Midnight movies Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Final Cut - Dec 1
Some good midnight movies coming up at the
Uptown Theater.
Original release version! Donnie Darko - Dec 8
From the creators of Super Troopers! Beerfest - Dec 15
Michael Keaton in Tim Burton's Batman - Dec 22
Alan Parker's film version of Pink Floyd The Wall - Dec 29
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WANT The only place to get one in the US is
Scandivavian Grace in Brooklyn ($135) but my friend Garrick is
crocheting himself one:
More links:
Kitsune Noir,
Doobybrain,
Doobybrain 2, Vik_Prjonsdottir (the
designer)
The beardcap!
Posted at 15:28
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A wonderful place A group of guerilla restorationists
fixed the clock
at the Panthéon in Paris under the nose of the authorities.
The only downside to the story is that the Panthéon's administrator
was fired over the issue.
Obligitory photo:
This is one of those stories that just makes me realize that the world we
live in is a fantastic and wonderful place.
Four members of an underground "cultural guerrilla" movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France's cultural heritage, were cleared on Friday of breaking into the 18th-century monument in a plot worthy of Dan Brown or Umberto Eco.
For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon's unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid "illegal restorers" set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building's famous dome. Under the supervision of group member Jean-Baptiste Viot, a professional clockmaker, they pieced apart and repaired the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Only when their clandestine revamp of the elaborate timepiece had been completed did they reveal themselves.
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Programmer salaries
Joel
Spolsky: "You do have to pay competitively, but all said, of all the
things that programmers look at in deciding where to work, as long as the
salaries are basically fair, they will be surprisingly low on their list
of considerations, and offering high salaries is a surprisingly
ineffective tool in overcoming problems like the fact that programmers get
15" monitors and salespeople yell at them all the time and the job
involves making nuclear weapons out of baby seals."
Posted at 14:55
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