Cold Mountain is Bafta favourite
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Miramax and Apple: Cold Mountain
Sweepstakes
Miramax and Apple: Cold Mountain
Sweepstakes
01/10/2004 12:26 AMWalter Murch: An Interview With The
Editor Of "Cold Mountain"
Walter Murch: An Interview With The
Editor Of "Cold Mountain"
12/24/2003 06:36 AMBy Joe Cellini (Apple via MyAppleMenu)
Bafta film awards: Your views
Bafta film awards: Your views
02/16/2004 05:09 AMThe Return of the King triumphed at the Bafta's in a night of
surprises. What do you think of the winners and losers of the night?
Gervais hopes for Bafta hat-trick
Gervais hopes for Bafta hat-trick
04/18/2004 01:43 PMRain ruins the red carpet as the Bafta TV awards, which Ricky Gervais
could dominate for a third time, begin.
Why cant I free your doubtful mind and
melt your cold, cold heart
Why cant I free your doubtful mind and
melt your cold, cold heart
01/01/2005 02:58 AM
goodbye joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh. 01/01/53 the true
gran-daddy of
white rock and roll is found
dead
in the back seat of a caddy.
On my favourite books...
On my favourite books...
04/12/2005 08:22 AMOkay. I don't normally do these things and please God don't take
this as an opportunity to start sending me more of them, but I'm going
to respond to Lubin Odana's book-reading memetic challenge.
I don't normally do these kinds of things because I don't really think
they're aimed at me. I think they're really good ways to introduce
people to the wider world, to help people get a grasp on your
character and stuff, and that if people haven't figured out what I'm
like by now after five years of slapping this rubbish on the internet,
then they basically never will. Still never mind, here we go...
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to
be? This is a really tricky one for me. Probably my all-time
favourite book is Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 which I'll
talk about in a bit. But another favourite of mine is a book called
Ready to Catch him Should he Fall by Neil Bartlett which I
think is one of the few books that I've read that managed to capture a
powerful and natural-feeling, balanced idea of a non-hetero-orthodox
gay relationship. I found it incredibly powerful and interesting. More
importantly, I'm much less confident that anyone else would look after
it in a dystopian future than I am about Slaughterhouse 5, and
someone has to stand up for the poofs and it might as well be me.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? God, I
have absolutely no idea. Probably when I was much younger I thought
that Keill Randor from Planet of the Warlord was unbelievably
hot and there was some weird S&M plot in that book too which probably
did a lot to confuse my teenage mind. There are many characters in
books that I've idolised in various ways - Des Esseintes in Huysmans'
Against Nature was probably a core one. And Dionysus in
Euripides' Bacchae. But I think probably I have more crushes on
fictional characters from TV shows, comics and films than I do from
books. This probably suggests that what people look like is important
to me. So I'd talk about Booster Gold from his original comic
book series, Dr John Carter from the first few seasons of E.R., Ricky
Fitts from American
Beauty, Han Solo / Indiana Jones and maybe the Colonel from
Stargate. I'm so shallow that the slightest drop of water would find
no rest in my embrace...
The last book you bought was: Terrifyingly it was Getting
Things Done by Dave Allen. I bought it months ago and have bought
no books since because I've been busy and found it difficult to focus.
I read about half of it. Then got stuck. Stick that in your pipe and
smoke it.
What are you currently reading? On my last count I had
160 open tabs in Safari, I had 30 open tabs in
NetNewsWire, I had 3000 unread posts in my newsreader and I had
27,000 unread e-mails across my work and personal e-mail
accounts. What the crap do you think I'm reading?
Five Books you would take to a desert island:
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers -
A sprawling, indolent and defiantly (arrogantly) colloquial / personal
autobiography that pushes many of my fantasy buttons - being able to
hang out with my brother a lot, being relatively free in the world,
being able to be creative and misbehave, working and living in San
Francisco.
- The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - or ideally a huge
anthology of all of Paul Auster's books. The thing about these books
for me is that their resemblence to reality seems entirely incidental
to the clean arcing groves of plot and narrative that don't
necessarily convey you through character but which one feels (if one
could move abstractly in a direction orthogonal to the book) would
look so perfect and structural when observed from 'above'.
- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein - honestly because it's
the longest book I've ever read and because it's wide and deep enough
to get lost in for long periods of time. It appeals to the completist
and the geek within me, always looking for consistent continuities and
wanting to be convinced that the world could be something other than
it is.
- Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut - a time-travelling
blackly comic war novel. I think that you can deduce much about my
character from this book. Science fiction books and fantasy novels are
read by people ill-adjusted to reality, the same people who write
comic books and aspire towards making future technology that will make
everyone happy. This book has that in it. These people are also kind
of childish, and if confronted by the world directly seem to only be
able to understand it in terms of black humour. This book has that in
it. There's also a desperation and a wit to it as well that I really
respond to. I don't know if this is a particularly happy description
of my personality, but there you go.
- Gravity's Rainbow or V by Thomas Pynchon - because I
haven't completely read either of them, and they're rich and deep and
thrillingly written enough to last a while and continue to resonate
and mean for a long period of time (and because I'll never read them
in the meantime).
I'd also take with me about four hundred dodgy comic books and a
pile of DVDs. But hey. Anyway, I hope that's satisfactory and
interesting enough for you filthy voyeurs out there in realspace. I'm
going to pass the challenge on to some people who almost certainly
won't want to go near it: Dan
Hill because he's my boss and needs to suffer, Stefan Magdalinski because he's a
stroppy bastard and as such I'd enjoy hearing his rants and Matt Jones because he
reads weird shit...
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"Favourite expressions"
"Favourite expressions"
06/18/2004 11:21 AMfavourite favicons
favourite favicons
06/02/2004 01:47 PMi like how favicons went from being evil MS spyware to a must-have
design feature
Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language
Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language
02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Brian Kernighan, the documenter of the C programming language, wrote a
rant entitled Why Pascal is Not My Favourite Programming Language. I
can picture him thinking to himself smugly as he repeatedly strikes
facetiously at Pascal by describing a few of its small flaws over and
over again.
Unfortunately, time has not been kind to Kernighan's tract. Pascal has
matured and grown in leaps and bounds, becoming a premier commercial
language. Meanwhile, C has continued to stagnate over the last 35
years with few fundamental improvements made. It's time to redress the
balance; here's why C is now owned by Pascal. - James Joyce.
James appears to be more fond of PHP than C. No objections there!
And if you don't take it all too seriously, the responses are quite
amusing.
Snooker: O'Sullivan is favourite
Snooker: O'Sullivan is favourite
05/01/2004 11:00 PMGraeme Dott admits he faces a huge task in Sunday's final against
Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Henman starts favourite
Henman starts favourite
06/30/2004 01:05 AMTim Henman takes on unseeded Mario Ancic in the quarter-finals on
Wednesday.
How not to re-enact your favourite movie
How not to re-enact your favourite movie
02/17/2004 10:03 AM How not to re-enact your favourite movie Two
girls take their love of Thelma and Louise too far. Laws aside, what
scene from a movie would you live out if you had a choice?
What's YOUR favourite ascii fart? \m\
(-_-) /m/
What's YOUR favourite ascii fart? \m\
(-_-) /m/
11/15/2003 10:03 PM Ascii Farts. normbl0g: Favourite Movies of All Time
normbl0g: Favourite Movies of All Time
01/27/2004 08:57 AMresults of his “favorite movies of all time” poll .. Norm
Geras ..
normblog
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Daily Updates On Your Favourite
Musicians
Daily Updates On Your Favourite
Musicians
07/25/2004 09:31 AM"Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language || kuro5hin.org"
"Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language || kuro5hin.org"
02/10/2004 09:26 PM"he set about perpetuating his favourite
lie about the invasion of Iraq"
"he set about perpetuating his favourite
lie about the invasion of Iraq"
05/25/2004 05:39 PMWhy C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language kuro5hin.org
Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming
Language kuro5hin.org
02/10/2004 09:18 AMindustrial strength nail gun .. Dave
Winer
kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/7/144019/8872
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Favourite makes Booker shortlist
Favourite makes Booker shortlist
09/21/2004 10:47 AMSix authors are shortlisted for the Booker prize, including favourite
David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas.
Everyone's favourite Camelite father
Everyone's favourite Camelite father
12/19/2003 01:17 PM T
he latin lover Father Reginald Foster, the Pope's own Latinist
has a weekly show on Vatican radio, they are always informative and
often hilarious (Real player required).
IT rackets are favourite for organised
crime
IT rackets are favourite for organised
crime
06/10/2004 08:05 AMComputer Weekly Jun 10 2004 12:33PM GMT
Favourite Favicons | Delta Tango Bravo
Favourite Favicons | Delta Tango Bravo
06/03/2004 06:37 AMFavourite Favicons Delta Tango Bravo .. Nice list of good "favicons"
.. favorite
deltatangobravo.com/archives/2004/march/favourite
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Lego rated adults' favourite toy
(Reuters)
Lego rated adults' favourite toy
(Reuters)
05/31/2004 10:01 AMReuters - Lego, the multicoloured plastic bricks which delight
youngsters but catch out unwary barefoot parents, has been voted
the nation's favourite toy, according to a poll.
Favourite Non Main Stream Search Engine
Favourite Non Main Stream Search Engine
02/24/2003 09:11 AMGeneral survey on the second and third teir of search engines.
Muppets top poll of Britain's favourite
TV boffins
Muppets top poll of Britain's favourite
TV boffins
09/06/2004 03:34 AMBBC Sep 6 2004 8:00AM GMT
Microsoft payout makes Gates everyone's
favourite uncle
Microsoft payout makes Gates everyone's
favourite uncle
07/22/2004 09:40 AMHe's been branded a corporate bully and hailed as technological
visionary, but Microsoft Corporation's plans for a record pay-out to
shareholders has thrown the spotlight onto Bill Gates, the
ultra-generous philanthropist. The US software behemoth on Wednesday
unveiled a plan to deliver an estimated $75 billion (R456 billion) to
its shareholders over the next four years as it moves to slash the $56
billion cash mountain it is sitting on.
iPod is favourite stocking thriller as
internet shopping finally booms
iPod is favourite stocking thriller as
internet shopping finally booms
12/13/2003 08:43 PMObserver Dec 13 2003 8:12PM ET
iPod Is Favourite Stocking Thriller As
Internet Shopping Finally Booms
iPod Is Favourite Stocking Thriller As
Internet Shopping Finally Booms
12/14/2003 08:43 PMThe iPod may be just a hard-disk storage device, but it has become a
cult consumer gift that has achieved a unique festive status over the
past few days: it is the fastest-selling item being snapped up by
internet shoppers. By Robin McKie and Ben Wilson (The Observer via
MyAppleMenu)
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Go Tell It On the Mountain
05/23/2002 10:39 PMGo Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain
12/08/2003 05:49 AMDuring this week's U.N. tech summit, 500-foot-tall messages submitted
over the Web from anyone with something to say will be projected by
lasers at four global landmarks, including New York's U.N. building.
By Kari L. Dean.
Mountain Dew "Spy vs. Spy"
Mountain Dew "Spy vs. Spy"
06/28/2004 06:30 AMMountain Dew's Spy vs. Spy commercials .. QuickTime videos
here
methodstudios.com/mox653
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Go tell it on the mountain (XML.com)
Go tell it on the mountain (XML.com)
05/23/2002 10:39 PMThe Savage Mountain
The Savage Mountain
08/08/2004 02:16 PM
The Savage
Mountain Amongst peaks
over 20,000 feet,
K2 is the hardest and most dangerous.
Edu
rne Pasadan became the 6th woman to summit on July 29th, but can
she survive
the
curse of the women who climb K2 ? K2's danger and challenge has
attracted a wide assortment of characters, ranging from the bizarre
Aleister Crowley to the
glamourous Araceli Segarra .
The deadly toll continues. Two Russian climbers are
missing on the mountain. Read a history of
50 years of
K2 summits,
and accounts of another
ascent here.
"Mountain West"
"Mountain West"
04/19/2004 04:29 PMAll the Mountain Dew you can drink!
All the Mountain Dew you can drink!
07/10/2004 11:01 AM
Blast Off to
Democracy! [dialup or broadband, Quicktime req'd]
The
second installment of the Partisan Jab project- first episode
discussed here. Mountain Man On MIA Mission
Mountain Man On MIA Mission
06/23/2004 03:00 AMCBS News Jun 23 2004 7:03AM GMT
The Endless Mountain
The Endless Mountain
04/09/2004 04:05 PMThe FitROCK: If
you look past the hideous site design, this is pretty cool.
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Mountain Voices
Mountain Voices
04/10/2005 02:56 PM
Mountain Voices. 'This
website presents interviews with over 300 people who live in mountain
and highland regions round the world. Their testimonies offer a
personal perspective on change and development.'
Joe Trippi: Down from the Mountain(IT
Conversation)
Joe Trippi: Down from the Mountain(IT
Conversation)
02/15/2004 05:23 AMA Conversation with Joe Trippi 2/12 .. Joe's speech ..
speech
itconversations.com/transcript.php?id=80
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Cold Mountain is Bafta favourite
