I've never heard of Screen Gems before, so here's their description:
Screen Gems is all about highlighting the brilliance of narrative film and television - drama or comedy, tragedy or musical. It will not present ‘reviews’ as such, but will present ‘appreciations’ of the 20th Century’s most distinctive and influential collaborative art form – whether that Art was produced for a 72 foot ‘silver screen’ at the Bijou, or a 12 inch black and white Philco.
The heart of each installment will be; one Feature Film; or one episode of a TV series (or mini series); or in fact a complete series; or a ‘collection’ of works belonging to a common theme whether that theme is related to a particular filmmalker, genre or period.
The aim of the program is to spread Manne’s infectious contagion as far and as wide as possible, create a viral epidemic of appreciation … to make sure that the audience will want to see these programs again and again, with each screening opening up a new wonderous layer of complexity, excitement, exhilleration …
Their "New Releases" page has an "appreciation" of Firefly that I'm listening to now, and really enjoying. Via FireflyMovie.com.
Update: This piece is fantastic. If you're a Firefly fan, or not, or if you're my crazy friend Justin who irrationally refuses to watch the show, presumably just because I love it so, then you must listen to this.
Tim Bray covers a couple of things that are not April Fool's jokes, including XInclude:
Norm Walsh has a densely-technical post showing a nasty problem that’s cropped up in the interaction between XInclude, xml:base, and XML validation. ... in his conclusion, Norm raises a startling point: “I think what pains me most about this situation is that XInclude was in development for just over five years. It went through eleven drafts including three Candidate Recommendations. Why didn’t we notice this until several months after XInclude was a Recommendation? ... it’s only 8,563 words long. If we can’t get a 16 page spec right in three CRs, what hope do we have of getting the XSL/XML Query family of specifications right? By the same metric I used on XInclude, I get just over a half million words (505,779) in those documents. ” Half a million words... pretty scary.
and Binary XML:
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has issued their final report which recommends (surprise, surprise) that the W3C produce a “Binary XML” specification. Elliotte Rusty Harold nails it. I don’t care if anyone wants to go off and produce their own data interchange format, binary or not, open or not, standardized or not, mapped to XML or not; as long as they don’t call it XML. “Binary XML” is an oxymoron.
Carrie Underwood rules. Hope she wins.
Update: Here's a mirror of the mp3 (via Rickey) and the video (mov) (courtesy of Idol Forever) of Carrie's awesome performance of "Alone", which my friends and I have had stuck in our heads for days. (Unfortuantely the video doesn't have the judges' comments. Simon said what must have been the best thing he's ever said about anybody. Paul has the quote.)
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