NOT FOR CHILDREN!
Patrick… excuse me… SIR Patrick Stewart’s Hamlet is a real nightmare. I think this should come across as scary to you as the original came to Shakespeare’s audiences in his time. The script is unchanged, but the setting is quite modern.
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Contact, directed by Vladimir Tarasov. One of the masters of Russian animation!
I saw this when I was a kid. I wish I could find more of the ones I loved back then. A few years ago, I was humming the tune from this film, and my friend started making references to some movie I hadn’t seen. That’s how I found out everyone else knows this tune already from a movie called The Godfather.
I watched this many years ago on “O Canada!” I was able to find it on the NFB website, but they have it listed as educational material, which is not available to the general public. That seems really odd considering how I was introduced to it to begin with.
This is just the first of the five links you will need to watch it all, but once you are there, the others won’t be hard to find.
I’ve been a huge fan of Simon and Garfunkel all my life. I remember being allowed to stay up way past my bedtime to watch the Concert in Central Park on PBS. Later, it would be one of the only albums I ever purchased for myself on cassette. I know their entire catalog by heart. I hope I get to see them one day.
The Good Stuff — Episode 1: Take THAT, plastic bags! « The Story of Stuff Project.
When I was little, we always had huge stacks of paper grocery bags around the house. They never got thrown away. I never even thought of it. When you took your groceries out, they just about folded themselves back up. All you had to do was put them in the stack. We used them for everything. You could ripen bananas in them. You could store potatoes in them. But they weren’t just limited to food! We covered all of our school books with brown paper from cut up grocery bags. The uses were limitless, and there were always bags at home when you wanted one. (more…)
Basically, she gets told she needs this tiny computer (It’s a pacemaker!) installed in her body, and she immediately wants to know what its running! And why not? How can you trust the creator of the software to create a perfect device? Is it reliable? Is it stable? Are there security issues? None of these questions can be answered without access to the source code. Well done, Karen Sandler! You’ve asked the right questions.
Running time: 42 minutes, 45 seconds
Cyborg lawyer demands software source – Software – News – ZDNet Australia.
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