June, 24, 2004 archives

the wall street journal introduces sony’s new black projection screen technology. sounds like exactly the sort of thing i’d want for a projector-based home theater setup, although hanging a big black screen on the wall doesn’t have a whole lot of appeal. but if sony prices it at $500, as the article supposes, it will apply downward pressure on the not-quite-black screens. (via nelson minar.)

here’s the new york times list of the 1,000 best movies ever made. there’s a few surprises in there, and they left off any of the monty python films. my quick count is that i had seen about 150 of these. and although i’m sure the decalogue is great (the netflix discs are on top of my television), it’s not a movie. it is a miniseries produced for polish television. (via jason kottke.)

american cinematheque will be showing baraka in 70MM at the egyptian theatre on july 8-11, 2004. it’s worth seeing on the big screen if you haven’t seen it before.

the apachecon 2004 call for participation is out. submission deadline is 23 july 2004, right before oscon. perhaps i’ll submit the follow-up to my oscon talk. (which would be talking about the i18n features of mysql 4.1 and php5, which i plan on only mentioning briefly in my oscon talk.)