Posts by Jake Pollock

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  • Hard News: iPad Impressions,

    RT @googlepubpolicy: @NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed [to an open internet].

    That last bit is a paraphrase 'cause it went over the character limit when I retweeted it.

    Raumati South • Since Nov 2006 • 489 posts Report

  • Hard News: iPad Impressions,

    Google has tweeted an unqualified denial of the NYT article. I've spent a good part of my morning reading various articles on this, and between The Guardian, cnet and Fortune it's pretty difficult to get an idea of what's going on.

    In terms of the google images search, the best I can say is that it's been like that for a few weeks in the US and you kind of get used to it, eventually.

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  • Speaker: A gloriously bad film,

    That is an accurate description, yes. As long as you add the red roses to the whole thing. Which is what complicates Jose's observation, for me. Is it really possible for something to be simply misogynistic when the auteur is so unconsciously self-absorbed that the sex scenes consist almost entirely of his own naked arse?

    Incidentally, the wonderful Prince Charles Cinema in London shows The Room on the last Friday of every month. But you have to buy tickets at least two weeks in advance, because it's just that popular.

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  • Speaker: A gloriously bad film,

    This would have been right down her alley.

    As long as she was tossing a football around with her friends while they were all wearing tuxedos.

    Oh, and Tommy Wiseau gives tips on shooting a 'sex tape'.

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  • Field Theory: Who says chivalry is dead?,

    It didn't stop him appealing for catches or LBWs he clearly knew weren't out in the field, nor did it guarentee he'd walk - "I wasn't sure I hit it, so I stayed where I was," etc.

    More to the point, he made sure everyone knew he did it, so he could stand there behind the stumps righteously asking batsmen 'why didn't ya walk? You know you were out' for hours and hours. Real gamesmanship.

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  • Up Front: Something Chronic,

    Ah, pop videos, that great, 100% representative sample of body types in general populations. Look at how corpulent the professional entertainers and dancers of today have become!

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  • Speaker: KICK IT! The Wee Fella,

    @Ross You might actually be able to watch the match on the flight. I watched some live premiere league football when flying Jet Blue between NYC and Pittsburgh a couple of months ago.

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  • Speaker: KICK IT! Goodbye England's Rose…,

    All this talk of incorrect calls is distracting us from the real problem -- Soccer is taking us down the path to Socialism.

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  • Speaker: KICK IT! The Highest Mountain,…,

    The Aussies will get over the Grosso penalty some day

    I wonder if it will be before the Americans get over their disallowed goal. ESPN won't shut up about it.

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  • Speaker: KICK IT! The Highest Mountain,…,

    On second thoughts don't click that second link Gio.

    I posted screencaps, because the score of the Brasil Cote d'Ivoire game was in a sidebar. Part 1 and part 2.

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