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Sunday, 4 September 2005
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Cory Doctorow:
Kittiwat Unarrom, a Thai baker's son, was trained as a fine artist, but
has switched to baking realistic putrefying human body parts and organs
out of bread and other ingredients, and has become a trendy sensation:
 Along
with edible human heads crafted from dough, chocolate, raisins and
cashews, Kittiwat makes human arms, feet, and chicken and pig parts. He
uses anatomy books and his vivid memories of visiting a forensics
museum to create the human parts.
I suppose this is kind of cool, but don't expect me to eat it
Link
(Thanks, Digitaler Lumpensammler!)
[Boing Boing]
8:26:00 PM 
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A new study has found cane toads are drawn to disco lighting.
Of course it sounds sensational,
but it's not that surprising that a particular light frequency should
attract a reptilian creature.
[ABC News: Science and Technology]
7:42:00 PM
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Newt Blasts Bush
"I think
it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command
planning for the last four years, because if we can't respond faster
than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why
do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological
attack?" said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich....read on
Ezra Klein: He's
neither able to effectively deploy government or call on his friends
outside of it. He's just incompetent, as I said before, a small man in
a big office. He speaks the language of small government conservatism
because it gets him elected, pushes big government solutions because
they prove easiest, but is so separated and uninterested in the whole
enterprise that the result is a wreck of incoherence and unexpected
outcomes....read on
Even La Shawn Barber isn't thrilled:
"I'm ashamed of this country and its bumbling leadership today...
Billions we spend, and all we have to show for it are four-day-old
corpses on the side of the road, starving and injured people, and women
and children being raped by animals who shouldn't even be alive. [Crooks and Liars]
12:45:36 AM
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I went to a 6.00 pm session at the cinema earlier tonight to see this. It starred someone
who has to be the most beautiful looking human being alive, and has
been for years, in my opinion. To top it off, my party went Gold Class.
Never done this before, what a hoot! It was at least partly a gift, so
cost was minimal. Yay! Bottles of wine, food, and cups of tea delivered
to your seat. Way to go.
The movie was wonderful, with Mr Depp camping it up much as he did in Ed Wood, and in Pirates of the Caribbean. Even the less campy roles
always have a quirky strength with him. He is so strong, and given such
excellent dialogue, but not so much that his physical work doesn't make
a significant contribution to the performance, that it's hard to
believe that the rest of the cast won't be overshadowed. But they're
not.
The script is excellent. I particularly enjoyed all the 60s references in Depp's lines, even including lyrics from songs from Hair. Tim Burton's vision is, as usual, astonishing, but very true in feel to the book. The design generally is astounding, from the CGI intro sequence to even the makeup on the children. As in many Burton films he integrates the CGI look with the real world by making the real world look idealised, as in Edward Scissorhands, or Batman.
The music was wonderful and dark in that typical overblown Danny Elfman way. Think Batman, Nightmare before Christmas rather than The Simpsons.
The credits showed a huge range of compositors, animators, designers,
modellers, etc, etc. But, in spite of the hi-tech input, it is a very
warm, human film, with funky songs from the Oompaloompas, the common
touch from Australian Noah Taylor, Helena Bonham-Carter, and David Kelly, and the over-riding humour and design sense of the whole production.
Did I mention that I enjoyed it?
And, if you can afford it, choose the right film and treat yourself to Gold Class sometime.
12:34:47 AM
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