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Archive for November, 2005

Metropolis

Published at Wednesday, Nov 30th, 2005 in Evergreens and Journal. 21 Comments

Metropolis Skyline

Seizing a rare opportunity, in-between my swooning over the masterpiece of modern cinema that is Fantastic Four and whatever Adam Sandler is up to these days, Rikke and I went to a showing of the 1927 Fritz Lang classic, Metropolis this evening in Cinemateket. The catch being, that the two-hour black and white and entirely silent film was being accompanied by a pianist throughout.

And it was pretty swanky, I gotta say.

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Homo Erectus

Published at Wednesday, Nov 30th, 2005 in Clippings. 2 Comments

By any measure, Kurzweil has had an exceptional career. Now, however, he has a new project: to be a god. And not just because he thinks he can live forever. Within decades, he predicts, he will be billions of times more intelligent than he is today, able to read minds, assume different forms, and reshape his physical environment at will. So will everyone. Today’s human beings, mere quintessences of dust, will be as outmoded as Homo Erectus. #

An inspiring, although perhaps slightly ‘cyberiffic’ guy, Kurzweil. Even if he may or may not be flamingly crazy…

According to a battery of controversial tests administered by Terry Grossman, the anti-aging expert who co-wrote ‘‘Fantastic Voyage,” Kurzweil has not aged appreciably in the past 17 years.

Either way, I am incidentally reading Accelerando, which, like Kurzweils latest book, also deals with the singularity; a long time favorite subject of mine.

Firefox 1.5

Published at Wednesday, Nov 30th, 2005 in Clippings. 12 Comments

Firefox 1.5 has been released. Nuff said.

100 Notable Books of 2005

Published at Wednesday, Nov 30th, 2005 in Clippings. Closed

The New York Times has a list of what they deem to be the 100 most notable books of 2005. Which reminds me; I stumbled into their movie reviews section yesterday. It requires registration (or the use of BugMeNot), but it contains reviews as far back as 1929!

K2 Beta One r125

Published at Tuesday, Nov 29th, 2005 in Clippings. Closed

Revision 125 of K2 Beta One is up for download. Please leave your feedback in the forum thread. These are the logged changes:

  • Added a new edit graphics
  • Restyled the comment area a bit
  • Made the search input ‘text’
  • Sidebar asides now show up on archive pages
  • Smilies do not cut off characters in comments
  • Removed styling of input and textarea
  • Minor cosmetic surgery here and there
  • Textarea is now disabled while posting an ajax comment

iPhoto Extractor

Published at Sunday, Nov 27th, 2005 in Clippings. 3 Comments

If your iPhoto library suddenly goes belly up and crashes iPhoto on startup, you should have a look at iPhoto Extractor. Makes life a good bit easier, even if you do loose some of your metadata. Apple, would you put some effort into it?!

Retro Sci-Fi Books

Published at Saturday, Nov 26th, 2005 in Clippings. 18 Comments

I’m in the marketplace for a great AMAZING retro sci-fi book of some sort. Think Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Amazing Stories, rocket ships, creepy aliens and damsels in distress. Anyone got any bright ideas?