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After almost 80 years, one of the most famous films of German and in fact worldwide cinema may finally be restored! According to reports, the original version of Metropolis was 210 minutes or so long, but was severely cut when it went into worldwide release (by almost 25%).. Apparently a long lost copy from the early 1920’s has been in Buenos Aries all this time in the possesion of film collectors who where unaware of what they had in hand… Shamefully (having studied film in college, and even having taken a ’silent cinema’ class), this is a film I’ve never seen! The article goes on to state how much of the cryptic plot and odd flow of the film has been restored and character development previously confusing now makes sense and the vision and tempo of the original film are brilliant… Read the article for more (it’s just a really cool story…)

Finally! One of the sticking points for people NOT wanting to use Flash has been searchability (SEO ya know…). Now Adobe is working with Google and Yahoo to get this all rectified and this is a very good thing!! Read more…

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo
Looks like these will “air” online in July before becoming available on DVD… Could be some funny stuff…

Along with just being the right thing to do (although I’ve been using Flock for the past week and am kinda hooked…), Firefox will try to break the Guiness World Record for most downloads in a day…

This is an awesome (and humorous) summary of the past stretch of forever known as the Democratic Primary…

Very “Gondry-esque”, but still pretty cool…

Here is a pic result when I searched “soup” on flickr, and then just simply drug the pic into this handy little editor window…

So far “Flock” is pretty awesome!!!
See??

I just drug that here as well!!… So check out FLOCK!!!

It seems like its taken forever, but Barack has finally crossed over the number of delegates needed to claim the Democratic Party nomination for the 2008 election! Per CNN…On Tuesday, Obama became the first African-American to head the ticket of a major political party, beating out Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was hoping to become the first female nominee. Read more here…

Well, here’s to testing a new blogging tool. It’s called Zemanta, and through Wordpress plug-in integration and a firefox extension, it appears to be an item that will help grab related imagery, articles, etc from the web in real time for me as I post. This could helps save time when the task of finding and downloading related info gets too exhausting…

Even as I type, Zemanta is currently spinning away in the posting sidebar area, apparently searching for related suggestions for my post..

Still waiting…….

Still waiting……

Well, I dunno if it’s being blocked in some way from me (I’m currently at work), or if there’s just nothing interesting it can find about my words… Or it’s just plain broken… Anyway, the idea is very cool and I will continue to check into this one… For now it does appear I can insert an interesting photo from Flickr, so let’s try that…

Image by confusedvision via Flickr

Nice! Well, we shall see how this Zemanta does in the future….

Wow. Another cool flash site, this time using the “galaxy” as a browsing mechanism. Type a keyword and you’re suddenly flying through “tagged” planets full of pictures. Swoop around with your mouse and click an image to see it bigger. Very slick! Check it HERE…