Update [1 July 08]: As predicted everywhere Nikon did announce the D700.

DP Review has the full details and hands on preview here.
Highlights:

Full Frame Sensor (FX)
Uses same chip used in Nikon’s flagship model Nikon D3 ($5,000)!
5fps speed with 52 point AF Sensor.
MSRP $2,999 (I suspect $2,799 streetprice) (D300 is $1699)  [Adorama taking preorders already!]
Available this month

And in […]

Actor/Director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73.  He is one of the rare director-slash-actor who excelled in both fields. ‘Micheal Clayton’ & ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ shows his acting skills, while ‘Tootsie’ (1982) and  ‘They Shoot Horses, don’t they’ (1969) shows his finesse behind the camera.

A counter mockumercial.

A fantastic film from a first time director Scott Burns (who wrote the screenplay for Bourne Ultimatum). Its a taut thriller peppered with funny poignant moments and some great acting / great writing - a winning combination.
Film starts with an accident at a stealth nuclear plant in USSR. It starts very slow as we don’t know […]

eBay forgets its own auction fundamentals and gets burnt. Seller agrees eBay overpaid…. a LOTT!
I wonder if they used their own "Buyer Protection Plan" for $9.99 ..hmmm. Maybe they can file a complain using these steps.

Ever wanted to read the actual scripts of your fav movies?
Option1: You can buy actual bound scripts from eBay ($15) 
Option2: Buy shooting script books (Little Miss Sunshine: Shooting Script)
Option3: Wander around the net looking for those scripts.
I usually use, option 3 (except for little gems like ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ - which bought the script book). […]

The first feature-length film has debuted on YouTube, watch the cult fav indie movie Four Eyed Monster (2005) right inside the browser:

Here is an interesting interview with the makers of this movie.

I’ve been using FREE-411 for the directory listing services, it seems Google has jumped into the Free Directory listing service (1-800-GOOG-411).
Google 411: 1-800-466-4411 (1800 GOOG 411) - free connect, no ads
Tellme 411: 1-800-555-8355 (1800 555 TELL) - ads
Free 411 : 1-800-373-3411 (1800 FREE 411) - no free connect, 10 sec ads
Check my old […]

And none other than Steven Spielberg is bringing Tintin to life!
We donno if its an animated film or live action or a mix of both, but after decades of delays it finally got greenlit at Dreamworks. Having grown up on these comics, I have read and re-read all Tintin comics multiple times, and still […]

After searching a while for timezone specific Calendars for the upcoming WorldCup 2007, I found many shared calendars, but none for my specific timezone (Pacific Standard Time). So I edited an existing calendar to various timezones, and shared it here. Thanks to ‘rajeshblue’ for the original calendar.
Link to Willow TV’s schedule - it […]

Following Amazon Look Inside and Google Books, 2 of the biggest book publishers HarperCollins and RandomHouse, who uptil now resist this idea, are putting up their books online - free…
HarperCollins: ‘Browse Inside’ is the digital experience of flipping through the pages of a book to get a sense of it. Ultimately, each book in the […]

Some observations of yesterday’s Oscar Nite. It was more or less predictable this time.
Travesty:
- The Departed* leads the list with 3 tragedies, ‘Best Picture’?! Absolute shame* , what? for a gangster B Flick? Whats wrong with ultapowerful ‘Babel’?! - even more revolting is ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’, that was unforgivable. Martin Scorsese should get an Oscar […]

Sidney Sheldon dies at the age of 89.

 
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No No… Sooraj Barjatya didn’t copy Bubble so… what does the title mean?
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First let me explain what ‘Bubble’ is:
Bubble is a Steven Soderbergh movie which broke the standard industry release window. Release window is the time when the movie is shown in theaters to the time it gets released in home video market. It […]

If you like to solve the difference between 2 photos, then here is a neat puzzle for you…
Find it PhotoPuzzle
You need to find the difference, and click on it.