date:20100701

Re: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

Maybe he was trying to be "gangsta." Or he was quoting some rap lyrics from
1991 West coast yall! I'm out! Peace! :)

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, brent wodehouse  wrote:

>
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html
>
> Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management?
>
> July 1, 2010
>
>
> We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that
> seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV
> reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about
> the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a
> profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson
> acknowledged that "I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it."
>
> But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at
> RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger
> management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a
> tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his
> baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues.
>
> In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he
> had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy "due to legal matters."
>
> According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva,
> including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In
> one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, "You look like a ... pig in
> heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault."
>
> In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's
> womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying "I am going
> to come and burn the ... house down," adding, "but you will [perform oral
> sex on] me first."
>
> There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll
> undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to
> follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of
> course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it
> is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied
> having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it,
> through his lawyer, as a loud argument.
>
> It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his
> latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson
> should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where.
> It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing
> bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a
> store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds
> to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast.
>
>
>
> 
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Re: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man

2010-07-01 Thread Keith Johnson

Am I the only one who's completely underwhelmed by the idea of a Spider-Man 
reboot? Man, the films aren't that old, and yet we're already being given a new 
gang. What's the real point? Can't they at least wait a generation, like they 
used to in the old days, before slapping out another version of the franchise? 
And as far as a new actor to play Spidey, here's a thought: how about getting 
an honest-to-goodness New Yorker who has an accent to match? 


- Original Message - 
From: "brent wodehouse"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:01:57 PM 
Subject: [scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man 






http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/07/01/andrew-garfield-cast-as-the-new-spider-man/
 

Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man 

by Nicole Sperling 

We have a new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man - and he’s British. 
Columbia Pictures confirms that Andrew Garfield, 26, has nabbed the highly 
sought-after role of Peter Parker after a worldwide search. Garfield, 
while largely unknown in the states, is one of the U.K.’s most highly 
regarded up-and-comers. He appeared in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of 
Dr. Parnassus as well as John Crowley’s Boy A, for which he received a 
best actor BAFTA in 2008. He’s been getting heat in the U.S., too. This 
year the young Brit will be starring opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Justin 
Timberlake in the Facebook movie Social Network, directed by David 
Fincher, and will star in the Oscar-bait drama Never Let Me Go opposite 
Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Keira Knightley. As recently as 
yesterday, web speculation was high that 17-year-old Josh Hutcherson (The 
Kids Are All Right) would land the webslinger role, which was originated 
on the big screen by Tobey Maguire.

Re: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word

2010-07-01 Thread Keith Johnson

As reprehensible as this latest outburst of Gibson's is if true, I don't want 
to know about it. The voyeuristic, leering nature of our society is 
increasingly bothering me. Yeah, he's a celebrity, so his life is under the 
microscope. Yeah, he obviously has an inner core of racism and misogyny, so 
people are on the lookout for stuff like this. And yeah, being a celebrity 
who's a known racist misogynist with a "short fuse", he's an idiot for leaving 
a record of something this awful. 
But at the end of the day, it's a private affair between him and his 
girlfriend, and I don't want to know about it. I mean, what if some of the 
stuff any of us said in private, on the phone, or in a nasty e-mail to another 
person were to be made public? 
So Imma try to avert my "eyes" to this latest example of what a messed-up 
person Gibson is... 

- Original Message - 
From: "brent wodehouse"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:33:39 PM 
Subject: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word 






http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html
 

Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management? 

July 1, 2010 

We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that 
seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV 
reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about 
the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a 
profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson 
acknowledged that "I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it." 

But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at 
RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger 
management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a 
tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his 
baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues. 

In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he 
had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy "due to legal matters." 

According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva, 
including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In 
one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, "You look like a ... pig in 
heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault." 

In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's 
womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying "I am going 
to come and burn the ... house down," adding, "but you will [perform oral 
sex on] me first." 

There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll 
undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to 
follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of 
course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it 
is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied 
having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it, 
through his lawyer, as a loud argument. 

It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his 
latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson 
should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where. 
It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing 
bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a 
store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds 
to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast.

Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner

2010-07-01 Thread Keith Johnson

Don't know. I try to avoid McDonald's. For breakfast I like to go to real 
breakfast joints that serve pancakes and syrup on something other than plastic 
plates. When it comes to burger joints, I eschew most chains like that, and 
prefer to go to good mom-and-pop joints. Or if I do chains, I do those that 
actually take time to cook good burgers, provide real shakes, things like 
chili, onion rings, etc. Sorry to go on, but I'm a burger-and-shake lover. For 
chains in Atlanta, the best are Virginia-based Five Guys, Steak-and-Shake, 
LA-based Fat Burger, and Ted's Montana Grill. 


- Original Message - 
From: "Martin Baxter"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:37:48 PM 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] McDonald's menu is getting leaner 






Keith, doesn't the Mickey D's on Peachtree across from Barnes & Noble already 
serve oatmeal? I seem to recall it on the menu last time I was there, last 
year. 


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Kelwyn < ravena...@yahoo.com > wrote: 








I always referred to the Big N'Tasty as the "Big N'asty" burger. I am shocked, 
shocked I tell you, to find out that the Big N'asty burger was supposed to be 
McDonald's answer to Burger King's Whopper. 

~rave? 

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-06-30/business/ct-biz-0701-mcdonalds-20100630_1_fruit-and-walnut-salad-mcdonald-menu
 

McDonald's menu getting leaner 

Restaurant to add oatmeal breakfast, eliminate 3 low-selling items 

June 30, 2010|By Robert Channick 

The expansive McDonald's menu is undergoing a makeover. Out will be some low 
sellers; in will be leaner breakfast fare. 

In a memo sent to franchisees, the Oak Brook-based chain signaled the impending 
demise of the Big N' Tasty, Mac Snack Wraps and the fruit and walnut salad, 
among other items. At the same time, McDonald's is gearing up for a planned 
national rollout in January of an oatmeal breakfast, currently being 
test-marketed. 

The menu moves, particularly the new breakfast offering, could prove healthy 
for customers' waistlines and McDonald's bottom line, according to Morningstar 
restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy. 





-- 
"If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell 
wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman'

2010-07-01 Thread Keith Johnson

Williams is frighteningly good at playing a psychopath. He'd make an awesome 
Toyman, if they go with the more disturbed Toyman of recent years. The version 
that John Byrne crafted after the Crisis even abducted and killed young 
children. The one in the Justice League cartoon was creepy with that masked 
face of his, and the disturbing childlike way he spoke. 

- Original Message - 
From: "Martin Baxter"  
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:28:43 AM 
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Williams wants crack at 'Batman' 

Brent, I saw this story late yesterday as well, and I don't see Williams having 
a place anywhere in the Bat-franchise. However, I did catch a word on the 
whisper-stream that Nolan wanted a shot at te next Superman movie. If that 
happens, then Williams, IMO, is a dead lock for Toyman. 

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, brent wodehouse < brent_wodeho...@thefence.us 
> wrote: 

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/06/30/14565671-wenn-story.html 

Williams wants crack at 'Batman' 

By WENN.COM 

Robin Williams is urging movie bosses to cast him in the next Batman movie 
- because he has twice been turned down for parts in the superhero 
franchise. 

Rumours over casting for Christopher Nolan's upcoming third superhero film 
have been rife ever since The Dark Knight, starring Heath Ledger as The 
Joker, hit cinemas in 2008 - with fans speculating over which characters 
will be re-introduced. 

Nolan is said to be considering bringing feline femme fatale Catwoman back 
for the new movie, along with The Riddler. 

Williams is adamant he would make a good replacement for Jim Carrey, who 
played the fiendish puzzler in 1995's Batman Forever, because the part was 
originally offered to him. The funnyman also reveals he was lined up to 
play The Joker in the original 1989 Batman movie before the role was later 
handed to Jack Nicholson - and the snubs have made him determined to 
secure a part in the next installment of the hit franchise. 

He tells Empire magazine, "I would do Batman in a second. I'd play The 
Riddler in the next one, although it would be hard to top Heath Ledger as 
the villain and I'm a little hairy for tights. 

"The Batman films have screwed me twice before: years ago they offered me 
The Joker and then gave it to Jack Nicholson, then they offered me The 
Riddler and gave it to Jim Carrey. I'd be like, 'OK, is this a real offer? 
If it is, then the answer's yes. Don't pump me again motherf**kers'." 

-- 
"If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell 
wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

[scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word

2010-07-01 Thread brent wodehouse

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html

Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management?

July 1, 2010

We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that
seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV
reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about
the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a
profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson
acknowledged that "I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it."

But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at
RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger
management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a
tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his
baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues.

In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he
had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy "due to legal matters."

According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva,
including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In
one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, "You look like a ... pig in
heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault."

In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's
womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying "I am going
to come and burn the ... house down," adding, "but you will [perform oral
sex on] me first."

There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll
undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to
follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of
course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it
is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied
having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it,
through his lawyer, as a loud argument.

It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his
latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson
should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where.
It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing
bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a
store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds
to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast.

[scifinoir2] Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man

2010-07-01 Thread brent wodehouse

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/07/01/andrew-garfield-cast-as-the-new-spider-man/

Andrew Garfield cast as the new Spider-Man

by Nicole Sperling


We have a new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man - and hes British.
Columbia Pictures confirms that Andrew Garfield, 26, has nabbed the highly
sought-after role of Peter Parker after a worldwide search. Garfield,
while largely unknown in the states, is one of the U.K.s most highly
regarded up-and-comers. He appeared in Terry Gilliams The Imaginarium of
Dr. Parnassus as well as John Crowleys Boy A, for which he received a
best actor BAFTA in 2008. Hes been getting heat in the U.S., too. This
year the young Brit will be starring opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Justin
Timberlake in the Facebook movie Social Network, directed by David
Fincher, and will star in the Oscar-bait drama Never Let Me Go opposite
Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Keira Knightley. As recently as
yesterday, web speculation was high that 17-year-old Josh Hutcherson (The
Kids Are All Right) would land the webslinger role, which was originated
on the big screen by Tobey Maguire.

[scifinoir2] Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

Stem Cells From Human Blood Can Be Reprogrammed

   - By Laura Sanders, Science
News [image:
   Email Author] 
   - July 1, 2010  |
   - 2:43 pm  |
   - Categories: Biology,
   Medicine 
   -

 


Blood drawn with a simple needle stick can be coaxed into producing stem
cells that may have the ability to form any type of tissue in the body,
three independent papers report in the July 2 *Cell Stem Cell*. The new
technique will allow scientists to tap a large, readily available source of
personalized stem cells.

[image: sciencenews] Because taking blood is safe,
fast and efficient compared to current stem cell harvesting methods, some of
which include biopsies and pretreatments with drugs, researchers hope that
blood-derived stem cells could one day be used to study and treat diseases —
though major safety hurdles remain.

The findings “represent a huge and important progression in the field,” stem
cell biologist Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and the
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, writes in a
commentary appearing in the same issue of the journal.

Three research groups used similar methods to prod certain immune cells in
human blood to become induced pluripotent stem cells. Because they are
reprogrammed adult cells, these stem cells share many of the same
regenerative abilities as true embryonic stem cells but may not have as much
versatility in the kinds of mature cells they can become. But induced
pluripotent cells are harvested from adults and so don’t face the same
ethical mires posed by embryo-derived stem cells. And as techniques for
manipulating induced pluripotent cells improve, some researchers think they
may be just as useful.

The new studies accomplished the reprogramming feat by using viruses to
deliver a four-gene cocktail that reverts the cells to a naive state in
which any developmental path is open. In theory at least, these induced
pluripotent stem cells could go on to form neurons in the brain, muscle
cells in the leg or beating heart cells.

Scientists’ manipulations turned the stem cells in the new studies into
several types of mature blood cells, including infection-fighting T cells.
What’s more, all the groups showed that a batch of the stem cells implanted
into mice developed into the three main types of progenitor cells found in
human embryos. In embryos, these progenitor cells give rise to different
tissues.

More research is needed to determine whether these cells can be further
coaxed to form fully functional tissue, says Rudolf Jaenisch of MIT and the
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who
led one of the studies. The concern is that if these cells retain traces of
memory from their previous lives as blood cells, they may not be good at
forming other tissue types.

Past studies have induced other kinds of mature cells to form stem cells.
The most common source has been adult skin cells called fibroblasts, which
have been manipulated into stem cells and then neurons (*SN: 2/27/10,
p. 
5
*). But harvesting fibroblasts is harder than drawing blood, requiring
surgery and sutures. What’s more, inducing fibroblasts to form stem cells
can take about a month in the lab, during which mutations can accumulate.
The new blood cell techniques can be completed in a few days.

Stanford University stem cell biologist Marius Wernig points out that the
new method is still less efficient than the fibroblast technique. “But with
improving technology, this cell type could very well replace the skin
fibroblasts currently mostly used to generate induced pluripotent stem cells
from patients,” Wernig says.

Researchers are still a long way off from transplanting such stem cells or
their mature offspring into people safely. The viruses used to deliver genes
into the cells may have unintended consequences, and the cells’ long-term
behavior is still unknown.

But even if the cells won’t be put directly into patients, Jaenisch says
that the new method “opens up access to enormous resources of collected
cells from patients” that can be used to study diseases. For example, lab
experiments with cells from these collections might be used to study why
motor neurons from people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis die, or how
healthy liver cells respond to a promising but potentially toxic drug.

*Photo: sectionz /Flickr*

*See Also:*

   - Living, Breeding Mice Grown From Skin
Cells
   - Turning Skin Cells to Stem Cells, W

Re: [scifinoir2] Minority Report tech—apologies if you discussed this equipment before

2010-07-01 Thread Tracy Curtis

It scares me.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> I'm a little creeped out about this.
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Tracy Curtis  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I just ran across a story about technology developed in Israel that's
>> supposed to predict criminal behavior.  It's being tested in a New Jersey
>> prison and at some border points in the United States.
>>
>>
>> http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1768050/suspect_detection_systems_inc_sells_additional_cogito_interrogation_units_to/index.html
>>
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>
>
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>

Re: [scifinoir2] Kids today?

2010-07-01 Thread Tracy Curtis

I think so too.  No kids were that height when I was in 7th grade.  It also
seems that babies become interactive a lot earlier than they did even 20
years ago.  Does anyone else think that back then they never seemed able to
focus or do anything else they seem to emerge doing now?

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:

>
>
> There has to be something in the food. Today I was at an elementary school
> to watch a parade. Why is it that the kids in the 7th grade ( So these kids
> are about 12-13! ) were as tall or taller than me? I'm 5'10.What the heck is
> going on?
>
>
>
> --
> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
> Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
>  
>

Re: [scifinoir2] Minority Report tech—apologies if you discussed this equipment before

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

I'm a little creeped out about this.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Tracy Curtis  wrote:

>
>
> I just ran across a story about technology developed in Israel that's
> supposed to predict criminal behavior.  It's being tested in a New Jersey
> prison and at some border points in the United States.
>
>
> http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1768050/suspect_detection_systems_inc_sells_additional_cogito_interrogation_units_to/index.html
>
>
>
>
> 




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Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

[scifinoir2] Kids today?

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

There has to be something in the food. Today I was at an elementary school
to watch a parade. Why is it that the kids in the 7th grade ( So these kids
are about 12-13! ) were as tall or taller than me? I'm 5'10.What the heck is
going on?



-- 
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Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

[scifinoir2] Minority Report tech—apologies if you discussed th is equipment before

2010-07-01 Thread Tracy Curtis

I just ran across a story about technology developed in Israel that's
supposed to predict criminal behavior.  It's being tested in a New Jersey
prison and at some border points in the United States.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1768050/suspect_detection_systems_inc_sells_additional_cogito_interrogation_units_to/index.html

[scifinoir2] Fwd: July Films, Events, and More

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

Just a sample of whats showing here this month. Cool huh?





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PEOPLE]


Upcoming Films
• Ghost In The Shell Marathon <#1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_ghost>
• Samurai Saga Vol.1 <#1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_samurai>
• Another Hole In the Head <#1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_sfindie>

Special Events
• Battle League HORUMO <#1298fac58454a2cb_1298e1c28e9cb932_horumo>
• Tokyo Scope Talk Vol.5
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SUPERFROG Gallery
• New Exhibition

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JULY 2010

VIZ CINEMA - JULY: Beyond The Battles
VIZ Cinema’s summer gets hotter with fiery fights and good ole’ battles from
Samurais to Cyberspace conflicts and more! SF IndieFest also joins us to
bring a fascinating line-up of sci-fi, horror and fantasy films as the 8th
Another Hole In The Head, a Sci-fi, Horror and Fantasy Film Festival!

SUPERFROG Gallery - Yu-Cheng Chou exhibit
*Because 64 Crayons Made in the USA*
An exhibition curated by Cydney M. Payton

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Beyond the Battles
   *7/2 Fri   7:00pm
* *
* *Battle League HORUMO
*
  © 2009 Kamogawa Horumo
Film Partners



  Special DVD Release Screening by VIZ Pictures!
VIZ Pictures presents the DVD release of the combat action comedy Battle
League HORUMO! Get sucked into the underground college tradition in Kyoto!

Based on a novel by Manabu Makime, Kyoto University student Akira Abe joins
the club “Azure Dragon” in order to get closer to the girl of his dreams.
But soon he is swept into the 1000-year-old tradition of Oni spirit battles
known as “Horumo.”

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Re: [scifinoir2] Hulu starts paid subscription TV service

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

They will only be offering NBC's stuff.

This needs to flop or we'll have to pay for everything online.

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> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> As the prediction foretold, it has been done...
>>
>> Hulu starts paid subscription TV service
>>  Jennifer Saba
>> NEW YORK
>> Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:39pm EDT
>>Related News
>>
>>- Sony's PlayStation near deal with Hulu: 
>> report
>>Thu, Jun 24 2010
>>- Sony's PlayStation near deal with 
>> Hulu-report
>>Thu, Jun 24 2010
>>- Hulu in talks with CBS, others for paid TV shows: 
>> report
>>Wed, Jun 23 2010
>>- Hulu in talks with CBS, others for paid TV shows - 
>> Bloomberg
>>Wed, Jun 23 2010
>>- Microsoft Kinect arrives November 
>> 4th
>>Tue, Jun 15 2010
>>
>>   NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hulu introduced a new paid subscription
>> service for watching TV shows and movies on mobile devices, game consoles,
>> television sets and computers, and joined other media companies trying to
>> strike a balance between paid and ad supported models.
>>
>> Entertainment   |  
>> ipad
>>   |  Technology   |  
>> Television
>>   |  Media 
>>
>> Until now, Hulu has been free over the web supported by advertisements,
>> but offered only selected TV shows and movies. That service will continue to
>> exist after the launch of Hulu Plus.
>>
>> Hulu's subscription service, called Hulu Plus, gives users access to more
>> than 45 full programs of everything from "Glee" to "The Office" for $9.99 a
>> month.
>>
>> Like all media companies, Hulu has its work cut out in trying to get
>> people to pay for programing they are used to watching for free from the
>> broadcast networks.
>>
>> Hulu Plus is hoping to lure consumers to pay a monthly fee for the
>> convenience of watching shows whenever they want.
>>
>> Hulu has the backing of some of the most powerful media brands, with Fox
>> owner News Corp, General Electric Co's NBC Universal, ABC owner Walt Disney
>> Co holding equity stakes in the company. Providence Equity Partners also is
>> a stakeholder.
>>
>> Hulu said it is making its service available on Apple Inc's iPhone, 
>> iPadand iTouch, Samsung Electronics Co 
>> Ltd's television sets and Blu-ray
>> players. Soon, Hulu Plus will be available on Sony Corp's PlayStation 3.
>>
>> Next year, the service will be available on Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360,
>> Hulu said in its announcement on Tuesday.
>>
>> Netflix Inc already runs a subscription service, while Comcast Corp and
>> Time Warner Inc are developing "TV Everywhere," which will allow people to
>> watch shows on demand for free and on any device provided they are already
>> paying customers.
>>
>> In another case, Time Warner's HBO service Go lets subscribers download
>> episodes of "True Blood" or "Big Love" as a free ad-on.
>>
>> The Hulu subscription plan and partnership with device makers was a widely
>> anticipated move, reported by Reuters and others earlier this month.
>>
>> In a blog post, Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar described Hulu Plus as
>> "incremental and complementary" to the existing Hulu service. He said the
>> subscription plan would make available full seasons of current TV shows, as
>> well as back seasons of hit programs like "Arrested Development" and "The
>> X-Files."
>>
>> "We believe that any lasting solution to the challenge of making TV show
>> discovery and viewing dramatically easier has to work for all three of our
>> customers, and those are our end users, our advertisers, and our content
>> suppliers," Kilar wrote.
>>
>> CBS Corp is the only major broadcast network without an ownership stake in
>> Hulu and currently does not make any of its programs available on the video
>> website. The company declined to comment on whether it would participate in
>> the paid service.
>>
>> (Reporting by Jennifer Saba, editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Carol
>> Bishopric)
>>
>>
>> --
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Re: [scifinoir2] Comic: Superboy-v1-159

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

I misread the title. I thought it was the entire series, but it is one
episode.

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> Thanks much, Mr Worf!
>
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Re: [scifinoir2] DARPA wants exaflop computing within the decade

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

True.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> Simple, Mr Worf. DARPA wants those developments to happen now, and they
> wants the exclusive rights to them. If some company does it on its own, then
> the Guv'mint would have to pay.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Mr. Worf wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> DARPA wants exaflop computing within the decade
>>
>> By Dan Nosowitz  | Jun
>> 28, 2010 | *6* 
>> Comments
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>>  DARPA has begun a new
>> initiative titled OHPC (Omnipresent High Performance Computing) under the
>> umbrella of its existing UHPC (Ubiquitous High Performance Computing)
>> project.
>>
>> It’s a solicitation for new developments in the broad scheme of
>> computing–faster hardware, more storage, better power management, better
>> heat dissipation, simpler software.
>>
>> Why the need for a separate initiative? Aren’t those developments going to
>> happen anyway?
>>
>> DARPA 
>> says
>> :
>>
>> “To meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance,
>> higher energy efficiency, ease of programmability, system dependability, and
>> security, revolutionary new research, development, and design will be
>> essential to enable new generations of advanced DoD computing system
>> capabilities and new classes of computer applications. Current evolutionary
>> approaches to progress in computer designs are inadequate.”
>>
>> Essentially, we’re not developing fast enough. Processing speed, heat,
>> internal architecture–none of this will be able to keep up with Moore’s law
>> in the future.
>>
>> And hardware isn’t even the only stumbling block: Software needs updating
>> too.
>>
>> Here are some of the “topics of interest”:
>>
>> - Research on self aware system software, including operating system,
>> runtime system, I/O system, system management/administration, resource
>> management and means of exposing resources, and external environments
>>
>> - Research on hardware, software and language design that enables highly
>> programmable systems, which reduces the need for users to be aware of system
>> complexity, including heterogeneous cores, the memory hierarchy, etc.
>>
>> Energy use seems to be a high priority as well. Research on low power
>> circuits is sought, along with any developments in energy efficiency.
>>
>> As computing power rises, so does energy use, an undesirable trend. DARPA
>> hopes to find ways to increase ability without increasing energy use quite
>> so much.
>>
>> And if you’re wondering why this is all so vague, it’s because this is not
>> much more than a call to arms –DARPA is aiming to encourage development of
>> next-gen computing systems, and of course nobody knows quite what that will
>> look like.
>>
>> DARPA is aiming for a 2018 launch of these UHPC systems.
>>
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Re: [scifinoir2] How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

In M$'s end user agreement they can also revoke usage at any time. They have
been doing stuff like this on the sly for a long time.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> In the first line of this, you'll all see why I ripped as much of M$'s
> software out of my laptop as I could the day I bought it...
>
>
> 
>
> How Microsoft Crowdsourced the Making of Office 2010
>
>- By Brian X. Chen  [image:
>Email Author] 
>- June 29, 2010  |
>- 8:07 pm  |
>- Categories: 
> Miscellaneous
>-
>
>   For several years, Denise Carlevato has studied millions of mouse clicks
> and keystrokes made by anonymous computer users from all over the world. Her
> objective: to make Microsoft Office better fit the way millions of people
> work.
> “We were making many decisions based on … what customers wanted us to do.”
> –Microsoft VP P.J. Hough
>
> Months before Microsoft rolled out the latest version of its productivity
> suite, Office 2010, 9 million people downloaded its beta version to test the
> software and provide feedback. As part of the program, Microsoft collected 2
> million comments from beta testers. An additional 600 people participated in
> Microsoft’s Virtual Research Lab, where Carlevato and her colleagues could
> observe how people were using new features.
>
> Read More
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/microsoft-office-2010/#ixzz0sQPin0YX
>
>
> --
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>
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Re: [scifinoir2] Silicon breakthrough brings quantum computers a step closer

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

I think that we may see it sooner than the date that they are aiming for. I
have the feeling that they are on the verge of a major breakthrough.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:

>
>
> This, Mr Worf, I like. I remember, decades ago, talking this over with
> fellow students in college. One of us mentioned the possibility of silicon,
> and we all got misty-eyed, knowing the the technology was still years off.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Mr. Worf  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Silicon breakthrough brings quantum computers a step closer
>>
>> By Dario Borghino 
>>
>> *17:06 June 29, 2010*
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>> phosphorus electron (yellow) 
>> wit...]
>>
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>> becomes the one highlighted in green. The output laser beams provide
>> information on the superposition that was just created
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Re: [scifinoir2] Microsoft puts Kin out of its misery

2010-07-01 Thread Mr. Worf

M$ thinks that if they throw enough money at something that they can
dominate a market. Totally silly but you know that they will keep trying. I
read somewhere that they only sold 500 phones! Wow... That's more than a
failure. That is a FAIL.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Kelwyn  wrote:

> This is another in a long line of arrogant failures by Microsoft.  I just
> recently purchased a Droid phone for $48 that has thousands of free apps and
> Google GPS mapping function. Plus, the Kin is just clunky and ugly.
>
> ~(no)rave!
>
>
> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haOYAKGvpWHM7l7Bg0zx6EdO9VcwD9GLRTIO0
>
> SEATTLE — For Microsoft, there will be no next of Kin.
> The company halted the rollout of Kin One and Kin Two phones after less
> than two months.
>
> Kin phones were aimed at people who wanted a constant stream of updates
> from social networks and who wanted to share Web snippets, photos and video
> with friends.
>
> But the timing of Kin's arrival was off. Microsoft Corp. had just announced
> a new Windows Phone system. And during the years Kin was said to be in
> development, smart phones grew more sophisticated. Kin doesn't have extra
> "apps" for download or a GPS mapping function.
> Microsoft says it won't sell the phones in Europe as planned. It will focus
> instead on Windows Phone 7. Verizon Wireless will continue to sell the
> current Kin phones.
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