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I've seen it.

One Word: Brilliance.

A sentence: I nearly peed my pants because I couldn't bear to leave my seat to head for the toilets.

I repeat,

Brilliance.

Project Playlist is a wonderful way to illegally download commercial music. ;P

Change makes people uncomfortable. I believe Radiohead's experiment to be a hugely successful one - I'd never have really thought of donations as a business model until now.

I don't care. Wall.E is beyond cute, and if Pixar tells a good story I'll be happy. (Anybody remember the Incredibles, and the ideas it stole - Fantastic Four, Watchmen themes, etc etc?)

Oh wow, Tyme. This is really noble of her. Good to see someone who's not let fame get to their heads.

"The children cookies you sold me taste nothing like children!" Witch to storekeeper.

9 out of 10 women with breast implants can't even take themselves seriously.

Josh, that mixtape is totally awesome. I'm saving it, bookmarking it, and I'll be hunting down the artists' albums later.

If you put up another one please let us know. A note, an email ... anything. Whoosh this is good.

It's a widget I have in Netvibes, called 'The Hella True Fact of The Day'.

Here's one Mike would like:

Margins kill five million trees a year.

Holy. Shit.

If a Nigerian king ever needs help laundering money from random Internet users, he'll have a terrible time proving he's for real.

68% of Americans refuse to eat baby carrots because they feel too bad for the vegetables that barely had time to live.

73% of successful suicide bombers are actually failed homicide bombers who didn't run as fast as they thought they could.

He does sound like Macy Gray, come to think of it ...

OMG I love this. Great find, publicenergy!

Speed Racer was based on the anime. I think Gnorb is going about American comics and graphic novels.

Yeah well I just adore Speed Racer. Watched it yet, Kami?

Most of the others (Fantastic 4, Daredevil, Ghost Rider etc. have sucked HARD)

Agreed. Daredevil wasn't too bad, but it didn't have the storytelling ability of Spiderman nor the humour of Ironman. But hey, at least it wasn't as bad as Electra. And it wasn't as stupid as Catwoman.

I think superhero movies will eventually become a genre unto themselves. Justice League's on the cards, and that Incredible Hulk movie (with Tony Stark playing a cameo) is looking awesome.

If you press me to pick an absolute best comic to movie adaptation, I'd say V for Vendetta. That one's just. Damn. Amazing.

Spiderman 1 and 2 are in my book (not 3!), as is Superman Returns. I haven't watched the earlier Superman films so I can't comment on those.

X-men 1 and 2 are good. X-men 3 sucks.

Batman Begins and Dark Knight. I know Dark Knight's not come out yet, but I'm willing to bet it'll be awesome. I mean, it's Heath Ledger's last movie. How can it not?

And ... Speed Racer. *does that count? Okay maybe not*

Google wins as always, though. When I stretched the "Virgle" window to fit my screen, after a certain width a little sign popped up in the image that said "Nice monitor!"

Damn! Let's have that on Chawlk!

Wordpress 2.5 was released!

Oh wait, that was real ...

'Good artists copy, great artists steal'. -Pablo Picasso

The difference between the two is quite striking, if you come to think about it. Copying is direct reproduction (your Mona Lisa example, Ryan). Stealing, on the other hand, internalizes a source of inspiration, making it truly yours. It tallies with another saying I've heard somewhere, but forgotten the source: copying from one is theft, copying from many is inspiration.

Sitepoint has a good article on applying Pablo's words on copying to website design. And while that isn't about writing or painting it is an interesting read.

[update]: found another article while googling the exact wording of Picasso's quote .. this one applies to music. Mark the part that goes '...the only difference between being an Original and a Copy has to do with using more than 1 resource and not revealing your source.'

It's also his personality, I think. He's just so damn ... down to earth/humble. And you can't help but root for him when he goes awwhh at Simon's comments.

@Fuscom: the death crawl thing made me cry too!

Other than that ... Munich's ending choked me up. There was the World Trade Centre at the end of the movie, very matter-of-factly in the background as Eric Bana's character talks to his boss about a war that would never end.

It was ironic, at best.

PS: And there's also a scene where he hears his daughter's voice for the first time and starts crying, all alone, in his room. That really gets me.

Holy shit, Jen. Note necromancy. Okay okay I'll let this one die.

You might want to read Chris Anderson's original article about the Long Tail. He makes a compelling argument for business models that will work online ... and those that won't:

The problem with MP3.com was that it was only Long Tail. It didn’t have license agreements with the labels to offer mainstream fare or much popular commercial music at all. Therefore, there was no familiar point of entry for consumers, no known quantity from which further exploring could begin.

Print the article out and let your friend read it. Good stuff, it is.

I would rather have 1 good cd than 800 crappy ones. What a silly contest.

It isn't really, as long as you listen to all the music you collect. You just might stumble upon a band/genre/niche that you'll absolutely fall in love with ...

I'd rather go through Hype Machine, or Last.fm, to find music similar to the ones I already like. Collaborative filters mean I get to search through much less crap than if I go out and buy every old record I can get my paws on.

But, if it's your time, and your sanity ... hunt away.

And good luck.

[update]: Come to think of it, this would be a very good idea for a new blog. Not many of us have the time or the energy to do something like what you're suggesting - and it'll definitely be an adventure worth writing about.

Not really sure if this is real. My first reaction was 'publicity stunt.' I mean, he is playing the Joker, after all.

But if it is. God. The good really die young.

Update: Is it just me, or are all the news reports highly sketchy? Urgh skeptic me urgh. Something just doesn't click in my head. Don't know why.