Kinsey let us talk about sex. But we're still divided over it.
San Francisco Chronicle - November 22, 2004

The joy of sexology: does it matter that Alfred Kinsey enjoyed his work more than he let on? Washington Monthly
huh: Furl. -find articles- ?

Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together

Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection 'Quick Online Tips'...

kinsey

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One of this fall's most buzzed-about movie releases, "Kinsey," stars Liam Neeson as famed human sexuality researcher Alfred Kinsey. The film explores the author and scientist's work in the 1940s and the controversial debate that it generated.
Bill Condon, the film's director and screenwriter, was online Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at 12pm.
Transcript (washingtonpost.com)
Pittsburgh, Pa.: Is the movie based on the book by T.C. Boyle, "The Inner Circle"?
Bill Condon: No, in fact I haven't yet read Boyle's book, although I'm going to be on a panel with him in about a month. So I'm looking forward to it. As I understand it, his focus is on the relationship between Kinsey and his research team, specifically centering on the open marriages that Kinsey promoted among the team, which plays only a small part in the film. I felt that as I did research, there are a lot of fascinating ways to approach the Kinsey story. For me the question was, who was this person who thought to do this extraordinary thing in an unlikely place and an unlikely time? I look forward to reading the Boyle book and also to seeing an exhaustive documentary that PBS is putting together that will air in February.

good review at IMDB:
Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex and, oh yeah, sex...., 3 December 2004
Author: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur0650655/comments from St. Louis, Missouri
"We've got a couple of hours before dinner; time for a couple of sex surveys. Who wants to go first?"... Some of the humor is a bit obvious, such as picking John Lithgow to play Kinsey's pompous father, a fundamentalist preacher, in a performance that echoes the actor's similar role in FOOTLOOSE. [what I was thinking-] ...As a film, KINSEY is like good sex, a briefly satisfying mix of passion and amusement.

TWoP. Nik, twenty-one, from Atlanta, says that she's not here to win the competition; she is the competition. Nik is also not here to make sense, because she is the sense. TWoP season opener of ANTM 0905.

"If TWoP is the neighborhood bar, Tvgasm is the hot new club."-comment on GoFugYourself.

There seems to be a hell of a lot of mileage recently in grabbing onto a technological trend that's owned by the people and talking about how it's going to rip down every aspect of the old world order and replace it with a brave new world without large media / business / governmental organisations. You find a trend and you shout about it in public, waving a fist at the big boys as you threaten to drag them down to their knees. You get invited to a lot of conferences this way. You may even get a book deal. Large companies will invite you to talk to them about why they should employ you to protect them from the future you've said will destroy them. wrd.
The world is changing really rapidly - technology is having a significant impact. I think the idea of tens of millions of individuals expressing their opinions in public is profoundly moving and important and is likely to have all kinds of repercussions that we can't possibly foresee at the moment.
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/09/a_response_to_the_rhetoric_of_weblog_marketing.shtml

171 books.

To me-my library tags faceted

To me, its importance
my before

Why I like it – as an object, as a voice
object-beautiful paperw/dj title
ruminativeretelling idiosyncratic distinctively personal (voice–styleisthethinking-thoughtvoice)
eros-magic

What is it is about – subject/theme howIthinkofit
aging anatomy medical memory ~loss
art drawing visualstudy film graphica
architecture place chicago
italian norwegian (~scandinavian, multilanguage)
berlin (~germany, easteuropean bloc)
theworld {{ business culture cogsci /emotions? techno/media
economics criticaltheory the academy women men
poetics (1=whatmakessoundpatternsexpressv),
*poetry story /stories eros-magic pop-edgy language
*philosophy heidegger hegel …thinking
*mentalhealth psychoanalysis winnicott loss
+theology monastic orthodoxy christianity

Where/how I got it whyalwaysalsowhy
ebbco thirdplacebooks twicesoldtales seattle
ogara exlibris semcoop myopic
used usedfree(passed on at for used room at ebbco)
galley repcomp new(noticed b/c just published, eg displayed)
authorevent signed(by author) inscribed(not by author. or notes by me)
ukedtn
-press; person associated-
dalkey nyrb otherpress memoryinthepresent =stanford (justin) mitpress /zone
rh jaime paul justin

before women had wings: mother- Ellen Barkin
...I thought...Kyra Sedgwick?! but this is actress who was Diane in Someone Like You (-Animal Husbandry by laura z, WDC)
younger daughter- Tina Majorino
...I thought...I have not seen this but have I seen this? I've seen this actress in this role, young girl, so sad - and, yes, remember, in When A Man Loves A Woman, the older (though younger then, 3 yrs 1994/97) of the 2 little girls.
+ andhey! she was Deb in Napoleon Dynamite (rg)!
older daughter- Julia Stiles
...ahhh! I thought:??? I like her look, Save the Last Dance (title-eh) to see: The Business of Strangers.

You Can Count On Me
Mark Ruffalo's tortured sensitivity in You Can Count On Me and We Don't Live Here Anymore made him seem like Marlon Brando's heir apparent, not Will Smith's. Hollywood has tried to re-imagine him as its generic hunk of the week...

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Grease 2 was a commercial & critical disaster. imdb maxwell whashisname. Why?!

John Travolta -Saturday Night Fever (70s) -Grease (80s) -Pulp Fiction (90s)
v. Bruce Willis

RLS: for though we are mighty fine fellows nowadays, we cannot write like Hazlitt.

libraything- Read dozens of raves from fans.

"[It has] such a usable sign up form that it almost made me cry."
Stefan Hayden (easy as signing in - name, password.)

"It's six kinds of wonderful. It's all the wonderful."
troutqueen

The Curse of the Missing Clause - Ben Hammersley: There was time, not all that long ago, when any mention of the internet in the press was followed by an explanatory clause. The Internet comma the global network of computers etc etc etc. The clause, and the capital I, are long gone. We don’t need to explain what the internet is, or what the funny http:// thing at the bottom of the article means. Even the BBC can confidently state “for more on this, go to bbc dot c.o. dot u.k. slash radio four” and not have to explain just what the hell it’s talking about. In less than a decade, this is an incredible change.
But now we need to add a new clause. There’s something missing from sentences that needs to be replaced, lest we all get the wrong idea. That clause is in the US.
So, filesharing applications are now liable to new legal contraints. Yes. In the US. Not here. Not in China. Not in India. Not across the majority of the world. The Supreme Court of the United States of America may have made a silly ruling, or it may not, but it did it in the US.
Declaring filesharing illegal across the net because it’s illegal in the US is like declaring the web broken because it’s censored in China. While developers in the US are being hamstrung by their courts, the developers in the warm and cheap places are getting busy. If you really care that your software was written in the US, then the Grokster case is quite a big deal. If not, you just shrug and move on. The rest of the world’s a big place. They make software there too.

Salon-Tagging Tagging, the Web's newest game... Welcome to the key-worded universe.
"This isn't a big technical innovation," says Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext. "It's more the simplest thing that could possibly work, that shouldn't work, but happens to." right, good.

What could be more culturally and socially determined than how we choose to label the things we're thinking about? really? oh for idiosyn idiom personal specific.
You could use obscure words to tag all your information and end up with a secret language known only to you. but then your data doesn't get to play with everyone else's. "The fact that you know that there is a social aspect to this actually encourages you to pick tags that are relevant," says Technorati's Dave Sifry.

-article starts out re goals of a seattle guy on (and who started) 43 things interesting bc I know seattle... (there's a "hideout" there too, huh. and he took the water taxi to west seattle. -oh and, not local but, rg: turned living rm into amateur studio for using Garageband) ... so this local interest, is that the idea of thingster? previously, and on the whole, though I think I find 43things depressing.
huh: Salon- AZ's 43 Secrets. Remember that famous New Yorker cartoon "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog"? On the Internet, nobody knows you're Amazon.com, if you hide behind the friendly face of an independent start-up. Shortly after Salon's cover story on tagging was published on Feb. 7, we received an e-mail from a reader urging us to look into the relationship between a site featured in the story, 43 Things, and Amazon.com. The Web site, which is produced by a start-up that calls itself the Robot Co-op, is a place where visitors can confide their hopes, dreams and goals and connect to other people with the same aspirations. To all outward appearances it looks as if it is yet another grass-roots Web start-up. But it's actually funded primarily by Amazon, although neither Amazon nor the Robot Co-op wanted users of the site to know that. Several of the founding members of the Robot Co-op, including Benson, used to work at Amazon in the company's personalization group. ah-personalization, is that where this got going? mvmt away from providing content (by 'experts', ie bookreviewers) and toward automatic configuration reflecting user's preferences ('see the page you made'.)

Tags are not selected from any pre-codified hierarchy set by the site designers. They simply arise from the grass roots -- you and others like you. On social networking sites like Orkut or Friendster, people join, and then declare their alliances to each other explicitly. On sites that employ tagging, the networks emerge, implicitly, out of the shared interests of users. Order isn't proclaimed, it just happens.

salon, salon, salon: The Friendster of photo sites 12/04 .Flickr.
You are who you know 6/04 You are who you know: Part 2 'social networking software' link from tagging article

BooksWeLike is built on Andy's XML-based content management system, Thingster. It is underpinned by a belief in the power of social content engines, signalling and constituency marketing, and the long tail. many2many ^

Thingster is an open-source weblogging service for locative media. It is being developed by Anselm Hook, Tom Longson and Brad Degraf in association with Locative - a multi-disciplinary group of theorists, artists and engineers exploring the implications of attaching information to place.
Users can publish 'virtual post it notes' about any geographic location: a street intersection, a street address, a restaurant, a hiking trail or a geocache.
The reward or 'exit strategy' for a project like Thingster is social and environmental. The hope is to enrich neighborhoods such that it becomes easy to discover local services at a lower cost and to create additional environmental awareness.

tag types = facets from the blog for Reader2: live website creation (the blog for librarything is that for me, better, I think -? ... now just looking at the others: reader2.com, bookswelike.net, bibliophil.org) also on this blog: Somebody posted all library collection managers at DMOZ =
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

goodness. Wikipedia, ODP, blogs, delicious, library collectn mngrs... too much?

of...? - the participatory web -
social software: it's friendster for knowledge, it's flickr for books...
tagging, folksonomy are ok w/ me? the too much is more: if there are all these collaborative sites.. no more sense of community~~ or more random~ so, I am afraid of loss of possibility of intimacy huh?

librarything: "I've implemented a Del.icio.us-like "change tags" feature, available under the tags tab -librarything blog this morning." ah ha I thought that was not there yesterday. did not work for me (maybe the parentheses mucked it up) but ok! that's 1 of the 2 things I wanted... now, a clickable list of tags at the add page and on cards (when editing)?

AskMeFi: So this guy I have a thing for, but who lives on the other side of the country, is coming to visit and will stay with me for one night.
Talk to him. Find out how is is, what he's been doing. And then admit you've been thinking about him (do not mention sex). Smile, and change the subject. This is the hook.
Crack the wine or serve the food. Talk about whatever (plan ahead if you're not good at small talk). Get him to talk about himself and what he's been up to. This will not only allow you to figure out if he's still available (just in case) but often the shape of his desires.
Clean up. Let him help you with the dishes (he may be slobbish and not offer, but he's reached this age, so presumably he has some manners. If not, suggest he gives you a hand (and thus avoid churlishness)). Rinse and flatter gently and naturally.
Now comes the least important part. Many people wrongfully consider this the make or break section, but truth be told, if he's in the kitchen with you, wiping dishes, or even rinsing them for the dishwasher, you've totally won. Now is not the time to say "you know, I've always fancied you", or even, "My bed is so much more comfy than the couch". Now is the time to say "I'd forgotten how good you make me feel." But that is not the sinker. The sinker is in how you go for the kiss afterwards. You absolutely cannot go for the Lunge! That is an abomination! You must gently move toward him, allowing him every opportunity to escape. Because otherwise he will feel forced. Do Not Say "I want to kiss you". Do Not Say "Roger me insensible". Go for the kiss and nothing but, with every fibre and every intention of carrying it through. That is the sinker and you've just caught yourself a man. Gut and fillet as you will. posted by Sparx at 3:47 AM PST on August 10

reading thru library thing blog - excellent:

Next up, more social features, including library-to-library matching ("whose library is most like mine?") and the ability to, when browsing someone else's library, add the book to your collection.
Profiles now show users with overlapping libraries, so you can spot who has similar tastes.
When you look at someone else's profile you can now see exactly what your "shared" books are.
When you browse someone's library you can click on [+] to add a book to your collection.

Well, I think I've come up with the right solution, using Amazon and the LC together. It's a little complicated, but the complexity is hidden from the user. It works something like this. First it looks in the LC. If it can't find it there—either because it's not there or because the search didn't follow LC rules—it goes to Amazon. If it finds it on Amazon, it makes one last heroic and generally successful effort to find it at the LC, this time using Amazon's data in a LC lookup.
When there's LC data, it tends to prefer it over Amazon data. This is because Amazon plays a bit loose with authors and titles.
Inevitably the multiple sources hamper attempts to "match up" equivalent books. Right now it tends to match books up by LC control number (which can embrace two ISBNs) or by ISBN. In the future I'll be doing a more sophisticated sameness test, involving titles, authors and other data. The same/different issue can never be solved fully, but I'll try to strike a reasonable balance.
I've added support for Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.fr and Amazon.de. mmmmm.

You can now leave a comment on someone's profile page (eg., "hey, I have lots of books on Maori art too!"). You can shut off comments on your profile page. By default I shut it off on everyone with a private library (about 20 of 680).

Comments suggest that $10 isn't a big barrier for people. I may raise this a little in the future, or switch to a yearly rate, but "free or cheap" will always be the deal, and, of course, current paid members are locked in for life.

By popular request, I have tentatively installed "autocompleting" tags on the Add Books screen (click "autocomplete tags.") Autocompleting means that when you type part of a tag, LibraryThing will suggest the rest of it based on previous tags. ok. -I'd still like to see all my tags while adding ...?

How interested are people in reviews? Should I, for example, have a "Reviews" tab like the "Tags" tab? Would this convey the impression that LibraryThing was all about reviewing and discussing? I want to keep some focus. This site is not a universal book portal. It's a book-cataloging service with some diverting social extensions. good.

my tags, to consider

anatomy (3), architecture (3), art (2), authorevent (5), before (5), berlin (6), chicago (2), christianity (2), cogsci (1), dalkey (1), drawing (3), ebbco (16), eros-magic (7), exlibris (2), exlibris (1), film (1), galley (4), graphica (3), hegel (3), heidegger (2), inscribed (2), italian (6), jaime (2), loss (6), medical (2), memoryinthepresent(stanford) (2), mentalhealth (11), mitpress (2), my (15), my,ruminativeretelling (1), myopicbks (1), new (5), object(beautiful) (11), ogara (3), orthodoxy (1), otherpress (2), paperw/dj (3), paul (4), philosophy (5), place (5), poetics (1), poetry (8), pop-edgy (5), psychoanalysis (3), repcomp (1), rh (2), ruminativeretelling (6), semcoop (5), signed (6), stories (4), story (14), techno/media (9), theology (8), thinking (1), thirdplacebooks (1), title (1), twicesoldtales (1), twicetoldtales (1), uk (1), used (11), usedfree (1), visualstudy (2), winnicott (1), women (9)
not yet put any: business economics theworld

so, what am I using tags for?
relation-to-me (my) / why-I-own-it (object-beautiful, paperw/dj) *

of course all the tags are whyIown it/relationtome:
themes
where-I-got-it, circumstances :
used / galley /repcomp / new=whenjustpublished /usedfree=passed@usedroom)
authorevent / inscribed=fromsomeonenottheauthortome / signed=byauthor

also, all are sort of how-I-think-of-it but esp ruminativeretelling / pop-edgy /story
using these instead of "literature" shows how I like the personal, the idosyncratic.
over&above? the social. (in this case: being able to aggregate, accessibility to others.)

99 books at LibraryThing

I've cataloged 99 books. first few yesterday, all the rest today.
posted today 16 Sept at LibraryThing Blog: Keep sending suggestions, comments and criticisms. The site has come a long way since it opened less than two weeks ago, and user suggestions have been absolutely essential.
-already working on-'Power' editing, including applying tags to multiple books in one sweep. great.
Related- any plans toward these del.icio.us features? ~tag visibility and modifiability~:
» A clickable list of all your current tags is displayed on the right-hand side of your homepage, together with the number of bookmarks that have that tag.
» You can merge, rename or delete tags whenever you like. Click the "settings" tab on your homepage, and select "tags" from the "Settings" menu on the right side of your screen.

Seems like I may be missing something. having to type each tag afresh every time (w/possible mispellings), instead of selecting from a displayed list of your tags -- wouldn't others have already asked for that?
-my object(beautiful) tag won't work when clicked - problem with the parentheses?

-also, at times when the adding got stuck (there is note that the server is about to be ugraded), I added the same book more than once -- is it nontrivial to build in a "you already have that book cataloged" feature? (I dunno if del.icio.us has that -) but like when you add a duplicate to favorites or other file.
--these duplicates (even after deleting) cause the book to show up as social (cataloged by more than one person - really = cataloged more than one time

nonetheless it's a dream -!

Verse Daily: Tonight's The Night:

A thief returns & puffs pillows, arranges sheets
& sleeps with his axe in the ice chest while he sleeps.
A thief sleeps & he dreams he is flying, he dreams
he is a man who plays a fabulous drum.

This is to say there is only one melody, the rest
are borrowed.

kate moss

all crossed out: We’ve spent the better part of our day celebrating model Kate Moss, who has boldly come forward as part of a new drug-awareness campaign targeting circles of the chic and fabulous. The UK’s Daily Mirror is dripping in grainy snapshots of the supermodel cutting and snorting lines of cocaine; after the jump, we’re proud to present you with the entire photographic collection. It’s the prettiest lesson in rail-blowing you’ll see all day.
UPDATE: The Daily Mirror’s lawyers aren’t having any of that, apparently. Stupid poufy white wigs. Hmph.
Those sticky wickets across the pond...
...the Mirror appears to be mean to everyone in the colonies.
us yanks get the Daily Mirror the next day...

http://www.gawker.com/news/kate-moss/index.php

google and yahoo over the years

I had forgotten that Yahoo! came first. As you can see from the thumbnail, in 1996 Yahoo! looked not so much different from Google. And then in 1997 the once familiar two-column approach emerged. Around 2000 everything got terribly complex. Meanwhile, in 2000 Google emerged from Beta with an uncharacteristically complex masthead that announced opportunities to join Google, at which time some talented engineering folks really did "get lucky" I guess.From 2000 onward, Google declared themselves as the simplicity-themed search engine and they've managed to maintain their position by literally keeping it simple.
Maeda's SIMPLICITY: Yahoogle! a visual timeline

Now, someone tell me there is no cabal*.* This is rhetorical, please don't feel obligated to actually tell me this.
posted by cedar at 4:44 PM PST on September 8. MetaTalk Community Weblog.

See, and here I think the flickr photos are too visual. I like dialog!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1!111!
posted by cavalier at 2:36 PM PST on September 8

-http://a.wholelottanothing.org/ -http://www.haughey.com/ Wikipedia: Matthew Haughey (born October 10, 1972) is the founder of the community weblog Metafilter, where he is where he is known as mathowie. He was an employee of Pyra Labs, helped code early versions of Blogger. Today he is creative director at Creative Commons. His most important contribution is Metafilter, a community he founded and continues to manage solo.

YHBTHAND = You Have Been Trolled Have A Nice Day.
acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/YHBTHAND
widely thought to be a diminutive of the phrase "trolling for suckers," itself derived from the sports-fishing technique of trolling (as distinct from "trawling", which uses nets rather than hooks) is a method of fishing.
encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/YHBT

...so fifteenth generation in every post, so completely, like, 2003...
COMMENT ON ADAMFIELDSBLG re k.

By most accounts, Lenovo Group Ltd., created in May when Lenovo closed it multibillion-dollar purchase of IBM's PC division, saw its first 100 days pass by smoothly. 18 August 2005. eweek.com

and while I am thinking about technology -
CNET Asia - Gadget Buzz

The Million Dollar Homepage so I guess yes I would like to be able to see all the links in a page listed, rg, what browser is that in?
Alex Tew, 21, of Cricklade, Wiltshire who will be going to university this year studying business management has launched a page in which he's selling ad space on it, ok nothing new there you would think, but think again, because he's selling it off in 10x10 pixel blocks, with each pixel costing $1 and with a minimum purchase of $100 (100 pixels). darren straight's blog (which I actually got to thru his pixels on the million$page, which I marked on saturday but looked at today.)

we don't live here anymore.
http://newyorker.com/critics/cinema/?040830crci_cinema -Denby, Husbands & Wives.
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/08/06/ruffalo/

ok so this humor can be identified with TWoP. right? the same.
"But really, case closed."
"Like, nice try, alien race, but let's get real."

and the nice-purple-track-pants, baby.
what was that- Vice magazine Dos and Donts, right.

this fametracker site looks pretty good allround. mmm comparisons of images in the public mind.

eg, one of the regular readings: For years, we've measured the equivalent worth of celebrities against their famous brethren and, er, sistren. But then we got to wondering: how would celebrities fare in head-to-head battles with actual useful, everyday objects? This revealed to us a whole new and finely calibrated method by which we can measure celebrity relevance -- a method we like to call Celebrity vs. Thing.

eg, Angelina Jolie Vs. Bottled Water Okay, the first thing we have to acknowledge is that the existence of Angelina Jolie has saved us all countless hours of our lives, if only because she definitively eliminates the need to debate the question: who is the sexiest woman alive? Or most beautiful, hottest, most alluring, what have you. Sure,the Peoples will still carry on this now pointless argument, throwing out their Eva Longorias (what?) and Julia Robertses (yeah, right!), as though this topic were still open for discussion. But, really, case closed.
Arguing for the supreme sexiness of Eva Longoria in the lifetime of Angelina Jolie is like being a vociferous creationist on the day that a particularly sharp monkey uses an abacus, writes a sonnet, and finally masters the nuances of written Latin. A tough position.
kinds agree. Catherine Zeta-Jones? no. - but: Uma Thurman. just as cool. and maybe more varied. Jolie is always winking cool. at least a little wicked. tough. Uma can seem that way, right, but also friendly. but ok, Jolie's always being wicked cool, maybe that does make for sexiest. Gia.
wow it just keeps coming: Because Angelina Jolie is not sexy, exactly; she's more like what an alien race might concoct from scratch, but, being an alien race, and not really understanding the usual limitations of humanity, they go a little overboard: the lips, the curves, the smoldering glance. Like, nice try, alien race, but let's get real.
Also remember this: the woman can act. Granted, the two Tomb Raider films put us in mind of that hoary old saying. How does it go? Fool us once, shame on us; fool us twice, this movie sucks even worse than the first one.
...Brad Pitt as one-half of a couple in which, for once, he's the one who makes you think, You know, maybe you're just not hot enough for her.
The Case For Bottled Water: What are you going to do? Drink from the tap? When's the last time you drew a cold glass of water in the kitchen sink? Sure, it may have been yesterday, in which case we can render a decision in this battle right now.
...We're here to decide which we could more easily live without -- bottled water or Angelina Jolie. Now, you might say, what's one movie star, more or less? Isn't Jennifer Connelly pretty hot? And is Jolie really worth going back to the days of drinking dirty, dirty water from the tap? Oh, yes, friend. Yes, she is.
Don't underestimate the value of a plain-spoken, entertaining, child-aiding, actually talented, slightly crazed, incredibly hot movie star. Hell, we'll come and fill a hundred tiny bottles with tap water and stick them in your fridge overnight if that will make you feel better. You'll never have to know.
Winner: Angelina Jolie

Fatal Attraction (1987)....Michael Douglas as Dan Gallagher w/Ann Archer as wife he cheats on w/Glenn Close -She goes nuts. Directed by Adrian Lyne. THE PROTOTYPE?
Final Analysis (1992)....Richard Gere as Dr. Isaac Barr, psychiatrist w/Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman. terrible.
Basic Instinct (1992)....Michael Douglas as Det. Nick Curran w/Sharon Stone as suspect and another woman as psychiatrist. (haven't seen?)
Intersection (1994)....Richard Gere as Vincent Eastman w/Sharon Stone as wife he cheats on w/Olivia.
A Perfect Murder (1998)....Michael Douglas as Steven Taylor w/Gwyneth Paltrow as Emily who cheats on him with hottie young guy artist David Shaw -Steven wants David to kill Emily.
Unfaithful (2002) ....Richard Gere as Edward Sumner w/Diane Lane as Constance who cheats on him with hottie young guy bookcollector Paul Martel - Edward kills Paul. Directed by Adrian Lyne.

handsome men of certain age, silvery haired. bland? douglas can seem coolly evil, is more interesting - but can be bland, unlike: christopher watkin. sean penn. and you couldn't exchange kevin bacon for any of these without it seeming a different character - he's, what, boyish -

anyway, anyone talking about these two as interchangeable? esp in the deadly-affair genre?
Michael Douglas vs. Richard Gere "That part could have so easily gone to Michael Douglas, and it wouldn't have made any difference to the movie." That got us thinking that the last several roles on both Gere's and Douglas's résumés are pretty interchangeable. You could substitute one in any of the other's movies and not think it much of a stretch. ahhhh, exactly.
We defy you to pull up both actors' CVs on the IMDb, choose any movie at random from the past ten years, and find an instance where the one actor was so perfectly cast, and made the part so indeliby his own, that the other wouldn't probably have done just as competent a job. It can't be done, because they are, at this point, pretty much the same.

wymsey default page for adventurers, bad typists, & guessers:
Well done, welcome to one of the Wymsey cul de sacs! You got here by one of a variety methods, these include typing errors, adventuring and guessing. Any one, or more, of these is indicative of a fast and curious mind (and possibly other things). I deleted the last /part/ of the url I was at (phone cookin').
ah...me and everyone else. Those Mobiles are Are Really Cooking. Wymsey has had 55,000 hits this past hour! 36,500 of those on mobile cooking. Wymsey normally gets around 2000 a week - this page has been pickd up by forums worldwide and has been spread like wild fire. www.wymsey.blogspot.com Friday 9/9.
Wymsey Village Web: I created Wymsey in 1998 and the village grew over the next three years to the point of declaring independence and becoming Europe's foremost virtual micro-state. The Wymsey Chronicle faithfully recorded Village events over that period and each edition is lovingly reproduced in the archive. Creating and maintaining Wymsey was great fun and I came into contact with lots of very good people but in the end my energy for the idea ran out, so there will be no more Chronicle and no more updates. Charles Ivermee, July 2003.
-back now, as blogspot (only)? and radio? 6/2: we've just uploaded a great new programme at Radio Wymsey: 18 tracks on the edge of folk, blues and rock. ok-

I use my phone to cook eggs. » by eriq - response to k re mobile usage  
Phone A > > > > > > Egg < < < < < < Phone B
Note: We cooked our egg during the evening using free local calls, if you were to cook an egg for lunch it would cost £3.00 - not cheap but you do have the convenience.

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what's the phone I liked? ahyes- got # on 1st try- 630. Motorola A630. AZ cust rvw S. Stranieri+s:
A real keyboard. You can type a paragraph-long e-mail without even a hint of frustration. mmmm
To most people, cool factor means showing-off the unique flip-open design - "look, I have a Zoolander laptop!". To me, it's the opposite. I have 50-75% of a Blackberry's capabilities, but I can pull out this phone in a social setting without feeling like I have a dorky scientific calculator hanging off my face. Discrete, yet capable.
righto. discrete not obnxs=hangingoffface. zoolander hee.
plus camera and rvw also says it has a sharp color screen, in everything but the brightest sunlight.
oh. all the other reviews cite problems that makes it useless. too bad.

exbiblio - the concept: "endow paper documents with some of the power of their digital counterparts" - what are they talking about? paper comes to life? transform the future of paper? they just say: "please contact us if you'd like to find out more..."
-linked at plasticbag.org: - exbiblio - a company doing interesting things with paper - I met these guys at foocamp and wait to see what they're up to with great curiosity.
also linking to elsewhere development of paper-like display: Philips has produced a prototype of pocket-size thingee with display like unrolled paper (then it rolls back up). ok but exbiblio is gonna be actual paper right.

rw Great-sounding documentary teaches editing via film-history (NyT) : For my vision of the cinema," Orson Welles once said, "editing is not simply one aspect. It is the aspect."

GIS -dialect survey! -surname map!

the dialect survey.
look at maps & results (index).
such cool display of information.
and it is my kind of information: what people say = phenomena. Aristl.
originally found this by google looking for ? milk melk - no. saw sall - no. well- it was a great discovery.

Search your surname in the USA: http://www.gens-us.net/
Also search in Italy. cool.

Letter-pairs analysis application. Information visualization / Processing
For each new given pair of letters found in the text, the program generates a new bubble. The surface (size) of each bubble is proportional to the number of times it appears in the text. ok. At the same time, each bubble defends its space moving its neighbors. ah, I like that. why? finite total space, inforce (inverse) proportional relations.

huh. Why QWERTY was invented The first typewriter had its letters on the end of rods called "typebars." The typebars hung in a circle. The roller which held the paper sat over this circle, and when a key was pressed, a typebar would swing up to hit the paper from underneath. If two typebars were near each other in the circle, they would tend to clash into each other when typed in succession. So, Sholes figured he had to take the most common letter pairs such as "TH" and make sure their typebars hung at safe distances. He did this using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced. Click here for the full story...

later on sansshrimp: dynamic ah moving picture of alphabet evolution (gif).

from rw - 'continuous' - we = warrenellis.com. Warren Ellis writes comic books and graphic novels ... and links to Hope Larson’s SALAMANDER DREAM graphic novel web version at secretfriendssociety.com - remindsmeof Sweaterweather by Sara Varon.
we uses euro-dates - at first I tht, one post a month? and posts about Katrina are dated months ago? oh/// beautiful print by photographer friend 7/9/2005 Siege’s Operation Eden.

New Onion hits New Orleans dead on (new Onion)
God Outdoes Terrorists Yet Again
Bush: 'It Has Been Brought To My Attention That There Was Recently A Bad Storm'
Officials Uncertain Whether To Save Or Shoot Victims
Area Man Drives Food There His Goddamned Self

My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell (wrote article on Jorn Barger, below) Jan 99 Holt - OP. (find used.)
This is the story of one user's experience at a virtual-reality community called LambdaMOO. A MOO--short for multiuser dungeon, object oriented--is a virtual place where participants can construct human-like graphical representations of themselves to interact in a simulated world. Dibbell begins by relating the facts surrounding the case of Mr. Bungle, a character who committed the crime of "virtual rape" in this fantastic electronic world, shocking LambdaMOO's members. However, the thread of discussion about this case is minimal and the book ultimately becomes Dibbell's diary of his "research" of this virtual world, which grows gradually more obsessive, and how it affects his RL (real life). The turning point comes when Dibbell's membership at LambdaMOO threatens to ruin one of his closest RL relationships. --Cristina Vaamonde, AZ review
remember julian dibbell's bio on his site - "here's the best part".

Wait, that's David? What's with the Spicoli mane and the giant blond goatee? And why doesn't he look more ridiculous with them? I suspect it's because Michael C. Hall is an outstanding actor. Just a theory. awesome, yes he's great. TWoP re hippie-David in Nate's death dream, episode 60 Ecotone.

"Do you like the poem I chose?" Brenda closes her eyes, makes an oh, JUST what I needed right now face and snaps that she hated it. "Mystical, maudlin crap," she critiques. Nate, sitting in the shotgun seat in his wedding suit, says Brenda just didn't understand it. ["That line right there -- before he even mentioned Maggie, just that dismissive, I'm-the-smartest-guy-in-the-room line and the matching tone -- is everything I've always hated about this character. Fuck off, Nate." -- Sars] TWoP of episode 61 All Alone.

Nate draws our ire because he acts like this enlightened, thoughtful, smug human being, and then, every time the shit hits the fan, he soils his pants and runs whining to the nearest wounded stranger for a pat on the head and a little dose of the kind of unconditional positive regard that only a stranger can give. regard.
more Heather Havrilesky 6/26/05

Nate's all excited about the lack of sermon: "People just sit silently and wait to be filled with the presence of God." He tries to sound like he's kidding so he doesn't seem completely uncool, but he's totally doing that thing where you actually kind of mean it. Al Franken calls it kidding on the square, which is a handy phrase because there's going to be quite a bit of that going on this week. TWoP of episode 59 Singing for our Lives.

hurricane

badideas/irresponsibleactivities/careandfeeding

good.- daypop top links 1 www.redcross.org 2 The Interdictor
Hurricane Katrina (wikipedia) "www.hurricanehousing.org"
Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?
For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind. HuffingtonPost

Salon-
The culture war over Katrina Right-wingers point to blacks looting and see a Hobbesian war of all against all. Liberals see a failure of civilization to help the poorest among us. By Alan Wolfe
The gravest job Identifying the dead in New Orleans will be a daunting chore, say medical experts. Bodies will be bloated, decomposed and difficult to distinguish from corpses washed from cemeteries. wow

rw-
Superdome horror stories (LaTms via HuffPo) - - - Saramago BLINDNESS
"Rape and murder absolutely rampant" (Interdictor-blog)
Timeline of FEMA/NewOrleans (WashMnthly via HuffPo)
Short sweet Nancy-Pelosi-vs-W clip (1gm-QT) 9/8 on /onegoodmove.org "I thought these things might be clues."/Rep. Pelosi (minority speaker)"I told the president he shld fire Brown [FEMA director] because of all that went wrong last week. And he said, What went wrong? Oblivious. Dangerous."

misc links ending august thru all september

Telephone shortcuts to Find-a-Human at various companies (Intuit via vulgarB)rw 9/9
Uncanny security video of 10yo girl saved from drowning (BBC w/RealVid via lf)rw wed
EbertClicheWatch: "X is one of those Y" (GgW-150-hits)rw sun

British Council's Japanese mag lists Hippy Shopper among top six UK blogs.
Also the brilliant Tube-obsessed Going Underground.

Review of TheOnion.com's new design at Subtraction: Making New Fake News
Legomancer at del.icio.us likes thisismycomputerblog

And, maybe, www.whywork.org.