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11:12 PM Thu, Jan 22, 2009 |
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Scrabble keyboard. Natural. Obvious. Coming, eventually?



Movie lode: National Film Board of Canada puts its archives online, free. BoingBoing points to a wonderful new resource. Back when I was very young, I taught film at Brown as a grad student. The National Film Board of Canada was a constant source of wonderful films to show young filmmakers.

They're in three qualities, embeddable and free. You might want to start with the Oscar nominees, such as this one:


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La Salla
Richard Condie, 1996, 8 min 11 s

In this animated short, the classic tale of temptation is revealed in the form of a comic opera. In a room full of wind-up toys, our hero sets a chain of events into motion that ends up disturbing both his own, and the viewer's, sense of reality. La Salla has won many awards and earned an Oscar nomination.

The country has opened its candy store.


Thread, not minutia: Engadget: Dear Mainstream Media: Obama's new phone isn't a BlackBerry, might not be a phone, and he might not be getting it.

Whatever. Please put your nose down.


Friend of birds: Ottawa boy's invisible invention warns birds about deadly windows. Eighth-grader Charlie Sobcov of Ottawa

has invented painted, plastic decals that can be placed -- discreetly -- right in the middle of a window pane.

"This paint is a colour that birds can see but humans can't," he said Wednesday on CBC Radio's All in a Day. "It's like putting a big stop sign in the middle of the window."

The colour is ultraviolet, beyond the range of colours visible to humans. That means the "stop sign" lets birds know the window is solid, but is nearly invisible to humans.

He fell in love with birds on a vacation to Costa Rica, and put his mind to making an invisible invention to save some of those who hit the invisible walls.

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