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Reality distortion field remains strong with Steve Jobs after antennagate

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Inception level explainer.

Heavy spoilers ahead.

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Tetris vs Contra

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The Happiest DJ in the world

I'll have whatever he is having.

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Chris Nolan research footage for Inception

I also have a viral website about this movie here and another website that has the scanned pages of the instruction manual of the big dream-box-suitcase thing called the Portable Automated Somnacin IntraVenous Device (or PASIV device in short) - available here.

I also posted the prequel comic called The Cobol Job in my previous post which can be accessed via here.

(Sorry but the hyperlinks in Google Buzz don't seem to work, you'll have to access this post at the parent website)

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Dora the Explorer: Inception Trailer

Her mind es la escena del crime.

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Inception - thoughts.

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I remember the first time I saw The Matrix. I was in the 9th grade and not all that familiar with heavy cogsci concepts but that movie blew my mind (too bad they didn't make make it into a trilogy). It was the experience of watching the story unfold that made it awesome.

Inception is just how I like my sci-fi movies; it is The Matrix of this generation. The marketing of this movie was unusally low-key, the producers were betting on Nolan's talent and it worked. I usually prefer watching complex movies on my own for the first time, I don't like being bugged with questions when my own mind is trying to stitch different ideas together and grasp the concept.

1. Ellen Page was not bad but that character could have been done by someone else.

2. I loved the soundtrack of this movie. Hans Zimmer for Oscar - I'm calling it right now. I'm listening to this genius' work at this moment (Track #3 Dream is Collapsing). Seriously, download this soundtrack and tell me with a straight face that it doesn't give you the chills (track #6 528491)

3. Thank you to the writer/producer/director involved for not dumbing down this movie any more than they had to. I really enjoyed the play between the first/final scene.

4. People are going to compare this with The Matrix and I think both movies should be treated separately.

5. If you liked this movie then congratulations, you enjoy cinema that mindfucks you. Make a point to watch Primer, Oldboy, Jacob's Ladder, Dark City, Donnie Darko, A Scanner Darkly, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Machinist, Existenz, Twelve Monkeys, A Clockwork Orange, I can't thnik or any more right now. I'll mention them in the comments when I'm sober.

6. Without an architect they would be submerged into a subject's nightmares?

BONUS: a friend of mine just gave me a link to the movie's prequel comic here. Recommended read, hit full screeen and just keep clicking next.

Remember you said we'd grow old together?

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India unveils new Rupee symbol

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Udaya Kumar with his winning design for the Indian rupee symbol.

It may look like a melted British Rail sign but it's hoped that a new symbol for the Indian rupee will signal India's growing economic strength ‑ and it will be coming soon to a keyboard near you.

The winning design was selected by the Indian cabinet yesterday from a shortlist of five following a national competition.

Measures are already afoot to have the rupee sign declared a computer standard, meaning it could join currencies such as the pound, dollar, euro and yen on keyboards within two years.

"The distinct symbol denotes the robustness of the Indian economy," India's information minister, Ambika Soni, said.

References to sums in rupees currently involve spelling out the word (as is the case in the Guardian's style guide) or giving it the abbreviation Rs or INRs to distinguish it from other Asian countries that use rupees or variations thereof.

"Once accepted, it will stand clear from the clutter of currencies that call themselves rupee or the rupiah," India's Telegraph reported.

The winning symbol was the work of Udaya Kumar, a lecture in design at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. Speaking to the Indian news website Rediff.com he said: "My design is based on the tricolour, with two lines at the top and white space in between. I wanted the symbol for the rupee to represent the Indian flag. It is a perfect blend of Indian and Roman letters: a capital 'R' and Devanagari 'ra' which represents rupiya, to appeal to international audiences and Indian audiences."

Michael Johnson, a director at the award-winning London-based design consultancy johnson banks, said the new symbol fitted with other currency signs but lacked imagination.

"I think it's a B or B plus. Most currency symbols follow an established route now ‑ E for euro, Y for yen, now R for rupee. You could argue that a dynamic emerging economy could have gone for something more unusual and got away with it ‑ I think in the end conservative voices prevailed."

I had posted the shortlist earlier and this design seems to be a modified version of #4. I think it's  pretty cool that the new currency symbol will be a keyboard standard within 2 years.

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This does not give me +ve hope for the future.

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as seen @ AUH Mall.
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