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Marion (Julie Delpy) brings her New Yorker boyfriend Jack (Adam Goldberg) to Paris to meet her parents and rekindle their relationship. Cultural differences, Jack’s neuroses, and Marion’s various past lovers make this goal difficult.

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Shy Stephane (Gael Gacia Bernal) enlivens his boring life with creative dreams. His relationship with neighbor Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is both enriched and threatened by Stephane’s nocturnal imaginings.

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Old news at this point, but on Saturday Microsoft pulled their offer to purchase Yahoo!. The offer is rumored to have gone a few dollars higher than the original $31 per share, but Yahoo! wanted $37. Feeling that valuation was too hight, Microsoft took its balls and went home.

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Went to the Maker Faire on Saturday, it was an entertainingly nerdy experience as last year. In only its third go ’round, I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of new stuff I hadn’t seen before.

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Two sex-obsessed, loser high-school seniors try to score booze for a party. Hilarity ensues.

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How I Reviewed 300 Bad Movies And Earned $900 This fellow found a loophole in the Web 2.0 site Helium and got user-generated content to work for him. Some of his reviewed titles are hilariously obscure.

Apple Basic Interpreter in JavaScript I had a great time futzing around with this. I wrote some really simplistic Choose Your Own Adventure type games in Apple Basic way back when.

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Biography of Edith Piaf, popular French singer who rose from poverty to worldwide fame.

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Interesting thought floating around whether these social aggregators like FriendFeed will ever go “mainstream.” Of course, that begs the question - what is “mainstream,” exactly?

I personally have a pretty high bar for “mainstream.” Here’s some of my criteria:

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Sixty years ago, a martial-arts monk (Chow Yun-Fat) is appointed guardian of a mysterious scroll with life-prolonging powers. In the present day, the monk has chosen Kar (Seann William Scott) as a new guardian and apprentice. Meanwhile, evil people search for the scroll, seeking to possess its mystical powers.

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Paul (Jason Lee) is about to marry Karen (Selma Blair) but wakes up in bed next to Becky (Julia Stiles) - Karen’s cousin. Paul begins to reconsider his relationship with Karen.

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