The Ars Electronica 2004 Awards
have been announced, and in the Computer Animation/Visual Effects category the winner is Chris Landreth for a film called “Ryan.” The subject of the film is Ryan Larkin, a groundbreaking, Oscar-nominated animator in the golden age of the National Film board who since has fallen on hard times. Larkin hangs out in my neighbourhood on St-Laurent Blvd, and spends time every evening at my local watering hole, the Copa. Ironically (or not) the film is a co-production of the NFB, where Larkin used to work.
If you haven’t read it yet,
Sy Hersh’s article about Iraqi prison abuses is online.
I haven’t commented about all of this, because frankly words have escaped me. I do know three things, however.
- Any American leader who pleads “isolated incident” is going to be subject to ridicule.
- To me, the leadership (military and ‘intelligence’) who say they didn’t know anything about this is as culpable in this as the torturers.
- These are war crimes and should be tried as such.
Anil Dash of Six Apart
linked to a page with links to several HTML Editor extensions for MovableType yesterday. Anyone know if something like this has been done for BBEdit?
The only question I have
with respect to the upcoming Google IPO is how far people who think like this Boston Globe writer will go to prove Brin and Page wrong, to force them to accept “the way things are done” and give up on their ideals. I hope Google has protected itself enough, because if not, I could see an investor trying to gain a position just to humble these guys. That would be a shame, even if their schtick is a little saccharine.
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