Word: icelander
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Like earlier fables, this modern-day story stars a monster (Robert John Burke). Bored with evolution and disgusted with society, the monster has retreated to an abandoned Navy bunker on the northern coast of Iceland, where he spends his eternity drinking, skulking and occasionally eating a nearby villager. The film opens with a close-up of his ranting face, setting the tone of the whole story—erratic, rambling and poignant in spite of incoherence. Both the monster and the movie speak with the same intensity and the occasional wisdom of a lonely bum in a bus terminal...
...latest generation, ATMs are being wired to the World Wide Web. These machines can pay insurance premiums and utility bills, print cashier's checks and road maps, and sell everything from stocks to DVDs. ATM users have bought tickets to a David Bowie concert in Iceland and soccer matches in Spain. Customers in Singapore can apply for a car title. In the U.S., Wells Fargo has installed 1,100 souped-up ATMs in 16 Western states that can show movie trailers and the MSNBC news ticker, run streaming-video ads during transactions and spit out coupons before the customer...
University President Lawrence H. Summers acknowledged Wiley's death in a statement Thursday night, saying his "loss leaves a tremendous void." Wiley's wife, Katrin Valgeirsdottir, is in Iceland and could not be reached for comment...
...played a lot of that music while we were making it. That’s when the movie starts to get a feel. We listened to Radiohead and “Kid A” constantly, especially here in New York. And then the band Sigur Ros, from Iceland. Sigur Ros had never given their music to a movie, except I think a small movie in Iceland, and they let us use their music. That really influenced the movie. We couldn’t find the right piece of music to end the movie with, and I went...
...bomb sniffers and 3-D holographic body scanners to biometric, facial-recognition systems that can potentially be used to check passengers against an electronic national counterterrorism database. "Terrorists aren't born overnight. They are indoctrinated, schooled," says Joseph Atick, founder of Visionics, which has deployed its technology at an Iceland airport, at English stadiums to keep out soccer hooligans and, controversially, this summer in the entertainment district of downtown Tampa, Fla. "Somebody checks your credit card when you buy something. Why can't we check if you're a terrorist or not when you're boarding a plane?" Unfortunately, after...