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[links] Link salad sleeps the sleep of the dead
Amazon, Macmillan Settle Price Dispute — The Wall Street Journal with more lazy, single sourced pro-Amazon reporting. One of the reporters replied back to my query about their coverage by telling me they were waiting for the iPad release to see how the price increase fell out, without acknowleding my point about the lack of coverage of dynamic pricing or Macmillan’s perspective.
Galleycat with a brief round up of the quiet ending of the Amazon-Macmillan Standoff — Given a continued lack of public statements on the part of Amazon’s senior management, I’m not convinced this is over. I continue very disappointed ghat both the popular media and the general media are treating this almost exclusively as a “price increase: story, when the reality is much more nuanced.
Fritz Lang: Behind the Scenes with a Master Science Fiction Filmmaker — Wow. (Via @pablod.)
Vintage dating techniques from the 1930s — Wow. The past really is another country. (Via
Sun halo over Cambodia — APOD with an alien sky right here on earth.
Scaramanga’s flying car — I was impressed as hell by this when I was 12.
Secret Caves of the Lizard People — Strange Maps with some downright Dero history of hidden Los Angeles.
?otD: Have you danced the Lorazepam tango?
2/8/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0 minutes (infusion day)
Body movement: 30 stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.25 (soundly)
This morning’s weigh-in: 225.6
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 6/10
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Posted: 5:28 am Mon February 08 2010 |
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February 8th, 2010 at 4:46 pmThanks for the Fritz Lang link, which is particularly well timed considering that in a few days the complete uncut edition of Metropolis will be shown at the Berlin film festival (and on TV in Germany and France) for the first time in more than 80 years.
Though the post is mistaken that Fritz Lang never made another SF-film after 1929, because he in fact made two, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The testament of Dr. Mabuse) in 1933 and his final film Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1000 eyes of Dr. Mabuse) in 1960.