Word: surf
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...entertainment command center than a box to play video games. It features a ferociously fast computer chip, the Cell, a high-definition Blu-ray disc player, a hard drive and Web browser. In Sony's view, you'll use the PS3 to play games, watch movies and surf the Web. You'll be so dazzled by the hi-def images that you'll want to upgrade your TV with a new Bravia set that can display full 1080p resolution. Says Stringer of the PS3: "It's designed for the future as much as it is today...
...movie that's set there from asking, "Where is Mount Doom?" Rather than ring-seeking hobgoblins and hobbits, No. 2-about an ageing Fijian matriarch's gathering of the clan to name her successor-is filled with her kava-swigging, tree-chainsawing, pig-slaughtering grandchildren, who surf a volcano of emotions over one night and a day. It's all part of the shifting nature of New Zealand film. As Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee) says of the Fijian feast taking shape outside her suburban window, "Look at all that life...
...medium: you have to seek out videos or click on an e-mail link, whereas TV ads crawl through your cable line and hunt you down. In the partisan world of political websites, there are few undecideds; we are not exactly a society of people who surf the Web to find arguments that we disagree with. So YouTube has mainly been useful for embarrassing enemies (popularizing Senator George Allen's macaca campaign-stump slur) or preaching to the converted (through videos of commentators like Michelle Malkin and Stephen Colbert...
From the very beginning, the Colombian band Aterciopelados (meaning "velvety ones") was everything most Latin music was not: politically minded, overwhelmingly feminist and comically ironic. The band, made up of front woman Andrea Echeverri and bassist/producer Hector Buitrago, mixes punk, surf guitar and ska with folky Colombian styles such as vallenato, a bouncy, accordion-heavy genre. And unlike her Latin pop cohorts, Echeverri eschewed make-up and belly-baring tank tops in favor of piercings and tattoos. When the band hit the Bogota rock scene in 1991, the establishment barely knew what to make of them...
...that marries Echeverri's hypnotic vocals with Buitrago's steaming bass lines and adept arrangements. The first song, Complemento, sets the tone. On the surface, it's a catchy love song, in which the narrator describes meeting her match - or "complement." But listen closely and you'll hear updated surf guitar paired with a subtle layer of those, yes, pan flutes. Echeverri's throatiness gives it an edge. The song is sticky in all the best ways...