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Monday, 10 October 2005
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Cory Doctorow:
Soapdetectives is a podcast of golden-age radio plays about private
eyes and other hard-boiled types, including Sam Spade, The Saint and so
forth.
Check these out!
They are excellent!
Link
(Thanks, Andreas!) [Boing Boing]
12:41:33 PM 
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Mark Frauenfelder:
The Jamaica Star reports that a 40-year-old barber styles his hair to look like a hat.
 Darain
Housen has not taken off his hat for the last 20 years. He bathes, he
sleeps and does everything possible in it. It is a perfect fit. But
unlike other hats, his is not made of cloth but from the very hair on
his head...
...Housen said that he was once stopped by a
policeman while coming from a dance early one morning who insisted that
he removed it. "Him shine di light pon mi an' look. When him see it seh
a mi real hair him frighten an' seh mi mus come check him a di station
di following morning. When mi go him shake mi han' an' seh mi have
talent an' mi fi keep it up.
One
thing I love about this post is the use of the Jamaican dialect. I love
the verb "fi". I wish English had such a useful verb.
Link (via Christopher Porter) (thanks, rev rob murray!)
[Boing Boing]
12:27:50 PM
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A film festival for movies shot on mobile telephones has opened in
Paris, aiming to take cinema a technological and creative step forward
in the country that gave birth to the art.
I don't want to sound like a wet blanket (although I know I am one), but people send me photos and movies taken with mobile phones quite a bit, and frankly, they're mostly rubbish.
Sorry, the mobile phone is one technology I haven't embraced on any level.
[ABC News: Entertainment (with Mpeg1)]
12:20:51 PM
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