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After a hard afternoon of sunbathing, relaxing in the dark living room is nice, too.
That's an anagram of "Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code." Oh drat! I just gave away answer #4 on this important cultural quiz. And, if you haven't already done so, read Tony Scott's hilarious review of the movie from yesterday's NY Times.
The movie opened today, but when JA and I were having a brew at the corner pub last night, a lady came by offering DVDs of, you guessed it, The Da Vinci Code. So we managed to start not seeing it a whole day early.
Gary Younge discovered that America is a big country—too big to be just one thing.
Since 5:43pm yesterday evening, the sun and rain have been engaged in some sort of wild tango — the sunshine whips the rain furiously across the dance floor, the rain stomps forcefully upon the sunshine. One moment is blue and gold, the next is streaked with gray. Lightning and thunder have me constantly looking over my shoulder and out onto the City rooftops. All that I can see is wet and droopy and confused. This type of weather makes me wonder what we've done wrong. Why are we being punished? I blame it on Elizabeth. This is what happens when people go on vacation.
By now,…
I couldn't do it, but these eight physicists rose to the challenge: Explain in one page what the Higgs boson is and why we want to find it.
If you go by the RIAA's claims of $150,000 damage per song caused by downloading (as in this Stereophile story), that would mean that one month's worth of downloads caused be a single P2P site would be greater than the GDP of France—at least according to Donny's Blog.
That works out to over $11 trillion per month. No wonder the record industry is in a world of hurt!
A website devoted to deciphering the lyrics (and name) of Steely Dan. Not quite as comprehensive as The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, but these collaborative efforts improve with time—and participation.
Via Grow-A-Brain.
Rob Pegoraro, The Washington Post's personal technology editor, reviews Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11, which MS claims, possesses an ease of use and simplicity to match iTunes." As if MS would recognize ease of use if it bit them in their text assembler.
First, WMP11 teams up with über-hip MTV and its own MSN store for the music store function. BMAFG! MTV?
It gets worse. Urge, as the music store is called, is so crippled, er, connected to WMP11 that you can't shop there or even play Urge selections on anything else! (Nor can you easily shop anywhere else.) Once installed,…
Over at IGN.com, Hilary Goldstein and Richard George have compiled a list of the top 25 X-Men characters. Granted, it's a shamelessly blatant tie-in to Friday's release of X-Men III: The Last Stand, but it also points to what I suspect will be that movie's biggest weakness, judging from the trailers I've seen.
There's just too much back story to the X-Men—the complete mythos of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is even vaster than the Buffyverse! That there could even be 25 X-Men, much less a top 25 should be a big fat clue, no? What's next, the top 10 female X-Men by bust size? No,…