Amiable Tramp Drifting Through Postwar JapanSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 9:24PMThe Japanese actor Kiyoshi Atsumi played the character Tora-san in 48 films. Four of those films are arriving on DVD.
Ten Movies to Get Over Valentine's Day With...Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 8:41PMI married a complex and lovely woman. She can appreciate the sacred beauty of an orchid -- in fact, she's been insisting I take her to the local orchid museum -- but will rip me to shreds if I waste money on "I love you" flowers. She thinks Valentine's Day is a commercial scam, nothing more than a reason ...
Dodge: The Full-of-Life Brand Delivers More Style, Capability and ValueWednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 7:00AMThe Dodge brand is charging into the 2010 Chicago Auto Show with two more repackaged model lineups. In addition to the newly upgraded 2010 Dodge Caliber, Avenger, Journey and Nitro packages introduced at the North American International Auto Show in January, the Dodge Car brand is showcasing the new Dodge Grand Caravan and Dodge Charger lifestyle packages, as well as celebrating 40 years of the ...
Putting goods on displayMonday, February 1, 2010 @ 12:14AMOnline display advertising has become a more effective tool for e-retailers now that they can target ads precisely to the consumers they want to reach.
Travel a true test of loveWednesday, January 27, 2010 @ 3:07PMIf you've ever travelled with a mate, you understand that getaways are more than just a pretty, romantic backdrop, but also the potential breeding grounds for turbulence.
Who needs Oscar? Here's the Culture GeekThursday, January 21, 2010 @ 2:06AMWelcome to the CultureGeek Readers' Choice Awards! Regular CultureGeek readers nominated their picks on their favorite TV shows, movies, books and web fiction of the 21st century -- at least, so far -- and you all voted. The results surprised me several times! Here's what you picked:
'Leap Year'Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 3:20PMGirl meets boy. Boy thinks girl is uptight. Girl thinks boy is a jerk. Boy and girl are forced to spend an extended amount of time together, resulting in the realization that said boy and girl coupling really isn't that bad.
Pop N Go and AVT Complete N9000 PrototypeTuesday, January 5, 2010 @ 8:35AMWHITTIER, CA--(Marketwire - January 5, 2010) - Pop N Go, Inc. ( PINKSHEETS : POPN ) announced today that the Company and AVT ( PINKSHEETS : AVTC ) have completed an engineering prototype of Pop N Go's new Model N9000 popcorn on demand vending machine. Coupling Pop N Go's patented popcorn vending technology with AVT's patented PC based vending technology has resulted in a ground breaking snack ...
Tora-San: Collector's Set 1Monday, December 21, 2009 @ 6:41AMHighly Recommended THE MOVIES: I wasn't sure what to expect when I signed on to review Tora-San: Collector's Set 1 . I had read Stuart Galbraith IV's extensive reviews of the Japanese DVDs of this movie series over the years with some fascination. Forty-eight movies released nearly two a year from 1969 to 1996, starring the same actor in the lead and almost all directed by the same filmmaker ...
This week's CDsFriday, December 18, 2009 @ 7:00AMTom Waits, Stephen Bishop, Martha Wainwright, The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, Steve Davislim
Acer Ferrari OneThursday, December 3, 2009 @ 8:27AMRob Kerr THE INQUIRER Review Acer and AMD both sponsor Ferrari
Wireless electricity: Giant leap forward for the way we liveWednesday, November 18, 2009 @ 8:18PMFor a century the modern world has been caught in a growing web of copper cables. They have become arteries that power the globe, but, from the jumble of cords cluttering our desks to the miles of wires hidden in our walls, they are also an expensive nuisance binding our gadgets to the grid. Related Stories Comparison websites ‘aren’t trusted’ How ergonomics affects our daily lives How ...
A world without cablesTuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 6:20PMFor a century the modern world has been caught in a growing web of copper cables. They have become arteries that power the globe, but, from the jumble of cords cluttering our desks to the miles of wires hidden in our walls, they are also an expensive nuisance binding our gadgets to the grid. As a new generation of wireless chargers goes on sale, scientists, who for decades have dreamed of a ...
Hey, Answerman!Friday, November 6, 2009 @ 12:13AMHi everyone! Welcome to Hey, Answerman! This week I've got some questions, followed by some answers, and then some answers to some questions that I myself had asked. And somewhere in there I make fun of someone for sending me a dumb question. It's all pretty simple.
Out of the boxMonday, November 2, 2009 @ 11:46AMVideocon thinks integrating set-top boxes with consumer appliances will prove disruptive in the crowded DTH market. The direct-to-home (DTH) market has 18 million subscribers and is around Rs 3,400 crore in size.
Rotel RCD-06 SE CD Player ReviewThursday, October 29, 2009 @ 11:18AMThe bug struck me late 2003. I was at a bookstore looking through magazines when a cover lured me in with its display of speakers and amps and CD players – the components of the year as judged by that audio publication. Thumbing through it, I was astonished by the number of manufacturers represented that I had never heard of. My jaw also dropped looking at the price tags of much of the featured ...
Muchnick's Benoit book a flawed but valuable resourceWednesday, October 28, 2009 @ 7:27AMI wasn't sure what to expect from Chris & Nancy , Irvin Muchnick's new book about the Chris Benoit murder-suicide and everything surrounding it. I have been a fan of Muchnick's wrestling writing (collected in Wrestling Babylon ) for years, but I was unsure of the direction he was taking based on his blog posts related to his research for the book.
Sufjan Stevens at 92Y TribecaTuesday, October 27, 2009 @ 8:06AMFor once, Saturday night the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway got me from Brooklyn to Tribeca and it didn’t cost me a $30 cab ride. Granted that’s only because I took the train to Tribeca for the DVD-premiere film screening of Sufjan Stevens’ The BQE at 92YTribeca.
Sell PCs without Windows urges think tankSunday, October 25, 2009 @ 11:26PMAnd the Iyonix without RISC OS? Computers should be sold without a bundled operating system, free-market think tank Globalisation Institute urged this week.
Paranormal Activity: Alternate Endings & Recut ScenesWednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 4:22PM[WARNING: This Article Contains HEAVY SPOILERS!!!] So by now a lot of you have ventured out (and I do mean “ventured”) to see Oren Peli’s low-budget ghost story flick, Paranormal Activity. Ever since we posted an early review and the latest theatrical trailer, Paranormal Activity has become one of the hottest topics on our site. However, [...]
Jeep Patriot Continues to Deliver Best-in-class CapabilityThursday, October 15, 2009 @ 4:21AMMULGRAVE, AUSTRALIA – October 15, 2009: The Jeep Patriot combines the packaging and interior flexibility of a sport-utility vehicle with the performance, handling, fuel economy and price of a compact car.
Patriot HappeningsTuesday, October 13, 2009 @ 2:45PMSend events by 10 a.m. on Monday the week of publication to The Kutztown Area Patriot at 302 State St., Hamburg, Pa., 19526; fax to 610-562-4644; or e-mail to:
PEOPLE OF NOTE: Eddie Palmieri: Opening the Fall Season for Lehman Center for the Performing ArtTuesday, October 13, 2009 @ 11:13AM*9-time Grammy Award winner, Eddie Palmieri, is always a delight to interview. An astute arranger, pianist, musician, and bandleader, Eddie is an originator who set the world of Latin Music on fire with his ability to move fluently from one musical style and genre to another.
10-13-09 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGETuesday, October 13, 2009 @ 11:12AMPAUL ANKA SAYS MIJAC RIPPED OFF HIS SONG: Singer says 'This is It' copies his 1983 joint 'I Never Heard.' *It's already starting. Within hours of its 12 a.m. Monday premiere on the Internet, there is already an accusation of plagiarism surrounding Michael Jackson's new single "This Is It."
Micrel to Exhibit Industry's Hottest, Most Cost Effective, Low Power IC Solutions at Fall IIC China '09Sunday, September 13, 2009 @ 5:17PMWUHAN, CHINA--(Marketwire - September 13, 2009) - Micrel Inc., ( NASDAQ : MCRL ), an industry leader in IC analog, high bandwidth and Ethernet solutions, today announced that it will be showing the industry's newest and most innovative cost-savings, low power IC solutions at the fall 2009 IIC China trade show. The show will be held in: Wuhan, Wuhan Science & Technology Convention and Exhibition ...
News in Brief: Gogol Bordello, Karl Blau, Headlights, MV & EETuesday, August 25, 2009 @ 2:35PM-- Gypsy punks Gogol Bordello ready a live CD/DVD called Live From Axis Mundi for release October 6 via Side One Dummy . Click here to check out a trailer.
ER: The Complete Eleventh SeasonThursday, August 13, 2009 @ 6:21AMIt's only in retrospect that we can now see ER - The Complete Eleventh Season as the year the downward slide was beginning. In my review of The Complete Tenth Season earlier this year, I noticed that the peak had been reached, that it was a pivotal year for the show where a secondary cast was beginning to take over.
'The Panic Is On': Ghostly fragments of the Great Depression offer fresh insightWednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 12:12PMNEW YORK - The Great Depression changed the national landscape in ways we still struggle to tally. But one of its fundamental traits often goes unnoticed: It was the first major American crisis to be fully documented in modern mass culture - in photography, film and radio. We know it intimately because it changed us, but also because, even today, its historical evidence is fully available for ...
'The Panic Is On': Ghostly fragments of the Great Depression offer fresh insightWednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 12:05PMNEW YORK - The Great Depression changed the national landscape in ways we still struggle to tally. But one of its fundamental traits often goes unnoticed: It was the first major American crisis to be fully documented in modern mass culture - in photography, film and radio.
`The Panic Is On': Ghostly fragments of DepressionWednesday, August 12, 2009 @ 11:27AMThe Great Depression changed the national landscape in ways we still struggle to tally. But one of its fundamental traits often goes unnoticed: It was the first major American crisis to be fully documented in modern mass culture — in photography, film and radio. We know it intimately because it changed us, but also because, even today, its historical evidence is fully available for our ...
Exclusive: Armando Iannucci Gets In the LoopMonday, July 20, 2009 @ 12:35PMComingSoon.net talks with Armando Iannucci, the acclaimed British television writer and producer, about his feature film directorial debut, the political comedy In the Loop , starring Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Peter Capaldi, Mimi Kennedy and a hilarious ensemble of comic actors tackling how politics differ between the UK and the USA and how something like office politics can affect ...
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square GardenSaturday, July 18, 2009 @ 1:25AMEric Clapton and Steve Winwood Live From Madison Square Garden Reprise Records 2009 The garish pseudo psychedelic cover graphics of guitarist {{Eric Clapton = 5722}} and keyboard player and guitarist {{Steve Winwood = 17580}}'s Live From Madison Square Garden package mislead. These recordings taken from a three night run at the hallowed venue in 2008--included in almost identical form on a ...
A Love Letter to Internet James FrancoWednesday, July 8, 2009 @ 3:54PMI write today to profess a forbidden love. It has burned in me too long, and must be released… I’ve got a thing for Internet James Franco.
Design Class D audio amps into portable applications (Part 1)Wednesday, July 1, 2009 @ 12:30PMBy Nicholas Holland, Greg Hupp and Andy Liang Texas Instruments Inc. Highly-efficient Class D audio amplifiers are becoming popular for use in cellphones, smart phones, PDAs and similar portable applications in place of Class AB amplifiers.
Eastbound & Down: The Complete First SeasonTuesday, June 30, 2009 @ 6:19AMLove or hate Will Ferrell--and given the inconsistency of his cinematic output, it's perfectly acceptable to do both--his impact on modern comedy is undeniable.
Krell Industries Releases S-1200 And S-1200u Surround Sound Preamp/ProcessorsTuesday, June 2, 2009 @ 6:20AMKrell Industries recently announced the initial shipments of the S-1200 surround preamp/processor. The S-1200 release culminates more than two years of design work and is the latest addition to the Krell HMI 1.3 capable surround sound processor lineup.
Oral sex tipsMonday, June 1, 2009 @ 9:21PMBlowjob, fellatio, sucking off – whatever guise it comes under (pardon the pun) oral sex is a great way to give (and receive) a whole lot of pleasure.
101 sex tips specialTuesday, May 19, 2009 @ 1:54PMWe explore women's changing attitudes towards sex throughout the last century. To celebrate the DVD release of Australia on 27 April, Anneke Hak visited the...
Over 2.6 Million Financial Kiosks and ATMs in Use Globally by 2013, Says NextGen ResearchTuesday, May 19, 2009 @ 8:50AMOYSTER BAY, N.Y.----Since the first self-service, interactive kiosk was deployed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977, innovation, technology, pricing, consumer acceptance and demand among deployers have converged, creating a market primed for growth.
Abrams? ?Star Trek? seamlessly meshes past, presentThursday, May 14, 2009 @ 7:45PMIn theaters STAR TREK, directed by J.J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, 125 minutes, rated PG-13. The new J.J. Abrams movie, ?Star Trek,? is an anomaly. At first ?
Media Room: DVD & Blu-ray reviewsFriday, May 8, 2009 @ 3:51AMMother's Day is this Sunday. Spend some quality time with the woman who brought you into the world by giving her a film, television series or box set you know she'll love. The Charles Dickens Masterworks Collection (BBC, $119.98) and Bleak House: Special Edition (BBC, $39.98 for DVD, $49.99 for Blu-ray) — BBC is releasing the perfect gifts for the mother who loves costume dramas, great ...
Richard Aster Jr Buys Adobe Systems Inc., Costco Wholesale Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. ...Thursday, May 7, 2009 @ 11:44PMRick Aster runs both growth fund and value fund. His growth fund was down 24% in 2008, while his value fund was down 34%. A bad year for many value investors. His portfolio turnover is abnormally high these days, like many other fund managers. He is light on financials, heavy with technology and industrials. These are his buys and sells in the first quarter of 2009. New Purchases: ADBE, AKAM, ...
Reference Design meets ENERGY STAR® specification.Thursday, April 30, 2009 @ 8:07AMReference Design Kit, RDK-203, offers dual-rail power supply with high loop bandwidth and peak power for 5.1-channel home audio systems with up to 650 W audio power rating. Using this solution, developers can meet new and emerging standby power usage regulations for consumer A/V equipment. Kit is based on PeakSwitch PKS607YN, and circuit consumes less than 0.9 W at 240 Vrms input. This exceeds ...