Saturday, January 5, 2008

Starpulse Hotel Employees Arrested Over Alice Cooper Theft. Three hotel workers in Canada have been arrested following the theft of a guitar signed by Alice Cooper. The kind-hearted rocker had donated the $3,000 Les Paul in December to be sold at a forthcoming charity auction. Read more! [Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News] 6:56:32 PM

A Few Election Notes How internet may decide U.S. election. Blogflict looks at how the internet may play a deciding role in the U.S. election. ... [visit site to read more] [CyberJournalist.net] 6:53:01 PM

Science Matters Baltimore Sun science writers launch new blog. Three Baltimore Sun science writers, including myself, have launched a new blog called Science Matters. It's a place for us to offer science news and commentary - both serious and quirky - that doesn't fit in the paper. Eds note: Baltimore Sun is a first-rate paper. This blog will be worth watching.  http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/sciencematters/blog/ read more [Science Blog -] 6:42:38 PM

Gary Hart on a New Generation of Leaders A new generation of leaders. Gary Hart on the Huffington Post this morning: "A year or so ago I wrote a book entitled The Courage of Our Convictions. read more [Stanford Center for Internet and Society [beta site] -] 7:36:03 AM

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Keys to the Kingdom. Keys to the Kingdom. Vanity Fair profiles George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and previews Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [minor spoiler on page 5]; Q&A with Spielberg and Lucas. Rather than update the franchise to match current styles, Lucas and Spielberg decided to stay true to the prior films' look, tone, and pace. During pre-production, Spielberg watched the first three Indiana Jones movies at an Amblin screening room with Janusz Kaminski, who has shot the director's last 10 films. He replaces Douglas Slocombe, who shot the first three Indy movies (and is now retired at age 94), as the man mainly responsible for the filmâo[dot accent]s look. "I needed to show them to Janusz," Spielberg says, "because I didn't want Janusz to modernize and bring us into the 21st century. I still wanted the film to have a lighting style not dissimilar to the work Doug Slocombe had achieved, which meant that both Janusz and I had to swallow our pride. Janusz had to approximate another cinematographer's look, and I had to approximate this younger director's look that I thought I had moved away from after almost two decades." [MetaFilter] 7:23:02 AM