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...Departed adds one coincidence even the Hong Kong film didn't dare: that both men would become romantically involved with the same woman, Madolyn, a police psychiatrist, well played by Vera Farmiga. (In the original, the shrink and the bad cop's girlfriend were separate characters.) Oh, and the cell phones all these guys whisper their subversions into - can't they be bugged...
Attendees of the Chicago Sinfonietta's 20th anniversary season performance on Oct. 1 and 2 will be asked to do something unusual: turn on their cell phones. Quirky chimes, song melodies and ring tones will be the concert's opening notes...
...composer of the World Premiere of Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra, David Baker, a professor of music at Indiana University, says he wanted to illustrate how cellular phones create both order and disorder in our society. "All man-made devices can be used for good and for bad," says Baker, who has been nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy. He adds that while cell phones are great for keeping in touch and getting help in emergencies, they're also very disruptive. The orchestra will alternate between using the cell phones melodiously and as interrupting, annoying rings...
...Baker says he hopes the cell phone concertino will reinvigorate symphonies and have fun. "Sometimes we take everything so seriously that we forget there's a real world out there that's not life and death," he says, adding: "There's nothing more deadly than a passive audience...
...that the idea of coordinating carpools through technology is not a new one, the duo emphasizes the novelty of using text messaging to execute it. “There are only so many hours each day you’re sitting in front of your computer. You have your cell phone on you 24 hours a day,” Corker said.GOOSE’s beta program is currently open to 200 Microsoft employees in downtown Seattle. Upon signing up for the service, users receive $10 of “GooseGas”—virtual money that...