Oh. Oscars last night? The devil you say! (I have no idea if I’m using that phrase correctly).
Well, just added to A&S: a review of an Oscar nominee … from fifty years ago. “_The Caine Mutiny_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=152.

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Two more movie reviews at the Anvil & Sprocket! Glen reviews “_The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet_,”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=93 a 1969 sex-farce complete with “Laugh-In” references, while I review “_Mezzo Forte (Director’s Cut)_,”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=151 an ultra-violent anime with a little sex thrown in for good marketing measure.
As if that were not enough, you can also [...]

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A couple of interesting stories about genuine customer service fiascos. First, via “Engadget”:http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000113033144/ Sprint’s collections department number is unfortunately close to that of a small-business map publisher.
bq. [It is nearly the same as the number of] a small business owner in the Boston area who says he’s received and logged about 8,000 calls from [...]

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We made a quick trip to Southwest Virginia this weekend (instead of sitting around playing _World of Warcraft_ like we usually do). While there I picked up both a tripod and a monopod for my camera and went out to the nearby “Bays Mountain Park”:http://www.baysmountain.com/ in Kingsport, Tennessee. “Here are the results”:http://images.thudfactor.com/gallery/bayes205.
Most of the [...]

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Is this “plain talk?
bq. “The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists,” [Porter] Goss said in his first public testimony since taking over the CIA. [ ??"War Helps Recruit Terrorists":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28876-2005Feb16.html?? ]
However:
bq. “Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists,” CIA Director Porter J. [...]

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