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    Jeeves and Wooster TV series

    5th April 2008

    4 seasons (23 episodes) of highly enjoyable British comedy. Excellent playing by Stephen Fry (Jeeves) and Hugh Laurie (Bertie Wooster). Good stories by P.G. Wodehouse. Highly recommended!

    P.S. “Jeeves and Wooster” differs strongly from the IT Crowd I had written about before. IT crowd is an every-day-situational-comedy, while J&W is genius-serving-the-idiot, with most laughs at Wooster’s plans and deeds.

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    The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance, Part 1

    5th April 2008

    If taken out of [Ani]Matrix context, and filtered through internal “over-exaggeration removal”, then this exact 9-minute animation (episode 2 of 9) is quite coherent with soon-possible problem to face humans.

    Yes, I do believe the creation of sentient machines is within perceivable future. And yes, I do think that the problems of “robot personality” will be acute.

    In support of my view – cloning is an unresolved ethical problem, which also grows into legal and social problems in the case of human cloning. When even the possibility of having two genetically identical humans arises, this leads to debates and disagreements (to clone or not to clone?). What could be said about a machine claiming it’s right for life?

    Claiming other human rights?

    Racism and xenophobia are characteristic for some countries even nowadays, and it can be even said that there is no country where the number of xenophobic or racist citizens is equal to zero. And that’s human-human relations problem.

    In other words, I did enjoy The Second Renaissance, Part I (except for the clearly contradictional last two minutes of it).

    Overall The Animatrix is good.

    And the message I was trying to express is that mankind better be prepared to live side-by-side with machines – develop some realistic co-existence model. SciFi writes will help here ;) . Just let’s avoid the fake, insincere model tried in The Animatrix: Matriculated (episode 9, the last one).

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    The IT Crowd

    22nd December 2007

    The IT Crowd is a British sitcom.
    I greatly enjoyed both seasons (a total of 12 episodes).
    Though somewhat and sometimes primitive, The IT Crowd is highly enjoyable and recommended for watching.

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    StarWars fans: where present meets the past and the future

    6th May 2007

    came across this photo at Flickr. Must-see for any StarWars-lovers!
    (“read more” for the photo here…)
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    Computer tomography: animated GIF (~500 kb)

    2nd March 2007

    At the web-site for the annual Gliwice Scientific Meetings (left-top of the logo) there are 3 GIFs related to computer tomography. I found the last one good to save:
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    Mondscheintarif (2001)

    15th February 2007

    This is an emotional and feminine movie. It’s pleasant, entertaining, and even a bit unusual. I didn’t see some clear message delivered by Mondscheintarif, but I did enjoy the movie.
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    The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

    15th February 2007

    This might be worth seeing once, but definitely not twice or more.
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