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Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Check it out:
Microsoft to pitch security as 'competitive advantage'. SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. will pitch security as a "competitive advantage" at its worldwide partner conference in Toronto next week, but it may be a tough sell to attendees who are still waiting for the software maker to deliver on some of last year's security-related promises [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:20:09 PM 
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Farenheit 9/11 available for download at archive.org [bOing bOing]
(I'll try to throw up a direct link later, but the newsisfree thing is hanging the window on me again. This happens about three out of five times now: the window opens with the newisfree url in the location box, but it won't respond to any commands to scroll, maximize, et cetera. A real nuisance. I'll eventually have to kill the browser process to be done with it.)
6:34:14 AM
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Fast Company: Thinking Outside The Cup. This push into music is the start of a daring effort to reinvent one of the world's best-known brands. It is an experiment that asks whether that brand is powerful enough, and Starbucks' relationships with the 30 million customers who pass through its 8,000 stores every week durable enough, that they can be used to completely transform the business. [Tomalak's Realm]
6:27:50 AM
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Baker's Dozen Movies and then some.
What are your favorite movies? The best ones? The ones that aren't perhaps the best, but you keep thinking back to them year after year? Drugstore Cowboy Pulp Fiction Crumb Moonstruck Young Doctor Frankenstein Seven Samurai A Man In Love Tampopo House of Games Body Heat Dumbo My Dinner with Andre Jackie Brown Vanya on 42nd Street There are some others that I love, but I love them for quirky fits between them and me. ...
[Learning The Lessons of Nixon]
Fascinating. Several of those make my list, too. I really like Drugstore Cowboy, but I'm not sure it makes my top-whatever list. But Pulp Fiction, for sure, House of Games. Young Frankenstein is a contender. I regret to say I haven't seen Crumb. I don't think much of Moonstruck. And I like My Dinner with Andre, but it wouldn't make the list.
I've never precisely listed a top ten, or baker's dozen, and my vague listing has always followed the one-film-per-director rule.
Flicks that make the cut (this morning, though some of these are pretty consistent in my mind, but I could be forgetting some at the moment):
- Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
- The Store (Frederick Weisman)
- Notorious (Hitchcock)
- The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
- maybe Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (which I still find laugh-out-loud funny -- I smile even to think of some parts of it now)
- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
- House of Games (it's Mamet, but I dunno who directed)
- Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
- Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
- quite possibly Lost in Translation (the other Coppola ;->), but I need to see it again
- Tango (Academy Award-winning animated short by a Polish director whose name I can never recall)
- Matewan (John Sayles)
- Roger and Me (Michael Moore)
That's the list now, and most of those turn up pretty consistently when I do this. Oh, but there are so many others!
6:27:44 AM
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The House That Music Fans Built. Gracenote, maker of the leading tool for identifying music tracks, has become a powerhouse in the digital music biz and is building its reach in consumer electronics. The firm's humble origins, however, began with the sweat of music fans worldwide. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
6:14:02 AM
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