October 2, 2005 Archive

Video

• A Television Viewer's Diary: 9/25-10/1

  Review in Video — by Chris Beaumont — on Oct 02, 2005

• DVD Review: One Hour Photo

  It's a film that will stay with you long after the end credits roll.

  Review in Video — by Scott C. Smith — on Oct 02, 2005

• Bad News Bared: w/e - 9/30/05

  Bad Moon bio; Eye transplanted; a different Potter; Sandler's Island; Depar-redieu; Tupac lives; more golf; more magic; Don Adams dead; and more

  News in Video — by Film Cynic — on Oct 02, 2005

• Kanye West Rules on Saturday Night Live

  Right now, it's Kanye's moment. He's top of the world.

  Review in Video — by Al Barger — on Oct 02, 2005

• Movie Review - The Olive Harvest

  A love triangle, set in a Palestinian village in the occupied territories. Good acting, but disappointing ending.

  Review in Video — by Triniman — on Oct 02, 2005

• TV's Product Placement Cash Cow

  Opinion in Video — by Diane Kristine Wild — on Oct 02, 2005

Sci/Tech

• Computer Bug and Security News, 10/2/05

  Here are some of the most significant bugs from the past week in the BugBlog.

  News in Sci/Tech — by Bruce Kratofil — on Oct 02, 2005

• Green Eggs and Sperm?

  This story won't be on the lips of every pretty TV newsgirl in the nation.

  News in Sci/Tech — by Mike Johnston — on Oct 02, 2005

• Best Buy To Test Selling Pre-Owned Video Game Software

  News in Sci/Tech — by Tan The Man — on Oct 02, 2005

• Parody News Of The Week

  Can you tell fact from fiction?

  Satire in Sci/Tech — by Warner Crocker — on Oct 02, 2005

• We Dare to Bare - The Boobie-Thon

  Lend a hand! Support Breast Cancer Research

  News in Sci/Tech — by Joan Hunt — on Oct 02, 2005

Politics

• Donald Sutherland - Unhinged

  Bashes Bush, sobs like a child...

  News in Politics — by RJ Elliott — on Oct 02, 2005

• Decoded: Scooter Libby's Coded Prison Letter To Judith Miller

  Libby may have telegraphed Miller’s testimony; in code, told her to lie, absolve him, and throw Rove under the bus.

  Opinion in Politics — by Balletshooz — on Oct 02, 2005

• On "Meet the Press", Emmanuel Hands Reynolds Arse on Plate

  Emmanuel layed out the future, while all the boring old man could do was ululate and hyperventilate barren apothegms

  Opinion in Politics — by anonyMoses — on Oct 02, 2005

• Report: Plame Case Prosecutor Eyes Conspiracy Charges Against Rove, Libby

  The Washington Post reports that Patrick Fitzgerald may have another trick up his sleeve in the Valerie Plame case.

  Opinion in Politics — by Pete Blackwell — on Oct 02, 2005

Music

• CD Review: Depeche Mode, Black Celebration

  Review in Music — by Scott C. Smith — on Oct 02, 2005

• Review: The Rough Guide to the Music of Balkan Gypsies

  Music of the Roma people of the Balkans melds European traditions with eastern melodies to create something unique.

  Review in Music — by Pete Blackwell — on Oct 02, 2005

• Concert Review: Testament w/ Unbalanced, Eradicate, Downfire 10/1/05

  Review in Music — by Chris Beaumont — on Oct 02, 2005

• Weekend Reissue Roundup

  Blind Melon; The Yardbirds; Natalie Merchant; The Clash; others.

  Review in Music — by uao — on Oct 02, 2005

• CD Review: Gliss - Kick In Your Heart

  The ethereal sounds that come out of my speakers when I play Gliss' Kick in Your Heart is nothing sort of gorgeous. A sort of tragically beautiful moan accompanied by entrancing guitars and moody drums.

  Review in Music — by jen best — on Oct 02, 2005

• Sunday Morning Playlist: Haight Ashbury

  Geateful Dead; Jefferson Airplane; Santana; The Charlatans; It's A Beautiful Day; Steve Miller Band; Quicksilver Messenger Service; Moby Grape; Big Brother & The Holding Co.; Blue Cheer; Electric Flag; The Great Society; Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks; Hot Tuna; Sly & The Family Stone; New Riders of the Purple Sage; Joy Of Cooking; Sons of Champlin; Tower of Power; Country Joe & The Fish.

  Review in Music — by uao — on Oct 02, 2005

• Review: Lil' Kim - The Naked Truth

  Lil' Kim is still hard as ever!

  Review in Music — by Chris Akin — on Oct 02, 2005

• Review: Introducing Daby Balde

  His sound is more raw than other African musicians I've heard. This simplicity pulls focus on to the singer.

  Review in Music — by Richard Marcus — on Oct 02, 2005

Books

• Book Review: Looking for Bigfoot in a Search for America

  Review in Books — by Tim Gebhart — on Oct 02, 2005

• Book Review: Philosophy, A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig

  The approach is to explain the project of philosophy, and examine a few of the problems it has addressed.

  Review in Books — by Tony Dalmyn — on Oct 02, 2005

• eBook Review: Credit Card Capers - All Their Dirty Tricks Revealed by Tom Koziol

  This book tells you everything that the banks and credit card issuers do not want you to know.

  Review in Books — by Oyvind Hennum — on Oct 02, 2005

• Fela Kuti: New Book on the Man, Myth, Music Legend

  New book about the Motherland's answer to James Brown gives fresh perspective on his colorful, post-colonial government-chiding life.

  Opinion in Books — by Viqi French — on Oct 02, 2005

• Book Review: The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq

  "We have tried find our ideal of happy peaceful life -- our essential humanity -- by increasing sexual freedom."

  Review in Books — by Tony Dalmyn — on Oct 02, 2005

• Book Review: Life Mask, by Emma Donoghue

  "Tis now common to suspect Impossibilities whenever two Ladies live too much together - that horrible Vice ... call'd Sapphism."

  Review in Books — by Natalie Bennett — on Oct 02, 2005

• Book Review: Foreign Babes in Beijing

  A five-year slice of life in China's capital through the eyes of a Westerner.

  Review in Books — by Simon Young — on Oct 02, 2005

• Book Review: The Art of Game Characters

  Review in Books — by Simon Young — on Oct 02, 2005

Culture

• Scorpio Betrayal: Astrology-based Advice

  Opinion in Culture — by Elsa — on Oct 02, 2005

• Job Interview Do's and Don'ts

  2. Do slap the interviewer on the ass, regardless of their gender. Or yours. - Nothing says "I want to work here" like a good ass-slap.
  
  

  Satire in Culture — by Michael Garvey — on Oct 02, 2005

• The Not-Quite-Sunday Funnies Comic Page

  The funnies for for Oct.2,05

  Satire in Culture — by Annie — on Oct 02, 2005

• Brush Fire! Welcome to My Neighborhood

  Maybe with all the Katrina backlash in the news you never even heard of the LA brush fires this week. We were evacuated...

  News in Culture — by Bryce Zabel — on Oct 02, 2005

• Court To Decide Whether Intelligent Design Proponents Can Be Fired For Scientific Beliefs

  Satire in Culture — by The Fifth Dentist — on Oct 02, 2005

• Day By Day for October 02, 2005

  Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for October 02, 2005

  Satire in Culture — by Chris Muir — on Oct 02, 2005

• Paris Hilton Calls Off Engagement

  News in Culture — by Cara de Pescado — on Oct 02, 2005