Links for 2005-09-18
Posted September 18, 2005 1:17 AM.
- Yahoo! Movies hosts the trailers for Brokeback Mountain What can I say - it looks moving, interesting, depressing and er... kinda hot. Um.
- The Question: Is it OK for a public figure to say arse ? "What happens with a lot of these words, like arse and piss and shit, is that they're acceptable until about 1450," says Jonathon Green...
- You hate yourself & you must die (on Flickr) Notes in offices got less and less subtle as the years passed...
- US teens 'reject' key freedoms "Over a third of the 100,000 students questioned felt the First Amendment went "too far" in guaranteeing freedom of speech, press, worship and assembly."
- The Independent talks about Kate Bush's reappearance after twelve years... "She was wacky, she was mysterious, she was a child prodigy who topped the charts... and then she disappeared without trace. This month Kate Bush is back with her first single in more than a decade"
- Nintendo Revolution Controller Unveiled, And It's Revolutionary Mr Webb will be please - haptic interfaces, accelerometers and the like make it unlike any other controller on the market. Game interfaces are up for experimentation for the first time in years and it's all nintendo's fault...
- There's a party over at the Flickr ranch on Monday (I think) and everyone's invited Of course, I'm several thousand miles away so I don't think I'm going to be able to make it...
- He Man does 4-non-blondes So it's basically a gay joke and I'm a bit conflicted about it, but what the hell... S'kind of funny...
- Troubling Exits At Microsoft "There's a plea for action to Gates and Ballmer to do more -- slash the bureaucracy, tend to morale, and make it easier to innovate. But is anyone listening?"
- meebo.com - bloody astonishing multi-platform IM client in your browser Doesn't seem to work so well on Safari - or at least not with the amount of tabs I have open normally, but still.
Comments
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the brokeback mountain comment, lol. oh, tom.
→ Posted by: Amy at September 18, 2005 6:23 AM
I've been following the Brokeback Mountain coverage with some interest, ever since the first "Ang Lee nervous about The Gay" news story, followed by "Heath Ledger breaks Jake Gyllenhaal's nose during a kissing scene", "Two men herding sheep is far more sexual than two men having sex on screen", "Making out with Jake was the scariest thing ever", "It's a beautiful love story" and "Q: How many sex scenes are in it? - Ledger: I mean, look, there's enough."
The last thing I've read was a pre-screening review that was *gushing* about both the cinematography and the romance, so I'm vaguely hopeful that it won't suck. Plus, those couple of scenes in the tent look damn hot.
(A 'Celluloid Closet, pt. 2' in five years from now might be interesting. Someone should be persuaded to do it.)
→ Posted by: Andrea at September 18, 2005 12:58 PM
> Game interfaces are up for experimentation
> for the first time in years and it's all
> nintendo's fault...
Um, Eyetoy? Singstar? Dancemats? All PS2 originally, IIRC...
→ Posted by: John Dale at September 19, 2005 9:08 AM
Been reading your blog for some time (can't quite remember how I found it). In any case I had always considered you a "total stranger" but as it happens through your Flickr link in this post I was able to do my own little 6-degrees of separation and discover that:
TomC (you) -> PaulH -> RussB -> DaveS (me)
It appears that when it comes to people involved with RaW and the BBC it is indeed a small world.
Well perhaps one day we'll all be at a party and I'll meet you. Until then, I'll keep reading your entertaining blog. Cheers!
→ Posted by: Dave Shipp at September 19, 2005 11:37 AM