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Nobody knows who invented warchalking, but it seems the practice was inspired by stories of Great Depression--era hoboes who left chalk markings outside the most charitable houses. It was hard for me to imagine a gang of digital hoboes so hard up for Internet access that they had to squat outside my house, huddled around a Thinkpad. But if they did, I could hardly chase these virtual varmints away with a broom. After all, my network was open. It was as if I had left milk and cookies on the sidewalk. They wouldn't be trespassing on my property...
...Schumacher’s latest movie is based upon on the life of the Sunday Independent reporter of the same name. The film is the story of her self-imposed mission to clear the streets of drugs and drug pushers, culminating in her brutal death at the hands of gang leaders attempting to protect themselves from the momentum of her crusade. Most important, it is the story of Guerin herself: her character, her motivations, her fears and doubts. Cate Blanchett’s resplendent performance as Guerin seethes with passion and intensity in every scene. It is her skillful work?...
This movie is horror at its most basic: a cop, two criminals and two women holding down a police precinct in the middle of a city against an invading gang with unlimited members that want to kill all of them. This is one of John Carpenter’s first movies. It is a western in the sense it is an extended standoff. However, its real roots are as an urban horror story echoing the fears of many city dwellers as the ’70s progressed: the city is just as much of a trap as the country...
...Despite these small victories, it is still just the beginning of a difficult battle to root out terrorism in the Philippines, a task that is further complicated by the predominantly Catholic country's longstanding warfare against two other terrorist groups: Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang of kidnappers, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a homegrown Muslim separatist organization in Mindanao with some 12,500 members. While attempting to harass Abu Sayyaf into extinction, Arroyo has also been trying to end years of bloodshed by negotiating a peace treaty with the MILF...
...immigrant, suffered shrapnel wounds in Iraq in early April. "My son is a hero for what he did in Iraq, but for him to die in America like this makes no sense," his mother told the San Francisco Chronicle. Investigators say Ung may have been shot mistakenly by a gang member...