Re: Jul 10 by choonkeat

Grand enough: Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

NEVER WAKE UP: THE MEANING AND SECRET OF INCEPTION

Cobb tries to escape down an alleyway, and the two buildings between which he's running begin closing in on him - a classic anxiety dream moment. When he finally pulls himself free he finds Ken Watanabe's character waiting for him, against all logic. Except dream logic. ^{link »}

note that when Cobb remembers her suicide she is, bizarrely, sitting on a ledge opposite the room they rented. You could do the logical gymnastics required to claim that Mal simply rented another room across the alleyway, but the more realistic notion here is that it's a dream, with the gap between the two lovers being a metaphorical one made literal. ^{link »}

8 1/2 is totally autobiographical for Fellini, and it's all about an Italian director trying to overcome his block and make a movie (a science fiction movie, even). It's a film about filmmaking, and so is Inception . The heist team quite neatly maps to major players in a film production. ^{link »}

Despite the fact that his father is not there, despite the fact that the pinwheel was never by his father's bedside, the emotions that Fischer experiences are 100 percent genuine. It doesn't matter that the movie you're watching isn't a real story, that it's just highly paid people putting on a show - when a movie moves you, it truly moves you. The tears you cry during Up are totally real, even if absolutely nothing that you see on screen has ever existed in the physical world. ^{link »}

in Inception Nolan is examining the ways that cinema, the ultimate shared dream, can change an individual. The entire film is a dream, within the confines of the movie itself, but in a more meta sense it's Nolan's dream. He's dreaming Cobb, and finding his own moments of revelation and resolution, just as Cobb is dreaming Fischer and finding his own catharsis and change. The whole film being a dream isn't a cop out or a waste of time, but an ultimate expression of the film's themes and meaning. It's all fake. But it's all very, very real. And that's something every single movie lover understands implicitly and completely. ^{link »}

Inception’s Dileep Rao Answers All Your Questions About Inception -- Vulture

Everyone's so concerned about whether the top falls or not, but no one seems to care that Leo walked away without caring . ^{link »}

The Top Idea in Your Mind

And this idea will thus tend to get all the benefit of that type of thinking, while others are starved of it. Which means it's a disaster to let the wrong idea become the top one in your mind ^{link »}

startups got way less done when they started raising money ^{link »}

Getting money is almost by definition an attention sink. The other is disputes ^{link »}

So avoid disputes if you want to get real work done ^{link »}

30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks to Get The Most From Your Mac | Mac.AppStorm

#eCSStender.org { content: "Homepage"; }

write modern css, "ecsstender" js library will make it compatible with the viewing browser (e.g. "border-radius" becomes "-webkit-border-radius", etc where applicable ^{link »}

Think Vitamin » Fail Safe Email Delivery for Web Apps

Make sure to give your mail server a dedicated IP address and a domain ^{link »}

proper PTR (or reverse DNS) record for the dedicated IP address ^{link »}

SPF is pretty simple. You create a record in your DNS and define the IP addresses or domains who are allowed to send for your domain. ^{link »}

DKIM is also managed via DNS ^{link »}

The public key is added to DNS and the private key is configured on your mail servers ^{link »}

The best way to test delivery results is through something like Mailbox Monitor from Return Path ^{link »}

Each ISP has rules about how you should send email to their servers. This includes the number of connections you can open, messages per connection, what to do if you receive certain responses. ^{link »}

mail server can backoff a bit to reduce the load ^{link »}

If you send a high volume of email, you may want to look into commercial accreditation services like SenderScore Certified and ISIPP . ^{link »}

A growing number of ISPs having something called a Feedback loop. In short, it is a way to get notified when someone clicks “This is spam” in their email client. ^{link »}

By tracking spam complaints, you can easily remove these people from your list and avoid damaging your reputation. ^{link »}

The Trouble With Meritocracy - Ross Douthat Blog - NYTimes.com

puts all of the best and brightest through the same educational conveyor belt, and comes out with a ruling class that’s cosmetically diverse but intellectually conformist , and that tends to huddle together rather than spreading out to enrich the country as a whole ^{link »}

meritocracy co-opts people who might otherwise become its critics, sapping local communities of their intellectual vitality and preventing any kind of rival power centers from emerging ^{link »}

it may make more sense to create more room for real diversity within that elite — by holding meritocracy to its professed ideals — than to hope vainly for a localist revolution that undercuts the ruling class’s political and cultural authority ^{link »}

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Live iPhone 4 press event coverage – gdgt live

When AT&T wants to add a cell tower in Texas, it may only take 3 weeks. But in SF, on average, it takes 3 years. No one wants a cell tower in their back yard, but everyone wants perfect reception. ^{link »}