Adventures in My Mind
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Dec 23, 2002
Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!
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Dec 19, 2002
Saw LOTR: The Two Towers last night. In a word: excellent. Oh, sure. It has its flaws, as do all good movies. Also, as with all good movies, it rises above them and enthralls us with the magic of cinema. Many of the FX can only be described as stunning. Lucas would be wise to watch TTT over and over again before moving on to the next Star Wars epic. The acting is first rate. My only real concern was with some of the pacing of the beginning and middle of the movie. Other than that, I was gripped from the beginning and only grudgingly left Middle Earth when the credits began to roll.
I could go on for a while about the merits of TTT, but Daniel Dercksen of News24.com writes in his review:Two Towers (and Fellowship of The Ring) is indeed a beacon of light in a world that is robbed of fantasy and adventure, and plundered by meaningless mindless films that seriously reduces the experience of going to the movies and harms the intellect.Jackson has created a wonderful act II. Act III should be brilliant!
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Dec 18, 2002
Thankfully, in this day of diminishing rights--civil, personal, property, etc.--a San Jose jury had the good sense to see that corporate America does not indeed have the unlimited rights ceded to it by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
Russian Software Firm Found Innocent
In the ruling, Adobe was found not to have the authority to ostensibly remove the right to Fair Use of its e-books, including the right to print, make back ups, and move the file to different machine platforms. This is a huge step--a HUGE step--in reclaiming some of the rights that the software industry, Hollywood, and the federal legislators have taken away as a result of the piece of dreck, the DMCA.
Hopefully, it's only the beginning.
See the Electronic Frontier Foundation for more details.
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Dec 4, 2002
Taxed Germans Having Shirty Xmas
Frustrated Germans are sending their chancellor the shirts off their backs in response to an e-mail campaign launched after a post-election tax hike.Stein started the shirt protest with an e-mail to 100 friends, urging them to send shirts along with a message to Schroeder: "To fulfill your Christmas dream, I am sending you my last shirt. This will end the need for further tax raises as I don't own anything else. Merry Christmas, your subject."
From Wired.
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