Linux’s logo – a friendly penguin – can be seen in the wild more and more often. If you have no idea where it came from, here is the original page with permissions to use and modify.
If you don’t know how crazy it can go, then here is a nice gallery collected by LWN staff (16 pages for the moment, and no two are the same).
I watched “Gangs of New York” just now. Before I start bashing it, I’d like to mention, that I watched it with a terrible translation into Russian and I could hear only parts of original phrases.
Now… The film is very overrated. Maybe, of course, I am missing some important New York history or atmosphere, but for an outsider there is nothing much to see. This film is an attempt to please everyone. There is some drama and romance. Some action. Some history. Some horror. Some erotic. Nothing is exceptional or even merely good.
The worst thing is the music. There is a lot of it, but it is always wrong. It is inappropriate and fails to emphasize the point. It seems totally independent of what is happening in the movie. But it was not only the music. Costumes were terrible too. I understand that members of the gang can supposedely wear some common piece of cloth. But I don’t understand how the poorest people of the lowest area of the city can afford to wear almost identical stuff. If the clothes were any better, they would like uniforms. Bad move. Makes it very surrealistic.
Few other details were bright enough to show that it was actually a movie, and that it was a movie made recently. The way the naked women are shown. It’s like they were taken from the Internet or something. Sexual culture and the way people see naked body changes. 1800s of the movie should have been totally different from th 21 century, shouldn’t they?
Acting was not bad. Leonardo DiCaprio was pretty good. Cameron Diaz was charming, as always. Daniel Day-Lewis, although unknown to me, was very nice. He also had the best make-up of all the characters. Nice work.
The last complain is that the film is very long for the points it delivers and scenes it boasts – almost 3 hours is way too much. Making it shorter would have made it better. As it is, I’ll give it a 6 out of 10 and not a fruction more.
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Make sure you check this list before you purchase a compiler or an interpreter of any kind. It might save you some dollars.
Today is one of those scary dates – Friday the 13th. Noone seems to know or remember what is so scary about the combination of Friday, which happens every week, and the date of 13th, which happens every month (and therefor provides for a pretty often match to happen).
Well, I brushed up my memory and could remember that 13 is considered an unlucky number by some, and Devil’s dozen by another. As to the combination, the closest I got was remembering that there was horror movie in the 80s that was called “Friday the 13th“. I couldn’t remember any original or explanational stories.
Web is, as usual, an answer to any question one might get. “Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky” is a longish article in the “Urban Legends and Folklore” section of About.com. Another article connects Friday 13th to astrology. And, of course, this post would be incomplete without a link to the entry in Wikipedia, which has a list of Friday 13th happenings until the year 2020.
If you are more interested in the cinematographic aproach, then you should visit films’ website.
I thought that once in a while I should watch a movie from my wishlist, so I got a copy of “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” and watched it.
During the whole film I had this feeling of dejavu and only when the closing titles started rolling, I remembered that had already seen this movie once. It is a very nice film, but for some reason it just doesn’t stick. Maybe I am too young.
Anyway, George Clooney climbs in my book as both an actor and a director. I hope he continues his work, because the man is talented. It is not so easy to create a good mix out of action, romance, phylosophy, and crime covered with drama. Clooney did it. Of course he was helped by a bunch of people who are really good at helping people like Clooney – namely, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts and Sam Rockwel. Brad Pitt and Matt Damon were used as backup for sure, because they couldn’t have possibly be credited for sitting silently on a chair for about half a second that the camera scrolls by. Strategic move, eh.
Overall, 7 out of 10 for being a little slower than I like. I also hope that next time I’ll find this post before watching it for the third time…