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A wonderful film, even if it’s not strictly the whole truth. Claude Lelouch drives through Paris in the early morning a bit like a madman. The effect is awesome; on the big screen, it’s incredible.
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The Wikipedia page spills the whole truth on the film, and has lots of good links to related material – Google Maps mashups, behind the scenes footage, etc.
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“For years we have done our training in a certain way… it might be better to replace some of those generic exercises with others which will be better in an urban environment because of the work we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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New release of jQuery: as usual, it’s a blend of rather impressive performance boosts and some neat new functionality.
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“Arvon provides residential creative writing courses at four beautiful, historic houses around the UK.” Some interesting courses and good teachers – Brian Talbot on graphic novel writing, for instance…
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Thomas Jefferson’s entire library – and his reviews of books in it – exists as an account on LibraryThing. I’m glad that things like this exist in the world, and that the Internet makes them possible.