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It is always worthwhile listening to Mark Kermode reviewing movies. When that movie is by someone that the good doctor holds responsible for the decline of western cinema the review is going to be doubly entertaining.

So here we are in glorious 3D-o-vision, Mark Kermode’s review of Transformers 3: Dark Of The Moon.

(other reviewers are available)

BBC – Mark Kermode’s film blog: Transformers 3: Dark Of The Moon.

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Nice article on the future of electronic publishing…

Underground success: the average UK shopper now spends £4 per month on ebooks.
The publication of The Waste Land app, as reported by my Observer colleague John Naughton, marks the end of the beginning. After a decade of panic about the future, it signals a rapprochement between print and digital culture. This new coexistence is supported by the figures. The average UK shopper now spends £4 per month on ebooks. For Random House USA, some 30% of its sales now come from ebooks. After a perfect storm of economic, technological and cultural change from 2000 to 2010, publishers can detect a silver lining.

Look to see this trend accelerating a change in reading habits unprecedented since Caxton. Publishers, literary agents, booksellers and writers are all puzzling over the impact. John B Thompson, author of Merchants of Culture, says: “Truthfully, no one knows what the future holds.”

[From books, work

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Across the US, more and more prosecutions are being brought against women who lose their babies.
Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child.

[From The most fucked up thing I saw today

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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Originally seen on BoingBoing http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/22/woman-who-filmed-cop.html

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I found this article at Mashable about a camera that takes pictures that you focus afterwards. This mad device captures all of the available information and then once you have a digital print you can play with the focus point to your hearts content.

More info on the light field camera can be found herehttp://www.lytro.com/

My mind has been blown for today. I think I need a lie down.

In the meantime you can check out an example below. Click on the image for a focus point and double click to zoom.

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