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Sunday, Jan 20, 2002

not it

"Millions of superstitious readers -- and many athletes -- believe that an appearance on Sports Illustrated�s cover is the kiss of death. But is there really such a thing as the SI Jinx?"

access bush

just saw bush nephew billy bush as a correspondent on access hollywood.

copychatter

"At the time, Lawrence Lessig was a law professor at Harvard, where he'd earned a reputation as the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era. Lessig was so outraged by the Bono Act that he helped orchestrate a lawsuit�ultimately unsuccessful�challenging its constitutionality. Now Lessig has published a book, "The Future of Ideas," which serves as a bleak summa of his thoughts on intellectual property. For Lessig (who's now at Stanford), the Bono Act was not just another instance of fat-cat favoritism but part of a disastrous trend toward what might be called property-rights fundamentalism. In his view, this trend is threatening to destroy the Internet and plunge us into a cultural dark age."

manga manga

"After a decade or two as an underground phenomenon in the United States � where legions of obsessive fans exchange fuzzy videotapes or, more commonly now, trade bootlegged movie files over the Internet � anime is slowly emerging into the light of day. Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke" was released by Miramax in 1999 in a dubbed version, featuring the voices of Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson and Minnie Driver; Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 "Akira" opened theatrically last year in a digitally restored edition (and is now available on DVD); last summer Columbia Pictures released "The Spirits Within," an elaborate computer- animated episode of the long-running "Final Fantasy" series; and opening on Friday is "Metropolis," a fascinating blend of computer and traditional hand-drawn animation directed by Rintaro and based on a 1949 comic book written by Osamu Tezuka."

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