Tristan Manco. "I think graffiti has always interested the visual arts movement and publishing communities," says Peter Shaw, general manager of Thames & Hudson Australia. "Stencil graffiti is just an extension of that. It's the extension of graffiti, which has particular interest to both the arts and corporate world."
Quite what the corporate world would make of the images on display in dlux's workspace is hard to imagine. There's his framed cutout stencil of a bicycle with a blue background and the words "Dub, Swallow, Regurgitate". A collection of material by other stencilers presents an image of Osama bin Laden extending his right middle finger. The Queen has a disturbingly evil sneer in the next piece. A forlorn William S. Burroughs straddles the words "Virtue is a relative". A bikini-clad woman with a machine gun sprawls above the words "Clone Me". Beside her a black robot punches the air beside the words "Why do you feel so sad?"
"It's a backlash against boring surroundings," says dlux, "wanting to go against advertising, to provide an aesthetic alternative that is not just about selling things. To present something that is abstract, the phenomenology of things appearing in places for no apparent reason. To create images which will last and be looked at over and over."
He started out, he says, at high school, "reading whatever magazines I could get my hands on that talked about street art".
"But I didn't grow up in an urban environment, so it was always an abstract thing. When I moved to Adelaide I started seeing work around by this guy called SYNC, mainly stickers placed in startling locations. I saw his stuff everywhere and was really excited by it - I wanted to compete with him and be a part of it."
After high school, dlux says he went to art school, and now "this is the art that I choose to make. It's how I feel happy contributing to my environment".
Does he see a connection between corporate logos and stencil art? "Corporate logos are the way we understand the world now. They are images that are filled with information. That also goes for stencils - it's how stencils work on the same levels as advertising in order to actively subvert it - squeezing lots of information into one recognisable, repeatable image."
Perhaps that's why some multinational corporations, such as Nike, have been chasing famous stencil artists such as British artist Banksy to design their latest advertising logos. Banksy is perhaps the world's best-known stenciler, having recently designed an album cover for British pop band Blur.
At a recent London solo exhibition called Turf War, Banksy stenciled two cows from top to bottom with pictures of arrows and Anglo-Saxon faces, with the note: "the average African receives less in subsidies per head than an EU cow".
Banksy was in Melbourne recently and left behind mementoes of his work - his trademark stenciled rat - around the CBD and Fitzroy in particular.
dlux claims there is an ethic within stencilers' circles about which sites constitute "fair game" - he says they avoid heritage buildings and, for the most part, residential properties. He also says that racist or sexist stencils generally will not last long on the wall. "People react much more negatively to sexist or racist graffiti. They get covered over much more quickly. People will add their own messages to offensive stencils. I'm not sure that the police would be so discerning."
But not getting caught is not a concern when stencil art makes its ways into the "high" art world of commercial galleries - which is where it seems to be heading at present. Among stenciling circles internationally, Melbourne is often pointed to as a global hotspot.
"It is generational as far as Melbourne goes now - it suits the kind of people that are here now," says dlux, who adds that he has no problem with the move into high art, where the designs are generally sold on scraps of recycled timber for prices ranging from $50 to $500.
"I enjoy high-end art for what it stands for and what it is, but I generally don't like hanging out with those people," he says. "I prefer to be with people who are actually making art. But I am constantly pushing to see the work recognised in that art world too. The art is pushing boundaries, and as a movement it is making a niche in art history."
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power is love
having no power sucks, it came back on just a hour ago.. i was goin crazy!
check out.
http://www.group94.com
ther shit is fuckin gangster. !
check out.
ther shit is fuckin gangster. !
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icon + factory
icons for mac and windows, and the icon builder is a photoshop plugin for makin icons..
cool sthuf
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Taillights from vehicles are shown in a time exposure as motorists depart Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, which is located on a barrier island, September 16, 2003. The traffic was crossing the Atlantic Beach-Morehead City Bridge as the deadline for a mandatory evacuation for the island nears in the forecast path of Hurricane Isabel. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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This would be so chilll
http://www.risd.edu/child_book.cfm
RISD : Rhode Island School of Design : CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION
from the site:
Here is an opportunity for aspiring illustrators to build expertise and technique as they learn to create excellent children’s book illustrations. This certificate program provides students with the skills and critical information they need to begin a career in illustration, not only for books, but for a wide range of children’s media. The curriculum surveys the field while advancing students’ skills in drawing, painting, research and concept development. Ultimately, participants become familiar with the unique formats and protocols of this highly specialized field while building an eye-catching portfolio–their most critical asset in breaking into the predominantly freelance industry.
To earn a certificate in Children’s Book Illustration, candidates must complete the following coursework. The sequence shown here is very important, as prerequisites must be observed to ensure success in each course. To maintain active status, students must take a minimum of two certificate courses per academic year. All courses, prerequisites and schedules are subject to change without notice.
RISD : Rhode Island School of Design : CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION
from the site:
Here is an opportunity for aspiring illustrators to build expertise and technique as they learn to create excellent children’s book illustrations. This certificate program provides students with the skills and critical information they need to begin a career in illustration, not only for books, but for a wide range of children’s media. The curriculum surveys the field while advancing students’ skills in drawing, painting, research and concept development. Ultimately, participants become familiar with the unique formats and protocols of this highly specialized field while building an eye-catching portfolio–their most critical asset in breaking into the predominantly freelance industry.
To earn a certificate in Children’s Book Illustration, candidates must complete the following coursework. The sequence shown here is very important, as prerequisites must be observed to ensure success in each course. To maintain active status, students must take a minimum of two certificate courses per academic year. All courses, prerequisites and schedules are subject to change without notice.
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http://www.blankcomm.com
__blank Communications
i was talkin to this kid at the user group.. nice work, check http://www.blankcomm.com/HudsonW
__blank Communications
i was talkin to this kid at the user group.. nice work, check http://www.blankcomm.com/HudsonW
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Hurricane Isabel Closes in on East Coast
BeefJokey: holy shit
BeefJokey: this is gonna be fun
makaveliblaze: 8-)
BeefJokey: i figure ill just get some chicken
BeefJokey: liquer
BeefJokey: and weed
BeefJokey: and chill till its over
that map, makes it look like its comin straight for us ! AHHHHHH
Hurricane Isabel closed in on the North Carolina coast on Wednesday, threatening to lash a large expanse of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard with heavy rains and winds of up to 110 mph.
Tens of thousands of people on the state's low-lying coast were urged to leave or risk getting caught in flooding caused by storm surges expected to reach up to 11 feet.
Isabel, still several hundred miles away in the Atlantic Ocean, was on a course that would put its center over North Carolina on Thursday but bring stormy weather by Wednesday night, forecasters said. The hurricane was then expected to head north through Virginia on a path that would take it west of Washington.
A steady stream of cars, trucks and vans headed west on Tuesday, away from the Outer Banks islands that jut into the Atlantic from North Carolina's northeastern coast and are a popular vacation spot.
Many vehicles pulled trailered boats, while others carried kayaks or surfboards or were piled high with belongings on rooftop carriers. Others on the islands, home to 55,000 people, decided to sit out the storm.
"Surf's up!" proclaimed one of the many spray-painted Isabel messages scrawled on plywood shutters.
An occasional open restaurant or bar hosted remaining residents and tourists. Televisions were tuned to weather forecasts.
"Waiting and watching," said Bob Heath, who planned to decide on Wednesday whether to move or not.
Isabel, a rare Category 5 storm at one point during its trek over the Atlantic, has become a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson 1 to 5 scale that measures hurricanes' destructive power, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Its top winds strengthened slightly during the evening on Tuesday.
HURRICANE WARNING EXTENDED
The center early on Wednesday extended a hurricane warning, alerting residents to hurricane conditions within 24 hours, for the coast from Cape Fear in North Carolina north to Chincoteague in Virginia, including Chesapeake Bay south of Smith Point. A hurricane watch, meaning possible hurricane conditions in 36 hours, was in effect north of Smith Point and the tidal Potomac.
A Category 2 storms can badly damage mobile homes, fell trees and damage roofs, doors and windows. Forecasters said Isabel could dump up to 10 inches of rain in places along its path.
Isabel carried hurricane-force winds extending up to 145 miles from its center and tropical-force winds extending out 260 miles. The U.S. Census Bureau said Isabel could affect nearly 50 million people in 13 states.
Officials in low-lying Dare County, which includes the central islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks, issued a mandatory evacuation order.
A county spokeswoman, Dorothy Toolan, estimated the population before the evacuation at 30,000 residents and 75,000 visitors, adding it was not clear yet how many were leaving.
Tiny Ocracoke Island and the state's northern coastal area of Currituck County also were ordered evacuated.
The U.S. Navy sent 40 ships and submarines based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, out to sea to ride out the storm. Defense officials said warplanes from several bases would be moved to safety and the Navy asked 130,000 active duty personnel around Norfolk, Virginia, to leave the area.
At 5 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Isabel's center was 450 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, at latitude 29.4 north and longitude 72.2 west. It was heading northwest at 9 mph.
John Simpson, Manager at Great Atlantic Pool & Spa, fastens the last sheet of protective plywood over the large windows of his store in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
BeefJokey: this is gonna be fun
makaveliblaze: 8-)
BeefJokey: i figure ill just get some chicken
BeefJokey: liquer
BeefJokey: and weed
BeefJokey: and chill till its over
that map, makes it look like its comin straight for us ! AHHHHHH
Hurricane Isabel closed in on the North Carolina coast on Wednesday, threatening to lash a large expanse of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard with heavy rains and winds of up to 110 mph.
Tens of thousands of people on the state's low-lying coast were urged to leave or risk getting caught in flooding caused by storm surges expected to reach up to 11 feet.
Isabel, still several hundred miles away in the Atlantic Ocean, was on a course that would put its center over North Carolina on Thursday but bring stormy weather by Wednesday night, forecasters said. The hurricane was then expected to head north through Virginia on a path that would take it west of Washington.
A steady stream of cars, trucks and vans headed west on Tuesday, away from the Outer Banks islands that jut into the Atlantic from North Carolina's northeastern coast and are a popular vacation spot.
Many vehicles pulled trailered boats, while others carried kayaks or surfboards or were piled high with belongings on rooftop carriers. Others on the islands, home to 55,000 people, decided to sit out the storm.
"Surf's up!" proclaimed one of the many spray-painted Isabel messages scrawled on plywood shutters.
An occasional open restaurant or bar hosted remaining residents and tourists. Televisions were tuned to weather forecasts.
"Waiting and watching," said Bob Heath, who planned to decide on Wednesday whether to move or not.
Isabel, a rare Category 5 storm at one point during its trek over the Atlantic, has become a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson 1 to 5 scale that measures hurricanes' destructive power, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Its top winds strengthened slightly during the evening on Tuesday.
HURRICANE WARNING EXTENDED
The center early on Wednesday extended a hurricane warning, alerting residents to hurricane conditions within 24 hours, for the coast from Cape Fear in North Carolina north to Chincoteague in Virginia, including Chesapeake Bay south of Smith Point. A hurricane watch, meaning possible hurricane conditions in 36 hours, was in effect north of Smith Point and the tidal Potomac.
A Category 2 storms can badly damage mobile homes, fell trees and damage roofs, doors and windows. Forecasters said Isabel could dump up to 10 inches of rain in places along its path.
Isabel carried hurricane-force winds extending up to 145 miles from its center and tropical-force winds extending out 260 miles. The U.S. Census Bureau said Isabel could affect nearly 50 million people in 13 states.
Officials in low-lying Dare County, which includes the central islands of North Carolina's Outer Banks, issued a mandatory evacuation order.
A county spokeswoman, Dorothy Toolan, estimated the population before the evacuation at 30,000 residents and 75,000 visitors, adding it was not clear yet how many were leaving.
Tiny Ocracoke Island and the state's northern coastal area of Currituck County also were ordered evacuated.
The U.S. Navy sent 40 ships and submarines based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, out to sea to ride out the storm. Defense officials said warplanes from several bases would be moved to safety and the Navy asked 130,000 active duty personnel around Norfolk, Virginia, to leave the area.
At 5 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Isabel's center was 450 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, at latitude 29.4 north and longitude 72.2 west. It was heading northwest at 9 mph.
John Simpson, Manager at Great Atlantic Pool & Spa, fastens the last sheet of protective plywood over the large windows of his store in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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Battery Park : Two columns of light , known as the Tribute in Light Memorial, emanate into the sky from Battery Park City to mark the second anniversary of the attacks on September 11
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Last touch : Italian restorer Cinzia Parnigoni works on cleaning one of the world's most famous statues, Michelangelo's David, at the Galleria del'Academia in Florence where the statue has been kept since 1873. (AFP/Patrick Hertzog)
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fuckin hippies
Anti-US rally : Anti-US demonstrators opposing global trade liberalization burn the Stars and Stripes during a rally near the US Embassy in Manila to denounce the recently concluded WTO talks in Mexico. (AFP/Romeo Gacad)
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+ grrr +
Jenny, an eleven-month-old pug, stares at Buster Brown, a four-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, in front of the Seaside Espresso kiosk in the Inner Harbor in Victoria, Canada Monday, Sept.15, 2003. The dogs are best of friends and spend most days together with their owner Andrew Vlassie who owns the kiosk. (AP Photo/Victoria Times-Colonist/Darren Stone)
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++ DC Flash Users Group ++
the DC Flash Users Group (DC-FUG) Tuesday, September
16th at 7pm
The September 16th meeting will be held from 7pm - 9:30 pm, at Henninger Arlington.
Henninger is located at 2601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va.
16th at 7pm
The September 16th meeting will be held from 7pm - 9:30 pm, at Henninger Arlington.
Henninger is located at 2601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va.
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----+---- rosie storey.com ----+----
http://www.rosiestorey.com/
i made this for rosie last night... in a few hours..
im pretty happy with it.
Dr HaZmAt 21: nice!
imhaunted247: i'm truly impressed
InfamousOreo: That's hot
Moosedawg23: sweeeeeet 8-)
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Dumb and Dumber: Robbers Foil Themselves
MISHAWAKA, Ind. - Two would-be robbers left an Indiana convenience store empty-handed after getting into an argument about the contents of a note they handed to the clerk.
The two men entered the 7-Eleven store in Mishawaka, just east of South Bend, early Tuesday morning.
They left the store and came back a few minutes later. One of them handed the clerk a note saying, in part, "put it in the bag."
When the clerk said she didn't understand what that meant, the man who handed her the note said he didn't know either because his buddy wrote it.
The two men began to argue and left the store. They are still at large.
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.: chillin :.
Srinuan will no longer spend his afternoons bumping into tree trunks, fire hydrants and humans, thanks to his new prescription goggles.(AFP/File)
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|| Fisher Price Phonograph Turntable ||
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+ hail bush ! +
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030914/161/59jhd.html&e=2
from yahoo news:
President Bush waves at a fundraiser for the Republican candidate for the Mississippi governorship, Haley Barbour, at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, Sept. 12, 2003. With Bush's poll numbers dropping, many fellow Republicans are uneasy about the state of the U.S. economy, rising budget deficits, and the U.S. military operation in Iraq.
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+-- Grand Theft Auto --+
Tennessee Teens Say Video Game Inspired Fatal Sniping
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Two teen-age stepbrothers, who killed a motorist while randomly firing at vehicles on a highway, said they were inspired by the virtual sniping in the video game "Grand Theft Auto," prosecutors said on Thursday.
A Cocke County judge ordered Joshua and William Buckner, 13 and 16 years old, respectively, to be held until they reach age 19 after the two pleaded guilty to reckless homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.
The boys admitted they traded off firing a rifle from a wooded hilltop overlooking a highway in June, killing Canadian Aaron Hamel, 45, and wounding a woman motorist. A passenger riding with Hamel was also injured when his car ran off the road.
Prosecutor Al Schmutzer told Judge Ben Strand the boys told authorities they were mimicking the video game by trying to hit the sides of passing trucks.
"This act is as reckless as you can get," Schmutzer said. "There is always the risk that at some point a bullet would strike as it did and not as the boys say they intended."
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| Apple Sues Apple |
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1478193/20030912/beatles.jhtml?headlines=true
Apple Sues Apple
Beatles' Apple Corps record label is accusing Apple Computers of souring on a deal.
Apple Corps Ltd., owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and the estate of George Harrison, filed a lawsuit against Apple Computers, accusing the makers of iPods, the iTunes music store and a host of other technological advancements of violating an agreement stating that the computer company would stay out of the music business.
The deal was struck in 1991 to outline the future use of the name and logos. With the launch of iTunes and iPod, the label contends that Apple Computers has gone from RAM and ROM to rap and rock.
"Over a decade ago, Apple signed an agreement with Apple Corps, a business controlled by the Beatles and their heirs, which specified the rights each company would have to use the 'Apple' trademark," read a statement from the computer company. "Unfortunately, Apple and Apple Corps now have differing interpretations of this agreement, and will need to ask a court to resolve this dispute."
Apple Corps Ltd. filed the suit in London's High Court in July, about two months after the launch of iTunes, seeking monetary damages and a judgment to uphold the deal.
The computer company received notice recently.
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+ baltimore +
friday night was soooo tight..
my boy chris had a party in his apt in Baltimore
shout out to chris for being such a great host
my boy chris had a party in his apt in Baltimore
shout out to chris for being such a great host
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+ Gang Starr +
Black Eyed Peas with Gang Starr
Towson Center Arena
Towson, MD
Thu, 10/09/03
On Sale Fri, 09/12/03
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:: MY RESUME ! ::
Dmpls128: oh how i remember doing your photo projects for you back in the day
jesseresume.htm
peep my online resume..
a work in progress.. this is ver 1.0
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makaveliblaze: is ther graphic on top too much ?
makaveliblaze: i was gonna do a collage of work ive done
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jesseresume.htm
peep my online resume..
a work in progress.. this is ver 1.0
sullivane14: nice dude
sullivane14: iut looks awesome
makaveliblaze: :-D
sullivane14: good job
orMeganO: wow, you've done quite a lot
Moosedawg23: yeah man 8-)
makaveliblaze: is ther graphic on top too much ?
makaveliblaze: i was gonna do a collage of work ive done
Moosedawg23: no man it looks perfect to me
phinespice: i am impressed with resume
luvgreen217: DAMN!!
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luvgreen217: applause
makaveliblaze: ya think ?
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luvgreen217: tre professional
makaveliblaze: :-P
luvgreen217: seriously though.. it look really good
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+ lost in translation opens today ! +
a interview with sofia coppola ..(sorry its soo long)
Q: Sofia, the vantage point of a young woman has been a constant in the work you've done so far. But here, working with Bill Murray, you explore the older man's as well…
Sofia Coppola: …and he's having a midlife crisis in Japan - where it's already so confusing. In the film, Charlotte is having that early 20s, "what do I do with my life" crisis. She and Bob are two people at opposite ends of something comparable; she's just going into a marriage and he's on the other end, having been in one for years. There is camaraderie between them at the moment in time that they're at. It's two characters going through a similar personal crisis, exacerbated by being in a foreign place. Trying to figure out your life in the midst of all of that…I always do that on trips, just start to think of these issues when I'm away from home.
Ross Katz: One of the exciting things for me was what Sofia said to me when we met: "Bill Murray is my leading man." We did not conceive of this movie without him. I genuinely believe that Sofia would not have made it if he didn't agree to do it. He is a real leading man and his performance is, I think, wonderful.
Q: What was the genesis of the idea for Lost in Translation? Did it come from a specific trip?
SC: It was inspired by spending time in Japan in my early and mid-20s. I went there six or seven times over a couple of years. Just from spending time there, being in the Park Hyatt Tokyo, I wanted to do something set in Tokyo, and I liked the idea of how, in hotels, you keep running into the same people. There's this sort of camaraderie even though you don't know them or even talk to them. And, being foreigners in Japan - things are distorted, exaggerated. You're jet-lagged and contemplating your life in the middle of the night. Also, I love Bill Murray and I really wanted to write something for him showing his more sensitive side - what you felt a little bit of in Rushmore, I wanted to see more of that side. And there's just something funny about being stuck in a situation that you don't really want to be in.
Q: The Park Hyatt hotel that you stayed at, that's the one in the movie, right?
SC: Yes, although I didn't stay there when I was younger because it was expensive [laughs]…I stayed there a few times later on. There's something very specific and odd about that hotel. The city is so chaotic and here's this silent floating island in the middle of Tokyo. They have the "New York" bar and a French restaurant - but it's the Japanese version.
RK: The pool is pretty amazing too. And the view - we would often sit by windows, look out at Tokyo from 40 stories above and say, "How the hell are we going to make this movie in a few weeks?"
Q: Ross, when and how did you come aboard the project?
RK: We were brought together. I was finishing up The Laramie Project and was in L.A. on behalf of In the Bedroom, and Bart Walker - Sofia's agent - thankfully put us together for a meeting. Bart had asked me, "Would you be interested in meeting Sofia?" I said, "Are you kidding? She's one of the most exciting filmmakers around." I had just loved The Virgin Suicides so much. We met and it was a little bit like asking someone to the prom. I left our meeting thinking that she has a great sense of humor and perspective. She really understands the movies that she wants to make. Every nuance is so clear to her. I wanted to help her realize that. I waited by the phone and then she called - the best call you could get. When we were talking about Lost in Translation it was clear that she would evoke Charlotte's [(Scarlett Johannson)] journey. In addition, she really had the Bob Harris [(Bill Murray)] character down. She saw the film in terms of those special times in your life where you make a connection, and it doesn't make any sense and it doesn't fit into your world but somehow you connect with someone. Everybody comes from different places in their lives yet a lot of things are the same. Sofia talked about a memory of something that only lasts a short time yet stays with you forever - and I thought it was a great way of describing the movie.
Q: Sofia, had you gone to Japan to write the screenplay, or for further inspiration?
SC: I didn't write it there. I'd been there a lot and had my photos. A lot of the places in the movie are places I've gone. My friend Charlie Brown always takes me around. That's his nickname; his real name is Fumihiro Hayashi. I met him a long time ago and he has a fashion magazine there. Charlie is in Lost in Translation, he sings "God Save the Queen"; he always sings that, and that was one of the first images I wanted to make a movie around. I did go back a year before we shot, with friends, and videotaped anything that looked interesting and worked on the script after that. Some of that stuff I did put into the script: staying in the hotel and seeing the "aquaerobics" in the pool and having the shabu-shabu dining experience. Then there are these advertising campaigns that you see in Japan: American actors endorsing products and being a little bit embarrassed about it. I'm affectionately poking fun at it; I don't look at it as hypocritical. It's just so weird to be in Japan and to look up and see Brad Pitt selling coffee, and see a Brad Pitt head floating in a vending machine. It's one of those out-of-context things in Japan, like a replica of a French café.
Q: This film was made entirely on-location in Japan. How does a purely American filmmaking team plan on and prep for such an adventure in an exotic break from the familiar - especially as an independent feature with a modest budget?
SC: It was a big adventure. One of things I love about Tokyo is that it's so different than being in Europe - much more foreign and unfamiliar with regard to the culture, the language. Everything's different, even getting the groceries. There's different rules and traditions that you learn as you go. We got there a little bit in advance. There were about eight of us from the U.S. and the rest were local.
RK: Very different than what I'd been involved with. You can't really embark on this kind of a journey without a total willingness to have your plans change, your ideas thrown back in your face, and reinvent your plan on a daily basis. The only way you can do that is with a true partner, and that's Sofia; she was really up for the adventure. It was completely exhilarating - and terrifying at times. It's not as simple as a language barrier. A lot of people work with language barriers. More than 90% of our crew was Japanese, many of whom were non-English-speaking. In Japan, there's a different kind of cultural protocol, there's a different way that things are done, including on the filmmaking side of things - the structure of a crew and how a crew works. So, there were a lot of big adjustments on both sides. Sofia and I didn't want to jump into Japan and make an American movie, American style. I think a lot of people plop down in their location and say, "Well, we're just going to do it the way that we do it." But there were certainly examples of the language barrier. One night, we were shooting the fire alarm sequence that comes toward the end of the movie and takes place in the middle of the night. Our casting folks were great - mainly non-English-speaking. They had arranged for us to have about 50 extras there. When the extras arrived, we were ready to shoot, the camera was there, everything was set, great night for shooting - and all of the extras were dressed in business suits. We looked around and went, "Uhhhh…it's the middle of the night…?" And the casting people, through the translator, were saying, "Yes, yes, we're ready!" And we're saying, "Well, in the middle of the night, people are generally in their pajamas, nightgowns…" So our costume designer, Nancy Steiner, had to make a mad dash to the wardrobe van. We went into the Park Hyatt and pulled every robe, nightgown, casual attire, kimono that we could get and basically re-dressed all of our extras in the parking lot. Those kind of things happened a lot. But I think the other thing that happened to us, which is probably more exciting, is that the experiences and extremes of making the film were just like the experiences in the film. A lot of what was happening in the film was pure for us.
SC: Respect and honor are central to Japanese culture. We wanted to do it more Japanese style, not walk in and say, "Well this is how we do it in America." However…I remember when we were at the shabu-shabu restaurant, we were only permitted to shoot 'til 4:00 P.M. We went about 10-15 minutes over, and the owner pulled the plug - pulled the lights out. We were disrespecting the owner because we weren't done. The location manager felt we had dishonored him, too.
Q: You were on a tight shooting schedule of 27 days, including 6 days a week.
RK: "Stamina" is the word that best describes it. We pushed hard to make sure we got the movie that Sofia wanted to get. First, we had a sensible director who's not only assured but understands her actors. She has incredible intuition yet was incredibly adaptable. Second, we had a remarkable cinematographer in Lance Acord, who'd worked with Sofia on her short film Lick the Star. Lance is this great guy who you can drop from a helicopter into the middle of wherever with a camera and he'll be climbing up a tree and finding the best angle and constantly be excited and enthusiastic, always fighting to get the best shot.
SC: Lance and I had both spent time in Tokyo and like the look of the city. There's a spontaneity that we wanted to include - I wanted the informality of running around and taking snapshots. My memories of being there are snapshots. He wanted to be quick and non-invasive, and not to have to light it. We were stealthy; we relied on people in the streets being our extras. The camera was very small and portable. You're not allowed to shoot in the subway; we had to keep moving so we wouldn't be stopped - to get those shots it was just me, Lance, Scarlett, and 1-2 other people.
RK: Sofia always said, "I want to be able to move, I don't want to be burdened with having so many people that we can't actually run out and get a great shot." It was very run-and-gun, for two reasons: (1) in terms of the amount of time we had, and (2) we also wanted to have an openness to where we were. In other words…a lot of times, when you make a movie everything is so rigid in terms of "you can only shoot at this point, this is what the schedule is, and on this day we're shooting this." We wanted the ability to throw away the map and go and get what we wanted.
SC: We did steal a lot of shots on the streets. But, one day, my brother Roman was shooting second unit and ran into some Yakuza. They said we'd have to pay up, because they have their neighborhoods. And that was the end of that neighborhood for us. Our crew helped us navigate and steered us away from other Yakuza neighborhoods.
RK: One day, we had an entire interior sequence planned. And it started to rain in a very interesting place - the intersection with the elephants and the dinosaurs and all of that. And Sofia really wanted to see Charlotte in the midst of hundreds of Japanese people heading to work, heading to lunch and carrying umbrellas. We wrapped up at the arcade we were shooting in and scrapped everything, grabbed the equipment, ran several blocks away and started shooting in the rain. We completely reworked the plan because the weather was really unreliable and we just knew it was never going to look this good again, so let's get it. I'm really happy that we did, and you can see it in the film.
Q: Many independent filmmakers would have opted for DV or HD. But you remained committed to film. How was that discussed?
SC: We were encouraged to consider DV, but I wanted the movie to feel romantic…like a memory. Film does that. With the high-speed film stock [Kodak's 5263] that we were using, we could go anywhere, not light it and just shoot. Film might not be around that long, so we wanted to shoot on film while we still can. It has the nostalgic and romantic feeling of the past; that's how I remember things, through film and photos. Film gives a little bit of a distance, which feels more like a memory to me. Video is more present tense, there isn't that stepping back.
RK: None of us wanted to shoot on video. We just didn't want to do it. Basically, the philosophy going in was, let's be lean and mean in terms of the size of our crew and our ability to move. And on top of that, we wanted beautiful lighting in our film - without the standard lighting package that you would use for a scene in a big movie. We didn't want the hassle and time of that many people and that many lights. There were some people on Lance's crew that were saying - in Japanese - "There's not enough light, it's not going to be bright enough…" Lance said to them, "You've got to trust me on this." And it looks stunning; we basically used less light on this movie than I think any of us have ever used. It's glowing, it's beautiful.
Q: What with all the Japanese crew, liaisons, featured actors, et al., were there alternate modes of communication?
SC: It was like that scene in the movie where Bill's doing the commercial and it takes 10 times longer because of the translation. And we were always in a rush, so just talking to an extra in the background became a project.
RK: There was also a lot of Pictionary and Charades. We'd be trying to describe something and, if there wasn't a translator around, we'd go up on the big grease-pencil board, we'd make a picture and we'd point to it, and everyone would go, "Ah! Hi, hi, hi, hi! O-kay, o-kay, o-kay!" There was an understanding through eye contact, through pictures, through animated hand-waving, through bits of broken Japanese and English - and a mutual desire to make the same movie. We had a really terrific gaffer, Yuji Wada, "Wada-san" - he's worked with Godard and others. He's Japanese but his English is very good. Many times he served as an on-set translator for everyone. Our first assistant director, Takahide "Taka" Kawakami, has lived in New York for 16 years but was born in Osaka, Japan. He's fluent in both languages, so poor Taka had to not only AD the film but also, every time someone said, "OK, the next shot is a close-up," he would yell out the English, the translation, and then get the responses back from all the various parties and filter them back to us. People can find ways to communicate when they're rallying around the same thing.
Q: In addition to Bill Murray, Sofia has been able to elicit something from young actresses that we haven't seen them express previously onscreen.
RK: Scarlett has a worldliness, a sense of having lived a life that is well beyond her years. She was the most exciting candidate; she connected to the material and to Sofia's work in general. It was great watching all three of them - Scarlett, Sofia, and Bill - all immensely talented and all from very different walks of life and points of view. Scarlett embodied the role of Charlotte, and she's playing a young woman in her 20s, which people haven't seen her do.
SC: For the shots where Scarlett is alone in the room, I tried to keep it to as few people as possible, to keep it intimate, more like a photo shoot. I can shoot a girl sitting around in her underwear and it's not creepy because I'm not some big guy. There's an understanding between us because I've been that age. There's a shorthand.
RK: The role called for a certain complexity. Scarlett brings out what Sofia had written very specifically about this character.
Q: What was it like working with Bill Murray?
SC: It was everything I hoped for - fun to be in Tokyo with him. He's enthusiastic, great with the crew, hung out with everyone. He's great at improvising, and added so much to the scenes.
RK: I remember we were having trouble with an owner of one location, and Bill ran over and was very funny, literally scooped the guy up in his arms and swung him around and said, "C'mon, c'mon! We just need another hour! C'mon!" He was incredible, and he was a big part of why we were able to make the movie in the way that we were able to make it. I was awed being around him. On the personal side, he's generous and kind. He's also one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, articulate, and literate people that I've ever met. He'd wrap up equipment with the crew. And for those of us who were exhausted from shooting all night, he'd ask us to come down to his room and enjoy some eggs and bacon and champagne, and watch the World Series game.
SC: Breakfast and the World Series, that was fun.
Q: Giovanni Ribisi had worked with you before, as the narrator of The Virgin Suicides.
SC: Yes, and I've always wanted to do something with him in front of the camera. To me he's fun in this part because usually he plays more serious roles. He's one of my favorite actors.
Q: What were Giovanni and Scarlett told about their characters' marriage?
SC: We did some rehearsals together in L.A. so they would have a familiarity between them. I talked to them a bit about it in our rehearsal.
Q: And what were the parameters set with Bill and Scarlett for Bob and Charlotte's friendship? Is it just a friendship?
SC: It's supposed to be romantic but on the edge. Those relationships you have in real life - a little bit more than friends but not an actual romance. They get each other and it's flirtatious. They both know it's not going to go anywhere. To me, it's pretty un-sexual between them - innocent and romantic, and a friendship.
Q: The karaoke selections in the film are so specific. Who chose them?
SC: Brian Reitzell and I picked these together. It was hard to find songs for Bob, especially as he's letting loose for the first time. At a karaoke booth, Bill Murray and I were talking about Roxy Music, and I asked him to sing "More Than This." He did, and I thought it was so sweet I asked him to sing it as Bob in the scene. Luckily, we got permission to use the song.
RK: Music is one of Sofia's signatures in her films, in terms of creating mood and tone. We were in a real karaoke joint, in the Shabuya area of Tokyo. Watching Bill singing "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding" and "More Than This" was surreal and funny and moving.
Q: At the other extreme, Anna Faris' rendition of "Nobody Does It Better" lays waste to the song - did she have to be talked into that?
SC: No, and that's why I'm impressed by Anna - she's totally up for anything. She cracks me up; she's fun to watch.
Q: The music for the film is unusual in that it's two musicians doing it. How are they working together?
SC: We didn't really end up having a composer. Brian Reitzell and I had worked together on The Virgin Suicides; he plays drums with Air. He made me "Tokyo dream-pop" compilations to listen to while I was working on the script. We ended up using a lot of that in the film.
RK: Brian got involved at the script stage because he gets what Sofia is trying to relay. It's something that is hard to capture on the page, but Sofia knows exactly how to shoot it and Brian knows how to help find the sounds. There are a couple dozen distinctive pieces of music in the finished film. It was a real coup for us to have Kevin Shields, of the band My Bloody Valentine, write original pieces for the film.
SC: I'm a big fan of My Bloody Valentine and of Kevin's original work.
Q: With Lost in Translation, you're taking audiences to an exotic and teeming city in a very private manner. Often hushed and intimate despite all the hubbub. Were you able to steal moments like that for yourselves during production?
SC: Friends would take us to little hidden bars and alleyways. That's the fun of Tokyo, if you know someone who lives there. There are little hidden places that change all the time. I enjoy finding new places there and looking around. I haven't been back since we finished shooting. Looking at the movie now, finishing it up, makes me want to go back. I look forward to showing the movie to our crew there.
RK: All of us that were in relationships were calling home at really odd times of day - when it was night for them, it was day for us - you're in sort of this weird oasis where your real life doesn't exist, the only life that exists is the one of making the movie and the one of living in Japan. It's odd but also wonderful. We didn't stay in hotels and hide from where we were, we really lived in Japan and had a great, great time doing it, meeting people, befriending people, having wonderful nights out and really experiencing being there.
Q: When the cab leaves Tokyo at the end, the camera goes with it and you sense that it was goodbye for the filmmakers too.
RK: There's a beautiful line in Sofia's script which sums up Bob Harris' experience and probably a lot of ours: "Bob gets into the Presidential limo and heads towards the airport, happy he came to Tokyo, happy to be going home." The experience can't last but it wouldn't be what it is if it was something that could last. There was so much friendship born throughout the process, we ended up actually having three wrap parties because people didn't want to let go or say goodbye. On Bill's last night of shooting, we had assembled the American crew and the Japanese crew, and we had a party at a funky Chinese restaurant. We had the best time. The vibe was so great, the energy was so great, everybody wanted to be there to say goodbye to Bill. It was Bill and all of us dancing until 4:30 in the morning. We all went home, showered and changed, and about 40 minutes later Sofia and I and a small amount of the crew got on a train to Kyoto to shoot the entire Kyoto sequence.
Q: What would you like audiences to take away from their experience of watching the film? A mood? A moment? A specific emotion?
RK: I hope that people relate to it in the way that I do. I think it doesn't matter if you are the Charlotte character or the Bob character, or neither. Everybody, at a certain point, is a little lost and sometimes we just find a connection to someone that helps to re-inspire or center us. And it's something we'll never forget. I feel that, with Lost in Translation, in addition to making a very funny movie, Sofia has crafted a film that is very specific - warm and contemplative - with experiences we can all relate to.
SC: I can only say why I wanted to make the movie: to convey what I love about Tokyo and visiting the city. It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.
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makaveliblaze: which one is better ?
CRP640: second...cause it's more condensed space wise, easier to read
LXsiix: very proffessionallike
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Outkast Album Preview: From The Whole World To The Entire Universe
By now everyone should know that Outkast's double LP, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, could have easily been released as two separate albums, as the two members seemingly have two separate musical agendas on the project — separate from each other, and separate from the rest of the music industry.
Andre 3000, who wants to blow up in Hollywood, pulls from his jazz, funk and, most prominently, R&B influences to tell a bevy of love stories, while Big Boi sticks to the Kast's brand of eclectic hip-hop space tripping. The almost-ten-year vets continue to throw rap's rule book to the wayside and experiment with the abnormal.
The Love Below, Dre's half, is a concept album about relationships. The more eccentric Kast member croons his way through most of his 20 tracks which range from overtly broaching the topic of sex ("Spread") to being scared of commitment ("Dracula's Wedding").
"Where's My Panties?" is an interlude in which you hear the thoughts of Dre and his lover the morning after a one-night stand. The woman is worried that Dre thinks she's a "ho" because she got drunk on her birthday and slept with him. In reality, Dre harbors no negative feelings about her promiscuity.
"I don't give a sh-- about giving it up on the first night. That just let me know she knows what she wants out of life," he thinks to himself. "Oooh, I just want to lay in her hair," he contemplates, before he starts convincing himself not to fall in love with her.
It doesn't work. The skit segues into the song "Prototype," which finds Dre singing high-pitched praises of his lady in the form of a slow ballad. "I hope that you're the one," he sings. "If not, you are the prototype/ We'll tiptoe to the sun/ And do thangs I know you like/ I think I'm in lo-o-o-ve again."
Actress Rosario Dawson is featured on "She Lives in My Lap," another relationship song. "She lives in my lap, forever my fiancée," Dre sings over guitars, seemingly trying to come to grips with wanting to retire his player jersey. "She lives in my lap, don't leave, don't stay/ She lives in my lap, I'll get the courage one day." Dawson later helps Dre sing, "You've got me open wide, I love you/ Please come inside, baby/ It's yours, I'm yours, for sure/ Play, baby, play."
There is no playing on "Roses." Dre sounds a little like Bootsy Collins and Rick James, striking out a an ex-love named Caroline who is "mighty fine" on the outside but so ugly on the inside that he claims she's "the reason for the word bitch."
Carrie has him so up in arms, Dre even jokes that he hopes she crashes into a ditch while fixing her makeup in a speeding car en route to a club. "I know you'd like to think your sh-- don't stank/ But lean a little bit closer/ See that roses really smell like boo-boo-boo/ Yeah, roses really smell like boo-boo-boo."
Big Boi makes his only appearance on The Love Below with raps about not spending his money on gold diggers. "I wanna see ya support bra, not support ya!" he says.
Dre is one of the producers on Big Boi's Speakerboxxx, and he makes his vibe felt almost as soon as his partner's album starts with "Ghetto Musick." The intense, fluently moving track sounds like the lovechild of Miami bass, bounce and electronic. Big Boi pitches brisk b-boy rhymes to keep pace.
"You ought to be detained by the hip-hop sheriff/ Locked up, no possibility of getting out/ Because the sh-- you make is killing me and my ears and my peers/ I hear the end is near, no fear we disappear."
Big Boi's family has dispersed on "Rooster." Daddy Fat Sacks drops his pimping MO from the earlier track "Bowtie" — which features Sleepy Brown and Jazzy Pha singing the chorus "Crocodile on my feet/ Bowtie round my neck/ That's why they call me the gangsta mack/ In the Cadillac!" — and complains about being the black sheep of the family.
"OK, I start out all alone, 'cause my baby mama left me, now there's nobody at home," he raps. "Beginning to feel like Ms. Jackson done got cloned!" He continues lamenting about his missed bliss: "KO, knocked out by technicality/ The love has kissed the canvas, now the whole family is mad at me/ My daughter don't want me at her PTA meetings, and then my son he can't talk/ When I change him he's peeing/ I think he's pissed!"
Album guest star Ludacris has a cantankerous attitude as well on "Tomb of the Boom," which also features the Goodie Mob's Big Gipp and newcomers Koncrete. "Ludacris, yeah, I keep a glock in case you like to leak a lot," the braided MC warns. "Meanwhile, cranking the volume knob up on my Speakerboxxx/ 'Get the f--- on the ground!'/ Is just a phrase you might hear strolling through the A-Town."
Other guests on Speakerboxxx include Jay-Z and Killer Mike (who team up on "Flip Flop"), Khujo from the Goodie Mob and the group's former member, Cee-Lo ("Reset"), and Lil Jon and Slimm Calhoun ("Last Call"). For The Love Below, Dre stuck with the ladies. He's joined by Kelis on the aforementioned "Dracula's Wedding" and by Norah Jones on "Take Off Your Cool."
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below comes out September 23
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\\ cassatts - a new zealand cafe \\
CASATTS NZ CAFE
4536 Lee Highway
Arlington, VA 22207
i had breakfast here today.. sooo goooddd.. mmmmmmm
its a new zealand cafe.. and the menu is pretty much like a cafe in new zealand would be..
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Ad in Faisalabad : A Pakistani women carrying a bundle of cloth on her head walks by a billboard in Faisalabad. (AFP/Jewel Samad)
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| DC Flash Users Group |
from their email:
Come join the DC Flash Users Group (DC-FUG) Tuesday, September
16th at 7pm. Our topic this month, presented by John Green will be on Flash
Usability. John will survey usability, by applying the principles of
usability to web and flash design.
The September 16th meeting will be held from 7pm - 9:30 pm, at Henninger
Arlington. Henninger is located at 2601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va.
They are conveniently located within walking distance of Metro's Orange Line
Courthouse Exit (2/10of a mile west on Wilson Boulevard). The facility also
has off-street parking and metered street parking.
These meetings are free and open to anyone interested in Flash. No RSVP
necessary.
Come join the DC Flash Users Group (DC-FUG) Tuesday, September
16th at 7pm. Our topic this month, presented by John Green will be on Flash
Usability. John will survey usability, by applying the principles of
usability to web and flash design.
The September 16th meeting will be held from 7pm - 9:30 pm, at Henninger
Arlington. Henninger is located at 2601 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va.
They are conveniently located within walking distance of Metro's Orange Line
Courthouse Exit (2/10of a mile west on Wilson Boulevard). The facility also
has off-street parking and metered street parking.
These meetings are free and open to anyone interested in Flash. No RSVP
necessary.
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+ the gangster google toolbar +
http://toolbar.google.com/ download this now!
its got a pop up blocker. (see the pic below, alexis has blocked 800 since i showed him this shit.. 2 wks ago !) and its got a autofill thing for when your filling out forms, and you can search google from with in it
800!!!,
ive only gotten 121 blocked since a month ago
i guess alexis must be goin to some sketchy websites..lol
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Japan's toymaker Takara Co displays its new 22-inch (55.9 cm) liquid crystal display television, one of its first products of its electrical household appliance lineup, at an unveiling in Tokyo, September 3, 2003. Takara will launch the product as earliest as March 2004 for 300,000 yen ($2,583).
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grrrrrrr
Lucy, a seven-year old Jack Russell Terrier barks while standing on the lap of owner Stephen Milic during the Toronto Blue Jays game against the Detroit Tigers in Toronto, Sunday Sept. 7, 2003. The Jays' promotion that allowed pet owners to bring their dogs to SkyDome attracted 240 dogs.
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'concept R'
Visitors look at German car manufacturer Volkswagen's 'concept R' roadster during media day at the International car show in Frankfurt, September 9, 2003. The world's biggest car show will be open to the public until September 21. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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> bugatti <
The world's most powerful series car the Bugatti EB 16.4 Veyron with its 16 cylinders and 1001 horse power engine is displayed at the international car show IAA in Frankfurt September 9, 2003. The IAA, the world's largest motor show opens its doors to the public September 13 through September 21, 2003. REUTERS/Christian Charisius
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:: NS&S ::
Toyota displays its new design study NS&S at the international car show in Frankfurt, September 9, 2003. The IAA, the world's largest motor show, opens its doors to the public September 13 and runs through September 21. REUTERS/Christian Charisius
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++ slk ++
The newly presented Mercedes SLR McLaren on the first day of the International Auto Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003. The 60th IAA opens its doors to the public Sept. 13 through Sept. 21, 2003.
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|: SPUN :|
fuckin tight site !!!
Back in the 1980s, musician-hipsters like David Byrne and philosopher-hipsters like Jean Baudrillard just couldn't get enough of the coast-to-coast freak show called the United States. In movies like Byrne's True Stories and in books like Baudrillard's America, nearly everyone seemed to live in trailers, eat lard sandwiches and weigh more than a circus elephant. Plenty of filmmakers -- Todd Solondz for one -- still embrace a vision of the country as a grotesque, although these days it seems to crop up most frequently in movies where the nightmare of drug addiction is part of the nightmare of the country at large.
In Spun, the nightmare never ends for the pretty young Hollywood things like Mena Suvari and Brittany Murphy who play methamphetamine dress-up with pasted-on pimples and brushed-on bruises. As Cookie, the pin-eyed main squeeze of a dealer named Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), Suvari wears gunk smeared across her otherwise perfect-looking teeth, shuffles about in pajamas, yowls for sex and treats the audience to a sustained bathroom visit. The actress makes an honest effort to look at home in the art-directed squalor, sliding into the disorder as gamely as she did that bed of roses in American Beauty, but her Cookie crumbles fast. Maybe it's the sight of Leguizamo running around dressed only in boots and a well-placed sock that does her in, or maybe it's just that she's seen this movie too many times before. She isn't the only one.
Directed by a Swedish music-video veteran named Jonas Akerlund from a script by Will De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, Spun covers three endless days and nights in the lives and near-deaths of a handful of addicts. Along with Murphy and Suvari, Jason Schwartzman and Patrick Fugit play the kids while Mickey Rourke and Peter Stormare play the grown-ups. If Rourke and Stormare weren't enough to clue you in to the film's strained wackiness, Eric Roberts shows up in the third act sporting a lisp and a wig and flanked by a pair of bodybuilders. The older actors let their freak flags fly more comfortably than do the youngsters, who, like the filmmakers, seem to have watched a number of movies about addiction, particularly those like Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream, in which everyone under 30 looks pretty terrific while sliding into the abyss.
Akerlund borrows heavily from these films for his drug-culture cues and stylistic bag of tricks, but his largest debt is to Harmony Korine's Gummo, to which he owes his trash aesthetic and fascination with human misery. His film's mixture of sanctimony and sentimentality, on the other hand, seems lifted from classic exploitation films like Reefer Madness and Jack Webb's Dragnet, in particular an episode from 1967 called The Big High in which a sneering couple of potheads cause the drowning death of their toddler. Akerlund's inability to sustain narrative tension, on the other hand, rests squarely on his shoulders. One thing I will say for him, however: I haven't enjoyed a Mickey Rourke performance this much since the actor appeared on David Letterman's show clutching a chihuahua.
Manohla Dargis
Los Angeles Times
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+ maldives in the hizzie +
i got a visitor from ...the maldives.. thats cool.
9 September 17:47 Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun, Maldives
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> Tequila Grill <
from washintonian.com
Tequila Grill, 1990 K St., NW; 202-833-3640. Margaritas for $2.50, selected appetizers for $1.99, and beer specials lure college students and young pavement-pounders to Tequila Grill on weekdays from 3:30 to 7:30. Don’t come to decompress. As the site one of the city’s most social happy hours, it can get loud and smoky, but the convivial atmosphere and lines at the bar make it easy to strike up conversations.
Thursday night, when Coronas are $1.50, is the most boisterous. Try the swirled frozen fruit margaritas ($2.95) and the nachos or buffalo wings (both $1.99).
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++ redskins ++
http://www.nfl.com/teams/schedule/WAS
always a good time to go to a bar
redskins 2003 Schedule
Sep 14 @Atlanta 1:00pm
Sep 21 N.Y. Giants 4:05pm
Sep 28 New England 1:00pm
Oct 5 @Philadelphia 4:15pm
Oct 12 Tampa Bay 1:00pm
Oct 19 @Buffalo 1:00pm
Nov 2 @Dallas 1:00pm
Nov 9 Seattle 1:00pm
Nov 16 @Carolina 1:00pm
Nov 23 @Miami 8:30pm
Nov 30 New Orleans 4:05pm
Dec 7 @N.Y. Giants 1:00pm
Dec 14 Dallas 1:00pm
Dec 21 @Chicago 1:00pm
Dec 27 Philadelphia 8:30pm
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++ spun the movie ++
spun the movie, looks like requiem for a dream 2..
thats a good thing.. lol
Jason Schwartzman plays Ross, spiraling out of control in "Spun."
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The soundtrack erupts with a jolt and the camera zeroes in on an eyeball spinning like a pinwheel in a wind storm. When the person doing the snorting is Ross (Jason Schwartzman), a meth addict whose life has spiraled out of control, his fantasies spill across the screen in jerky cartoon images, many of them pornographic. That's one of the movie's rancid observations: speed and pornography (with bondage and anal sex the preferred modes) go together like bacon and eggs. (Or should I say rats and garbage?)
"Spun," which jumps around the shabby sun-baked flatlands of North Los Angeles Valley, from junk-strewn bungalow to seedy motel room to convenience store, is a swaggering journey into hell that conveys a chortling amusement at its own apocalyptic imagination. Eric Broms's cinematography bleaches most of the color out of its settings, leaving only acidic tints and grimy crevices. This is a world where beauty (or even the possibility of beauty) no longer exists.
As the camera lurches from one disaster area to the next, no particle of dirt, chip of crumbling plaster or crushed beer can is left unexamined amid the festering piles of junk in which its characters wallow oblivious to their own messes. When a constipated young woman goes to the bathroom, the camera dutifully trails along behind to observe her retching and eventually to peer down the flushing toilet. Whether it's that strung-out woman's rotten teeth or an extreme close-up of a syringe puncturing an arm, the camera is right there gaping.
The film, directed by Jonas Akerlund from a screenplay by Will De Los Santos and Creighton Vero, is an obvious homage to Darren Aronofsky's three-year-old druggie nightmare, "Requiem for a Dream." Mr. Akerlund comes from a music-video background, having directed Madonna's "Ray of Light," and the movie is a tour de force of grunge atmosphere and tricky editing in which the jolts and cartoon flashes are seamlessly woven into the narrative.
Like "Requiem for a Dream," "Spun," which opens today in Manhattan, blends an attitude of titillated revulsion with a hip gallows humor. Although there's nothing here as uproarious as the earlier movie's images of a heaving and belching refrigerator taunting a famished woman driven crazy by diet pills, "Spun" invites you to regard the spectacular squalor of its characters' lives with a smirking condescension.
The most frenetic of those characters, Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), is a jittery, paranoid speed freak who shoots crystal meth and imagines that every vehicle outside the shack he shares with his depraved girlfriend, Cookie (Mena Suvari), is a police car. Cookie is a shrill sex-crazed wreck of girl with brown teeth and red-rimmed eyes. Ms. Suvari's performance in a movie that explodes with profanity is a jarring turnabout from the lubricious teenage fantasy she embodied in "American Beauty" and (like many of the other performances in the movie) a small acting coup.
Frisbee (Patrick Fugit), the most pitiful member of the crew, is an inarticulate stumblebum with a face strewn with oozing pimples who lives with his 400-pound mother and is addicted to video games as well as speed. Arrested by two corrupt policemen (Peter Stormare and Alexis Arquette), he is coerced into wearing a wire while calling on Spider Mike.
The most ominous character, identified only as the Cook (Mickey Rourke), is the movie's master chef of chemical stimulation, and his combustible motel-room speed factory of bubbling caldrons, tubes and beakers suggests a Rube Goldberg contraption in a Frankenstein laboratory. The role is a comeback for Mr. Rourke, who growls and struts through the film in white cowboy boots and matching hat, fingering a gun. When he isn't working, the Cook, who is as sinister a macho caricature as the movies have produced in a while, obsesses out loud and obscenely about women with large breasts and small butts.
"Spun" doesn't have much of a story. Ross, a college dropout with mounting debts, becomes the chauffeur and errand boy for the Cook in exchange for free drugs. Ross, who has a taste for bondage, has been having a fling with a stripper, April (Chloe Hunter), whom he leaves bound and gagged in his motel room while he gallivants around with the Cook and his girlfriend, Nikki (Brittany Murphy), in his beat-up Volvo. One of his first assignments is to take Nikki and her beloved dog, which has turned green from inhaling crank fumes, to a pet hospital. After Nikki, a Las Vegas stripper, and the Cook have a falling out, Nikki and Ross fall into a haphazard romance.
Every now and then Ross tries to reach an old girlfriend in Los Angeles whom he owes money. The movie's final scene takes him to the city, where they meet while the Cook visits his connection, known as the Man (Eric Roberts doing a flamboyant gay caricature).
If "Spun" doesn't glamorize the world it surveys, its parade of reeling potty-mouthed clowns (especially Mr. Rourke's cowboy chemist) still exudes a kind of doomy charisma. Think of them as denizens of a demonic sideshow.
SPUN
Directed by Jonas Akerlund; written by Will De Los Santos and Creighton Vero; director of photography, Eric Broms; music by Billy Corgan; production designer, Richard Lassalle; produced by Chris Hanley, Fernando Sulichin, Timothy Wayne Peternel and Danny Vinik; released by Newmarket Films.
Running time: 96 minutes.
This film is not rated.
WITH: Jason Schwartzman (Ross), John Leguizamo (Spider Mike), Mena Suvari (Cookie), Patrick Fugit (Frisbee), Peter Stormare (Cop No. 1), Alexis Arquette (Cop No. 2), Brittany Murphy (Nikki), Mickey Rourke (the Cook), Chloe Hunter (April) and Eric Roberts (The Man).
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++ party mom ++
from the smoking gun.com
AUGUST 27--You would be hard-pressed to find a more disturbing picture of a mother gone wild than the below criminal complaint filed this month against Patricia Johnson, a 34-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Seems that a drunk and drugged-up Johnson tried to throw her teenage son a lewd birthday party at a local hotel, where she offered the boy and some of the teen's friends beer and drugs, tried to perform a striptease, and asked to be spanked. Johnson allegedly exposed herself at one point, licked the faces of some boys, and, according to the teens, "kept trying to touch them in their pants." Johnson has been charged with an assortment of crimes, including indecent exposure, corruption of minors, and reckless endangerment. (3 pages)
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..:: da bomb dogg ::..
Petyon, the bomb dog, checks out patrons at the entrance of the US Open tennis tournament Thursday, Aug. 28, 2003 in New York. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
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i heart this site
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++ JESS3 archives ++
i spent all night gettin my archives to work.
they work now.
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.: thomasmichaelcorcoran.com :.
the new home of thomasmichaelcorcoran.com
im doin mikes site... i got him to get (mt) Media Temple to host...
its gonna be the crazy world of Mike Corcoran, im settin him up with a blog..
the world isnt ready for mikes crazyness.. lol
site design by JESSE THOMAS / 6Forty
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{ Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation }
opening september 19
http://www.lost-in-translation.com
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is a funny, bittersweat movie that uses cultural dislocation as a metaphor for people who have gotten lost in their own lives. The movie contains priceless slapstick from Bill Murray, finely tuned performances by Murray and the beautiful Scarlett Johansson and a visual and aural design that cultivates a romantic though melancholy mood. In only her second feature, Coppola has made a poised, intelligent film that nicely balances laughs with a poignancy rarely seen in American movies. If Focus Features markets Lost in Translation carefully, this most original comedy could win audiences well beyond art houses.
The story takes place in Tokyo, much of it in the Park Hyatt Tokyo, which becomes a cool, comforting cocoon for two Americans cut off from the city by their cultural and linguistic ignorance. They hang out at the hotel's bar, restaurant, pool and bedrooms, gazing out occasionally from high-rise windows at a city that intrigues but bewilders them.
Bob Harris (Murray) is a grumpy movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial. He is not only plagued by jet lag and gloom over a deteriorating marriage of many years; he is also in the midst of a midlife crisis that dampens his spirits but not his wit.
Charlotte (Johansson), the neglected wife of a photographer (Giovanni Ribisi), experiences a similar air-conditioned nightmare. Married two years, she already feels lost in the relationship, unable to participate in her husband's career or pinpoint what she wants out of life. When she ventures into the city, she is confronted by a distorted version of Western modernity. When she reaches out to Buddhism, all she gets is a temple full of priests chanting an incomprehensible Japanese.
That language leads to many of the jokes promised by the film's title. When Murray receives lengthy instructions from his Japanese director, his overwhelmed translator boils them down to: "Turn to camera, please." (Coppola wisely uses no subtitles, placing the viewer in the same bewilderment as her protagonists.)
These two people discover each other late at night at the bar. Neither one can sleep. A friendship evolves in their mutual isolation. When her husband leaves on assignment, Charlotte invites Bob out with her Japanese friends. The two make the rounds of clubs, karaoke joints, strip bars, private homes and video-game arcades.
Coppola sees in Tokyo's crowded, neon-lit urban landscape a society estranged from its own culture. The night is filled with pleasure-seekers obsessed by games, toys and American pop culture. Only when Charlotte takes a train to Kyoto is she able to experience the old Japan of ancient temples and gardens, tea houses and kimono-clad figures.
The movie flirts with a sexual relationship between these two, but Coppola holds back, aware not only of the characters' age differences but a realization that what ails the couple cannot be resolved with sexual healing.
This role fits Murray like his own skin. A middle-aged burnout who sees no challenges on his horizon gradually changes into a man revitalized by another alienated soul. His comic touch enriches the character with a self-deprecating wit and, in a few sequences, a rubbery physicality that earns sustained laughs. Johansson makes Charlotte's loneliness and disillusionment palpable as the woman is cut off from life in ways she never imagined.
In his brief sequences, Ribisi leaves the impression of a man for whom a moment of reflection represents lost time. Anna Faris absolutely nails the satiric role of a shallow young actress at a press junket who adores the very cultural wackiness that so alienates Bob and Charlotte.
Using high-speed film stock, cinematographer Lance Acord gives the glaring neon and numbingly sleek interiors a kind of romantic sheen. The score produced by Brian Reitzell created out of Japanese musical themes and "Tokyo dream-pop" adds to the sense of an Eastern city that has succumbed in large measure to Western culture.
Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter
http://www.focusfeatures.com/home.php?clip=lost_in_translation
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is a funny, bittersweat movie that uses cultural dislocation as a metaphor for people who have gotten lost in their own lives. The movie contains priceless slapstick from Bill Murray, finely tuned performances by Murray and the beautiful Scarlett Johansson and a visual and aural design that cultivates a romantic though melancholy mood. In only her second feature, Coppola has made a poised, intelligent film that nicely balances laughs with a poignancy rarely seen in American movies. If Focus Features markets Lost in Translation carefully, this most original comedy could win audiences well beyond art houses.
The story takes place in Tokyo, much of it in the Park Hyatt Tokyo, which becomes a cool, comforting cocoon for two Americans cut off from the city by their cultural and linguistic ignorance. They hang out at the hotel's bar, restaurant, pool and bedrooms, gazing out occasionally from high-rise windows at a city that intrigues but bewilders them.
Bob Harris (Murray) is a grumpy movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial. He is not only plagued by jet lag and gloom over a deteriorating marriage of many years; he is also in the midst of a midlife crisis that dampens his spirits but not his wit.
Charlotte (Johansson), the neglected wife of a photographer (Giovanni Ribisi), experiences a similar air-conditioned nightmare. Married two years, she already feels lost in the relationship, unable to participate in her husband's career or pinpoint what she wants out of life. When she ventures into the city, she is confronted by a distorted version of Western modernity. When she reaches out to Buddhism, all she gets is a temple full of priests chanting an incomprehensible Japanese.
That language leads to many of the jokes promised by the film's title. When Murray receives lengthy instructions from his Japanese director, his overwhelmed translator boils them down to: "Turn to camera, please." (Coppola wisely uses no subtitles, placing the viewer in the same bewilderment as her protagonists.)
These two people discover each other late at night at the bar. Neither one can sleep. A friendship evolves in their mutual isolation. When her husband leaves on assignment, Charlotte invites Bob out with her Japanese friends. The two make the rounds of clubs, karaoke joints, strip bars, private homes and video-game arcades.
Coppola sees in Tokyo's crowded, neon-lit urban landscape a society estranged from its own culture. The night is filled with pleasure-seekers obsessed by games, toys and American pop culture. Only when Charlotte takes a train to Kyoto is she able to experience the old Japan of ancient temples and gardens, tea houses and kimono-clad figures.
The movie flirts with a sexual relationship between these two, but Coppola holds back, aware not only of the characters' age differences but a realization that what ails the couple cannot be resolved with sexual healing.
This role fits Murray like his own skin. A middle-aged burnout who sees no challenges on his horizon gradually changes into a man revitalized by another alienated soul. His comic touch enriches the character with a self-deprecating wit and, in a few sequences, a rubbery physicality that earns sustained laughs. Johansson makes Charlotte's loneliness and disillusionment palpable as the woman is cut off from life in ways she never imagined.
In his brief sequences, Ribisi leaves the impression of a man for whom a moment of reflection represents lost time. Anna Faris absolutely nails the satiric role of a shallow young actress at a press junket who adores the very cultural wackiness that so alienates Bob and Charlotte.
Using high-speed film stock, cinematographer Lance Acord gives the glaring neon and numbingly sleek interiors a kind of romantic sheen. The score produced by Brian Reitzell created out of Japanese musical themes and "Tokyo dream-pop" adds to the sense of an Eastern city that has succumbed in large measure to Western culture.
Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter
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:: Swimming Pool is a fuckin great movie ::
http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/swimming_pool/
check out the trailer....
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+- bonnie and clyde -+
Singer Beyonce Knowles, left, and rapper Jay-Z, watch the match between Lindsay Davenport, of the United States, and Kim Clijsters, of Belgium, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Friday, Sept. 5, 2003.
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|+ swimming pool +|
tonight natasha and jamie and I went to see Swiming Pool... this movie is hot!
dont read anymore if you dont want to ruin the ending !
this is the synopsis from the movies site..
An English author who writes bestselling mysteries travels to her publisher's villa in the south of France to gain inspiration. She takes up residence at his estate while he's away, but soon has company when his beautiful daughter arrives. Although they are slow to warm up to each other, a series of events happen that change both of their lives.
the story basically unfolds and the young girl does all this crazy shit, and eventually kills this dude, and the english author helps her !. the author is a crime novelist.....
and then at the end she gives the publisher the book, and its about what happened, and then kaizer sozie style when she leaves the daughter walks in to the office and you notice that the daughter isnt the same girl you knew from the earlier part of the movie... beacause all the shit that happened didnt happen... it was her imagination...
it was fuckin amazing.. ~!~
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-:- iMacAquarium -:-
http://www.redlightrunner.com/clasmac.html
iMacAquarium includes:
Authentic Apple iMac Shell
Custom built high quality double walled 2.25 gallon Acrylic tank
Long lasting pump system
In-tank filtration system to keep your fish healthy and alive
Special Icicle rocks colored to match the tank
Special Lighting system
One unit of fish food starter
Fish net
Aquatic background
Tank thermometer
Acrylic cleaning pad
iMacAquarium includes:
Authentic Apple iMac Shell
Custom built high quality double walled 2.25 gallon Acrylic tank
Long lasting pump system
In-tank filtration system to keep your fish healthy and alive
Special Icicle rocks colored to match the tank
Special Lighting system
One unit of fish food starter
Fish net
Aquatic background
Tank thermometer
Acrylic cleaning pad
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+: donnie darko :+
Midnight Movie Friday & Saturday! @ Visions
Fridays - $5, all ages
Saturday - $10, 21+ only, keg in theatre, all you can drink until the keg is tapped
DONNIE DARKO
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Mary McDonnell, Katherine Ross, Maggie Gyllenhaal
From the Washington City Paper:
Led by the voice in his head, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) sleepwalks through his neighborhood every night and has conversations with the voice's owner, a giant, scary-freakin' man-rabbit named Frank. On the night of a bizarre accident at the Darko home, Donnie's wandering saves his life, yet Frank warns him that the world is going to end in 28 days--on Halloween. As the movie counts down the remaining days in October, we see Donnie alternately as a lucid, cynical high-school student and a very sick individual who readily obeys Frank's commands to burn down a house and flood his school. Complex and hypnotic, the film touches on the absurdities of American education, the worthiness of the heroes we worship, whether destiny can be changed, and the meaning of life in general. Gyllenhaal is fascinating as Donnie, smoothly making the frequent transitions between normal, beyond-his-years angst and the delusional misfirings of someone truly disturbed. Mary McDonnell, as Donnie's mother, and Katharine Ross, as his psychiatrist, are standouts in the supporting cast as they gradually discover, with palpable dread, the extent of Donnie's psychosis. Though laden with tragedy, Donnie Darko unfolds with a haunting lyricism that's more moving than melodramatic.
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.: Homeless in New Delhi :.
Homeless in New Delhi : An Indian man (C) sleeps on the pavement of a busy street in the old city of New Delhi. It is estimated that over 50 percent of the population of India live in poverty with two hundred million in extreme poverty who have to beg for a few rupees during the day to eat dinner at night.
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+ i'll be bacon +
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=796&u=/eo/12435&ncid=
Citizen Arnold Egged
Wed Sep 3, 7:05 PM ET
By Joal Ryan
Don't say Rocky didn't try to warn him.
Days after Sylvester Stallone cautioned fellow action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger about the dangers of politics, the Terminator was struck by a projectile egg during a campus rally Wednesday in Southern California.
Schwarzenegger, on the campaign trail for the California governorship, was yolked on the shoulder as he glad-handed his way to an outdoor platform at Cal State Long Beach. His pale yellow jacket absorbed most of the mess.
The Running Man didn't break stride, and supporters immediately reached out to wipe him clean with their hands. Schwarzenegger shed the jacket, delivering his stump speech (no new taxes, no big tuition hikes, etc.) in his slightly splattered shirtsleeves.
Later, to TV cameras, he shrugged off the pelting.
"This guy owes me bacon now," he cracked.
It was not known who dare egg the Austrian Oak. "We don't have any suspects," said Cal State Long Beach spokeswoman Toni Beron.
According to City News Service, the Schwarzenegger appearance drew a mix of enthusiastic Young Republicans and unenthusiastic Latino activists, critical of the candidate for his long-ago support of a California initiative aimed at denying public assistance to illegal immigrants.
The egging came on a day when Schwarzenegger already had egg on his face, per some critics, for skipping the first California gubernatorial debate.
The five top candidates, excluding Schwarzenegger, but including TV pundit Arianna Huffington, were to square off Wednesday night in Walnut Creek, California. Governor Gray Davis, the target of the October 7 recall election, also was to speak.
Schwarzenegger was invited to participate, but opted instead to show up at Cal State Long Beach so, as it turned out, he could be greeted with dairy products. He has said he intends to do only one debate, a September 17 event in Sacramento, in which questions will be provided to the candidates in advance.
On Wednesday, Schwarzenegger said he also would be prepared to field unscripted inquiries at the Sacramento debate.
Despite his A-list star status, Schwarzenegger has been running behind Cruz Bustamante, California's charisma-challenged lieutenant governor, in major polls, and running away from a 1977 magazine interview in which he boasted of pot smoking and group sex.
Stallone seemed to anticipate rough times for his muscular movie-star contemporary. Last weekend, he told Reuters politics are "very dangerous waters."
"In that particular field, you can't yell 'action' and 'cut' and 'take two' and 'take three.' It's real," Stallone told the wire service.
Stallone himself said he had no plans to seek public office.
"I personally think actors should remain actors," Stallone said, "but I know [Schwarzenegger has] always had blind ambition for that, so maybe it'll work out great for him."
As soon as they scrape off the rest of the egg.
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{= yeahhhh, about that... =}
Square yeast doughnuts are displayed on a tray at the Square Donut shop in Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 11, 2003. The logic behind the doughnuts is that square doughnuts maximize the number of pastries on a preparation tray.
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=\ tech jobs \=
7,000 Tech Jobs Added in D.C. Area Last Year, Report Says
While job growth in the electronics and information-technology industry leveled off nationwide in 2001 -- there were job cuts in 17 states -- the Washington area attracted about 7,000 new high-tech jobs, according to a report to be issued today by the American Electronics Association.
The sixth annual "Cyberstates" report on state-by-state growth in technology issued by the D.C.-based trade group, indicates that nationwide the sector grew only 1 percent last year, adding about 80,000 jobs, compared with more than 440,000 jobs added in 2001.
The report suggests that Virginia companies are driving modest growth in the region's technology market, which has so far avoided the worst of the industry's slump. Virginia replaced Illinois to claim the sixth-highest number of tech jobs in 2001, with more than 228,000 workers. In the past year, the report found, the state's high-tech sector added more than 4,000 new employees; in the past six years, the Virginia tech job market has swelled 79 percent.
"The story this year is that Virginia has come of age, from a former backwater to a real force in high-tech," said Michaela Platzer, vice president for research and policy analysis at the association.
"Overall we have extremely high-skilled people in this entire region and that is fueling the growth despite the slowdown elsewhere," Platzer said.
The expansion of Maryland's high-tech sector has been considerably slower. It added about 2,300 high-tech workers in 2001 and has grown 34 percent in the past six years.
The report, which relies on government data and was financed in part by the Nasdaq Stock Market, breaks down the tech industry into three broad categories: high-tech manufacturing, communications services and software or computer-related services. Biotechnology companies are excluded because government statistics lack precision, the authors said.
The biggest losers in the region last year were start-ups. Venture capital investments in the area fell by more than $4 billion last year with investors increasingly skittish about throwing money at new companies. Worst-hit was Virginia, where venture capital spending plunged more than $2 billion, or 69 percent, from 2000. Nationwide, such spending fell 60 percent last year, the report says.
"There is a major change in the philosophy of venture capitalists because they got burned by the dot-coms," said William T. Archey, president of the American Electronics Association. "There is no lack of funds. They have a lot of money. But they are going back to some old-fashioned notions and demanding things like profits and business plans."
Employees at high-tech firms are paid more than double their private-sector counterparts, the report says. The average U.S. tech worker earns $74,573 a year, compared with an average private-sector wage of $35,305.
Regionally, the wage disparity is most pronounced in Virginia, where the average high-tech employee makes $75,780 a year, compared with $34,942 in the private sector.
Local executives who have seen the report received it warmly.
"There has been a big hit in the telecommunications sector but other parts of this industry, particularly those related to homeland security, are creating new jobs in the region," said Michael Jalbert, chief executive of EFJ Inc., a Washington-based wireless-communications company. "This is encouraging."
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+ wammo redesign contest +
{WAMMO is the Official DC Area Macromedia User Group}
{WAMMO is the Official DC Area Macromedia User Group}
http://www.wammo.org
WAMMO Redesign Contest
WAMMO and CFUG-O-RAMA are joining forces! Now that the two groups are becoming one we need a single unified Web site that represents the new WAMMO.
Current sites: http://www.wammo.org and http://www.cfugorama.com
Below (and attached) is the new WAMMO/CFUGORAMA Site Map. This site map will be provided at the Wed 9/3 meeting to individuals interested in providing a design comp for the new WAMMO/CFUG Web site.
WAMMO/CFUG-O-RAMA Redesign Contest Rules
- In order to submit a design you must either be unemployed or you must be a full-time freelance artist/programmer.
- The new site will be built using the CommonSpot Content Server made by PaperThin (www.paperthin.com)
- The new site will be a 2D HTML graphic site (800x600)
- Macromedia products should be used to build the site.
- Flash can be used for navigation and banners but cannot be used for information display
- Contestants must supply production ready graphics and all images, art, assets and HTML required to build the site
- Artwork must be cross-browser compatible (Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 7)
- Submissions must represent the professional nature of the WAMMO/CFUG organization and their partnership with Macromedia
- All artwork, assets, images and HTML become property of Fig Leaf Software, Inc.
How the Contest Works
- All designs must be submitted to wammo@figleaf.com by COB/5:00 PM Friday October 3, 2003.
- Entries will be posted on www.wammo.org prior to the October 8, 2003 WAMMO/CFUG meeting.
- Attendees of the October 8, 2003 WAMMO/CFUG meeting will cast their vote for their favorite design.
- Fig Leaf Software reserves the right to reject any submission for any reason.
Winning Contestant will Receive
- A free Studio MX not for resale license
- Profile in the new WAMMO member gallery
- A certificate of appreciation from WAMMO
Direct all questions to wammo@figleaf.com. No calls, please.
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=: Roll like P. Diddy in $85,000 SUV :=
Soundsinthepath: I wanna see some news on the p.diddy lincoln navi on yer site dawg. this negro think he Eddie Bauer or some shit
http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/13/news/companies/pdiddy_lincoln/index.htm?cnn=yes
Roll like P. Diddy in $85,000 SUV
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs to offer his own line of Lincoln Navigators beginning Aug. 1.
June 13, 2003: 3:34 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Having difficulty finding that SUV with 3 DVD players, six TV screens, a PlayStation 2 and vibrating seats?
P. Diddy to the rescue.
Rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs plans to sell a line of tricked-up $85,000 Lincoln Navigators under his Sean John label, currently used on a clothing line, according to a spokesperson for Buzztone Marketing Agency.
"This is a truly one of a kind agreement and is representative of Mr. Comb's lifestyle," said Josh Taekman, president of Buzztone, "which is universally recognized as fine living."
Unmodified Lincoln Navigator
The normal sticker price for a Navigator is $55,000.
Combs expects to sell 100 of the customized Navigators through yet-to-be-selected dealerships beginning Aug. 1, 2003. The customized Navigators will feature special 22-inch wheels designed by Boyd Coddington, black chrome paint treatment, a back-up camera and a heated, vibrating driver's seat.
There is no special arrangement between Lincoln and Combs, said Todd Nissen, a Lincoln spokesperson.
"We're glad that someone's taking an interest in the vehicle," said Nissen, "and it's getting us into a market we're not normally in, but it's not an official deal with us."
Combs and a driver were in a Lincoln Navigator when they were chased by police following a shooting in a New York City nightclub in 1999, but were later acquitted in the case. P. Diddy's girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Lopez, also was in the Navigator, but was not charged.
Roll like P. Diddy in $85,000 SUV
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs to offer his own line of Lincoln Navigators beginning Aug. 1.
June 13, 2003: 3:34 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Having difficulty finding that SUV with 3 DVD players, six TV screens, a PlayStation 2 and vibrating seats?
P. Diddy to the rescue.
Rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs plans to sell a line of tricked-up $85,000 Lincoln Navigators under his Sean John label, currently used on a clothing line, according to a spokesperson for Buzztone Marketing Agency.
"This is a truly one of a kind agreement and is representative of Mr. Comb's lifestyle," said Josh Taekman, president of Buzztone, "which is universally recognized as fine living."
Unmodified Lincoln Navigator
The normal sticker price for a Navigator is $55,000.
Combs expects to sell 100 of the customized Navigators through yet-to-be-selected dealerships beginning Aug. 1, 2003. The customized Navigators will feature special 22-inch wheels designed by Boyd Coddington, black chrome paint treatment, a back-up camera and a heated, vibrating driver's seat.
There is no special arrangement between Lincoln and Combs, said Todd Nissen, a Lincoln spokesperson.
"We're glad that someone's taking an interest in the vehicle," said Nissen, "and it's getting us into a market we're not normally in, but it's not an official deal with us."
Combs and a driver were in a Lincoln Navigator when they were chased by police following a shooting in a New York City nightclub in 1999, but were later acquitted in the case. P. Diddy's girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Lopez, also was in the Navigator, but was not charged.
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{ kill bill }
RZA, Isaac Hayes, Nancy Sinatra Help Tarantino 'Kill Bill'
With their mutual admiration of all things kung fu, Wu-Tang's RZA and Quentin Tarantino were destined to hook up. The chop-socky-loving odd couple have collaborated on the soundtrack to Tarantino's long-awaited new film, "Kill Bill: Volume 1."
The 17-track album to Tarantino's fourth feature — the first part of which hits theaters on October 10 — will feature an original RZA song alongside the usual mix of Tarantino-picked musical obsessions and oddities when it hits stores September 23, according to the project's publicist.
Kill Bill: Volume 1 mixes Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)," which plays over the opening credits, with cuts by soul legend Isaac Hayes ("Run Fay Run"), honky tonker Charlie Feathers ("That Certain Female"), soundtrack legend Bernard Herrmann ("Twisted Nerve") and Japanese surf-punk band the 5.6.7.8's ("Woo Hoo"). RZA contributes the original spoken/rapped piece "Ode to Oren Ishii," in which he lays out the plot of the film.
Electronic music forefathers Neu! ("Super 16") are also on the eclectic collection, which revives an old Quincy Jones number ("Ironside") amid several snippets of dialogue and a number of sound-effects tracks that re-create the movie's fight scenes. And, believe it or not, trash culture obsessive Tarantino has also tossed in a song from the master of the pan flute, Zamfir ("The Lonely Shepherd"), which RZA stumbled upon while dining at a Thai restaurant.
RZA's hookup with Tarantino seems a natural fit, considering the Wu-Tang master sharpened his scoring teeth on Jim Jarmusch's 1999 martial arts flick, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai." Many of the songs on the soundtrack have previously appeared in classic kung fu flicks, though Tarantino discovered the 5.6.7.8's while browsing in a clothing store in Hong Kong several years ago. Smitten with the band's sound — so smitten, in fact, that they have a cameo in the film — he insisted the clerk sell him the store's copy of the album on the spot.
The film stars Uma Thurman as a former assassin betrayed by her boss, Bill, played by David Carradine. Thurman returns four years after taking a bullet in the head to get revenge on Bill and his arsenal of assassins, including Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen and Darryl Hannah.
The always high-energy Tarantino, who has not released a film since 1997's "Jackie Brown," wrote a nearly 200-page script for "Kill Bill" and ended up shooting so much footage that he and Miramax head Harvey Weinstein decided to cut the movie in half and release it in two parts. The second installment of the film is expected to hit theaters two to six months after "Part 1." The spokesperson said it is not yet clear if there will be a soundtrack album from the film's second part.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was working with RZA on the score , but his contributions are not expected to appear on the album, according to the spokesperson.
Track listing for Kill Bill: Volume 1:
Nancy Sinatra - "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
Charlie Feathers - "That Certain Female"
Luis Bacalov - "The Grand Duel - (Parte Prima)"
Bernard Herrmann - "Twisted Nerve"
"Queen of the Crime Council" - dialogue
RZA - "Ode to Oren Ishii"
Isaac Hayes - "Run Fay Run"
Al Hirt - "Green Hornet"
Tomoyasu Hotei - "Battle Without Honor or Humanity"
Santa Esmeralda - "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
The 5.6.7.8's - "Woo Hoo"
RZA/Charles Bernstein - "Crane"/"White Lightning"
Meiko Kaji - "The Flower of Carnage"
Zamfir - "The Lonely Shepherd"
"You're My Wicked Life" - dialogue excerpt from film featuring David Carradine, Julie Dreyfus and Uma Thurman
Quincy Jones - "Ironside" excerpt
Neu! - "Super 16" excerpt
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--+ Flash User Group ~!~ tonight +--
WAMMO is the Official DC Area Macromedia User Group
Next Meeting: Wednesday September 3, 2003
*** WORLDWIDE USER GROUP MEETING ***
more than 130 MMUGs participating
RFF Conference Center
1400 16th Street, NW
7th FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
Washington DC 20036
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Directions here
September 3rd Agenda (from WAMMO email)
sent 8/25/03
Email Subject: Studio MX 2004 See It - Win It! (Wed. 9/3/03)
Today Macromedia announced a new generation of MX. It's called MX 2004. New versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Studio. Come see the first public demonstrations of these products and possibly win your own copy of Studio MX 2004!
WAMMO will be hosting Macromedia Product Managers who will demo the products live utilizing Breeze Live.
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WHEN:
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Wednesday, September 3, 2003
RFF Conference Center
1400 16th Street, NW
7th FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
Washington DC 20036
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Directions here
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Join WAMMO & Macromedia for the first public demonstrations of Dreamweaver MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, Flash MX 2004, Flash Professional MX 2004 and Studio MX 2004. Over 130 User Groups are participating in our first ever worldwide User Group event, broadcast around the world using Breeze Live. We will be raffling off a copy of Studio MX 2004!
Macromedia presenters are:
Jennifer Taylor, Dreamweaver MX 2004 Product Manager
Matt Lerner, Fireworks MX 2004 Product Manager
Lucian Beebe; Flash Professional MX 2004 Product Manager
Eliza Laffin, Studio MX 2004, Product Manager
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
Schedule of Events:
6:00 - 6:30 PM Pizza & Networking
6:30 - 7:00 PM Macromedia News & Announcements, WAMMO Redesign Contest, Flash/CF Study Group
7:00 - 9:00 PM Worldwide User Group Meeting
9:00 - 9:30 PM Q&A
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September Topics (if we have time)
~ Overcoming the Limitations of Flash (Keenan Keeling)
"The Flash movie is running slowly. Do you want to abort the script?" - Using the core aspects of Flash, and a little bit of math, you can eliminate Flash's burden on your processor. A very common problem with Flash is it's "choking" of the processor when executing extremely large blocks of code in one frame or when executing expensive mathematical forumlas. We will show you some of the problem areas for Flash, as well as some tips on how to avoid the normal pitfalls relating to Flash and CPU cycles.
** If you would like to present at WAMMO/CFUG, please send an email to bpeters@figleaf.com with "Would like to speak at WAMMO/CFUG" in the subject line. **
Next Meeting: Wednesday September 3, 2003
*** WORLDWIDE USER GROUP MEETING ***
more than 130 MMUGs participating
RFF Conference Center
1400 16th Street, NW
7th FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
Washington DC 20036
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Directions here
September 3rd Agenda (from WAMMO email)
sent 8/25/03
Email Subject: Studio MX 2004 See It - Win It! (Wed. 9/3/03)
Today Macromedia announced a new generation of MX. It's called MX 2004. New versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Studio. Come see the first public demonstrations of these products and possibly win your own copy of Studio MX 2004!
WAMMO will be hosting Macromedia Product Managers who will demo the products live utilizing Breeze Live.
================
WHEN:
================
Wednesday, September 3, 2003
RFF Conference Center
1400 16th Street, NW
7th FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
Washington DC 20036
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Directions here
================
Join WAMMO & Macromedia for the first public demonstrations of Dreamweaver MX 2004, Fireworks MX 2004, Flash MX 2004, Flash Professional MX 2004 and Studio MX 2004. Over 130 User Groups are participating in our first ever worldwide User Group event, broadcast around the world using Breeze Live. We will be raffling off a copy of Studio MX 2004!
Macromedia presenters are:
Jennifer Taylor, Dreamweaver MX 2004 Product Manager
Matt Lerner, Fireworks MX 2004 Product Manager
Lucian Beebe; Flash Professional MX 2004 Product Manager
Eliza Laffin, Studio MX 2004, Product Manager
We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
Schedule of Events:
6:00 - 6:30 PM Pizza & Networking
6:30 - 7:00 PM Macromedia News & Announcements, WAMMO Redesign Contest, Flash/CF Study Group
7:00 - 9:00 PM Worldwide User Group Meeting
9:00 - 9:30 PM Q&A
======================================
September Topics (if we have time)
~ Overcoming the Limitations of Flash (Keenan Keeling)
"The Flash movie is running slowly. Do you want to abort the script?" - Using the core aspects of Flash, and a little bit of math, you can eliminate Flash's burden on your processor. A very common problem with Flash is it's "choking" of the processor when executing extremely large blocks of code in one frame or when executing expensive mathematical forumlas. We will show you some of the problem areas for Flash, as well as some tips on how to avoid the normal pitfalls relating to Flash and CPU cycles.
** If you would like to present at WAMMO/CFUG, please send an email to bpeters@figleaf.com with "Would like to speak at WAMMO/CFUG" in the subject line. **
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++= flash 2004 =++
http://www.flashmagazine.com/html/843.htm
New for Designers in 2004
After the Flash MX launch in 2002, many designers were a bit disappointed. It seemed like most of the new features were for the programmers, except for video and the new transform tool. For MX 2004 the new design features are will save you hours even if they are not so cool and fresh!
If you tried the Beta version of the Flash Player 7, you probably noticed that it was much faster the current Flash 6 version. For designers, this makes a huge difference. Projects that used to run too slow can now be displayed at full framerate with no skipping of frames.
Speed and video
Flash 6 is now almost at 85 % distribution and is the single best way to display video on the web. Video performance is supposedly up to 5 times faster. That will do wonders for creative possibilities when making broadband sites. According to Macromedia statistics, almost 50% of the US audience now has a fast connection, so expect to see video much more often on sites in the months to come
Flash 6 video also looks much better using the new plugin. Flash MX 2004 also comes with a series of components for media control that requires little or no coding to work. Just drop the new controls on a video clip and it can be controlled with play, pause, stop, volume and scrubbing.
MX Professional comes with a new video encoder that has been registered with all the major video editing tools available. Quicktime Pro, Premiere, Avid, Cleaner, After Effects and Final Cut. All these tools can now export Flash video (FLV). FLV files can now be streamed directly.
Search and replace
The new search and replace tool is a boon. Now you can search and replace anything! Made an animation for TV output and got the some of the colors wrong? Just do a search and replace on any color, with filters for outline, fill or text. Replace symbols, text, sounds, video or fonts really quickly with a Replace all-button or one instance at a time.
CSS
Flash now supports CSS formatting of text. Flash can use the same stylesheet as the HTML-version of a site, so there's just one place to update for multiformat-sites. Click here to try out the CSS features yourself.
Macros
MX 2004 has a history-panel that you can use to create your own macros. Just select the last 5 commands and you can play them back on any applicable object! You can also save this as a script and distribute it. The Script language is the new JavaScript API.
Save and compact
While working with a FLA file in Flash 5 or MX, you can delete bitmaps and other information, but Flash actually keeps track of all of that until you do a "Save As...". Now there's a new feature called "Save and Compact" that will remove the redundant information, saving you some megabytes. Not such a big issue maybe, but why not provide it as an option? Good idea!
Text/language
Ever done a project in more than one language? I've been doing one this summer: English, US English, French, Spanish and I'll soon do an Italian version of the project. It's all a matter of cutting and pasting a lot of text and you really feel like you're wasting a lot of time opening the same movieClip for the nth time just to paste text from Microsoft Word. My project has about 60 different texts so it does take quite some time to go through a file.
Enter Flash MX 2004: Click a button to export all your text to a file using the Strings-function. Send this file to the translator and when you get it back, just say to Flash: use these texts instead! This could have saved me days of work this summer. On the other hand, the project I'm doing is paid by the hour, so maybe I don't want that feature after all? Just kidding... I'd rather do something interesting like updating Flashmagazine!
Spellchecker
A spellchecker is built in! Brilliant addition that will save hours and is pretty advanced. I'd say it rivals the features found in Microsoft Word, but the quality of the Dictionaries seemed weird. It found the errors we put in, but offered no suggestions? We guess this must be a Beta-related thing. Funny: The words 'Macromedia' or 'MX' were in the built-in dictionaries.
Tilt and draw!
And finally - the Brush Tool now supports the tilt-function of pressure sensitive tablets. Should make drawing directly in Flash more fun.
TextFields
All text fields have mousewheel support in the Flash Player 7, so now your users can scroll the textfields you create. Not only that, but the textfields also support displaying images! Expect to see Flashmagazine back in SWF format within the year!
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=| First Dog has ruff landing |=
President Bush, along with first lady, Laura Bush, and members of the Waco Midway Little League Softball World Series championship team, react as Bush accidentally drops his dog, Barney, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003, at TSTC Airfield in Waco, Texas. Bush quickly scooped up the dog who was not injured. (AP Photo/Duane A. Laverty)
First Dog has ruff landing
President Bush spent the day talking about how sure-handed he was about his plans to bolster the economy - so it was especially embarrassing when he fumbled the First Family dog.
Presidential pooch Barney took a nasty flop on the tarmac at a Waco, Tex., airport when First Lady Laura Bush tried to hand him off to her husband Saturday.
The Scottish terrier's tumble apparently caused no harm, and the President quickly scooped up his furry friend.
The doggone mishap happened just after 11a.m. as the Bushes were preparing to board the Marine One helicopter. While Barney took his fall in stride, the error seemed to startle members of the Midway All-Stars, the Waco-area girls team that recently won the Little League softball world championship.
Just before the bowwow blunder, the ball players were introduced to Barney and posed for snapshots with the President.
After a smooth flight on Air Force One, the First Family and Barney were back in Washington Saturday night.Bill Hutchinson Originally published on September 1, 2003
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<:- drinkin that twine, smokin them tweeds -:>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/netherlands_medicinal_marijuana&ncid=
Medical Marijuana Sold in the Netherlands
Mon Sep 1, 9:34 AM ET
By ANTHONY DEUTSCH, Associated Press Writer
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Marijuana went on sale Monday at Dutch pharmacies to help bring relief to thousands of patients suffering from cancer, AIDS or multiple sclerosis.
Around 7,000 patients will be eligible for prescription marijuana, sold in containers of .16 ounces at most pharmacies. Labeled "Cannabis" and tested by the Ministry of Health, the drug will be covered by health insurance for the first time under a new law that went into effect in March.
Canada, Germany and Australia already allow restricted use of medicinal marijuana or its active chemical, but the Dutch go a step further by providing the drug and regulating its quality.
In the United States, 14 states allow medicinal use despite a federal ban on the drug.
Dutch patients will be recommended not to smoke the plant, but to use vaporizers or make marijuana tea. It will be prescribed to those suffering from nausea or pain associated with cancer, Tourette's syndrome, AIDS or multiple sclerosis.
Two varieties will offer a lower or higher content of Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the active chemical in marijuana. It will cost $48 for the milder variant, with a THC content of 15 percent, and $60 for an 18 percent version.
Although marijuana is officially prohibited under Dutch law, authorities tolerate the sale of small quantities under a policy that distinguishes between hard drugs such as cocaine and heroine and so-called "soft-drugs" like marijuana.
Marijuana growers and pharmacies will need licenses exempting them from prosecution.
"For the first time, pharmacies will be able to make legal purchases of medicinal cannabis for patient prescriptions," the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The Dutch parliament approved the change in policy by a large majority in 2001.
Due to limited clinical testing of the effects of cannabis use, the Ministry of Health said it would recommend that patients use it only if regular treatment had failed or caused side effects. The decision to permit medicinal use is based on "case reports and extensive practical experience," it said.
Recent studies show a small increase in the number of people in the Netherlands who say they have tried marijuana, but overall use levels remain well below those in the United States despite the drug's widespread availability here.
Medical Marijuana Sold in the Netherlands
Mon Sep 1, 9:34 AM ET
By ANTHONY DEUTSCH, Associated Press Writer
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Marijuana went on sale Monday at Dutch pharmacies to help bring relief to thousands of patients suffering from cancer, AIDS or multiple sclerosis.
Around 7,000 patients will be eligible for prescription marijuana, sold in containers of .16 ounces at most pharmacies. Labeled "Cannabis" and tested by the Ministry of Health, the drug will be covered by health insurance for the first time under a new law that went into effect in March.
Canada, Germany and Australia already allow restricted use of medicinal marijuana or its active chemical, but the Dutch go a step further by providing the drug and regulating its quality.
In the United States, 14 states allow medicinal use despite a federal ban on the drug.
Dutch patients will be recommended not to smoke the plant, but to use vaporizers or make marijuana tea. It will be prescribed to those suffering from nausea or pain associated with cancer, Tourette's syndrome, AIDS or multiple sclerosis.
Two varieties will offer a lower or higher content of Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the active chemical in marijuana. It will cost $48 for the milder variant, with a THC content of 15 percent, and $60 for an 18 percent version.
Although marijuana is officially prohibited under Dutch law, authorities tolerate the sale of small quantities under a policy that distinguishes between hard drugs such as cocaine and heroine and so-called "soft-drugs" like marijuana.
Marijuana growers and pharmacies will need licenses exempting them from prosecution.
"For the first time, pharmacies will be able to make legal purchases of medicinal cannabis for patient prescriptions," the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The Dutch parliament approved the change in policy by a large majority in 2001.
Due to limited clinical testing of the effects of cannabis use, the Ministry of Health said it would recommend that patients use it only if regular treatment had failed or caused side effects. The decision to permit medicinal use is based on "case reports and extensive practical experience," it said.
Recent studies show a small increase in the number of people in the Netherlands who say they have tried marijuana, but overall use levels remain well below those in the United States despite the drug's widespread availability here.
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+- ps2 handeheld -+
my boy works at playstation.com in australia. i sent him the link for the Nokia phone that plays sonic the hedgehog.. the nokia whatever.. and he replied
yeah very very cool! we are bringing out a handheld games player next year called the PSP (Portable PlayStation). IT will be able to play movies, music, and games... should KILL the gameboy!
http://www.gameshark.com/psx/articles/431052p1.html
PSP Hardware Specs Revealed
Details on what makes up this promising hand-held gaming system.
by James 'Prophet' Fudge
2003-07-29
Sony today revealed further details on the hardware that will comprise its upcoming PSP portable gaming system in Tokyo Japan at its PlayStation Meeting 2003 media event. Without any spin doctoring, here they are in all their raw and stark naked glory:
UMD(Universal Media Disc)
60mm
Laser Diode:660nm
Dual Layer :1.8GB
Transfer Rate:11Mbps
Shock Proof
Secure ROM by AES
Unique Disc ID
PSP CPU CORE
MIPS R4000 32bit Core
128bit Bus
1 - 333MHz @ 1.2V
Main Memory :8MB(eDRAM)
Bus Bandwidth :2.6GB/sec
I-Cache, D-Cache
FPU, VFPU (Vector Unit) @ 2.6GFlops
3D-CG Extended Instructions
PSP Media Engine
MIPS R4000 32bit Core
128bit Bus
1 - 333MHz @ 1.2V
Sub Memory:2MB(eDRAM) @ 2.6GB/sec
I-Cache, D-Cache
90nm CMOS
PSP Graphics Core 1
3D Curved Surface + 3D Polygon
Compressed Texture
Hardware Clipping, Morphing, Bone(8)
Hardware Tessellator
Bezier, B-Spline(NURBS)
ex 4x4, 16x16, 64x64 sub-division
PSP Graphics Core 2
'Rendering Engine' + 'Surface Engine'
256bit Bus, 1-166 MHz @ 1.2V
VRAM :2MB(eDRAM)
Bus Bandwidth :5.3GB/sec
Pixel Fill Rate :664 M pixels/sec
max 33 M polygon /sec(T&L)
24bit Full Color:RGBA
PSP Sound Core: VME
Reconfigurable DSPs
128bit Bus
166MHz @1.2V
5 Giga Operations /sec
CODEC
3D Sound, Multi-Channel
Synthesizer, Effecter, etc
AVC Decoder
AVC(H.264) Decoder
Main Profile
Baseline Profile
@Level1,Level2,Level3
2Hours(High Quality) - DVD movie
4Hours(Standard Quality) - CS Digital
I/O
USB 2.0
Memory Stick
Extension Port(reserved)
Stereo Head phone Out
Communication
Wireless LAN (i802.11)
IrDA
USB 2.0
The most interesting thing to note coming out of the media event is that Sony plans to show the device off at E3 next year in LA and says that it will be released in time for Christmas worldwide in 2004. Other shockers are the graphical capabilities of the PSP along with the freshly announced wireless LAN capabilities. Check the specs above for complete details.
yeah very very cool! we are bringing out a handheld games player next year called the PSP (Portable PlayStation). IT will be able to play movies, music, and games... should KILL the gameboy!
http://www.gameshark.com/psx/articles/431052p1.html
PSP Hardware Specs Revealed
Details on what makes up this promising hand-held gaming system.
by James 'Prophet' Fudge
2003-07-29
Sony today revealed further details on the hardware that will comprise its upcoming PSP portable gaming system in Tokyo Japan at its PlayStation Meeting 2003 media event. Without any spin doctoring, here they are in all their raw and stark naked glory:
UMD(Universal Media Disc)
60mm
Laser Diode:660nm
Dual Layer :1.8GB
Transfer Rate:11Mbps
Shock Proof
Secure ROM by AES
Unique Disc ID
PSP CPU CORE
MIPS R4000 32bit Core
128bit Bus
1 - 333MHz @ 1.2V
Main Memory :8MB(eDRAM)
Bus Bandwidth :2.6GB/sec
I-Cache, D-Cache
FPU, VFPU (Vector Unit) @ 2.6GFlops
3D-CG Extended Instructions
PSP Media Engine
MIPS R4000 32bit Core
128bit Bus
1 - 333MHz @ 1.2V
Sub Memory:2MB(eDRAM) @ 2.6GB/sec
I-Cache, D-Cache
90nm CMOS
PSP Graphics Core 1
3D Curved Surface + 3D Polygon
Compressed Texture
Hardware Clipping, Morphing, Bone(8)
Hardware Tessellator
Bezier, B-Spline(NURBS)
ex 4x4, 16x16, 64x64 sub-division
PSP Graphics Core 2
'Rendering Engine' + 'Surface Engine'
256bit Bus, 1-166 MHz @ 1.2V
VRAM :2MB(eDRAM)
Bus Bandwidth :5.3GB/sec
Pixel Fill Rate :664 M pixels/sec
max 33 M polygon /sec(T&L)
24bit Full Color:RGBA
PSP Sound Core: VME
Reconfigurable DSPs
128bit Bus
166MHz @1.2V
5 Giga Operations /sec
CODEC
3D Sound, Multi-Channel
Synthesizer, Effecter, etc
AVC Decoder
AVC(H.264) Decoder
Main Profile
Baseline Profile
@Level1,Level2,Level3
2Hours(High Quality) - DVD movie
4Hours(Standard Quality) - CS Digital
I/O
USB 2.0
Memory Stick
Extension Port(reserved)
Stereo Head phone Out
Communication
Wireless LAN (i802.11)
IrDA
USB 2.0
The most interesting thing to note coming out of the media event is that Sony plans to show the device off at E3 next year in LA and says that it will be released in time for Christmas worldwide in 2004. Other shockers are the graphical capabilities of the PSP along with the freshly announced wireless LAN capabilities. Check the specs above for complete details.
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++- Nokia N-Gage -++
http://www.n-gage.com
Nokia N-Gage
i meet a girl at the concert today with this phone.. you can play sonic the fuckin hedgehog on this phone.. and..get this.. you can play against other ppl too..
yeah and aim and the internet email and stuff comes standard.
me likie
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start code:
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// register root as environment
Object.environment = this;
// create camera object
this.cam = {x:0, y:0, z:500, dx:0, dy:0, dz:-500};
// set environmental constants
this.fl = 1000;
// create 'space' to which all words will be attached
this.createEmptyMovieClip("space",1);
// center 'space' on the stage
space._x=300;
space._y=169;
// a string of words related to the wind
this.somewords = "wind breeze storm stormy tornado text space three dimensional infinite recursive instance object distort environmental atmospheric blow gush whoosh thrash whirl push roar rush caress flow swoop uberstz uberhax ";
// convert the string of words into an array of words
this.wordList = new Array();
this.wordList = this.somewords.split(" ");
// create one instance for each word in the list
for (n=0;n
var word = Object.environment.wordList[n];
var x = random(600)-300;
var y = random(337)-169;
var z = random(Object.environment.fl*2)-Object.environment.fl;
// create an instance of the SpaceWord object
nombre = "word"+String(depth++);
initialization = {txtword: word, x: x, y: y, z: z};
space.attachMovie("spaceWord", nombre, depth, initialization);
}
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.cam.dz+=.5;
// move the camera to its destination
this.cam.x+=(this.cam.dx-this.cam.x)/10;
this.cam.y+=(this.cam.dy-this.cam.y)/10;
this.cam.z+=(this.cam.dz-this.cam.z)/30;
}
stop();
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end code.
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+--- the sprite liquid mix tour ---+
tonight i went to the sprite liquid mix tour today.. at Merriweather Post Pavilion..
(which is a fuckin cool place to see a show.)
Talib Kweli, The Roots, Mad Skillz, O.A.R., the Neptunes
http://www.sprite.com/lmt/lmt
(which is a fuckin cool place to see a show.)
Talib Kweli, The Roots, Mad Skillz, O.A.R., the Neptunes
http://www.sprite.com/lmt/lmt
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