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I'm not sure if this is aleady available in perhaps another OS, but I think a future version of Windows should utilize the use of transparent and fading windows. What I mean by this is that say for example you've got a few things open on your desktop, as often is the case. Whether it's internet...

It's a rather obscure song from a group called Starbuck that came out in the late 70's. It has somewhat of a Steely Dan sound to it. Ok here's the situation that I've been racking my brains about: I remember this song when it first came out. I liked it back then and I had been trying to...

I currently have Giant anti-spyware on my computer but the subscription has expired. As a result I've been redirected to Microsoft and to install their beta version of the anti-spyware. Should I go with Microsoft or stick with Giant even though I can't get the latest updates? Right now I'm...

Last year during a Pink Floyd research expedition I came across a site that has a plethora of music videos(or 'promo filmes' as they might have been called), most from the very early days of Pink Floyd when Syd Barrett was still a member. Some of the downloads are Pink Floyd performing "Apples...

Every once in a while I find out about a famous person, usually an actor, that died and I momentarily become obsessed with them. So I find out about them, read their biogaphies, how they died and so on. I usually find some kind of common ground on which I can relate to the person, whether it's...

It seems like every week now there's a new horror movie coming out that features some evil looking little boy or girl. Granted that might be a slight exaggeration, maybe it's every month. At any rate, the newest one seems to be Boogeyman, the commercial to which features yet another creepy...

In certain movies during a specific shot or two that involves the use of perspective there appears to be a blur separating the person closest to the camera from the person who is farthest from the camera. However, both subjects are in clear focus. It's easier to just show you what I'm...

Took me long enough but I finally came around to exploring Joni's music. Previously I had only vaguely heard a song or two of hers and I told myself that one day I'll look into her music because it seemed like some good stuff. Well I have, at least two albums within a week so far: 1971's Blue...

In no particular order: • Dentists that insist on asking you questions after they've stuck the most equipment and dental tools in your mouth. - "What do you do?" "So how have you been?" "When was the last time you had your teeth cleaned?" Sometimes I just want to look at them with that...

Ever find interesting pics on your hard drive? I came across this one recently. :D

I have a Toshiba notebook that currently has 512mb of memory split between two 256mb boards but I've been looking into upping it a bit because I have so many programs that drain the memory. Stuff like Photoshop, Word, and so on. I was thinking of swapping one of the 256mb boards with a 512mb...

You gotta give props to Francis for this. From the Niebaum-Coppola site: The Apocalypse Now Redux DVD in a Bottle is one of Francis Coppola's most recent creations! The 3 liter bottle contains our estate Director's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and is beautifully silk-screened with an...

Anyone else? Sometimes I feel like the only living person without one. I see all these people standing or walking around talking on their phones and I wonder: who are they talking to? Obviously I have no life because I can't even imagine talking to someone on a cellphone. I'm very technically...

I recently had the chance to hear his first solo album "Madcap Laughs" after leaving Pink Floyd and I think it's borderline brilliant. It doesn't seem dated at all to me and actually seems ahead of its time. I'm thinking of further exploring Syd's rather small catalog of albums as a result(I...

And today was exactly a month since I had started there. When you gotta go you gotta go. It felt good telling the lady that hired me that I didn't need to work there. I was making the decision for myself as opposed to someone else making it for me and it felt good. I don't know how many times...

I thought it would be an interesting idea to start a thread on movies that never actually came out even though they were made. Often referred to as being "shelved" they make it all the way to production but for whatever reason are never released and distributed. I can only think of two...

I walked into my local Rite-Aid and saw that they have Halloween stuff for sale already. Costumes and candy. No complaints. I love it! :D Bring on the Fall, Halloween, the Holiday, and so on. I love the last quarter of the year. It's so... comfortable? Sure, comfortable. Especially for DVD...

There's a movie from 1965, a brilliant movie that isn't out on DVD yet called A Thousand Clowns starring Jason Robards. For those that haven't seen it, it's about a guy who's unemployed and lives in New York. He runs around town with his young nephew, telling him one morning that he's about to...

I watched Frank Sinatra in Tony Rome recently and my god there was something like 168 cigarettes smoked throughout that movie. Ok that might be a slight exaggeration, or maybe it isn't! I should have counted the number of times people were smoking in the movie. The number would be up there. I...

So last Thursday a friend of mine said, "Let's go up to San Francisco!" And I thought hmmm, ok why not. I hadn't been up there since 1981 and I liked what I saw back then. The reason for going up there was to pick up someone. So it was me, my friend and his friend, a guy I hadn't known that...

There's a musical version of The Ten Commandments opening here in L.A. at the Kodak Theatre in September and it will star none other than Val Kilmer as Moses. Apparently he's already played Moses or at least voiced him in DreamWork's Prince of Egypt. But on stage I can just imagine him doing a...

Quentin Tarrintino? Spike Lee? John Cassavetes? Alfred Hitchcock? Steven Soderbergh? George Lucas?(ever seen Beverly Hills Cop 3? He has a cameo.) There's likey much more I'm forgetting but I think you get the gist. Which director(s) do you think is also actually a good actor?

I love overtures to movies, especially ones for big, epic movies which I believe were the most frequent to get an overture before the movie began. I'm not talking about the theater playing the soundtrack to the movie while the lights are still up and everybody is still getting settled in. That's...

Can someone explain to me what exactly is or was what was commonly referred to as a 'switch' or a 'blackjack'? I might have the names wrong but from what I can gather from old TV series and movies is there was this thing, a somewhat small object usually black, and people would hit people on the...

Ok I've tried to watch Kevin Smith's movies and each time the first word that pops into my mind is "sucks", the second being "overrated". Yet he has a following and respect as a filmmaker. To me he's an inept director because some of the concepts are somewhat clever, yet the execution is rather...

Does anyone know why now when I try to save an image it give me only the option of saving it as a bitmap(.bmp)? I used to be able to save as pics as jpeg's(.jpg) but now I can't seem to do that. Thx

The short of it: I just saw a commercial for Cheez-it, a snack food made by Kellogg. They have a promotional tie-in with Spider-Man 2. In this commercial a man that looks kinda like a slacker is sitting at home, key word being home, watching Spider-man 2 on his TV. The commercial ends with them...

America has latched on to this young beauty with the strength of vice grip. She is the "it" girl, plastered on magazines, TV, bathroom walls, etc. Do you think she's overexposed or not exposed enough? ;) Btw her official website :D

Just wanted to give folks a heads up that this is finally arriving to the US tomorrow, June 8th. *Correction: this is in fact the cover of the US release. Any mention of an alternate cover(ie 'black cover') is in reference to the booklet cover.