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“If you have a religion started by a talking snake - stay the fuck away from me. By all means believe it - you’re entitled to that, but keep it to yourself.”
- Billy Connolly’s take on religion as quoted in Empire Online

I have to admit that I’m really looking forwards to seeing this film.

Tamworth Two pig tale on film

The two pigs which caused a media frenzy after they escaped on the way to an abattoir are to have their life stories told in a family movie.
The pigs, dubbed the Tamworth Two, went on the run for a week after making a dash for it in 1998 as they were unloaded from an abattoir lorry.

The story of Butch and Sundance dominated the headlines and when they were finally caught they were saved from becoming pork chops, and given a new protected home to live out their days.

Now the BBC is making a 90-minute movie about their adventure called The Legend of the Tamworth Two, in the mould of the successful Babe films.

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Executive producer Sally Woodward told BBC News Online: “The film tells how the story of Butch and Sundance became a legend, of how Britain once again took the underdog to their hearts - or in this instance, the under-pig - and in the process briefly made them the most famous fugitives in the world.

Porn star turned Californian gubernatorial candidate, Mary Carey now has an official web site.

I have to admit that “Porn for Pistols” sounds like rather a good idea.

(via VoxPolitics)

IBM is orchestrating open-source attacks, says SCO’s McBride

SCO Group chief executive officer Darl McBride has claimed that IBM is stage-managing the open-source community’s response to his company’s $3bn lawsuit against IBM over contributions to the Linux source code.

“We have absolute direct knowledge of this. If you go behind the scenes, the attacks that we get that don’t have IBM’s name on them, underneath the covers, are sponsored by IBM,” he said

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McBride declined to reveal the sources of his allegations, but he claimed that IBM was involved in Novell’s and Red Hat’s responses to SCO’s lawsuit.

For a commitment to believing in conspiracies regardless of evidence, SCO hereby wins the first Thinking Aloud Black Helicopter Award.

Although, given that the root of this conspiracy is IBM, maybe it should be a Blue Helicopter Award.

Dyke to open up BBC archive

Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation’s programme archives.

Mr Dyke said on Sunday that everyone would in future be able to download BBC radio and TV programmes from the internet.

According to BBCi,

Computer specialists cut off the [Sobig] worm’s circulation by repairing 20 servers it was using to blast infected emails into users’ inboxes around the world.

So why did I have 16 copies of the damn virus when I opened my email this evening? I’ve also started seeing returned mails coming back because someone out there is spoofing my email headers.

Microcinema is the polite label for micro budget or “no-budget” moviemaking; a category of cinema earning its own classification because so many people are now making movies outside Hollywood and the supposedly Independent Scene. It’s a flexible term that embraces all types of truly independent, regional cinema.

Whether they are the shrewd business types behind the growing crop of cheaply produced exploitation, cinema enthusiasts who decide to take matters into their own hands, or simply passionate artists using moviemaking to express a unique voice, the denizens of Microcinema are an ever-resourceful breed bound together by the shared ability to make pictures without throwing money at them. Because of the do-it-yourself (DIY) mentality behind Microcinema productions, the movies often lack technical polish, but excel when it comes to originality and vision. These are movies made by teenagers, college students and people holding down normal 9-to-5 jobs. Often armed with the latest technological tools, these are people bit by the movie bug creating work without industry contacts, power lunches, and red carpet premieres. They do not wait for “the green light,” but instead jump into each production with both feet, often answering to no one but themselves.

Independent cinema died in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s as smaller studios like Cannon and Concorde folded and others like Miramax and New Line Cinema were bought out by mega-conglomerates such as Disney and Time-Warner. The term “independent cinema” is one now referring to $2million to $10 million movies featuring A-list actors doing scale work for street credibility. As a result, the general public is often duped into accepting “edgier” Hollywood fare as “independent.”

The writers, sponsors and administrators of MicrocinemaScene want you to know that truly independent moviemakers are still out there creating new work and offering fresh voices. Like the Independents of the past, Microcinema producers have a frontier spirit in their work. They’re doing things for the first time. They’re doing things their way.

MicrocinemaScene… Where moviemaking matters most.

According to Empire Online, Michael Jackson’s lawyers are trying to get a certain scene removed from the trailer for Scary Movie 3.

To see what all the fuss is about before it gets pulled, go here.