Saturday, July 26, 2003

Dark Knight Returns Dead End. Batman versus - well, everything nasty. I know, it has been blogged to death, but this is the best (Film-) Batman ever. And the best Joker, played by Walter Koenig's (Chekov - Star Trek: The Original Series) son Andrew Koenig. You now have the option of a 48MB download or a full screen 160MB download. Guess it's your choice. And no spoilers here. Movie directed by Sandy Collora, featuring Clark Bartram as The Batman. Picture taken from the OSG Forum [The Cartoonist] 5:23:14 PM

Media Lab / Samsung EE Times: Samsung to seek technology with MIT Media Lab. Samsung plans to invest $3.75 million over the next five years on the program, the company said on Friday. The research to be based in the digital multimedia domain would include assessing the impact of technological progress on human lifestyles at home and work. [Tomalak's Realm] 5:12:08 PM

C.S. Vienna Design. Charlotte Schlifelner creates 'filmfakes' and 'screendesign' for Austrian TV productions ("Kommissar Rex"). Fascinating stuff. Oh - she's a big time Raumpatrouille fan too! [The Cartoonist] 2:09:48 PM

Howard Dean Rocks the Web ($$$) Almost $150,000 raised in the Dean Team vs. Bush-Cheney Challenge. As of 4pm ET, supporters have raised $147,430.44 online in the Dean Team vs. Bush-Cheney Challenge, with 2,669 individual contributions. Email all your friends to get them in on the challenge -- every contribution counts, and you've got the power! [Blog for America] 2:07:03 PM

Dean Independents Take on the Bush-Cheney fundraising machine. From the Dean campaign, something that many independents want to believe: "You have the power to take on the special interests." On Monday, July 28th, Vice President Dick Cheney will raise $250,000 for the Bush campaign from a handful of... [Dean Independents] 2:03:54 PM

Minsky Interview Minsky: Why A.I. Is Brain-Dead. Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, says the field of artificial intelligence has lost its way. An interview with Josh McHugh from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 2:00:19 PM

'Belgium is the cafe, the cafe is Belgium.' - Goofin' on Belgium Belgian fun. Have a look at An A to Z of Belgium. Found at My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Delhaize: A supermarket invented by the devil to torture his subjects. Offers every shopping frustration imaginable, from lack of baskets to severe aisle congestion. Home to the most spectacularly slow checkout queues in the universe. Horrid horrid place. July: The wettest month of the year in Belgium - a fact only really appreciated by anyone who has tried to block book a fixed hour on an outdoor tennis court for the whole summer season. Post Office: A building that is almost always closed. On the off chance that it is actually open, post office customers can expect the usual queueing problems and a severely incremental and erratic pricing system for overseas mail. This seems to be based on the mysterious Belgian "standard" envelope, an object carefully designed to ensure that any card purchased in a Belgian card shop will automatically fail to qualify as regular mail. [The Cartoonist] 1:26:46 AM