Richard Linklater leveraged the animation techniques first pioneered by Bob Sabiston and Tommy Pollotta in their 14-minute short Roadhead back in 1998, in the existential Waking Life. Indie film fans were intrigued by that effort, however, not half as intrigued as scifi fans will be when they see the dementedly cool trailer for A Scanner Darkly, staring Keanu, Winnona, Woody, and Downey. The film is based on the a story by Philip K. Dick.

PlasticBoy sums it up “I try not to get excited about movies before I’ve seen them anymore, in order to avoid setting myself up for disappointment, but it’s hard to resist with this one.”

Xeni points out Rustmonkey Productions‘ alternate trailer for the film (still on the right) which they created for a pitch a couple of years ago:

May, 21, 2004: Pesco pointed pal Erik Davis working on the film:

View the trailer.

Seems to me that the blogosphere is poised to split into two groups:

1. Those who believe that content owners and publishers have the right to not have their origional work altered IN ITS ORIGIONAL FORM.

and

2. Those who believe that once content lands on your desk(top) you are free to do with it what you will.

Of course, those two things are the same thing today. You are looking at Boingboing.net in it’s origional form and you can change that origional form instantly. For example, you could write a scriptlike google has doneto change the content at Boingboing.net.

The Cory’s of the world will say it’s their content now and they can do with it what hey will.
The Calacanis’ of the world will say it’s our content, and if you want to alterate in a fair use kind of way go for it.

Of course, this situation is about people building *businesses* on top of the processs of the deconstructing content.

Dave Burstein’s remembrance sums up the dynamic life of Jef Raskin: Jef Raskin died of cancer on Saturday February 26th after being sick for several months. A wonderful spirit and renaissance man, who inspired me and many others. He created the Macintosh project at Apple in 1979, naming it after his favorite fruit. He left Apple to form Information Appliances, where he designed the Canon Cat with an innovative interface. [more]

Dave and Jennie Bource are making a documentary film about Jef, some clips are available at the site.

Recent updates to Raskin’s blog include Apple documents from 1979, RC airplane photos, and his restored organ from 1858.

DigiBarn Friends: Jef Raskin, A Life of Design

Blogdex Links (9), Daypop (11), Technorati ( 20)

Wikipedia: Jef Raskin
Blogdex Links (6), Daypop (7), Technorati ( 19)

We’re blogging the Oscars at the Indiependent Film Weblog right now:
http://indie.weblogsinc.com

Well, that didn’t take long.

The only question is now, how long will it take Google to discuss this in public and do the right thing?

I’m looking for some design help for some new blogs we have coming out. We don’t have a fortune to spend, but we can pay of course. Basically need someone who can work with me on instant messenger from time to time to build logos and layouts for blogs.

Designs I like in terms of good looking blogs (outside of our network):

Scrivens’ blogs listed here: http://9rules.com/
Clean stuff like: http://kottke.org/
Neat stuff like: http://www.joshrubin.com/coolhunting/ and http://www.plasticbag.org/
sexy stuff: http://thesuperficial.com/

if you’re interested hit me on YahooIM/AOL/Skype at jasoncalacanis or at jason<at>calacanis[dot]com.

To my friends at Google,

I just installed and tested the new “Look for Map” feature on the Google Toolbar everyone has been talking aboutI’m very concerned. We have a very deep relationship right now, and I’m really happy to be working with all the smart folks over there. However, I’m hoping that you’ll take this post seriously not just because we are business partners, but because I’m also a huge fan of your products.

It’s clever how after clicking on a button on my Google Toolbar your software changes unlinked address information to links to your excellent Google Maps page. I would have cut and pasted that information to Google Maps in many cases, so you just saved me a couple of steps.

However, I don’t like the idea of software companies changing our editorial content. You can make all kinds of logical arguments about the page not be actually changed, but the result to the user is the links were addedthat’s a big change. You can say that this is all to help the user, but that doesn’t make it right. Heck, you could help me out by editing the first two Star Wars moviesdoesn’t mean you should or have the right to.

If you come in and set the standard that changing a publishers webpages is legal then weyour business partners on the Google Adsense side of the businessare going to be crushed with all kinds of companies creating tool bars that put hyperlinks all over our pages. They are all going to use the GEFG defense (“good enough for Google”). This is going to cause us a lot of pain, suffering, and revenue. I know you don’t want to do that to us.

Can you imagine world in which software publisher felt free to alter the content on people’s webpages?!?! It would be total chaos. What if my Yahoo page turned Google Adsense links to Overture ones? Would you be cool with that? Is it the users right to remove the ads on Google and replace them with ads they prefer? Would you stand for that? OK, I think you get my point now.

So, I’ve come up with a very simple solution for you to add this functionality without setting a precedent that will destroyand that is not the least bit hyperbolicour businesses:

Instead of changing the content on our pages why not just let the user right mouse click on an address and add a link that says “Google Maps?”

This would work just as well for users, and you can keep doing amazing work without making us suffer, and without straying from your mantra: do no evil.

all the best,

Jason

This almost doesn’t seem real, but for the second time in a week it looks like a celeb is having their tMobile account hacked.

Yahoo picked pPlayer.com as a new a notable site today!

AdJab

gets credited with breaking the Vibrant Media/New York Post story by the New York Times!

That’s hot!