SurfFoo for March 16th

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Gems from the Web:

• Observations on film art - Movies still matter
• davekehr.com - Great film reviews.
• Scanners - What if they didn’t spend millions on Norbit? - “You want glory and money? How often does that happen in Hollywood?”
• The Dilbert Blog: The Best Defects - “I happily wore my pajama top all day. Knowing that I was a fashion accident did not deter my happiness. My pajama top was soft and comfortable and the color was pleasing to the eye. I like me just the way I am.”
• Apple - Ja zum Mac - Werbespots ansehen - Hey, they come in German, too. Is it just me, or do they both sound the same?
• Apple (UK and Ireland) - Get a Mac - Watch The New Ads - I can’t help it, but compared to the US ads, these are just daft.
• Macbook inferno - Waking up to a burning laptop cannot be fun.
• AppleInsider | Apple’s multi-touch technology seen spawning “mega-platform” - Apple Inc. is developing a “mega-platform” based around its recently introduced multi-touch display technology
• AppleInsider | Apple CFO talks Apple TV, iPhone, Leopard and retail [transcript] - Morgan Stanley Systems and PC hardware analyst Katy Huberty query Steve Jobs
• Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress - Lets you change your blogs permalink structure, without losing page ranks or visitors. Cool
• MythTV - Runs on Linux and Mac. Not for windows. Yay.
• Information As Obligation - “As a college freshman I had no email, no mobile phone, no TiVo, no RSS reader, and Newsweek was my sole magazine subscription. I’m a lot better informed about news and the world than I was then, but I also feel a certain pressure to keep up with it all.”
• Mac Office users were Microsoft guinea pigs - Documentary evidence that Microsoft considered abandoning Office for Mac in order to cause “a great deal of harm” to Apple has emerged.
• Wired News: Steve Jobs, Spymaster - Canary traps are widely used to uncover industrial espionage. Apple might be using such techniques.
• 12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert - How many of these do you know?
• Buzz-Kill: Columbia Prof Blasts Influencer Model - Why aren’t influentials as influential as everyone thinks?
• Why Apple’s ‘consumer’ Macs are enterprise-worthy - Not everyone needs a Mac Pro; sometimes a mini might do.
• Hell.com - Guaranteed eye sore