According to the Washington Post, NeuStar ended up going with Cyveillance for the kids.us monitoring. That's an odd choice -- so far as I know, Cyveillance doesn't have any experience with inappropriate-material filtering, just with trademark & copyright matters.
Washington, D.C.-based NeuStar Inc., which owns the government contract to operate dot-us, plans to use a combination of technology and human supervision to patrol the kids.us space. The company has enlisted Arlington, Va.-based Cyveillance to perform routine scans of kids.us addresses using its "spidering" technology. Cyveillance will flag questionable material and send it to NeuStar for review. Depending on how badly the material violates the rules, NeuStar either will shut down the offending site immediately or give operators a few hours to remove the material on their own.
NeuStar employees could be forced to make thousands of decisions that can't be left to a computer, said Ram Mohan, chief technical officer for Dublin-based Internet addressing firm Afilias LLC and a former spider software developer.
I'm standing by my earlier predictions that kids.us will be a dud, that there will never be more than a couple dozen kids.us domains registered. The rules are too onerous and the benefit too slight for anybody to want to give up their well-known .com address for this.
As previously mentioned, Sean Nolan has a very cool public Amazon RSS service, which he graciously supplies source for -- in ASP and XSLT.
I wanted to tweak a few things (remove the reviews from the description, give better feed titles for browsenode and authorsearch feeds (alas, only slightly better for browsenode), better links for the channel URL), but I don't have an ASP system, so I rewrote the scripts in perl.
If anybody's interested in tweaking further, the source is available under the same terms as Sean's original. You'll need perl, XML::Simple, LWP::Simple, XML::RSS and an Amazon developer's key; the URL arguments should be drop-in compatible with the original.
Thanks to a comment from Mike, I have now seen some photos of the elusive suddenly-popular Barbie Griffin; evidentally the only place to get more is Mac and Bumble.
She's not really my cup o' tea, but since I somehow got to be the go-to place for her name...
Debra Jo Fondren was Playmate of the Month in September 1977, and Playmate of the Year 1978. At its longest, her hair was nearly 60 inches long.
What a lovely group of loving christians Fred Phelps has created.
As soon-to-be-graduates passed by and stared at the protest, Phelps-Roper said: "They're going to hell. You're looking at dead people walking."
And I guess right-thinkers aren't ever going to die?
When one undergraduate walked by and cracked a joke about one of the s Sept. 11 sign, Phelps-Roper said the student's sarcasm indicated that her message had gotten through.
bq. "You see, he got the the message," she said. "In the day of judgment...that guy is not going to be able to say 'I didn't know.'"
My god, you can just hear the glee in her voice, can't you? She thinks she's sent someone to hell (before, he might have been able to scrape by in purgatory, I'd think she thinks), and that seems to be the whole point.
Girl With AIDS Charged After Not Telling Partners
Prosecutors charged Amber Jo Sours (pictured, left) with a four-year felony after police identified four men who claimed they had sex with her and didn't know she carried AIDS.
Sours has been in the juvenile court system since she gave birth to a child at the age of 12. It was not known how Sours may have contracted the disease.
I'm no hotshot reporter type, but I'm willing to go out on a limb and make a guess...
Boycotting French Fries but think Freedom Fries are sily? Just want something new?
Belgian Fries look yummy. Too bad it involves cooking...
The GoogleDance is Google's index update; being a large system, the updates take a while, during which search results may be inconsistent (more than usual, even). The Google Dance Tool is useful for comparing the various results Google might return.
As pretty much everyone has mentioned, the Supreme Court decided today (well, yesterday for most of you) that Texas doesn't have the right to forbid anal sex between gay men.
As so many others have said, this is great news for gay people. It's great news for straight people too, though, and for people of any of the dozens or hundreds of other persuasions possible.
It's good news for gay people in the four states where sodomy laws applied only to same-sex couples; it's good news for everybody who enjoys non-intercourse sex in the 9 states (plus Puerto Rico and the military) with general sodomy laws.
It's good news for unmarried people in the states that criminalize cohabitation or fornication (such as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Minnesota, North Carolina, Virginia and possibly others).
It's good news for married-but-straying people, swingers, polyamourites, and practitioners of various other open marriages in states that criminalize adultery (such as Florida, North Carolina and possibly others).
It's good news for the kinky (er, those who like their sex lewd and lascivious) in states like Florida, Massachusetts and Virginia.
It's good news for men and women in North Carolina who like staying in hotels with one another.
It may even be good news for divorced couples trying to reconcile in Michigan.
Resolution of this case depends on whether petitioners were free as adults to engage in private conduct in the exercise of their liberty under the Due Process Clause. For this inquiry the Court deems it necessary to reconsider its Bowers holding. The Bowers Court's initial substantive statement -- "The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy ... ," 478 U. S., at 190 -- discloses the Court's failure to appreciate the extent of the liberty at stake. To say that the issue in Bowers was simply the right to engage in certain sexual conduct demeans the claim the individual put forward, just as it would demean a married couple were it said that marriage is just about the right to have sexual intercourse. Although the laws involved in Bowers and here purport to do not more than prohibit a particular sexual act, their penalties and purposes have more farreaching consequences, touching upon the most private human conduct, sexual behavior, and in the most private of places, the home. They seek to control a personal relationship that, whether or not entitled to formal recognition in the law, is within the liberty of persons to choose without being punished as criminals. The liberty protected by the Constitution allows homosexual persons the right to choose to enter upon relationships in the confines of their homes and their own private lives and still retain their dignity as free persons.
Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today. It ought not to remain binding precedent. Bowers v. Hardwick should be and now is overruled. The present case does not involve minors. It does not involve persons who might be injured or coerced or who are situated in relationships where consent might not easily be refused. It does not involve public conduct or prostitution. It does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter. The case does involve two adults who, with full and mutual consent from each other, engaged in sexual practices common to a homosexual lifestyle. The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime. Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them the full right to engage in their conduct without intervention of the government. "It is a promise of the Constitution that there is a realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter." Casey, supra, at 847.
Dive Into Mark nicely summarizes some of the most-recent Recent Unpleasantness in the RSS world.
Nowadays, namespaces are funky, and funky is wrong, because everyone must do RSS exactly as UserLand does. The RSS validator is now known as Mark and Sam's validator, where Mark and Sam are grand arbiters making lots of value judgements that people "be on our case about".
Thank you, Brad. Thank you for proving exactly why we need a new format that is vendor-neutral, freely extensible, and thoroughly specified. I couldn't have said it better myself.
echo is looking promising, at least. Thank goodness.
If one assumes that the amount of pre-warning the President gives us for these things is proportional to how seriously he wants us to take them, then Black Music Month is about as un-serious as possible.
African-American music continues to influence the American music scene today with styles such as rap and hip-hop. As we celebrate the many creative and inspiring African-American artists whose efforts have enhanced our Nation, we recognize their enduring legacy and look to a future of continued musical achievement.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2003 as Black Music Month. I encourage Americans of all backgrounds to learn more about the heritage of black musicians, and to celebrate the remarkable role they have played in our history and culture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-seventh.
What am I complaining about? There's a whole week left in this month!
So here I am using Widnows for a reasonably valid reason. I have a notepad window open, a Command Prompt window (ie, a DOS box, except it isn't really), and a PuTTY window. That's it -- no browser, no media player, nuttin.
I'm typing along, and up pops a helpful window. If I knew how, I'd take a screenshot of it, but I don't.
MediaType Helper
RealOne Player is currently not your default player for audio, video or other media types. Click 'Ok' to correct this.
The following types are affected:
-----------------------------------------
Audio Playlist
[More Options] [Ok]
Things to note at first glance: I didn't ask RealOne to do anything; by its own admission it's not the default media player, and I wasn't playing media anyway; it shouldn't be running at all. It is so sure of itself that that it tells me how to 'correct' a problem, not how to make a change if I want to. And, there's no 'cancel' button.
No cancel button? But what if I don't want it to be the default? Surely that's a reasonable possibility, right? Well, maybe it's hiding in the 'more options'?
Nope; when one clicks on 'more options', the only new options are 'Hide Options' and 'Remind Me Later'.
The closest one can come to telling this piece of software that it's wrong and to go away and to leave you alone is to affirmatively agree with its worldview and to ask it to bother you again later?
How (why) do people put UP with this shit?
Update: Over the next hour of using Windows, the same oh-so-helpful window appeared no less than 6 times.
when that happens, who knows, we may finally get a bright president.
Richard Dawkins has a Grauniad column on the power of language and consciousness-rising:
Geisert and Futrell are very insistent that their word is a noun and must not be an adjective. "I am bright" sounds arrogant. "I am a bright" sounds too unfamiliar to be arrogant: it is puzzling, enigmatic, tantalising. It invites the question, "What on earth is a bright?" And then you're away: "A bright is a person whose world view is free of supernatural and mystical elements. The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic world view."
SweetLocals has some previously-unseen pictures of Luxe, cleverly hidden under the name "Kimberly", supposedly of Akron Ohio (odd, then, that she's reading the Willamette Week).
Who the fuck is Barbie Griffin and why are so many people looking for pictures of her?
Dow Corning's "3179 dilatant compound" seems to be the basis for Silly Putty and the like. Tim Spencer's putty page has images of the Material Safety Data Sheet:
DESCRIPTION
DOW CORNING ® 3179 dilatant compound is a coral-colored silicone polymer that exhibits high elasticity, high bounce and a unique combination of rheological properties. It offers ease of movement under low mechanical force and yet exhibits excellent resistance to slump or flow when at rest. It is virtually nontoxic and nonirritating to skin or eyes.
USES
DOW CORNING 3179 dilatant compound is designed specifically for the novelty toy market for use by children to bounce, stretch and snap. Its nonslumping characteristic offers an additional dimension to this product. It can be used to mold simple shapes such as cubes, rectangles and pyramids and retain these shapes for weeks, a feature that can expand the scope of this product from the novelty to the educational.
Its ingredients are:
65% - Dimethyl Siloxane, hydroxy-terminated polymers with boric acid
17% - Silica, quartz crystalline
9% - Thixotrol ST
4% - Polydimethylsiloxane
1% - Decamethyl cyclopentasiloxane
1% - Glycerine
1% - Titanium Dioxide
It can be ordered in its straight (coral-colored, like the classic Silly Putty ®) form from Dow Corning in 50 pound units (although you'll need to order at least 100 pounds to hit Dow Corning's minimum order amount).
Silly Putty ® can be bulk ordered in a few colors, in 5 lb blocks (apparently empty eggs can be ordered by the 100 as well).
Crazy Aaron's Puttyworld offers "Thinking Putty" in a variety of colors (some Glow in the Dark!) both by the 1/5lb tin and the 1lb bag, and they offer custom color matching services.
The Silicone Bouncing Putty portal has links to most of these, plus a mailing list and some sculpture pictures.
I also have some retail-bought putty that came in a peanut-shaped container rather than an egg, and which smells somewhat like Play-Do; I no longer remember the brand name and can't ID it. Does anybody know any more about this?
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by you can spend the night beside her
And you know she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from china
And just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength and she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her and you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him and you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.
Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her and you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind
Tools for Wellness (which has a design blatantly stolen from Amazon) sells something they call a Cell Phone Cap.
Protect your brain from RF (radio-frequency) pollution with this handsome baseball style hat.
Specially designed to shield the head (30db or better) from frequencies of AM through microwave, including cellular phone frequencies.
Lined with a sophisticated fabric using polyester and finely spun silver coated copper fibers with extremely high reflective characteristics. The waves actually bounce off the fabric with little or no absorption and no electric discharging.
The rest of us would call this a "tinfoil baseball cap". Besides protecting you from cell phones, it's also good for keeping out the CIA's mind control rays. And since it looks like a normal baseball cap, THEY won't know you're on to THEM.
Only $40!
Anthony Towns has a new blog, and he makes a pretty reasonable and interesting Blosxom suggestion
I think what would be nice is having blosxom see the files,
-rw-r--r-- 1 aj aj 323 May 25 20:29 foo.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 aj aj 80 May 26 13:10 foo.txt-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 aj aj 103 May 26 14:40 foo.txt-2
and magically translate that into an original entry, with two dated updates. You could then mark the files as uneditable once you've finished writing them, and not worry about accidently revising history.
A simple version of this would be pretty easy -- a plugin with a story() handler that looks for the -## files and just appends them, with an "Update ...:" header.
There are some interesting questions though about how it should act in the face of date sorting and specification; when showing index.html, should foo be listed as May 25 20:29 or May 26 14:40 (the former would be easier; the latter would be doable by supplying an entries()). When showing /2003/05/25 what should be shown? How about /2003/05/26?
From the "what the fuck?" department..
The Balance Bracelet was designed in Spain. Each Balance Bracelet is handcrafted of German surgical steel; the terminals are made with 6 different alloys and are coated in both 18k and 24k gold. The Balance Bracelet is available in Men's Oversize (7 3/4" and above), Men's Standard (7"-7 3/4"), Women's Oversize (7"-7 3/4") and Women's Standard (7" and under). Product includes: Trezenda Classic Gold Balance Bracelet.
All this, for only $80!
So, um, what does it do?
The manufacturer makes no claim that there is a scientific consensus regarding this product. The statements on this site have not been evaluated by the FDA. The product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The Balance Bracelet is a non-medical device. Consult doctor before using if you have a pace-maker or other electronic medical device in place. Always read and follow manufacturer's directions that come with this product.
Yes, that's right, it does absolutely nothing. But presumably there are people out there who have become convinced that Spanish-designed German-crafted surgical steel mixed with 6 (count 'em -- 1, 2, 3, crunch!) different alloys will...do something or other.
Poor Mr. Barnum was born too early.
Backup Brain points to this MacEdition Guide to CSS3 Selector Support, which shows some interesting patterns: IE6/Win is pretty dismal, IE5/Mac is decent, and current versions of Mozilla and Safari (and others that use the same underpinnings) are pretty good.
The surprising standout is MSN for Mac -- it's got nearly complete support. This is IE/Mac's Tasman rendering engine with a different UI on top of it, and presumably Microsoft could release a very nice IE6/Mac pretty easily -- but of course, they've said they are't going to.
Simon Willison points to a very cool example of Python 2.2's generators, showing both how simple and how powerful they are. He also points to an IBM article exploring them more in depth.
Are there reasonable ways to do this in Perl?
Ken Тату kissing Williams has started a series on Found Porn.
Off in one corner of the darkened pier, we found a fairly large, sealed garbage bag. It was too heavy to have floated in during flooding, and was clearly too big to have squeezed through the gate through which we had slipped. My friend kicked it, and it barely budged.
Ever the good Cub Scout, I whipped out my rusty old pocket knife and cut off the zip-tie, allowing the bag to fall open. We stood in stunned silence, staring back at the naked woman peering back from within the folds of the garbage bag. No, we hadn't found a dead body during a sweet coming-of-age journey -- we'd Found Porn.
I'm only coming up with one memory of Found Porn, a water-logged copy of "Letters Magazine" (URL, anyone? That's hard to google for) found at a bus stop, but I think my sister is actually the one who found that, and my memory isn't clear on how I either found out about it or ended up with the magazine (well, on the latter, I may have stolen it from her. Hi Amber!).
Add your own stories!
Mistakes on the stubs are marked like this; information not actually printed on the stubs is marked like this. Movie titles where I couldn't figure out what movie it was are marked with "(???)". Years which couldn't be extrapolated are marked as "0000".
| date | time | price | theatre | title |
| 00000000 | 0000 | 0.50 | northpark | (???) |
| 00000000 | 0000 | 0.50 | northpark | (???) |
| 00000000 | 0000 | 0.50 | northpark | (???) |
| 00000000 | 0000 | 1.00 | northpark | (???) |
| 00000000 | 0000 | 1.00 | northpark | (???) |
| 00000000 | 0000 | 1.00 | northpark | (???) |
| 00000000 | 0000 | 3.75 | gcc brixton | (???) |
| 00000529 | 1300 | 3.75 | litchfield | ave114 (???) |
| 00000623 | 1215 | 3.50 | litchfield | Hanger(???) |
| 00000624 | 1615 | 3.50 | ua | (???) |
| 00000730 | 1300 | 3.50 | litchfield | (???) |
| 00000730 | 1300 | 3.50 | litchfield | Sun (???) |
| 00000827 | 1240 | 3.50 | litchfield | Head (???) |
| 19910310 | 2010 | 5.75 | amc northw | Flight of the Intruder |
| 19920117 | 2120 | 6.00 | penn square | Cape Fear |
| 19920515 | 1600 | 3.75 | quail springs | The Player |
| 19920627 | 1415 | 3.75 | penn square | Batman |
| 19920815 | 2145 | 5.50 | amc memorial | Stay Tuned |
| 19921125 | 1950 | 5.00 | ua | Passenger 57 |
| 19921219 | 1720 | 2.50 | amc robins | Toys |
| 19930103 | 1430 | 3.75 | amc northw | The Bodyguard |
| 19930108 | 2200 | 5.00 | ua | Chaplin |
| 19930114 | 1600 | 3.75 | penn square | S |
| 19930117 | 1450 | 3.50 | litchfield | Body of Evidence |
| 19930123 | 1540 | 3.50 | amc robins | Hexed |
| 19930130 | 1710 | 3.50 | litchfield | Matinee |
| 19930205 | 1720 | 3.75 | gcc brixton | Loaded Weapon |
| 19930212 | 2200 | 5.00 | ua | Groundhog Day |
| 19930213 | 2200 | 6.00 | penn square | The Temp |
| 19930219 | 1650 | 3.50 | litchfield | The Crying Game |
| 19930219 | 1650 | 3.50 | litchfield | The Crying Game |
| 19930226 | 1630 | 2.75 | amc memorial | Howards End |
| 19930306 | 1640 | 3.50 | litchfield | Amos and Andrew |
| 19930409 | 1530 | 3.75 | penn square | Born Yesterday |
| 19930421 | 1725 | 2.75 | amc memorial | Peter's Friends |
| 19930427 | 1400 | 3.75 | amc memorial | This Boy's Life |
| 19930429 | 1450 | 3.75 | gcc brixton | The Judas Project |
| 19930501 | 1935 | 5.50 | amc memorial | Three of Hearts |
| 19930501 | 2015 | 5.50 | amc memorial | Howards End |
| 19930513 | 2035 | 5.00 | ua | Splitting Heirs |
| 19930521 | 1400 | 3.75 | quail springs | Like Water for Chocolate |
| 19930522 | 1955 | 5.00 | ua | Hot Shots! |
| 19930529 | 1735 | 2.75 | amc memorial | Lost in Yonkers |
| 19930609 | 1230 | 3.75 | amc memorial | Life with Mikey |
| 19930618 | 1115 | 3.75 | amc memorial | Last Action Hero |
| 19930621 | 1925 | 6.00 | gcc brixton | Ethan Frome |
| 19930625 | 1200 | 3.75 | amc northw | Sleepless in Seattle |
| 19930814 | 1640 | 3.75 | penn square | The Fugitive |
| 19930901 | 1225 | 3.75 | gcc brixton | Son of the Pink Panther |
| 19930904 | 1450 | 3.00 | ua | Fortress |
| 19930911 | 1515 | 3.75 | penn square | Undercover Blues |
| 19930915 | 1425 | 3.75 | penn square | True Romance |
| 19930917 | 1230 | 3.75 | penn square | Much Ado About Nothing |
| 19930923 | 1935 | 5.00 | ua | Searching for Bobby Fischer |
| 19930925 | 1155 | 3.75 | gcc brixton | Boxing Helena |
| 19930925 | 1935 | 5.50 | amc memorial | Age of Innocence |
| 19930930 | 1330 | 3.75 | penn square | The Good Son |
| 19931008 | 2155 | 5.00 | ua | Money for Nothing |
| 19931011 | 1300 | 3.75 | penn square | Gettysburg |
| 19931017 | 1725 | 2.75 | amc northw | Mr. Wonderful |
| 19931020 | 1240 | 3.75 | penn square | Judg |
| 19931105 | 1455 | 3.00 | ua | Dazed and Confused |
| 19931105 | 1455 | 3.00 | ua | Dazed and Confused |
| 19931124 | 1300 | 4.00 | penn square | Addams Family Values |
| 19940121 | 1415 | 3.75 | litchfield | Intersection |
| 19940128 | 1645 | 2.75 | amc memorial | Short Cuts |
| 19940227 | 1410 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Body Snatchers |
| 19940304 | 1500 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Angie |
| 19940310 | 1700 | 4.00 | quail springs | What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
| 19940312 | 2140 | 6.25 | gcc brixton | Rome is Bleeding |
| 19940401 | 1330 | 3.50 | amc memorial | House of Spirits |
| 19940402 | 1400 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Sirens |
| 19940408 | 1245 | 4.00 | penn square | Threesome |
| 19940408 | 1600 | 4.00 | penn square | Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| 19940409 | 1330 | 3.50 | amc northw | The Paper |
| 19940416 | 1510 | 4.00 | penn square | Cops and Robbersons |
| 19940416 | 2205 | 5.75 | amc northw | Threesome |
| 19940422 | 1330 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Bad Girls |
| 19940509 | 1340 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Belle Epoque |
| 19940513 | 1405 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | The Crow |
| 19940515 | 1330 | 3.50 | amc northw | Chasers |
| 19940516 | 1510 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Clean Slate |
| 19940520 | 1500 | 4.00 | penn square | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues |
| 19940604 | 1715 | 2.75 | gcc brixton | Like Water For Chocolate |
| 19940612 | 1430 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| 19940617 | 1545 | 2.75 | penn square | Wolf |
| 19940618 | 1925 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Wolf |
| 19940708 | 1315 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Widows Peak |
| 19940715 | 1630 | 2.50 | amc robins | True Lies |
| 19940720 | 2145 | 6.25 | penn square | Forrest Gump |
| 19940721 | 2150 | 5.75 | litchfield | The Client |
| 19940730 | 1520 | 4.00 | quail springs | It Could Happen to You |
| 19940730 | 1520 | 4.00 | quail springs | It Could Happen to You |
| 19940826 | 1430 | 3.75 | litchfield | Natural Born Killers |
| 19940901 | 1200 | 4.00 | penn square | Milk Money |
| 19940904 | 1200 | 4.00 | penn square | Barcelona |
| 19940916 | 1400 | 4.00 | penn square | Time Cop |
| 19941008 | 1315 | 4.00 | penn square | Quiz Show |
| 19941014 | 1200 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Exit to Eden |
| 19941022 | 1445 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Priscilla Queen of the Desert |
| 19941027 | 1440 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Radioland Murders |
| 19941029 | 1500 | 3.75 | windsor hills | Pulp Fiction |
| 19941105 | 1210 | 3.75 | windsor hills | Stargate |
| 19941123 | 1205 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Star Trek: Generations |
| 19941125 | 1215 | 3.50 | amc memorial | The Professional |
| 19941125 | 1945 | 6.25 | gcc brixton | Bullets over Broadway |
| 19941209 | 1445 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Clerks |
| 19941215 | 1245 | 4.00 | penn square | Discl |
| 19941221 | 1230 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Mixed Nuts |
| 19950106 | 2225 | 3.50 | amc northw | Nell |
| 19950113 | 1400 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Higher Learning |
| 19950204 | 1715 | 3.25 | penn square | Death and the Maiden |
| 19950210 | 1250 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Before Sunrise |
| 19950210 | 1500 | 3.50 | amc memorial | The Quick and the Dead |
| 19950216 | 1340 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Red |
| 19950217 | 1325 | 4.00 | penn square | Just Cause |
| 19950218 | 1330 | 4.00 | quail springs | The Brady Bunch Movie |
| 19950220 | 1400 | 4.00 | quail springs | Pulp Fiction |
| 19950303 | 1320 | 4.00 | penn square | Madness of King George |
| 19950311 | 1705 | 3.25 | penn square | The Browning Version |
| 19950312 | 1340 | 4.00 | quail springs | Outbreak |
| 19950317 | 1310 | 4.00 | penn square | Last Seduction |
| 19950318 | 1450 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Bye Bye Love |
| 19950324 | 1215 | 3.75 | windsor hills | Dolores Clai |
| 19950325 | 1055 | 2.75 | amc memorial | Exotica |
| 19950326 | 1345 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Muriel's Wedding |
| 19950422 | 1230 | 3.50 | amc memorial | Kiss of Death |
| 19950428 | 1350 | 3.50 | amc northw | Village of the Damned |
| 19950429 | 1700 | 3.00 | amc northw | Destiny Turns On the Radio |
| 19950429 | 1700 | 3.00 | amc northw | Destiny Turns On the Radio |
| 19950512 | 1235 | 5.75 | amc memorial | Crimson Tide |
| 19950521 | 1700 | 3.00 | amc northw | Die Hard: With a Vengeance |
| 19950526 | 2005 | 5.75 | amc memorial | Johnny Mnemonic |
| 19950527 | 1030 | 3.00 | amc northw | Mad Love |
| 19950529 | 1515 | 3.50 | amc memorial | While You Were Sleeping |
| 19950617 | 1330 | 4.00 | penn square | Batman Forever |
| 19950707 | 2145 | 5.00 | ua | Judge Dredd |
| 19950714 | 1715 | 3.25 | quail springs | Species |
| 19950715 | 1520 | 3.50 | amc robins | Nine Months |
| 19950715 | 1520 | 3.50 | amc robins | Nine Months |
| 19950729 | 1720 | 3.25 | quail springs | Clueless |
| 19950730 | 2215 | 5.75 | amc memorial | The Net |
| 19950804 | 0045 | 5.75 | amc memorial | Something to Talk About |
| 19950825 | 2115 | 6.25 | gcc brixton | Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love |
| 19950901 | 2210 | 4.75 | amc robins | The Usual Suspects |
| 19950902 | 1245 | 4.00 | crossroads | Prophecy |
| 19950915 | 2155 | 6.25 | quail springs | Clockers |
| 19950917 | 1410 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Little Odessa |
| 19950923 | 1055 | 3.00 | amc northw | Showgirls |
| 19950920 | 2100 | 6.25 | gcc brixton | Belle D |
| 19950923 | 0035 | 5.75 | amc memorial | Seven |
| 19950929 | 2225 | 5.75 | amc memorial | The Brothers McMullen |
| 19951007 | 1715 | 3.00 | amc memorial | To Die For |
| 19951020 | 1945 | 5.75 | amc northw | Mallrats |
| 19951024 | 1925 | 5.75 | amc memorial | Crumb |
| 19951118 | 1345 | 4.00 | gcc brixton | Goldeneye |
| 19951215 | 2030 | 5.75 | amc memorial | Heat |
| 19960224 | 2220 | 4.75 | amc robins | Mary Reilly |
| 19960512 | 1445 | 3.50 | amc memorial | The Truth About Cats and Dogs |
| 19960512 | 1445 | 3.50 | amc memorial | The Truth About Cats and Dogs |
| 19960512 | 1445 | 3.50 | amc memorial | The Truth About Cats and Dogs |
| 19960615 | 1210 | 4.00 | penn square | Mission Impossible |
| 19960703 | 2010 | 4.75 | amc robins | Eraser |
| 19960703 | 2010 | 4.75 | amc robins | Eraser |
| 19960810 | 2045 | 4.75 | amc robins | Multiplicity |
| 19960810 | 2045 | 4.75 | amc robins | Multiplicity |
| 19990803 | 2155 | 4.75 | evergreen | American Pie |
| 19991228 | 1525 | 4.00 | tinseltown usa | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| 20000423 | 1445 | 4.75 | movies on tv | Gossip |
| 20000423 | 1630 | 4.75 | movies on tv | Rules of Engagement |
| 20000728 | 1745 | 4.50 | koin center | Blood Simple |
| 20010508 | 1940 | 7.00 | fox tower | Memento |
| 20010703 | 1910 | 7.75 | evergreen | Shrek |
| 20010706 | 1910 | 7.75 | evergreen | Shrek |
| 20010714 | 2035 | 7.75 | movies on tv | Legally Blonde |
| 20011226 | 1450 | 5.50 | amc quail | Not another Teen Movie |
| 20011229 | 1330 | 5.50 | amc quail | Vanilla Sky |
| 20011229 | 1330 | 5.50 | amc quail | Vanilla Sky |
| 20020622 | 1415 | 5.50 | eastport | Minority Report |
| 20020622 | 1715 | 4.75 | eastport | Sum of all Fears |
| 20020628 | 1930 | 8.00 | eastport | Spider Man |
| 20020703 | 1315 | 5.50 | eastport | Men in Black II |
| 20030130 | 1930 | 8.00 | lloyd center | Darkness Falls |
| 20030519 | 1510 | 5.75 | eastport | Matrix Reloaded |
Total ticket price: $760.50
Theatre notes:
I previously commented on Freedom Paradise, the fat-friendly resort south of Cancun
I can't find a website, and the article doesn't say whether they've put any thought into making travel to and from the resort any more pleasant for the execptionally plump.
Well, they have a website now.
Unfortunately, they hit two pet peeves right off the bat.
AT FREEDOM PARADISE HOTELS WE ARE AWARE THAT YOU SHOULDN'T WAIT TO LOOSE WEIGHT TO START DOING THE THINGS YOU LIKE TO DO. ENJOY YOUR LIFE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TODAY...
It's "lose", okay? Lose the llama, loosey. And you can stop shouting at me now.
So, who is that? It's Poe. The singer, not the author.
24 of you gave correct answers, including one very emphatic "poepoepoepoepoepoepoe" entered just miniutes after the photo was posted.
Other musicians named were Celine Dion (five times), Liz Phair, Madonna (six times), Тату (12 times, although those are probably search attempts -- you want the other text box, folks, the one labelled "Search"), "The chick from Portishead" (also the "singer for portishead"), Avril Lavigne, Carly Simon (twice), Debbie Gibson, Jennifer Lopez (five times), Sheryl Crow.
Other possible actual guesses were Edie Falco, Heidi Fleiss, Jane Seymour (three times), Monica "Belluchi", Nadine Jansen (but she's hot -- thanks for the name!),
