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I still dunno if King Kong should have been remade in the first place, but this article about the upcoming blockbuster seems fairly encouraging. Here’s hoping Jackson can avoid the post-megahit slump that usually hits most talented filmmakers.

Google, which debuted at what most (ok, myself and my dad) that was an overvalued $175 or thereabouts, has hit an all time high of $400 a share. Now, I’ll be the first to say Google makes useful products and aren’t by any means the con artists nogoods of the dot.bust era…but $400? Eh?

Apparently they also just opened a London office. The Guardian has all the gripping details.

Oh sweet mercy. The teaser trailer for Superman Returns is online. John Williams music, Marlon Brando narrating….I think i want to have Brian Singer’s babies.

You know, my Powerbook is ok, but it’s no Atari 800 laptop. Nor is it a big ass coffee table constructed from a 1970′s vintage hard drive.

The NYT has an interesting article about how all the wishing for democracy in the Arab world is for naught if the secret police are still in charge of things in many Middle Eastern countries, which they most certainly are.

I have my doubts this service will be able to withstand the tsunami of industry lawyers sure to descend upon it, but until it gets taken down, it looks pretty cool.

Not that this is a huge surprise, but looks like the big Z is itching to expand his campaign of beheadings and quasi-cryptic allusions to 12th-century Islamic scholars out from Iraq and throughout the Mediterranean. This is the same ambitious yet futile nonsense that Bin Laden has been spouting off for more than a decade, but it looks like his disciple/replacement/thorn in America’s side is living the dream, starting with the recent bombings in Jordan.

For some bizarre reason, my last post about the new Cybermen designs got eaten. Here they are, in all their sweet metal badassery.

Back in the day, SGI was on top of its game. They rendered dinosaurs for Jurassic Park, and all of Toy Story. But the company has fallen on hard times, culminating in being delisted from the NYSE this week. Ars Technica and eWeek both have good articles about the once mighty Silicon Graphics.

Web 2.0 is best boiled down into “that there web page works like my home programs” crossed with “I done linked this thing to that thing.” Well, not really, but imagine some fairly useful sites like Flickr, Google Maps and the like and you get the idea.

Anyway, some of the Web 2.0 companies (Flickr being one of the more prominent ones, and formerly a Vancouver outfit) are contributing to what could generously be called Bubble 2.0. Same venture capital sloshing around, same hand waving, same carpetbagging, though admittedly not on quite the same Pets.com/Boo/Webvan scale. Here’s a helpful chart to guide you through the nuttiness.