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...Judd Apatow movie carried the perky title Funny People, but audiences quickly figured out it should really be called The Guy Who Thinks He's Gonna Die and Isn't Very Nice. Or Funny. It managed a decent $8.7 million on opening day, dropped 15% on Saturday, Aug. 1, and is expected to finish the weekend at $23.4 million. The good news for Apatow and his long-ago roomie Adam Sandler is that their film topped the weekend box office at domestic theaters. The bad news ... Where to begin? Funny People cadged the lowest take for any No. 1 film...
...French omnibus film Paris, Je T'Aime. (T'aime is close to time, but the two movies have absolutely nothing in common.) Try The Monster and the Ape, a 1947 serial, and up pops the 2009 animated film Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure. Recognizing that its Cinematch system isn't cutting it, Netflix established a $1 million prize for better algorithms, which has already been claimed by a coalition of programmers named BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos. I hope the new system works; it would be worth every penny...
...proposal isn't getting much support. Richard Shuster, a Miami attorney who writes the Florida Foreclosure Defense blog, notes that foreclosed properties are often uninhabitable. "Homeowners in foreclosure or thieves after foreclosure often strip homes of appliances, fixtures, air conditioners, and anything else of value, including hurricane shutters," he says. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not considering such a measure. "Under FEMA's mission of sheltering disaster survivors, this is not an option that we would utilize," agency spokesman Clark Stevens says...
...Pacific vortex isn't the only one. The Atlantic and Indian oceans, which have different current patterns, have plastic gyres of their own. Since these massive hoards of plastic come to float in international waters - and the vortices are far from land - no government is willing to take on the expense and difficulty of cleaning them up. The best solution is simply to stop adding to them by using less plastic and recycling it when we do. Currently, more than 60 billion tons of plastic are produced each year, and less than 5% of that is ever recycled. Much...
...Woodring hopes that Project Kaisei will awaken people to the fact that the plastic they throw in the garbage doesn't just disappear. "Anyone who has ever been on the beach and seen plastic debris can understand this," he says. "This isn't like glacial melting or tropical deforestation, which might not be in your home territory. This is something that everyone can see and touch and make a difference...