wish i could have seen the advance screening. sounds like a gas, heheh.
At the helm of “Pay It Forward,” director Mimi Leder becomes such a manipulatively mawkish emotional puppeteer that it feels as if she’s tossing tear gas grenades into the audience.
there are some great illustration articles by glenn vilppu @ AWN’s Student Corner
Americans love to vote. We vote for all-star teams, music awards, soft drinks, and hamburgers. Millions of us watch two television shows that involve a vote: Survivor and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The only time we don’t like to vote, it seems, is Election Day. Some would trace this strange reluctance to the corruption and inequality in campaign financing. But the more likely reason is that people don’t believe they’re getting a fair choice. Sometimes the most popular candidate, like John McCain this year or Buddy Roemer in Louisiana in 1991, can’t even make it onto the ballot. At other times, ballots list numerous candidates, but people hesitate to vote for their favorites because they’re only allowed one vote and they don’t want to “waste” it. Perhaps the best way out of our electoral malaise isn’t to reform campaign finances, as politicians so often say, but to reform the voting system itself— even if it means doing so one vote at a time.
interesting intro to voting systems that may be worth following up. borda count, voting theory, voting theorists
daily dose of painting advice on sijun’s forums: flesh tones
david brin makes a few interesting points. the ensuing /. discussion is pretty lively.
Olympus E-10 SLR Digital Camera (pre-production) Review – at $2k, it’s half as expensive at the competition. wow, that’s only 2k outta my budget.