NFS Undercover, unul dintre cele mai asteptate jocuri video ale momentului, a oferit fanilor curselor ilegale si masinilor tunate un preview neasteptat al noului bolid Nissan: 370Z. Succesorul lui 350Z va fi lansat oficial luna viitoare cu ocazia Salonului Auto de la Los Angeles si, urmand pasii predecesorului sau, a fost inclus in cea mai noua editie Need For Speed. Chiar daca este prezent in cateva cadre si caroseria sa nu poate fi vazuta in totalitate, veridicitatea acestei masini poate fi cu usurinta certificata in primul rand datorita elementelor distinctive ale design-ului: manerele portierelor sau stopurile, alura lui 350Z fiind evidenta.

And then I crashed, as I normally do. It hit me that even as I feel like I'm misrepresenting myself when I am at school if I wear hijab (which I rarely do anymore, in favor of a loose style) I feel like I'm misrepresenting myself even if i go in a very traditional protestant christian kerchief style (which was what I was wearing at the time) because the protestant headcoverers that i'm finding are very frugally oriented, at least trying to keep a good house, home cook, ect. I am NONE of these things. I work because I have to. Well, I work because I want to as well. I'm going to school to get my BSN because I want to continue to work after I get married. I am a HORRIBLE housekeeper. (See snake story. Actually, I haven't written snake story, suffice to say that it starts with a snake in the house and ends with a gas fire. The house is still intact, PRAISE THE LORD! ) I don't cook. Mostly because of the schedule, but also because I suck at it. I seriously bought ice cream, spinach and dr. pepper and hoped that there was enough canned food in the house to last the week. Today I did go buy a pizza and a tray of enchiladas which shoould last the week.

What I'm saying is that I'm not a homemaker. I have more examples, but I don't need to embarrass myself any more. What am I saying when I put on a headcover?  Am I saying that I am domestic? That I am married and have children? What are you saying? What do other people assume?

The Departed (2006)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/

Regi: Martin Scorsese

Manus: William Monahan

Med: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson og Alec Baldwin.

Spilletid: 151 min

Dette er da den andre og øverste filmen av Martin Scorsese. Som sagt i forrige innlegg er han en av favorittregissørene mine. Generelt sett er Goodfellas og Taxi Driver regnet som de to beste filmene hans (henholdsvis 15. og 38. plass på top 250), og selv om begge disse er solide 9/10-filmer etter min mening, er det altså The Departed og Raging Bull som er mine favoritter.

The Departed har litt av et stjernelag på skuespillersiden, med litt eldre storheter som Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining), Sheen (Apocalypse Now) og Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross), i tillegg til de yngre som DiCaprio (Blood Diamond, The Aviator), Damon (Good Will Hunting, The Bourne Identity) og Wahlberg (Boogie Nights).

The Departed handler om to unge menn i Boston's politiopplæring. Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) kommer fra dårlige kår, og blir valgt ut til å gå inn undercover. Politiet vil få has på Frank Costello (Nicholson), lederen av den irske mafiaen. Det de ikke vet, er at Colin Sullivan (Damon) også nettopp har blitt politimann, og hans lojalitet ligger hos Costello. Når så Sullivan blir satt opp til å lede gruppen som skal fange ham selv, og Costello ber han om å finne ut hvem muldvarpen i gjengen hans er, er det duket for forvirring og dobbeltspill med livet som innsats.

Først bør det vel nevnes at filmen er en remake av en trilogi fra Hong Kong, med navnet Infernal Affairs (den første). Den har en skare av fans som er rasende over den nye, dårlige versjonen. Jeg har sett begge to, og Infernal Affairs er en god film, men rett og slett ikke i nærheten av så bra som The Departed. Sånn ser i alle fall jeg det.

Scorsese er jo en mester innen sjangeren, og dette er toppen av kransekaka. En fantastisk historie, som aldri slutter å være spennende gjennom 2,5 time, som i tillegg har en slutt som slår pusten ut av deg. Det er vel kanskje slutten som har fått en del kritikk blant de som ikke liker filmen, men for meg fungerte det så det suste, og jeg syntes det var veldig passende i forhold til resten av filmen.

Skuespillet er det absolutt ingenting å si på. Absolutt en av Wahlbergs beste roller, og Nicholson passer utrolig godt som mafiasjef. Men de aller beste prestasjonen syns jeg DiCaprio gjør. Han tar virkelig steget inn som en kvalitetsskuespiller med denne filmen her.

Masse stilige kameraføringer, og ikke bare tradisjonelt. Er blandt annet noen kjappe kjøringer under dialogscener, som egentlig ikke er vanlig, men det brukes bra her. Apropos dialog, så er jo manuset glimrende. Føles veldig naturlig, men er samtidig "krydret" med allslags utrolig morsomme replikker, ofte levert av Wahlbergs karakter.

The Departed var den beste filmen jeg så på kino i 2006, og jeg så den i tillegg to ganger. Jeg er rimelig sikker på at dette kommer til å forbli en klassiker langt fram i tid. Den vant fire Oscar; Beste film, Beste regi, Beste klipp og Beste manus basert på annet materiale. Fire av de aller beste prisene å få, med andre ord. I tillegg ble Wahlberg nominert til Beste mannlige birolle, men vant ikke. På IMDb har den en rating på 8.5/10 med 187 156 stemme, og den er dermed på 45. plass på top 250.

Se trailer:

Få sett denne filmen, den er steinbra. Nei, bedre enn stein. Har du sett den? Legg igjen din egen lille tanke om den i en kommentar!

YEAH HEADCOVERING! Even though I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intent.

Whatev. It still made me happy.

The newest mode is called "Cops and Robbers". This team-based mode pits two teams of four players against each other in the ultimate battle-royale.

Robbers must pick up the package and take it to the drop-off point while the cops attempt to prevent the delivery. Each game consists of two rounds giving the players the chance to play as cops and robbers. Up to eight players will also be able to prove their driving prowess in sprint and circuit multiplayer race modes.

Bill Harrison, Executive Producer at Black Box:

"High-intensity police chases are a signature component of Undercover and this extends to the multiplayer experience as well. The cops and robbers mode will thrust players into adrenaline-pumping battles as they utilize the Heroic Driving Engine to deliver or prevent the delivery of the package to the safe house."

Also, 5 new high def screenshots of the games were revealed

Get up to speed on 2009 fashion with the Times family critics. (Getty/Getty/AP)

Did real-world matters like the yo-yo-ing markets, the presidential race and the war steal your attention away from Paris fashion week? If they did, you missed spring-summer 2009 clothing made of wigs (at Margiela), dresses of deconstructed soccer balls (at Comme des Garçons) and camel-toe footwear (at Balenciaga). Which collections were chic? Which were ugly? Which were ugly but in a chic kind of way? To help answer those questions, we've culled a few bon mots from the Times family critics Suzy Menkes (SM), Eric Wilson (EW) and Cathy Horyn (CH). If you're still craving fashion, you can flash back to our critics' roundup from Milan or New York.

To read the full review, click on the name of the collection.

A.F. Vandevorst: "had a sexy schoolgirl look about it" -- SM
Alexander McQueen: "used computer images of crushed crystals, wood grains, animals, human skeletons and the iron grid of the Eiffel Tower as the basis for dazzling digitalized prints on silk jersey" -- CH
Alexander McQueen: "The rumble from the jungle that has been echoing through the international collections was given meaning" -- SM
Ann Demeulemeester: "it was a pleasure to see Ms. Demeulemeester make such imaginative use of standard white cotton" -- CH
Ann Demeulemeester: "This was a playful Demeulemeester in fine form." -- SM
Azzedine Alaïa: "the most exuberant display in raffia and python" -- CH
Balenciaga: "It was hard, though, to react to these clothes purely on a gut level. ('I love them -- I want to wear them.')" -- CH
Balenciaga: "The god of futuristic fashion has spoken: 'Let there be light'" -- SM
Balmain: "If your visual references are MTV and rock album covers, you will understand, if not appreciate Christophe Decarnin's Balmain" -- CH
Chapurin: "captured a bold new energy to create a Russian fashion revolution" -- SM
Chanel: "[Karl Lagerfeld] seems to regularly ask himself the question 'What is Chanel?' -- as if he knows it’s a living thing." -- CH
Chanel: "It felt right not to be straining too hard to be cool and to offer women -- not to mention panicked retailers -- a safe fashion haven." -- SM
Chloé: "No doubt Ms. MacGibbon . . . will hear from plenty of critics about her very long trousers, and look back upon them critically herself and feed her eye from smaller plates." -- CH
Chloé: "what may have been amusing in an earlier girly era looks indulgent in the current crisis" -- SM
Christian Dior: "chic, not tribal cheek" -- SM
Christian Lacroix: "Nowhere was the new mood for keeping frivolity in check more obvious." -- SM
Comme des Garçons: "filled with wit and extravagance" -- CH
Comme des Garçons: "It was weird, but not excessively so. Sober, but not depressing. Good, but not great." -- SM
Costume National: "Lots of things today are being interpreted along Modernist architectural lines" -- CH
Dries Van Noten: "seemed a deeply personal view of Paris, women and French chic" -- CH
Dries Van Noten: "as calm as it was revolutionary" -- SM
Emanuel Ungaro: "The short hemlines, worn by models perched on pin heels, may play better in Latin countries than a gloomy Europe or a chastened North America." -- SM
Gareth Pugh: "The collection will someday look great in a museum, with the white and black clothes making for a walking Op Art exhibition." -- EW
Giambattista Valli: "A more accurate word for this tranquilized mood -- and the collection in general -- would have been Valium." -- CH
Giambattista Valli: "looked too much like a résumé for someone who wants to take over a couture house" -- SM
Givenchy: "Looking at the mess tonight that is the spring Givenchy collection -- a label that people covet -- it's easy to believe that mindless acquisition actually has a style." -- CH
Givenchy: "The old adage that it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive seems relevant." -- SM
Haider Ackerman: "can best be described as a 21st-century romantic" -- SM
Hermès: "far more than a tedious travelogue" -- SM
Hussein Chalayan: "the message felt a tad preachy, like a crossing guard wagging his finger at the Treasury. Hey! Look both ways!" -- EW
Hussein Chalayan: "did the designer know in advance that the financial world would be a car crash?" -- SM
Issey Miyake: "a fine collection that not only walked the natural world in bare-the-toe sandals, but also had a deeper feeling that the designer had, for the first time, captured the Issey Miyake DNA" -- SM
Jean Paul Gaultier: "Jean Paul Gaultier has certainly mellowed if he finds excitement in a dancer's leotard and warm-up sweater." -- CH
Jean Paul Gaultier: "a liquid geometry that Gaultier, now that he is a fine couturier, made look as easy as an Olympian high jump" -- SM
John Galliano: "looked gentle and inviting compared with some of the ugly and overwrought clothes we've seen in the last two weeks" -- CH
John Galliano: "sweet, pretty, but totally expected" -- SM
John Galliano: "the strawlike bangs on the models, their accentuated eyes and glossy platforms (with gold fertility-symbol heels) sometimes just made you think of 'Desperate Housewives'" -- CH
Junya Watanabe: "He took materials that might easily be judged prosaic and down-market . . . and made the results delightfully appealing." -- CH
Junya Watanabe: "out of Africa, Junya Watanabe's graceful show took the native practice of carrying items on the head and turned it into a festival of nature" -- SM
Karl Lagerfeld: "went ultra-sharp" -- CH
Karl Lagerfeld: "this riff on rigor did not cut it" -- SM
Kenzo: "bathed in a silver shine, as though reflected in Alice's looking glass" -- SM
Kinder Aggugini: "sleek tailoring with color at the hem bleeding away, as if the bohemian madcap had taken a dip in the River Seine" -- SM
Lanvin: "a nonchalant style of draping; hardly D.I.Y., but if you're wearing a one-shoulder dress in fireball-orange silk with a puff of fabric grazing your face and arm, the effect should be slightly unserious" -- CH
Lanvin: "used strong color on dresses, caressing the body to reactivate fashion desire" -- SM
Limi Feu: "strong but never simple" -- SM
Louis Vuitton: "told a lot about the intensity of Mr. Jacobs's affections for Paris, and how expressive he has become as a designer" -- CH
Louis Vuitton: "a cracking good show" -- SM
Maison Martin Margiela: "it was a strange sensation to walk out of a Margiela show with a sense of déjà vu" -- EW
Maison Martin Margiela: "somehow this show, for all the enforced jollity, was under the shadow of questions about the house's future" -- SM
Manish Arora: "It was mad, it was manic, it was in the actual sense of the words a fashion circus." -- SM
Miu Miu: "the use of paint-splashed burlap was most intriguing" -- CH
Miu Miu: "Why aprons? Why a symbol of women tied to the kitchen? Why now -- when the return of the power woman has been a constant theme of the summer 2009 season?" -- SM
Nina Ricci: "would look perfect in French film or in a literary-minded fashion shoot" -- CH
Nina Ricci: "something haunting that lingered after the last model dragged her long train off the runway" -- SM
Revillon: "a cute collection of summer furs" -- SM
Rick Owens: "The collection wasn't as awesome as smoke clouds typically promise." -- CH
Rick Owens: "women in wimples and plain dark outfits . . . walked the runway on feet covered with flaps of cloth. Was it a statement about the absurd concentration on fetishistic shoes this season? A breath of minimalism to blow away excess?" -- SM
Sonia Rykiel: "Could there have been anything more quintessentially French. . .?" -- EW
Sonia Rykiel: "spilled over with merriment as the models, wearing jaunty crystal-studded berets, camped up Gallic gorgeousness" -- SM
Sophia Kokosalaki: "But who is the real Kokosalaki and why was this travelogue compelling to the designer?" -- SM
Stella McCartney: "If it is possible for her designs to become any more light and ephemeral, as they have season to season, eventually there will be nothing to see besides Sir Paul sitting across the runway." -- EW
Stella McCartney: "finally got her fashion mojo working, after a period when her inspiration seemed to be on maternity leave" -- SM
Tao Kurihara: "has carved out a niche between the kawaii cuteness of Japan's child-woman, to something more positively grown up" -- SM
Undercover: "The cuddly aliens threatened to steal the show." -- EW
Undercover: "fluffy animals with luminous eyes were perched on the shoulders of mannequins, appearing as magical creatures in an Undercover fairy tale" -- SM
Valentino: "struggled to say something new" -- CH
Valentino: "The Valentino woman had stepped down off her pedestal onto a floor-level catwalk." -- SM
Viktor & Rolf: "you could actually get a pretty realistic idea of the dresses, dangling like paper lanterns, and how the loudly graphic tights and shorts combinations gave off a robotic Balenciaga vibe" -- EW
Viktor & Rolf: "proved that there is no substitute for a live show" -- SM
Vivienne Westwood: "the designer who had, for so long, been focused on fashion historicism suddenly showed an interest in coping with modern issues" -- SM
Yohji Yamamoto: "a collection that looked as if it were made for a Wall Street funeral procession" -- EW
Yohji Yamamoto: "Calm, beauty and -- yes -- glamour was the feeling at Yohji Yamamoto's show, although the designer himself, uncharacteristically frisky as he came out on the runway, said just one cryptic word: 'Eros.'" -- SM
Yves Saint Laurent: "offered a lot of appealing clothes -- smart, wearable but somehow missing that real Saint Laurent sex appeal and mystery" -- CH
Yves Saint Laurent: "Stefano Pilati pushed, pulled and tugged at the house's references and manipulated his own architectural spirit to give a modernist interpretation of a power woman." -- SM

John Doyle gives us the lowdown (more like basic info) on the upcoming Need for Speed Undercover. This had to be a quickie, since I had just 8 minutes left on my camcorder.

listen closely
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No es broma!, la proxima entrega de la conocida saga Need for Speed, Need for Speed Undercover, será lanzada al mercado el proximo 21 de Noviembre. El juego retomará caracteristicas del conocido Need for Speed Most Wanted, ya q volveremos a ver persecuciones, un modo de circulacion libre y muchas otras cosas q no vimos en la entrega anterior, Need for Speed Pro Street, q a mi opinion fue un desastre!.
Abajo les dejo un video y un link para q visiten la pagina principal del juego.

Enlace | Need for Speed Undercover

Fab's Autobackup for recovering data from unbootable windows installs
Software backs up settings and data, like the Migration Assistant but will work if Windows cannot start. Wish I had known about this two weeks ago when I spent hours retrieving data from a corrupt Windows install.

Undercover updated to V2.5
The Macintosh recovery software (as in recovery after theft) has dozens of improvements in the latest version, this is software I bought and use on my Macbook.

Optimised Firefox 3.0.3 builds available
BeatnikPad hasn't been updated for a while but there's now a new source for optimised builds.

These were some of the best collections! 

ANTONIO BERARDI SPRING 2009

Stunning, I would wear everything! 

CHRISTIAN DIOR SPRING 2009

Such pretty little dresses in beautiful fabrics and prints!

 UNDERCOVER SPRING 2009

  All in white is hard to do, but with the different textures and embellishments it is far from boring!

 VIVIENNE WESTWOOD SPRING 2009

 The rich colors, asymmetrical shapes and funky shoes are just a few of the things that made me fall in love with this collection!

Dacă până acum la un titlu Need for Speed se lucra 12 luni acum durata de lucru s-a mărit cu încă şase luni. Jocul Need for Speed Undercover se va lansa în versiunile pentru PC, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 şi Wii.

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images: style.com

(Jacques Habbah)

Scenes from the photographer Jacques Habbah’s exclusive Paris fashion week diary.

Jun Takahashi held his S/S fashion show in Paris yesterday.  This time all clothes are in white and named "Graces".  The accessories and shoes seem funny and I love them!!

This one piece is my favourite pick!!  What do you think??

Lady walks by, staring. Stops, still staring
dana stares back.

Lady: Are you getting ready for winter or something?
dana: begins walking away, laughing, mumbling uh... not really.

Really, people? What do you say in situations like these? I used to be quick witted, but I'm out of practice, besides bitchy comments are probably not what's needed in these situations. I should work on a well thought out, easily understandable quick reply, like I found when explaining my educational history -- which is it's own slightly whacked out story. I guess I just need the motivation to work that little story out.

Mai jos, trailerul! Vizionare placuta!