Wow, there’s a new version of Metropolis coming out – now 122 minutes long (the original edit was 153 minutes, but was cut to 80 minutes by the studios shortly after its release), digitally cleaned/repaired, and with a new digital multitrack recording of original score! It looks like it’ll be making it’s way to major metropolitan around the country (although playing at some places for one night only!).

Metropolis will be opening at the Nuart on October 4.

The trailer is online at Apple’s trailer park.

A few more trailers:

• One Hour Photo – hey, Robin Williams, and he’s not playing Robin Williams! pretty neat site site as well (if I had the patience or time to actually go through it)
• Naquoyqatsi – 3rd part of Godfry Reggio’s non-narrative Qatsi series (Naquoyqatsi site)
• Spirited Away – next Miyazaki flick
• 8 Mile – hmm, maybe it won’t suck

Welcome to Amerika, Land of the Free! (Remember kids, Criticism is Treason, remember: Oceania has always been at war with Afghanistan Iraq)

The only thing that the new T-Mobile Sidekick (Danger Hiptop) is missing that would be nice is bluetooth, although with USB, IR, and most promisingly, an “Accessory Port”, hopefully a bluetooth add-on will be coming soon. Hmm… with USB available, it may be not too hard to write drivers for a USB ethernet adapter. That a simple nat or proxy, plus a crossover cable might give you a simple bootstrap for ad-hoc internet access when your laptop is wi-fi-less. Just thinking out loud… (time to d/l the latest version of J2ME)

I’ve already raved about the form-factor and the pricing, but one more thing that really separates the Danger (and hopefully all next-generation devices) is the ability to do true multitasking. Stewart Alsop writes in Fortune that he believes that the Danger’s business model is risky (their taking a percentage off data access only), but I have a feeling that might pay off – bigtime. Once people discover how useful (and addicting) live internet access (specifically IM, but also finding directions and getting movie schedules, etc) are, it’ll be a paradigm shift like the cell-phone or even widespread net access itself: we’ll never imagine how we lived without it. Think about what that shift was like.

Related: EdgeReviw: Handheld & Wireless, Enabling the Wireless Enterprise: Hot Java Devices, Sony Ericsson P800, Headset hassles and Bluetooth aches, widepipe.org on Ericsson Bluetooth headset, Danger and Apple Buyout (that looks like it fell through (if it ever was true) as current iPhone talk is centered around their Sony/Ericsson alliance – hey, iphone.org redirects to Apple.com…), M-Commerce Times article from January: They are exploring and are capable of delivering a CDMA 1X and even integrate wireless LAN version of the hiptop should the market demand it

Catherine Seipp writes about a whole alternate universe in Blogapalooza. Hmm, so Los Angeles is the capital of blogging? That’s interesting.

Heh, according to myelin’s blogging ecosystem, I’m linked more than useit. Hah! Take that Jakob!

Wow, as a former spacegeek (with the encouragement of my elementary school librarian, I used to write regularly to NASA to request information packets and literature on the space program), this Man Conquers Space really hits home… The teaser movie is great – the music, the footage, the completely authentic diagrams. Who woulda known that this would be our future. Well things could certainly be worse… somehow. I’m sure we’ll find out in the news tomorrow.

More great stuff at boingboing today, but your probably already knew that. (since you click there every 10 minutes because it’s so damn awesome, right?)

Also from the NYT: a very positive G35 review. So pretty. The G35 is the American version of the Skyline. More info:http://www.infinitig35.net/.

Woo! LCD Price War! 23″ Flat screens for everyone!

The latest in a long line of badass Shynola videos: Junior/Senior – Move Your Feet

Who Owns Even Brown’s Brain? – This Register article summarizes the ongoing case of DSC Communications, Inc. vs. Evan Brown. Part of me wants to say, well, be careful of what you sign, or you’re going to get screwed, but another part of me screams out that this is ridiculous regardless of what was signed…

How to Monetize(tm) your browser – awesome ideas courtesy of hyatt, supergenius.

Madhu “MadMan” Menon’s Weblog: Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists:

2. Avoid sarcasm. Cultural and individual sensitivity to sarcasm varies from person to person. Forget that silly quote about sarcasm being the highest form of wit. Remember that mailing lists can have people from all over the world. Respect their culture too.

Translation: Avoid sarcasm because there are so many stupid people on mailing lists.

Sarcasm? What’s that?