Haizhu Bridge or where to commit suicide in China

Sunday, 24 May 2009, 13:04 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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This is an article about a recent event on Haizhu Bridge. It’s a place that suffers from frequent traffic jams caused by would-be suicide jumpers (they very rarely actually jump). Apparently one of the people in the traffic jam got impatient and pushed the would-be jumper off (onto an emergency air cushion - the jumper [...]

Afghanistan - where the interests of the US and Iran meet

Sunday, 24 May 2009, 12:55 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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A short report from Al-Jazeera, which talks about how co-operation between the US and Iran would benefit all three parties.

Gay activism in Hollywood vs. gay activism on Broadway

Sunday, 24 May 2009, 12:24 | Category : Crumbs, Hollywood & the American film industry, Uncategorized
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Here’s an article about how the theatre crowd in the US is much more supportive of gay rights than the film people.

Who said that older people can’t learn to use computers?

Friday, 22 May 2009, 21:42 | Category : Computer Stuff, Crumbs, Curiosities
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I always knew that my dad’s excuse of not being able to learn to use the computer because he’s old was flimsy :] It’s a shame that older people tend to have a lot of resistance against computers. Many of them are lonely and the internet offers older people plenty of convenient ways of socializing [...]

Ron Weasley on love potion follow-up

Just following up yesterday’s post. The clip Warner Bros released is actually a little bit longer than what was shown on the Ellen show. For the full version (in any quality and format you please) go here.
Ron totally looks like he’s coming on to Harry ;)

Hollywood investing in Tamil cinema?

Hollywood investing in Bollywood is old news by now. But it looks like their interest in Indian cinema is growing. It’s no longer just the Hindi language sector they’re after. Fox Star Studios is set to enter the Tamil film industry (also known as Kollywood).
Fox generally seems to be very keen on investing in Indian [...]

Microsoft and the Linux Foundation working together?

Friday, 22 May 2009, 20:50 | Category : Computer Stuff, Crumbs
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Yep, it’s possible. They have common interests in this case. The legislation that the ALI wants to introduce is completely impractical for the software industry.

Wolfram|Alpha - a different kind of search engine

Friday, 22 May 2009, 18:59 | Category : Computer Stuff, Crumbs
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Check it out here. For most things Google will work better, but there are some things for which Wolfram|Alpha is probably a much better choice. If you’d like to try it out and compare to google then this is a very handy firefox add-on that displays Wolfram|Alpha search results on the google search results page, [...]

The church corrupts (El crimen del padre Amaro review)

{FILM DIARY}
El crimen del padre Amaro (Mexico/Spain/Argentina/France, 2002)
Seen: Friday, 15th May 2009 (DVD, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 114′
Director: Carlos Carrera
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia, Angélica Aragón, Luisa Huertas, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Gastón Melo, Damián Alcázar, Andrés Montiel
Production House: Alameda Films, Artcam International, Blu Films, Cinecolor, Foprocine, Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Ibermedia European [...]

New Moon poster out

The first poster for New Moon (the next film in the Twilight saga) is out.
IMO it doesn’t look too exciting. Hope the film will be better than the poster ;-P