An interesting interview with James Schamus about his work with Ang Lee on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Lord of the Rings — comings to Cannes RSN…
Greetings from sunken R’Lyeh! Snow domes from the H.P. Lovecraft mythos.
IBM’s SF graffiti is being imitated country-wide! Spotted in Boston too.
Brilliant! A while ago, Dan Lyke commented, Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to do gzip -dp phonelist.gnumeric | xmlsearch “select phonenumber, longdistanceprice from phonelist.person.work” | xmlsort “person.longdistanceprice”?
Well, here’s a step along that very road. xml2 converts XML into line-oriented name=value pairs, perfect for Perl, awk, grep or sed to mangle in the traditional UNIX style.
I can see this one coming in very handy!
It also points to Pyxie, which sounds similar — but I think I like the xml2 notation better.
Apparently, a replica of Michelangelo’s David has caused a bit of controversy in Lake Alfred, Florida (pop 3,890). A quote: “I work six days a week. And we do live in Lake Alfred… you know? What we look at is raccoons and rattlesnakes. To me it was a naked man on the side of the road.”
Gerry reckons the Irish Times are taking the piss.
Eircom gets beaten up by regulator. Check out this quote: “As eircom has failed to supply all the relevant information, I have set interim prices […] Eircom’s approach with respect to costing and the level of response and co-operation on this issue is not acceptable.”
Why Finns are sick of illnesses named after them.