] It is a movie with such clear purpose %u2014 a pop
] culture missile launch at the Bush presidency %u2014 that
] it's almost more of a political commercial or piece
] of propaganda.

Perhaps the best review of the film yet.

Ego threatens to overshadow important questions in '9/11'

HURRAY!

America's Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies

] Detroit may want to consider a new moniker: Nashville
] North.

This is doubly ironic.

Country rocks the city

] "I don't think I will ever come back
] again,' Bobo said of the International Freedom
] Festival fireworks display.

...

] During the 1991 fireworks display, a white Farmington
] Hills woman was assaulted during the show, further
] straining race relations in the city. The beating was
] recorded on videotape by a bystander and received
] national attention. Five black women pleaded no contest
] to charges in the case. A sixth woman was found not
] guilty of assault.
]
] In the intervening years, there have been no major
] problems.

How far the city has come only to get marred by something stupid like this.

8 shot in Detroit during fireworks

Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports.

Teleportation breakthrough made

] Its justification for existence was weak 70 years ago,
] but advances in technology since then have eliminated
] whatever arguments remained. Central planning didn't work
] for the Soviet Union, and it's not working for us. The
] FCC is now an agency that does more harm than good.

Why the FCC should die

] Asymmetric digital subscriber lines (ADSL), the most
] common type of DSL used to connect households, grew 47
] percent to 9.5 million lines. This is good news for the
] Baby Bell phone companies, which are the main purveyors
] of the technology. DSL has been available longer than
] cable, but the Bells are playing catch-up because they
] were slow to enter the market.

U.S. broadband access leaped 42 percent in 2003

Originally from the Washington Post, this is a personal story by a man who (like me) loves the USA but becomes more disillusioned by the day. For some time, there have been commentators who note that the ultimate Orwellian society would be based on "Freedom and Democracy". After all, as Orwell points out, an endless war (against "terrorism"?) is an unlimited mandate for totalitarianism in the name of democracy ...

Land of the ... Kafkaesque?

Go to this website and click on Rendezvous. I dunno if its worth 15 Euros because its only 9 minutes long, but its fucking awesome.

This guy mounts a camera to the hood of his ferrari and then drives full on through the streets of Paris in the early morning. Bloody lucky he didn't kill someone. If the intense driving doesn't amaze you the sites of the city will. Check it out. There are some previews on the website.

Rendezvous by Claude LeLouch

This is the motherlode of obscure and often hilarious audio and video faux pas.

April Winchell: Multimedia