Because my brain is too small to rememeber all these junks…
Lost in Translation is a delightful comedy/drama, written and directed by Sofia Copolla (yes, the daugher of the famous director/wine maker, Francis Ford Copolla) and starting Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murry. If you have not seen it, you really owe it to yourself to either go see it today or rent it on video (starting 2/3).
“Lip my stocking!”
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I went to see Whale Rider over the weekend. It’s a bittersweet drama from New Zealand, based on a book of the same title. The story is truely inspirational. And the acting, cinematography, etc, were just perfect. It’s by far, the best movie I’ve seen this year. Everyone (especially the teenagers) should go watch this film instead of some crap from the Hellywood.
(out of 5)
UPDATE (1/28/04): Keisha Castle-Hughes who plays “Pai” got nominated for this year’s Oscar’s for Best Actress, yay~ I’d love to see her win, but Charlize Theron will probably win it for her role in Monster. It’s a great accomplishment for a young girl nevertheless.
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Yahoo! introduced RSS headlines feature recently. Using this, you can get feeds from various sources (news, blogs, etc..) on your My Yahoo! page. Here’s how you can do this:
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My old cell phone number (408-xxx-7953) will not work starting today. Selected group of previleged people will get my new number soon, one way or the other.. :D
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“Anything simple enough to be understandable will not be complicated enough to behave intelligently, while anything complicated enough to behave intelligently will not be simple enough to understand.”
- George B. Dyson
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For a bigger brain, juggle - www.theage.com.au
… The [MRI] scans found that learning to juggle increased by about three per cent the volume of “grey matter” in the mid-temporal area and left posterior intra-parietal sulcus, which are parts of the left hemisphere of the brain that process data from visual motion.
See my previous blog entry to learn how…
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EE Times - Lie-detector glasses offer peek at future of security
…Besides lie detection, Watson said, the technology “can also measure for other emotions like anxiety, fear or even love.” Indeed V Entertainment offers Pocket PC “love detector” software that can attach to a phone line or work from recorded tapes. It’s available for download at www.v-entertainment.com. Instead of color-coded LEDs, a bar graph on the display indicates how much the caller to whom you are speaking “loves” you. V Entertainment claims the love detector has demonstrated 96 percent accuracy. A PC version is due next month.
Wow, this could be VERY USEFUL!
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“a line of 100 airline passengers is waiting to board a plane. they each hold a ticket to one of the 100 seats on that flight. (for convenience, let’s say that the nth passenger in line has a ticket for the seat number n.)
unfortunately, the first person in line is crazy, and will ignore the seat number on their ticket, picking a random seat to occupy. all of the other passengers are quite normal, and will go to their proper seat unless it is already occupied. if it is occupied, they will then find a free seat to sit in, at random.
what is the probability that the last (100th) person to board the plane will sit in their proper seat (#100)?”
More at technical interview questions
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan invents the gadget of your dreams
Wow, fascinating… we all know which industry will welcome this technology ;)
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Yahoo! News - O’Neill Book Paints Devastating Portrait of Bush
Paul O’Neill’s portrait of George W. Bush depicts a passive and superficial president surrounded by right-wing ideologues who lacks the intellectual rigor or even the curiosity to think through the effects of his policies. [d'uh!] …Instead of a detailed discussion, Bush was more interested in why the cheeseburgers he had ordered were slow to appear. He interrupted the talk to summon White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. …
Cabinet discussions were usually pre-scripted with the outcome determined in advance. On one occasion when there was real discussion on tax policy, Bush quickly became “befuddled,” according to O’Neill. “If the president didn’t connect in the first minute or two, it was a lost cause,” he said.
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Good collection of how-to’s for many of life’s interesting problems..
e.g.
So You Wanna Convert to Buddhism?
So You Wanna be a comic book artist?
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The Edge: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2004
Here’s some of my favorites:
[Richard] Dawkins’s Law of the Conservation of Difficulty
Obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity.
[John] Barrow’s first ‘law’
Any Universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.
[Danniel] Hillis’ Law
The representation becomes the reality.
Or more precisely: Successful representations of reality become more important than the reality they represent.
Examples:
Dollars become more important than gold.
The brand becomes more important than the company.
The painting becomes more important than the landscape.
The new medium (which begins as a representation of the old medium) eclipses the old.
The prize becomes more important than the achievement.
The genes become more important than the organism.
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