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And good morning to you, Internets!

Went out late last night to see the latest in Pirates of the Caribbean. I have not been that extremely bored at a movie in... well, I can't even remember when. About 45 minutes in, little pools of light can be seen in the audience as people start playing with their phones. As this is the first movie I've seen in San Francisco since 2004, I'm not sure if it's because everyone else is bored or if it's typical behavior for SF audiences.

At an hour and fifteen minutes, my group decides that this is so not worth suffering through to the end so we get up, walk out and hail a cab to The Stud. Gay dance party was not happening. Weak, weak, weak. This is how San Francisco kicks off a three-day weekend? I'm concerned for the party health of my community!

Love Actually (Widescreen Edition)

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

I don't know what it is about this movie, but it always seems to show up in my Netflix queue right around the time I need to feel less bitter about life. And considering the time of year, it was even seasonally appropriate.

The New York Times heralds the debut of independent espionage thriller The Onyx Project as "an experiment in nonlinear storytelling for the digital age." Viewers click around in an interface to uncover story elements, with producers promising that no two individuals will see the same movie, though somehow the basic plot and character elements are uniformly disclosed.

In other words, The Onyx Project is a somewhat more sophisticated and slightly less mentally taxing take on any random mid-90s CD-ROM adventure game you can mention. Oh, and it's also available for Windows users only, due to the historic and well-known challenges of creating and presenting multimedia content on a Mac.

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