As usual, I missed The Incredibles in the theaters. The DVD was released earlier this week, and the local grocery story already has it for rent. Perfect Friday night flick. Underpinned by a real story (nothing deep, but universal), The Incredibles just roars along visually. In this movie, unlike Shrek 2, the references (visual and audible) to other films are gently done. Of course, the evil villain on a remote island feels like every Bond film ever made, but especially Dr. No. In one chase scene, we get both a nod towards the forest chase in Return of the Jedi and the race in Phantom Menace… listen. Only tip I’d give, beyond making sure you enjoy the movie, is that the special features disc doesn’t have anything particularly special on it except for the short film (4 min.) Boundin’. I’m guessing this short opened for The Incredibles in theaters, as Pixar does (bless them).
Day: March 19, 2005
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No tags, but links to remember on topics of all sizes
ETech and SXSW and IASummit all explored classification in many ways, according to various reports. Folksonomy, taxonomy, tags, etc. So, here’s a few links sparked by those events, and related posts.
- Cory Doctorow’s ETech notes on folksonomy are brief but lively.
- Community Engine on how IBM’s intranet will layer folksonomy on top of an impressive, exhaustive formal taxonomy… and there is a read-only PowerPoint of IBM’s presentation.
- Jeff Veen posted links to his SXSW panelists’ presentations… I believe the panel was How to Leverage Solipsism.
- Matt McAlister is playing with del.icio.us on The Industry Standard as a way to cluster links.
Haven’t read all of them all the way through, but enough to know I might want to refer to these later.