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January 08, 2005
oops
...so I forgot to post anything yesterday. But I swear, it was not for a dearth of links! Here, I'll prove it to you:
• Sweet high-res photos of A Scanner Darkly. Philip Kindred Dick's best novel, now a movie by Art Linklater of Dazed and Confused, Slacker, subUrbia, and Waking Life fame. Starring Keanu “Whoah!” Reeves, A Scanner Darkly is being produced like Waking Life: Linklater recorded a bunch of shots on digital camcorders, uploaded them to some Macs, and had a team of artists rotoscope, or paint over the frames. While in Waking Life, Linklater encouraged his artistic team to make each of their sections look unique, with A Scanner Darkly, he's gotten them to decide on a singular, cohesive style. It ends up looking like a cross between Waking Life and the Animatrix. A living, breathing graphic novel. [via BoingBoing]
• Sen. Frist makes sure to get his tsunami photo-op. [via Eschaton]
• Wonkette catches some passive-aggressive snark from the White House press corps.
• John Walker discovers that his Dell laptop is so sensitive to EMP blasts that static electricity can shut it down.
• Engadget's got a real picture of SanDisk's nifty new SD memory card with a built-in, fold-out USB prong.
• Whilst discussing how the conservative columnists Armstrong Williams was paid nearly a quarter mil by the Bush administration to talk up No Child Left Behind, Josh Marshall says something intriguingly cynical:
As I said in that earlier post, many more OpEds than you'd imagine are bought and paid for. At a few of the premium dailies it's hard to pull off. But beyond those it's pretty common, though often without the editors even being aware of it. There are even a few prominent papers known by those in the business to be an easy (and willing) mark.
• Methinks Hillary just lost any chance of upgrading to C-in-C: [via Agonist]
The top fund-raiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2000 New York Senate campaign has been indicted on federal charges of filing phony campaign finance reports, the Justice Department disclosed Friday.
David Rosen is charged with deliberately lowballing the costs of a glitzy Hollywood fund-raiser that generated more than $1 million for Clinton's campaign in August 2000.
Campaign fund-raising scandal? Check. Hollywood elites? Check. That all important “1 milllllllliiiiioonn dollars” ? Check. If Hill had kept her nose clean, she could have been a contender, but this will be child's play for Drudge et al.
Posted by Jon Rubin at January 8, 2005 12:30 PM