Links for 2005-12-21
- One Billion Internet Users (from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) "Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on."
- The guy from Suprnova explains why the site went offline a year ago... He tells the story quickly, but it sounds like quite a scary situation to find yourself in. Still, it also sounds like the story ended fairly well. I wonder what happens next...
- Roger Ebert describes his best 10 Movies of 2005, and mentions a whole lot of other films that nearly made the list or deserved a mention It's a fascinating group of pictures. I can't quite fathom why everyone in the US was so taken with Crash - it didn't work so well for me, and I don't think it did enormously well in the UK box office. Maybe it's a cultural thing.
- Saturday Night Live's "The Chronic of Narnia Rap" This one's really spreading - I heard about it on a mailing list from a friend in the US about six hours before Cal sent me the URL. I'm guessing it'll have eaten the internet by Thursday.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
On Crash, I definitely think that (in however stylised and heavy-handed a way), it addressed American racial politics in a way that doesn't normally get to the big screen.
I'd like to know how The Constant Gardener has done in the UK, given that it's not really a Christmas-season film. It's possibly the least American film from a major studio (or at least, the film least concerned with the sensibilities of an American audience) that I've seen in a while.
→ Posted by: nick at December 21, 2005 1:48 AM
I couldn't help but think of Crash as Racism, Actually. It had its moments but I didn't think it succeeded overall.
→ Posted by: Rafe at December 21, 2005 4:17 AM