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Sunday, January 30, 2011
In Egypt, a Date With a Revolution
ON Friday, the “day of rage,” I was in the streets with the protesters. Friends and I participated in a peaceful demonstration that started at the Amr Ibn al-As Mosque in Old Cairo near the Church of St. George. We set off chanting, “The people want the regime to fall!” and we were greeted with a torrent of tear gas fired by the police. We began to shout, “Peaceful, Peaceful,” trying to show the police that we were not hostile, we were demanding nothing but our liberty. That only increased their brutality. Fighting began to spread to the side streets in the ancient, largely Coptic neighborhood.
A friend and I took shelter in a small alleyway, where we were warmly welcomed. The locals warned us not to try to escape to the metro station, and pointed us toward a different escape route; many of them even joined the protests. Eventually, a man drove us in his own car to safety.
Clearly, the scent of Tunisia’s “jasmine revolution” has quickly reached Egypt. Following the successful expulsion in Tunis of the dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the call arose on Facebook for an Egyptian revolution, to begin on Jan. 25. Yet the public here mocked those young people who had taken to Twitter and Facebook to post calls for protest: Since when was the spark of revolution ignited on a pre-planned date? Had revolution become like a romantic rendezvous?
Such questions abounded on social networking sites; but even cynics — myself included — became hopeful as the calls continued to circulate. In the blink of an eye, the Twitter and Facebook generation had successfully rallied hundreds of thousands to its cause, across the nation. Most of them were young people who had not been politically active, and did not belong to the traditional circles of the political opposition. The Muslim Brotherhood is not behind this popular revolution, as the regime claims. Those who began it and organized it are seething in anger at police cruelty and the repression and torture meted out by the Hosni Mubarak regime.
And, from the outset, the government decided to deal with the people with the utmost violence and brutality in the hope that the Tunisian experience would not be repeated. For days now, tear gas has been the oxygen Egyptians have inhaled. So much was in the air that there are reports of small children and the elderly having suffocated on the fumes in their homes. The security forces in Cairo started by shooting rubber bullets at the protesters, before progressing onto live ammunition, ending dozens of lives.
In Suez, where the demonstrations have been tremendously violent, live ammunition was used against civilians from the first day. A friend of mine who lives there sent me a message saying that, Thursday morning, the city looked as if it had emerged from a particularly brutal war: its streets were burned and destroyed, dead bodies were strewn everywhere; we would never know how many victims had fallen to the police bullets in Suez, my friend solemnly concluded.
After having escaped from Old Cairo on Friday, my friends and I headed for Tahrir Square, the focal point of the modern city and site of the largest protests. We joined another demonstration making its way through downtown, consisting mostly of young people. From a distance, we could hear the rumble of the protest in Tahrir Square, punctuated by the sounds of bullets and screams. Minute by painstaking minute, we protesters were gaining ground, and our numbers were growing. People shared Coca-Cola bottles, moistening their faces with soda to avoid the effects of tear gas. Some people wore masks, while others had sprinkled vinegar into their kaffiyehs.
Shopkeepers handed out bottles of mineral water to the protesters, and civilians distributed food periodically. Women and children leaned from windows and balconies, chanting with the dissidents. I will never forget the sight of an aristocratic woman driving through the narrow side streets in her luxurious car, urging the protesters to keep up their spirits, telling them that they would soon be joined by tens of thousands of other citizens arriving from different parts of the city.
After several failed attempts to break through the security checkpoints and get to Tahrir Square, we sat in a cafe to rest. Three officers from the regime’s Central Security Forces, all in civilian clothing, sat down next to us. They appeared to be completely relaxed, as though they were impervious to the sounds of bullets and shouting, or to the numbers of wounded and dead Egyptians being reported on Al Jazeera, which was being broadcast on the coffee shop’s television. They and their colleagues were all over the city, spying on their countrymen.
Hour by hour on Friday evening, the chaos increased. Police stations and offices of the ruling National Democratic Party were on fire across the country. I wept when news came that 3,000 volunteers had formed a human chain around the national museum to protect it from looting and vandalism. Those who do such things are certainly highly educated, cultivated people, neither vandals nor looters, as they are accused of being by those who have vandalized and looted Egypt for generations.
The curfew meant that I couldn’t return home, so I spent the night at a friend’s house near the Parliament building and Interior Ministry, one of the most turbulent parts of the city. That night, the sound of bullets was unceasing. We watched from the window as police shot with impunity at the protesters and at a nearby gas station, hoping, perhaps, for an explosion. Despite all of this and despite the curfew, the demonstrations did not stop, fueled by popular fury at President Mubarak’s slowness to address the people and, a few hours later, indignation at the deplorable speech he finally gave.
On Saturday morning, I left my friend’s house and headed home. I walked across broken glass strewn in the streets, and I could smell the aftermath of the fires that had raged the night before. The army, called in by the regime to put down the protests, was everywhere. I tried first to cross over to Tahrir Square, in order to see for myself whether the museum was safe. A passer-by told me that the army was forbidding people from entering the square, and that shots were being fired. I asked him, anxiously, “Is the army shooting at the demonstrators?” He answered, confidently: “Of course not. The Egyptian army has never fired a shot against an Egyptian citizen, and will not do so now.” We both openly expressed our wish for that to be true, for the army to side with the people.
NOW that army troops were monitoring the demonstrations, the police force had completely disappeared from the streets, as if to taunt people with the choice between their presence and chaos. Armed gangs have mushroomed across the city, seeking to loot shops and terrorize civilians in their homes. (Saturday night, a gang tried to rob the building where I have been staying, but was unable to break in.) Local volunteers have formed committees to stand up to the criminals, amidst an overwhelming feeling that the ruling regime is deliberately stoking chaos.
Late Saturday, as I headed toward Corniche Street on the Nile River, I walked through a side street in the affluent Garden City neighborhood, where I found a woman crying. I asked her what was wrong, and she told me that her son, a worker at a luxury hotel, had been shot in the throat by a police bullet, despite not being a part of the demonstrations. He was now lying paralyzed in a hospital bed, and she was on her way to the hotel to request medical leave for him. I embraced her, trying to console her, and she said through her tears, “We cannot be silent about what has happened. Silence is a crime. The blood of those who fell cannot be wasted.”
I agree. Silence is a crime. Even if the regime continues to bombard us with bullets and tear gas, continues to block Internet access and cut off our mobile phones, we will find ways to get our voices across to the world, to demand freedom and justice.
Mansoura Ez-Eldin is the author of the novels “Maryam’s Maze” and “Beyond Paradise.” This article was translated by Ghenwa Hayek from the Arabic.
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Should Tumblr Care? - PostDesk Debates
Should Tumblr care? In response to issues with Tumblr, David Karp tells users to “go away” if they don’t like it
Could David Karp be the downfall of Tumblr?
When William Tildesley complained to Tumblr’s founder David Karp expressing his disappointment about recent downtime, and asking about issues with various other features, he got a response which was unexpected. William was writing to ask not only about the level of uptime Tumblr has had over the past months, “…but also with countless issues posting, queuing” (which he only realised was down when he visited their help page), and about their “‘backup’ mac application deciding not to work”. He duly got a personal response from Karp, the 24-year-old founder of Tumblr. Here we should mention that William has blogged with Tumblr for two years and has bought various premium themes from them – recently paying good money to be featured in the directory of blogs on Tumblr – so he’s a paying customer, and a loyal one which Tumblr should value.
Karp responded abruptly, saying that “…we have no interest in customers that will go out of their way to discourage our entire team” continuing to say that this is a “…team that regularly spends their nights and weekends working feverishly to provide the best service we can against extraordinary challenges”. He signed off saying that “Plenty of services will import Tumblr blogs. Please go away.”
I’m not sure what one can glean from this e-mail which Karp sent out – although perhaps some questions should be asked. Firstly we’re unsure how William was “discouraging the entire team”, although beside that point one would have to ask why the team behind a company which has received in excess of $40 million venture capital funding is required to spend “their nights and weekends working feverishly”. We’d also have to side with William here and say that it’s debatable whether Tumblr is offering “…the best service they can”.
A knee-jerk response like this which is immediately defensive clearly shows that Karp has something to hide. Perhaps from this we can ascertain that there is some sort of internal friction with his team – perhaps some dislocation, maybe they’re overworked, or perhaps even some personal insecurity on his part. One thing is certain though – and it’s also how William responded to the e-mail. If Tumblr carries on the way it is – it won’t keep up with it’s competitors – namely Posterous and WordPress.
Many would argue that since Tumblr is a relatively new start-up they should be given some leeway when it comes to the level of service one expects, and also given that Tumblr is a ‘free’ service, apparently we should always expect less. (Should this be the case – especially with Freemium services?) Additionally, as one commenter on Hacker News pointed out, some might ague that “He’s young”. “He’s actually a nice guy”, going on to say that “These are the kinds of statements that should only carry weight when you have a personal relationship. A relationship with a company/website/app is no more or less than the sum of your interactions with them. I have a “good” relationship with Apple and Amex. A “bad” one with AT&T etc., based on transactions, not personal relations”.
The point here though, is not just where the $40 million funding is going with this relatively straight forward blogging service – and whether they should be spending money paying twenty fashion bloggers to go to New York fashion week as opposed to sorting out the technical issues plaguing their service first, but it’s also about the attitude of its founder.
Tumblr has a limited lifespan if Karp continues to treat some of his most valuable users the way he is, and especially when he quite literally tells them to “go away”, we can’t help but assume that that is exactly what they will do. These people are early-adopters, and evangelists – a start-up’s most valuable clientèle.
Karp seems to be glossing over, or ignoring some real issues with Tumblr and concentrating on others which really aren’t integral to the service itself. Surely a service with this amount of funding behind it can afford enough resources to host animated gifs for instance; a direct quote from their help centre reads “…please avoid uploading unreasonably large animated GIFs.” in case the “server runs out of memory” – because uploading animated GIFs apparently is “computationally intensive”. The point here isn’t that they can’t host animated gifs – of course that doesn’t matter – but surely server resources should be the top priority for a start-up growing at the pace which it is, and with the seemingly abundant funding at it’s disposal. The Oatmeal recently suggested a new Tumblr downtime mascot for instance, and it looks like Tumblr has adopted it as of the other day – a quick reaction – but should they really be spending their time doing this, as opposed to fixing the real issue? Are their priorities right?
Another issue seems to be with customer service – and the means by which Tumblr notify customers that there are issues. Should users be expected to constantly monitor their help page or Twitter stream to check that integral features such as back up and queue are working?
So all in all the recent $40 million funding win is good news for Tumblr in what’s been a very turbulent past few months, marked by significant downtime and reliability issues with its service, although could throwing money at the service just exasperate issues? Could Karp’s care-free and cavalier attitude be the ultimate downfall of Tumblr?
In a second response a day later, Karp reiterated the fact that William should “go away” if he has a problem with Tumblr, and in the same e-mail he accused William’s short and polite initial e-mail as wholly “unconstructive [sic]” – so he’s not turning a blind eye to the issues – he’s effectively denying they are an issue in the first place. In fact, his team are behind him and giving all the support he needs – support that is, for his attitude – and his very poor response to some real issues; 60-year-old Kavin O’Farrel, a Community Manager at Tumblr, who accidentally CC’d William in to a response said “Thanks, David. Your response was awesome. I really appreciate it”. Perhaps the team are repeatedly telling themselves they’re doing a good job – or moreover perhaps this is a sign of bad leadership – not just because they can’t admit they have issues with reliability, but also because they are having to work “nights and weekends” to run what they think is the “best service”. Since being dubbed a “play boy of tech” perhaps he is too busy in “yet another” photo shoot to care…
Some say that Karp is the creator of a “a non-revenue generating hipster blogging site” led by a founder who “steals [VC’s] money and uses it for his own pleasure” – possibly in reference to his use of a private jet (though we’re not sure it is a private jet) – but on a more serious note, others have more justified, nonetheless equally vocal opinions. A quick search for “downtime” on Tumblr reveals how others feel negatively about the issues too – interestingly in a post entitled “Tumblr – listen before it’s too late.”, Jon Beckett has some strong words for Tumblr – which couldn’t be more accurate and in line with the points we’re trying to get across here. He writes “Without users you are nothing” continuing to say “do something, before it’s too late”. He expands on this point – saying that “The web startups on the west coast you [Tumblr] seem to like comparing yourself with are significantly different in one regard. They care about what they are doing, and they therefore care about the service they provide to their users.” He also picks up on the whole fashion bloggers thing – saying that “…you might term it hippy evangelism, or misguided vision, but most startups are doing something they believe in, and lifting heaven and earth to make it happen. Why bother sending 20 bloggers to Fashion Week when nobody can read what they’ve written because the platform they are published on is so unstable?“. Karp would probably argue that his seemingly overworked team are indeed lifting heaven and earth to create what he sees as “the best service” – though most would tend to disagree with respect to the evidence on the ground. Just as William said in a response to David Karp’s abrupt e-mail “…users will only stand a certain amount of downtime and technical issues before they move on to competing services.” So what do you think about the way Tumblr is heading?
This is by no means a recent issue too – Tumblr has been ignoring complaints routinely for the past year whilst Karp apparently indulges in the money he gains from funding – in June last year blogger Alice Walker Wright proclaimed that “David Karp Doesn’t Care About Your Complaints, He Has A Sweet Ride“. We can see that the queue feature wasn’t working correctly even back then – despite having now received in excess of $40 million funding, and apparently hiring even more ‘professional business staff‘. Alice went on to say that “it just feels like he’s been on a 4 month spending spree”.
So can it stand up for much longer against it’s competitors Posterous and WordPress? Will it face a backlash from it’s users? Disregarding those threatening to kill themselves last time Tumblr went down, many genuinely moved to other services, albeit not in their masses – so is this a sign of things to come?. Tumblr is popular now, but if it continues to be plagued with issues (which do matter), then will its popularity fade as quickly as it gained it - will it go the way of MySpace sooner, rather than later – especially under the leadership of Karp? Let us know in the comments below.
UPDATE: William has got back in touch with us to say that he’s now leaving Tumblr, saying that although he will be leaving behind some of the friendships he has made there, a working blogging platform is more important to him. He has also since e-mailed Tumblr twice more asking for a response, to no avail.
UPDATE: A commenter on Hacker News has said that they “…hope that Karp realises his mistake and makes a public apology. At least this way he would look mature enough to admit his mistakes.” The commenter went on to say that they were “…about to start a personal blog on Tumblr, and will not be now due to this article”.
UPDATE: A separate commenter on Hacker News made the point that the original e-mail sent to Tumblr should be posted in its entirety. With the permission of William, here it is. Once again we should reiterate that William has been a very active Tumblr user for over two years, and is a paying member in the form of purchasing premium themes and a directory listing. He’s also quite an evangelist for the service and has never uttered a bad word publicly about Tumblr – in fact he has had nothing but praise for them until he received this response. He tells us that he did give Tumblr a fair chance before going public – he emailed them privately with his concerns, though after receiving the abrupt response from David Karp felt the need to make the issues public, and so he got in touch with us at PostDesk.
Here’s the e-mail William sent.
I am writing this email to you to express my recent disappointment with Tumblr.
Not only with the level of uptime tumblr has had over the past few months, but with countless issues posting, queueing (which I only realised was down when I visited your help page), and your ‘backup’ mac application deciding not to work.
I would move to a different service, but with no export feature and with the friendships I’ve made through tumblr I will have to hope that you fix these issues in the near future.
Yours Truly Disappointed,
William Tildesley
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They do seem to have an attitude problem. They even have a guy on Twitter whose sole purpose seems to be making sarcastic replies to Tumblr complaints. Try the hash tag #tumblr fail and see what I mean.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
BBC News - The piece of paper that fooled Hitler
27 January 2011 Last updated at 06:51 ETThe piece of paper that fooled Hitler
By Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine Continue reading the main storySelect
GROUP II / IA
MADRID I to BERLIN
RSS 128, 130/9/6/44
TPC on 12896 kcs at 1030 GMT 9/6/44
AUI on 9288 kcs at 1107 GMT 8/6/44
256267. To HEROLD. Please engage LUDWIG MARTIN in this. Other departments have not. V ALARIC ARABEL reports 9th June from GOLF COURSE via FELIPE. After personal consultation on 8th June in LONDON with my agents DONNY DICK and DORICK, whose messages forwarded today, I believe on the basis of the fact that there are strong provisions of troops in South East and East England, which are not involved in present operations, that these operations are red herring, with the aim to bind hostile resources, and that there will follow critical attacks elsewhere. Bearing in mind the air attacks that have happened there and the strategically advantageous situation of the mentioned marshalling area, these could well happen in the area of PAS DE CALAIS, especially as during such an attack the nearest airbases would alleviate such an endeavour with air strikes. As I have heard yesterday from my contact V AMY (letter KO SP OKDOS No 934, 4/44), there were 75 Divisions in ENGLAND before the start of the FRANCE operation.
KOSP 5879.
1. GROUP II/IA
MADRID I to BERLINGROUP II/IA refers to the German agent transmitting the message and their controller. Madrid is where the message was sent from with a German Enigma encryption machine.
2. RSS 128, 130/9/6/44
128 tells us the code was the 128th message picked up by the British Radio Security Service (RSS) that day. 130 is the number of the agent listening in.
3. TFC on 12896 kcs at 1050 GMT 9/6/44
AUI on 9288 kcs at 1107 GMT 8/6/44The message was sent twice, on 8 and 9 June 1944, at different times from stations AUI and TFC, call signs the Germans changed every day.
4. 267
This was message number 267 from Madrid to Berlin that day.
5. An HEROLD
HEROLD is the German codename for a senior German army officer, probably Gen Alfred Jodl, based in Berlin.
6. LUDWIG MARTIN
Code for a figure, unknown to the British, who the agent believes should be informed of the memo's contents.
7. V ALARIC ARABEL meldet 9ten Juni aus GOLFPLATZ ueber FELIPE
"V ALARIC ARABEL reports 9 June from GOLFPLATZ via FELIPE". V means secret agent. Alaric Arabel is the German codename for Juan Pujol Garcia - a Spanish businessman and British double-agent who the Nazis believed was running a network of spies in the UK for them. Golfplatz is the German code for Britain, Felipe is Pujol's handler.
8. DONNY, DICK AND DORICK
These are the names of three entirely fictious spies for Germany who, Pujol writes, have told him that large numbers of Allied troops remain gathered in southern England. This, Pujol says, means the initial D Day landings were just a "red herring". Of course, this is disinformation.
9. PAS DE CALAIS
Pujol writes that the "critical attacks" are still to come, most likely to be focused on Pas de Calais in northern France. In truth, this is a bluff on Pujol's part, intended to keep German forces away from the rearguard of the actual invasion sites in Normandy.
10. AMY
Here Pujol quotes AMY, another fictitious agent, telling him that there were 75 divisions in England before the France landings - meaning more were still to come. The Germans have no idea that this is untrue.
It was an audacious double-cross that fooled the Nazis and shortened World War II. Now a document, here published for the first time, reveals the crucial role played by Britain's code-breaking experts in the 1944 invasion of France.
All the ingredients of a gripping spy thriller are there - intrigue, espionage, lies and black propaganda.
An elaborate British wartime plot succeeded in convincing Hitler that the Allies were about to stage the bulk of the D-Day landings in Pas de Calais rather than on the Normandy coast - a diversion that proved crucial in guaranteeing the invasion's success.
An intercepted memo - which has only now come to light - picked up by British agents and decoded by experts at Bletchley Park - the decryption centre depicted in the film Enigma - revealed that German intelligence had fallen for the ruse.
Continue reading the main storyThe secrets of Enigma
- Enigma machine allowed operators to type in message then scramble it
- Nazis convinced its code could not be broken, so used it for communications on battlefield, at sea, in sky and within secret services
- Unknown to Germany, it had been cracked - 10,000 code breakers at Bletchley unscrambled top-secret messages using Bombe machine, co-created by Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing
The crucial message was sent after the D-Day landings had started, but let the Allies know the Germans had bought into their deception and believed the main invasion would be near Calais.
It was an insight that saved countless Allied lives and arguably hastened the end of the war.
Now archivists at the site of the code-breaking centre hope that a new project to digitise and put online millions of documents, using equipment donated by electronics company Hewlett-Packard, will uncover further glimpses into its extraordinary past.
Behind the story of this crucial message and its global impact lies Juan Pujol Garcia, an unassuming-looking Spanish businessman who was, in fact, one of the war's most effective double agents.
The Nazis believed Pujol, whom they code named Alaric Arabel, was one of their prize assets, running a network of spies in the UK and feeding crucial information to Berlin via his handler in Madrid.
In fact, the Spaniard was working for British intelligence, who referred to him as Garbo. Almost the entirety of his elaborate web of informants was fictitious and the reports he sent back to Germany were designed, ultimately, to mislead.
But agent Garbo was so completely trusted at the top level of the Nazi high command that he was honoured for his services to Germany, with the approval of Hitler himself, making him one of the few people to be given both the Iron Cross and the MBE for his WWII exploits.
Continue reading the main story“Start Quote
End Quote Amyas Godfrey Royal United Services Institute, on agent GarboHe had the Germans completely fooled”
"He was no James Bond - he was a balding, boring, unsmiling little man," says Amyas Godfrey, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
"But he had the Germans completely fooled. They thought the information he was sending was so accurate."
To maintain his cover, much of what Garbo fed the Germans was absolutely genuine. But when it came to the looming Allied invasion of France, his "intelligence" was anything but.
Ahead of D-Day, the British launched Operation Fortitude, a plot to confound the Nazis about the location of the landings. Garbo was an integral part of the plan.
To establish his credibility, he sent advance warning ahead of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 - but too late for the Germans to act on it.
Then, in the days afterwards, he fed them entirely fictitious intelligence from his fake "agents" that the invasion had been a red herring and "critical attacks" would follow elsewhere - most likely down the coast in Pas de Calais. He also reported, again falsely, that 75 divisions had been massed in England before D-Day, meaning that many more were still to land in France.
It was an account the Nazis took extremely seriously. As can be seen in the document reproduced by the BBC, it was transmitted to their high command by Garbo's German handler.
As a result, German troops were kept in the Calais area in case of an assault, preventing them from offering their fullest possible defence to Normandy.
But what truly gave the Allies the edge was the fact that they know the Nazis had been duped.
Unknown to Berlin, the Germans' seemingly foolproof Enigma code for secret messages had been cracked by Polish code breakers.
Continue reading the main story“Start Quote
End Quote Peter Wescombe Volunteer, Bletchley ParkIt was like turning up a crock of gold”
In Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, some 10,000 men and women were employed deciphering the messages. And when the document above was cracked, the Allies knew they could press forward in the confidence that thousands of German troops would be tied up vainly standing guard at Calais.
"The whole of the 20th Century might have been very different if it wasn't for this," says Kelsey Griffin, Bletchley Park's director of museum operations.
"Churchill's official biographer, Martin Gilbert, said it was difficult to imagine how the D-Day landings could have happened without Bletchley Park.
"We had an army of unarmed intellectuals here."
The intercepted document - in its original, freshly-released, German language version - is all the more extraordinary for having been found by volunteers digging through Bletchley Park's archives.
One of them, retired civil servant Peter Wescombe, 79, recalls the excitement of realising its significance for the first time.
"It was like turning up a crock of gold," he remembers. "It was absolutely wonderful."
It is a find archivists at the site, run by the Bletchley Park Trust, hope will be repeated after HP donated scanners and experts to provide technical expertise to the digitisation project.
Many of the records at the centre have not been touched for years, and the charity hopes that by putting them online in a searchable format they can "crowdsource" the expertise of historians and amateurs alike.
And surely then many more real-life tales of deception, double-crosses and painstaking effort will emerge.
Comments
- 29. The United Way
4 Hours AgoBletchley Park ended the war so early and saved so many lives. The children should learn about it as one of Britain's finest moments.
However, in this era of anti-intellectualism, they do not. They do not know of British heroes, and they do not know of Alan Turing, who was mercilessly being prosecuted for being different despite him alone saving millions of lives.
- 19. streetbeeb
5 Hours AgoAnother fascinating account of the Enigma story. Alan Turing,although commemorated in some organizations is still unrecognized as the genius he was. A Wehrmacht re-enactment group member at last year's Dover Castle D-Day commemoration patiently demonstrated a genuine example of an Enigma coder . Eventually my wife had to drag me away. Thanks to all the Bletchley Park and Dover staff ,keep it up.
- 18. inacasino
5 Hours AgoRecently I found out that my mother , a WREN was based at Y-Station HMS Flowerdown during 1944-5. This small unit was one of several that intercepted messages and passed some to Bletchley Park for de-coding. It would be intersting to know more about this - I've an xmas day menu (breakfast,dinner,tea,supper) from 1944 with the names of 8 colleagues.
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Exclusive: Why Kimberly-Clark Stopped Destroying Ancient Forests and Embraced Greenpeace
Exclusive: Why Kimberly-Clark Stopped Destroying Ancient Forests and Embraced Greenpeace
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iDygest: Oldboy Director Park Chan-wook Shoots His Latest Film on the iPhone
Oldboy Director Park Chan-wook Shoots His Latest Film on the iPhone |
From: ReadWriteWeb, CultofMac, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice.
The iPhone was used for all aspects of the filming process - hunting for a location, shooting auditions, making a documentary about the filming process - in addition to making the film itself. Initial reviews from today's screening said the cinematography was "quite good, except for a little shakiness in the beginning". 1
South Korean film director Park Chan-wook, known for his fantasy-horror flicks, is planning to hit theaters in his native country in late January with a movie shot entirely using an iPhone 4. If you enjoyed this article: Subscribe via RSS or email, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Winner of a Cannes Grand Prix award, Park Chan-wook screened his new film, a half-hour short called "Paranmanjang" (Korean for " ups and downs in South Korea this morning.
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