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Kangacast #4 explains where rainbows come from. (Kangacast)

Yahoo helps China in its Anti-Communist witch hunt

Pacific News Service - News > China Takes Aim at Bloggers With New Internet Limits” href=”http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=0095baa989d7314d68d26a175c1ca4bb” target=”_blank”>China Takes Aim at Bloggers With New Internet Limits

Journalist Shi Tao, who worked for the Contemporary Business News in Hunan province, was sent to prison in April for 10 years for sending an internal Communist Party memo to a foreign-owned Web site. According to Reporters Without Borders, Yahoo gave information about journalist Shi Tao’s personal e-mail account that helped the government prove its case.

(2005-09-30 19:51:51)

New Movies

2005 Oct 05
Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming, Mr. Jealousy, co-writer of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) treads ground familiar to me — the split up of his parents and subsequent existence in joint-custody purgatory — with The Squid and the Whale. Jesse Eisenberg (Roger Dodger) and Owen Kline play the confused teenaged brothers caught between parents Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney who themselves are not quite done with adolescence.

2005 Nov
Sam Mendes (director of American Beauty) will soon bring us a very timely tale of life as a U.S. Marine during Desert Storm in the movie Jarhead. Adapted from Marine Anthony Swofford’s “bracing memoir”, it features Hollywood’s new best chameleon, Jamie Foxx. Looks like this time Foxx’s mimetic talents are put to use doing his Denzel Washington impression.

2005 Dec 23
Johnny Knoxville continues to parlay his “Jackass” TV career into silver screen gold with The Ringer, in which he poses as a retard to fix the Special Olympics. Brian Cox plays his mentor & trainer.

That is all for now…

America: You do NOT have the right to NOT BE OFFENDED

The Globe and Mail - Woman kicked off flight for controversial T-shirt

Flickr Pickr

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It is ridiculous how beautiful this photo is…to me. (Couldn’t end with a preposition.)

Extra Luogo #13

Posted on 25th July, 2005 by macebio (a.k.a. 45346381@N00)

The Face of Tomorrow

Is this project useful, or is it just showing us that averaging 100 faces together results in something very bland, safe, and media-friendly? What’s interesting is that it is an open source project and you can be part of it for free:

faceoftomorrow.com - the Face of Tomorrow: the Human Face of Globalization, photographs by Mike Mike

PhotoshopSupport.com - Inspiration - The Face of Tomorrow

I Googled “abort william bennett”…

…and I didn’t even get a T-shirt, but I am satisfied with the results: Google Search: abort william bennett. If you don’t know what I’m refering to, William Bennett (former secretary of education for President Ronald Reagan) will be eating crow for a long while because of recent remarks he made on his radio show. I found them at American Politics Journal where Jeff Koopersmith quoted how ABC News summed up Bennett’s remarks:

On the Wednesday edition of his radio show, “Bill Bennett’s Morning in America,” syndicated by Salem Radio Network, a caller raised the theory that Social Security is in danger of becoming insolvent because legalized abortion has reduced the number of taxpaying citizens. Bennett said economic arguments should never be employed in discussions of moral issues.

“If it were your sole purpose to reduce crime,” Bennett said, “You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.”… “That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down,” he added.”

If you are capable of saying something like this without realizing how wrong it is before it comes out of your mouth, I think you have no moral credibility. Not only are you racist, but you don’t know you are racist. How do you come up with an example like that without believing that there is a shred of truth to it? How, Bill!? How!??!?!!

Seriously, how? Maybe he’s just gifted…

MGS4 will rok yr sox. ‘Nuff said.

(This post is not fully formed…)

A preview trailer for Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 4 (MGS4) is making the rounds online and on G4TV’s Cinematech. It is by far the most anticipated game for the PS3 game console, and the only reason I might earmark $600+ of my own money for one. I guess the trailer was initially shown at the 2005 Tokyo Game Show, but I’m not so much of a nerd to be sweating every expo in order to scoop AICN. I’m just a guy who loves Snake. Err…..that sounds bad.

Solid Snake is a great character to play, and Hideo Kojima based his franchise’s leading man in no small part on Snake Pliskin, Kurt Russell’s character from the 1981 B-grade post-pocalyptic sci-fi action movie Escape from New York. (In MGS2, Solid Snake even uses the last name “Pliskin” as a disguise.) Kurt Russell’s Snake is beyond tough, sports a mullet that you don’t even realize IS a mullet, makes jokes without laughing at them himself, and everyone thinks he’s dead. Snake is a great character, but who else could have played Snake but Kurt Russell? No one, that’s who! Need further proof of Russell’s greatness? There’s The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, and Overboard to name a few of the best from the 80s. I wish I was Kurt Russell.

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Escape from New York didn’t need a sequel, but in 1996 (Wow, movies were crap in the 90s!) Escape from L.A. release itself all over audiences. CAN YOU DIG IT!? It was lame. Even Kurt Russell coldn’t save it, but I think he needed the money. After watching John Carpenter’s The Thing I didn’t have nightmares of shape changing creatures, or of Wilford Brimley’s scrotum (thank god!), I had dreams of flying a chopper wearing a sombrero. Big Trouble in Little China (another John Carpenter joint) is damn near the most perfect action movie ever made.
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So, my point is what better choice was there for Hideo Kojima to model his character after? As the boys from the podcast (Cool) Shite on the Tube call him, “Kurt ‘The Fucking Man’ Russell” was the only man for the job!

MGS3 took the series back in time, offering us a look at the early days of Snake’s mentor and eventual nemesis, Big Boss. Since Snake is a clone of Big Boss they look and sound the same, i.e., like Kurt Russel’s Snake. Big Boss’ character

Getting back to the MGS4 trailer, Kojima Sensei has shown how much he likes playing around with the MGS timeline. In MGS4, according to the trailer, Snake is older (explained by “X” years older meaning “10″ or an unknown number???), and has an eye patch. TGS 2005: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Trailer Impressions - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Previews for PlayStation 3 at GameSpot

“It’s like a cross between Sam Fisher and Sean Connery from The Rock. But it’s all Snake. Or Big Boss. Or something.”

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