lightning strikes twice

Many people think this science fiction film was silly, but I really enjoyed it. The tone was very tongue-in-cheek, but not in a lowest-common-deonominator way. It poked fun at all sorts of cinema institutions from old western films to romantic comedies and action flicks.

Its the sort of thing I could easily watch again and catch a whole lot of things I missed the first time around.

7.5 out of 10.

I’d heard that this was a reasonable remake of an old film, and it starred Ethan Hawke who I seem to recall that I generally like.

However… it was rubbish. Nothing made this film better than any other action film to come out of Hollywood, and the ending was tripe.

4 out of 10.

I fell asleep four times in this movie, which might make you think I don’t like it — but on the contrary, I love it, and it would certainly make my favourite films list!

The tone, space, feeling, subject were all perfect. It joins Blade Runner, Gattaca and Code 46 as my ideal “techno” films (incidentally, I’m writing this while listening to Richie Hawtin’s DE9:Transitions in surround sound, which would have to be my ideal techno sound track). If minimalism is your thing, this is your movie — 8 out of 10.

First 100 covers of SLAM magazine: The Covers

I had the first three issues (with LJ, Shawn Kemp and Shaq), but threw them out years ago. Apparently collectors items now!

A modification of the standard delicious bookmarklet, combined with some javascript culled from John Resig to populate the description automatically. I know I’ve seen this before, but couldn’t remember where, so I re-did it myself.

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by Malcolm Gladwell

Ideas:

• The Law Of The Few: Connectors, Mavens and Salesmen
• The Stickiness Factor
• The Power Of Context

From the Ubuntu blog, another way of deduping your mp3 collection – using fdupes or fslint.

Strong regrets over a Dear John letter

Freudenberg writes, in obvious distress: “My latter-day feelings about this exchange of civilities are all the more painful when I reflect that Howard was to base his unprecedented political success on two factors: the economic achievements of the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, and his repudiation of a quarter of a century of bipartisanship on foreign policy and immigration. This was quite a feat for a prime minister whose favourite public maxim is, ‘The things that unite us are more important than the things that divide us.”‘

Jeff Mills is at it again with a themed nightclub night. Sounds excellent:

We arrived just 5 minutes short of 03:00am, I brought down the music to classical string arrangements and sound effects that climaxed at exactly 03:00am. In this time, the lighting person filled the room with fog so that the first flash would be extreme. On the exact second of 03:00am, I let the first track loose — a enormous flash of white light hit like a bomb. All I could from my DJ position and in front of me were massive circles of rainbow colored rings and huge flashes of blue, green light form above.