Buscemi, Turturro, and Tucci

Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, and Stanley Tucci are remaking three of van Gogh's films in English. Van Gogh, you may recall, was the Dutch filmmaker who was murdered by an Islamic extremist angered by the message of one of van Gogh's films. It is gratifying that the final result of that murderer's actions is to gain wide distribution of van Gogh's message while the murderer's name is forgotten even as a footnote. And what a power team of independent filmmakers.


http://www.azstarnet.com/accent/192217.php

In case you hadn't guessed: Second Life was never really all that cool

LA Times Article

This LA Times article points out that the "8 million residents" Second Life claims to have includes every avatar that's every been created. With peak users around 30,000 to 40,000, it's pretty clear that Second Life's marketing department targeted the advertisers more heavily than the users. Where's your God now, eh?

ST:NG or just spreading the good word?

Here's a quick quiz to see if you know your holo deck from your holy heck:

http://brunching.com/metalortrek.html

(I got 8/12.)