Watched two Mexican-directed movies recently.
First, del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (Laberinto del Fauno). Most reviewers seem to be in love the film; it got 96% on rottentomatoes — an incredibly high score. However, I must disagree with the film critics. In my opinion, the movie is definitely overrated. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s not […]
Looks like the Sharp Zaurus line has been terminated. From Open Embedded forums:
yes, we have to confirm that Sharp pulled the plug out
of the Zaurus line.
No successor model is planned, and the end of production
will be early February.
For sure we’ll continue with support, service and accessories
for the Zauri. Also there’re interesting other products around,
so the […]
My Inspiron 6000’s 65-watt “PA-12 family” AC adaptor died last week, after only 16 months of service. Its passing was not entirely unexpected; since about mid-December, it had become increasingly unreliable, sometimes requiring me to repeatedly plug and unplug it before beginning to charge. And the fact that it gets only 2 out of 5 […]
A bit of background: 2channel is a massive, extremely popular Japanese text-only forum which (like the karehas and imageboards it inspired) encourages anonymous contributors. Naturally, many of those contributors are total fuckwads. Thus, Nishimura Hiroyuki, owner and operator of 2channel, has been targeted by a number of lawsuits. For example, hiroyuki was sued by Debito […]
I got the Planetes DVD set for New Year. Major first impression: the only anime — scratch that, the only sci-fi movie or series that I’ve ever seen — that gets spaceflight science more-or-less right. Weightlessness, changing your speed to change your orbit, decompression sickness, radiation poisoning, and effects of low gravity on […]
Saw two movies in December that I forgot to write about.
First, Apocalypto. The first third of the movie — showing ancient Mayan society, wars fought with stone and wooden weapons, the famous pyramids being built — is pretty interesting. I have heard that it’s full of historical inaccuracies, but one hardly expects anything different from […]