- Film review: State of Play | Film | The Guardian
"Crowe ticks every box for the Hollywood journalist. In the real world, we tend to have the unexciting appendages of family, children, elderly parents, etc, to whose unsexy needs we must attend on getting home from work in the evening. Crowe, of course, is a supercool loner in a sparsely masculine apartment, in which he can take anonymous calls in the dead of night. In the real world, we tend to be obliged to show up on time for work, and then, in fact, do some work. Crowe, in that fantastic big-screen way I have never been able to manage, shows up in the office hours after everyone else and then does a kind of running lap of honour exchanging quips and in-jokes with various other ranks to show how unstarry and down-to-earth he is, before cracking on with the day's business: exchanging barbed badinage with the editor. His stories apparently do not need to be sub-edited or run past the legal department." (film reviews humour journalism )
- Mark Thomas video: Jack Straw held up his hands and police ripped up my fingerprints | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Mark Thomas talks about a surreal day which starts in the BBC and ends with his fingerprints being torn up. (police humour video )
- Writing Software is Like … Writing
Bruce Eckel says the best analogy for software developers is that of writers. (programming software comparison )
- Prezi – The zooming presentation editor
"Create a map of your ideas, images, videos, then show overview, zoom to details, amaze, convince, take the day. And it is very simple to use." (presentations tools )
- pptPlex from Microsoft Office Labs
"pptPlex uses Plex technology to give you the power to zoom in and out of slide sections and move directly between slides that are not sequential in your presentation." (presentations microsoft powerpoint tools )
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