Closing tabs:
- Chaosmint: Easter Egg? Final Cut Pro 4.0 Ramblings
“If you want to see Bruce the Wonder Yak for yourself, go to “About Final Cut Pro” in the Apple Menu, let the splash screen scroll through the credits a few times, and in after a moment or two he’ll come out to graze on your desktop. Let him stay a while and he might even impart a few pearls of wisdom!”
- ~stevenf:
StagnantDell today issued a press release
announcing their intention to rip off every single good idea Apple has
had over the last year or so. - CIA pursues video game – ok, it’s being reported by the WT, but yeah, it does sound moronic
The CIA is set to spend several million dollars to develop a video game aimed at helping its analysts think like terrorists, The Washington Times has learned.
- ::STEAMBOY:: – check out trailer #2; japanese steampunk by way of Otomo (his first feature since Akira)
Steamboy is the most expensive animated film in Japanese history with a budget of some 2.4 billion yen (roughly $20 million). With more than 180,000 drawings and 400 CG cuts, Steamboy is sure to be one of the most elaborate animated features of 2003.
- mefi: Drug War Victims
- OJR: interview w/ Google News creator
- NYTimes: Waiting for Spielberg
Unlike most urban legends, the one about the Iranian exile stuck at the Paris airport for 15 years is true. Surrounded by a mountain of his possessions near the Paris Bye Bye lounge at Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Merhan Karimi Nasseri is still there after all these years — a celebrity homeless person.
- NYTimes: The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide – ahh, Powerpoint
- Megnut: Teen girl bloggers – most of whom have more functional/better designed blogs than I