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...SIMIAN www.ikda.co.uk/simian GO APE A high-bandwidth music and design extravaganza. It's a little out there - has Earth been overrun by monkeys? - but it proves the Internet can enhance listening to music...
...Alfred Papai, 37, admitting illness is unthinkable: Who, then, would support his wife and child back home? But already, nausea, headaches, dizziness, skin rashes and vomiting are part of his daily routine. Ape, as Alfred's friends call him, works in a processing unit like Femmy's. He has difficulty just holding a fork or spoon in his hands, which tremble as he stretches them out in front of his taut, muscular frame. His wife, who lives with their daughter on the island of Sangir, north of Manado, has asked him to find other work, but the money...
...What? Mark Wahlberg is doing a movie without George Clooney? What? Tim Burton is finally directing again? What? A _Planet of the Apes_ without kitsch? That's what the newly updated version of the 1968 science fiction classic is shaping up to be: a visceral, dynamic action movie that deviates so far from the original that it's almost unrecognizable. It's hard to imagine anyone besides Charlton Heston battling those "damned dirty apes," but Wahlberg fills his shoes well, and in a fitting, but rare touch, Heston appears in an ape cameo. As a US Air Force pilot, Wahlberg...
Forget about black monoliths. If the late great Stanley Kubrick had known what was going to be really cool by the year 2001, his seminal movie would have opened with 25 million ape-descendants clustered silently round an awe-inspiring and somewhat unreal auction house. Then to the tune of the Blue Danube, some bizarrely diverse items would shoot weightlessly through the ether - sterling silver Jaguar cars, Sherlock Holmes first editions, Xerox networked printers, a pair of Madonna concert tickets, an ostrich-egg incubator - moving at a rate of 5 million purchases per day. The climactic scene, perhaps, would feature...
...Berlin Wall and a Florida voting machine. They won't stay there for long. Items on eBay move at the speed of humanity. We may not be flying to the moon in 2001, but with eBay's help we're constructing something much more meaningful to the average ape-descendant...