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Posts from December 2005

The Squid and the Whale

After last year’s critically acclaimed The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the team of Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson return this year with The Squid and the Whale as director and producer, respectively. The film is a comedy/drama and actually an autobiography of Noah Baumbach’s childhood experience in the 80s.
Bernard and Joan Berkman (Jeff Daniels [...]


King Kong [2005]

The latest remake of the 1933 classic was directed by none other than Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings). Stars of the movie are Naomi Watts (The Ring) as Ann Darrow, Jack Black (The School of Rock) as Carl Denham, and Adrien Brody (The Pianist) as Jack Driscoll.
King Kong is, of course, an outrageous [...]


Windows Live Local

Microsoft finally joined the online maps party late last week with the release of the beta of Windows Live Local. So, how does it compare to the competition (Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)?
Google Maps is still the best. But, Live Local isn’t that bad! It has great up-close satellite imagery but in some cases uses some [...]


Flock

Flock is a new web browser for those of us who use social networking tools such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and blogs (such as Wordpress, MovableType, Blogspot, etc.). In fact, the browser pretty much requires you use del.icio.us. It’s pretty hard to justify using the browser without it!
Don’t go switching to Flock just yet though! It’s [...]


Major League Baseball Productions Presents: 2005 World Series, Houston Astros vs. Chicago White Sox

Each year, Major League Baseball releases a commemorative World Series DVD. This year and last year both DVDs have told great stories. Last year, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years. This year, the Chicago White Sox won their first World Series in 88 years.
When one puts this DVD in, [...]


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