I didn’t really need a reason to watch Jean Reno movies but the off chance that I might spot Moleskine just makes a night of watching great movies that much better.

This isn’t the only time I’ve spotted Moleskines on film; the is a Columbo episode co-starring Johnny Cash where an NTSB investigator uses one. If anybody has screencaps of that let me know.

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl’s grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings. IMDB.com

I should make one minor correction. I made a mistake when posting the link to the IMDB.com entry.

Crimson Rivers: Angels of the Apocolyps

The View Askewniverse - Kevin Smith geeks out on ‘Sith’

“Revenge of the Sith” is, quite simply, fucking awesome. This is the “Star Wars” prequel the haters have been bitching for since “Menace” came out, and if they don’t cop to that when they finally see it, they’re lying. As dark as “Empire” was, this movie goes a thousand times darker - from the triggering of Order 66 (which has all the Shock Troopers turning on the Jedi Knights they’ve been fighting beside throughout the Clone Wars and gunning them down), to the jaw-dropping Anakin/Obi Wan fight on Mustafar (where - after cutting his legs and arm off, Ben leaves Skywalker burning alive on the shores of a lava river, with Anakin spitting venomous sentiments at his departing mentor), this flick is so satisfyingly tragic, you’ll think you’re watching “Othello” or “Hamlet”.

This is Pop!: Less than perfect: “Hitchhiker’s” special FX

The special effects in the movie aren’t hokey, but the director didn’t want them “perfect,” the BBC explains.

This is Pop!: Review roundup: “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

If Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy proved that mythology-heavy, intricate fantasy can be successfully translated on screen, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” ignores such attempts at fidelity. Though Adams (who died in 2001 while working on the screenplay) shares a writing credit with Karey Kirkpatrick, this version of “Hitchhiker,” is less a twin to his five cult novels (or the original BBC radio series) than a second cousin. A very entertaining, slightly batty second cousin.

A Time to Mourn and to Fight: As the Hunt Winds Down, the Boycott Gains Strength

Howstuffworks “How do they make marshmallows?”

There is a very cool cookbook called Better than Store Bought that is now out of print but still available in used book stores and libraries. It contains the following recipe for making your own marshmallows:

Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Yahoo debuts personalized search

Yahoo introduced a personal search feature Wednesday, expanding its drive to offer made-to-order online services to consumers and answering the release of similar tools by rival Google.

63 year-old Helen Lovell walks her purebred pug every night on Walnut Avenue. Around 8 p.m. Wednesday night, a man with a knife approached Lovell and her dog, Benjamin. The armed man demanded she turn over her pet. But Lovell refused.

via [CBS4]

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“This is a complete rewrite from the existing 1.x version which
addresses all the performance and memory issues that have been our biggest
user complaint by far. The improvements in this area should be blindingly
obvious and are through all aspects of the application. These performance
improvements are partly algorithmic and partly through a change of
development environment.” — Synop Public Support Newsgroup

Now I’ve been using Sauce Reader 2 for almost a week now, and apart from a few really minor issues, (mostly related to the user interface) I am awash in a rosy glow. Everything seems better. I really had to hunt to find something that I didn’t like about the beta. There is som much good about it that I can overlook the flaws until the major release is out. I don’t feel like I can contribute very much to the beta testing phase. But that shouldn’t stop you from requesting a beta. Go to the Synop Public Support Newsgroup and read up on it.