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A number of random thoughts, only some of them sad and cynical. Hope springs eternal – after all, we survived four years of Jimmy Carter. A quarter of a century later, we are still mopping up after his major foreign-policy/military disaster – the Iran hostage taking at the Teheran Embassy - but the Republic survived.

Tim O’Reilly has outlined some of the world’s big problems in his talks, and urged technologists to “work on stuff that matters.” I was one of O’Reilly’s listeners at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC (see my post here). But, I found out at the Head Conference in London, recently, that O’Reilly is doing more than just talking about solving the world’s problems.

Our Favorite Titles The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash’s “The File” is a journey into the author’s two-inch-thick Stasi intelligence file that the East German police accumulated on him during his study as a graduate student in East Berlin.

Get ready for Election Day ‘08 with a special screening of Election Day as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays program! On November 1 at 6:00 p.m., join us for a whole evening of film, art, music and dance. Director Katy Chevigny will be attending for a Q & A after the screening.

If you are in L.A. tonight go see Michel Gondry talk about his films and new book at Hammer Presents, and if not go grab a copy of his new book You’ll Like This Film Because You’re In It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol and start making a movie.  This handy paperback is a how-to for anyone who has had the notion to make their own film, but haven’t found the time or spare change to go to film school.

Yesterday I had the privilege of going to Tribeca Cinemas to both watch The Secret Life of Bees with a bunch of awesome high school and middle school students and present Meerkat Media’s film Every Third Bite (which we made with one of my favorite TakePart ladies - Wendy Cohen!).

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The juggernaut was-and still is, according to a quick internet search, an enormous, towering wagon, with the image of a locally-worshipped Indian deity enthroned at the very peak of it, under a vast canopy, which is taken out for a grand procession once yearly, pulled by devotees through the streets of the city.

I’ve always had a nagging thought that the film industry burns too much money… this video puts a little perspective on it:

When was the last time you saw a short film in the theater? I don't mean an 85-minute animated movie; I mean an actual short, like they give separate Oscars to. Otherwise known as a short subject, defined (by the Academy) as anything with a running time less than 40 minutes.