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Minor Tweaks: the IKEA DIALOGUES.

Wherein some blogger repeatedly holds conversations with Ikea's web chat-bot, Anna.

Hint: start at the bottom of the page, with "A conversation with IKEA's online assistant, Anna" and scroll up through the dialogues.

Nobody filmed 'em better than Frankenheimer.

Regarding car chases, the French Connection, as dramatic as it looked, is not an especially sophisticated chase, technically speaking (though the dramatic element of chasing the "L" with a car is affective and effective). The chase relies on undercranking to speed up the action, and quick cuts to avoid spoiling some fairly modest illusions.

A short review.

I thought the funny thing about the cartoon stand-ups is that while they looked pretty naff in person, they look really good in photos! Something about the flattening effect of photography.

I know, you're sick of reading about a telephone that isn't even available in Canada. Or you have no idea what I'm talking about.

After enjoying a long and pointless conversation with a good friend who is intimately involved with the mobile telephony business (he's an iPhone skeptic; at one point he sent me a photo of his business partner picking his nose; I think he was doing this to illustrate the camera in his Blackberry Curve...), I finally found the One True Quote regarding der iPhone:

For some reason, I'm thinking about health care a lot these days (No, I'm fine, thank you for asking: except for needing to lose a few pounds to get to race weight, I've never been better).

I was over hanging around Darren Barefoot's comment on the new film Sicko. This is roughly what I said there: