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Fantastic Mr. Fox reviewed.

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 9:06 PM
The experience of Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox Searchlight), Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of the Road Dahl book for young readers, is like being magically shrunk down to 1:12 scale and set loose for ninety minutes in an exquisite, handcrafted, dizzyingly well-stocked dollhouse. If, like me, you're a lifelong aficionado of miniatures—someone who still presses their nose to toy-store windows filled with cunningly crafted furniture and tiny kitchen supplies—this movie will seduce you on tactile terms alone. The animal characters' real, shiny fur, gently moving in the wind! The infinitely detailed sets and props: acorn-patterned wallpaper, cutlery made from deer hooves, bespoke corduroy jackets with tiny stalks of wheat in place of pocket squares! You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson - Stop motion - Animation - FoxSearchlight

Double Date (Random Prompt Challenge)

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Title: Double Date
Author:
[info]musiclover48
Pairing(s): Matt/Mercedes and Puck/Kurt
Rating: PG-15, just to be safe
Summary: Mercedes and Matt are going out on a date, but they both get nervous and bring a friend along- Matt brings Puck and Mercedes brings Kurt. This is going to be one interesting double date.
Disclaimer: I own nothing related to Glee, and I do not own this prompt since it comes from the list of prompts for the Random Prompt Challenge set up by [info]masagoroll .

Here's the story if any of you want to read it (I still don't know how to link properly). I'm very glad I started to write this after my cousin left the house, that way he couldn't delete it with the other documents he did. Anyways, here's the link:
musiclover48.livejournal.com/6868.html

(SPOILER) Buffy Zone Update.

  • Nov. 13th, 2009 at 2:27 AM

http://www.darkhorse.com/Zones/Buffy

Scott Allie talks Buffy #30 reveal and teases Willow one-shot,Joss's issue 31 and Brad Meltzer's arc.

yuletide santa letter

  • Nov. 13th, 2009 at 2:14 PM
dear santa,

thank you so much! you're writing a story, just for me, in one of my favourite obscure fandoms, and that totally makes you my new favourite person. awesome!

things i like )

things i fandom-specifically like:

request 1: aliens, ripley/hicks )

request 2: rpf - stargate atlantis, torri/joe )

request 3: rpf - ncis, michael/cote )

whatever request you're writing: the main thing, of course, is that you have as much fun writing the story as i will have reading it.

thank you!

-- [info]anr

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30 Rock Quick Take

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 10:09 PM
And... )

Meanwhile, UI guy at work has confirmed what I thought: Squarespace is for the win. I will probably pay for this at the end of the month, because...sigh. I'm easy and I get a 10% discount thanks to him. Now I just need to set up a theme that looks kind of like this and then Fitness for Amazons will be a go, because if there is one thing I can write about all the time, it is my workout and my endless frustrations with my life as a semi-fit person.

Current TV lets go 80 employees, cancels some shows. Programming head David Neuman (former D<N exec) is out, a new CEO from MTV is in. Coverage: Variety, SF Chron + LAT. Quote: "As much as you might want to change the world, sometimes there is not that much you can change -- particularly when you are dealing with the world of television."

CNN ends a web news experiment

  • Nov. 13th, 2009 at 2:32 AM
CNN laid off its four web video anchors today and announced that continuous live video production for CNN.com will end. Thus dies "one of the Internet's biggest news experiments." (NYT, via Andrew Baron)

More details out today on Comcast's "TV Everywhere" service launching in December. "Yes, this does still count against the 250GB monthly cap if used at home and still no word on HD streaming." Related: NYT on Comcast's $30 billion takeover bid for NBC Universal. (via Andrew Baron)

My husband called me last night all a-twitter and once I got him talking slow enough to understand that he wasn't going on about "six pennies", I could sympathize with the high level of enthusiasm. Earlier this year, "Sixth Sense Technology" from MIT---basically, a visual interface system that allows you and the computer in your cell phone to communicate in some truly astounding ways---was a big hit at TED. This week, at TED India, inventor Pranav Mistry announced that the technology will be released as open source...in a matter of months.

"Rather than waiting for that time to come, I want people to make their own system. Why not?," Mistry says in an article on Rediff Business. "People will be able to make their own hardware. I will give them instructions how to make it. And also provide them key software...give them basic key software layers...they will be able to build their own applications. They will be able to modify base level and do anything".

Makers, start your engines.

Mistry to make digital "Sixth Sense" open source on Rediff Business
The importance of Sixth Sense going open source on zdnet

Sixth Sense augmented reality device goes open source on Singularity Hub (natch)



YouTube will soon support 1080HD

  • Nov. 13th, 2009 at 2:01 AM
I attended a YouTube roundtable in San Francisco yesterday, and learned of many features coming soon, including this: Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p. In this blog post, see how much this enhances one's experience of a dog's snout.

Nicked from [info]jillkins

I want to make a flist playlist/fanmix with one song from everyone. So if you're reading this, upload me a song that you want to represent you on this magical tracklisting!


Comments screened for surprise value when the mix is made. I'll make coverart and everything.

Fannish Thursday.

  • Nov. 12th, 2009 at 9:15 PM
I think I will have actual thoughts tomorrow.

Right now, it boils down to...

The Vampire Diaries is AWESOME and I need a Bonnie and Damon icon. How do I not have one yet?

and...

Supernatural...? Oh, Lord.
Janes-Homework

My six-year-old told me she doesn't understand her homework. After studying it for 15 minutes, I *think* I understand what she's supposed to do, but I'd like a second opinion.

Home made Russian water purifier

  • Nov. 13th, 2009 at 12:57 AM
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Take a look at this crazy home water purification system created by a 68-year-old retired engineer.

Above: "magnetic bottle. Plastic bottle with a magnet (I used magnets for the refrigerator). Here are removed from the water surplus of some metals."

Below: "Fig.6 Capacitance cereal saturation. Funnel neck of a plastic bottle filled with millet. Here the water is saturated with vitamins and gets incomparable flavor Russian fields."

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Machine for water purification

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