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WARNING... STRONG, POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE OPINION TO FOLLOW:

I have just been on a big geeky emotional roller coaster regarding the in-production movie of "the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. This is probably my favorite book, and I feel very strongly about it. I am intimately familiar with the PHENOMENAL original BBC radio production of the books, and I don't think the movie is going to measure up. I just watched the teaser and actually became almost irrationally excited... then mere moments later sunk into Marvinesque levels of depression upon reading the cast list and learning that... gasp... American actors have been cast in several of the lead roles. This is like blasphemy... these parts are meant to be played by proper BRITISH actors... the only thing that could be worse than having Americans play the roles rightfully intended for Brits would be, God forbid, if they actually attempted to put on British accents. I mean for God's sake... Trillian is supposed to be from ISLINGTON... not San Freaking Diego!!! I'd rather listen to nails on a chalk board for 3 hours than Zooey Deschanel doing a bad east-ender! Ugh!!!!
Ugh...

--Sarah
(10 comments)
2004.07.27
Work in Progress of the Moment
Can anyone (besides Ranjit and Peterman) tell me what these guys are from? First person to post the right answer on the message board gets a cookie.

Geek Amusement of the Moment
Some guy (a video game music by writer) has written a program that has passed a rough form of the Turing Test by making jenny18, a floozy of an Eliza-based bot...it seems like many horny guys on IRC were fooled. A college professor did something similar with a very abusive bot, its webpage has the full conversation as well as a lot of background and supporting information.

Local Interest of the Moment
Slate has Timothy Noah talking about the changes in Boston, from the Big Dig to cultural attitude adjustments in general.

News Quote of the Moment
He pants hard, emitting low 'hrrr, hrrr, hrrr' grunts with each stroke of the pedals, his shoulders bobbing up and down.
Another good quote: "I'm gonna show you a hill that would choke a mule." That's our leader of the free world!