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...four decades ago, Michael Apted was asked by Britain's Granada TV to help make a show that aimed to say something about the effect of the country's class system on a disparate group of little kids. It gathered a lot of attention, and seven years later the network asked him to revisit his subjects. Thus was born the Up series, perhaps the most original and innovative enterprise in the history of documentary film. Apted, who has gone on to a distinguished career in features, has just released the seventh in the series, 49 Up, which brings his subjects...
...Sept. 18 entry on the blog, literally.barelyfitz.com, said: “I was watching the NFL network yesterday (9/17) and the announcer (unfortunately, I don’t know his name), in talking about the Giants comeback victory over the Eagles, mentioned that the Giants had ‘literally put a bullet in the heads of the Eagles’. Well, no wonder they...
Ashley C. “Ash” Dyer, a recent MIT graduate, worked as a student on a public-access wireless network for people near MIT’s campus...
...Since it's a Cingular device, it uses GSM and its relevant data networks, the low bandwidth GPRS and the tolerably fast EDGE. EDGE isn't as fast as the "broadband"EVDO used by Verizon Wireless and Sprint, nor is it as fast as Cingular's own high-speed data network, but operating on a slower network has the benefit of power efficiency. In the day and a half since I last charged its battery, after plenty of e-mails and some light calling, it hasn't dropped a bar's worth of juice...
...willing to imagine what comes after; high and mass culture are on a postapocalyptic kick. Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is an unflinching tour of an America rendered barbaric by a fiery cataclysm that ends most life on earth. NBC's Heroes depicts Manhattan destroyed; on Sci Fi network's Battlestar Galactica, billions die in a nuclear attack. And the most unlikely fall hit, CBS's Jericho, has more than 11 million people a week tuning in to visit a Kansas town that survives a nuking that has incinerated untold U.S. cities (taking, presumably, your local CBS affiliate with...