For all you rabid Japanophiles, here’s the schedule for the Japanese Film Festival (hosted by Cinema Nouveau) in Rosebank.
It starts this Friday. All the films are in Japanese with English subtitles. Entry to the Japanese Film Festival is free, and tickets are available at Cinema Nouveau box offices an hour before each show.
Day
Time
Movie
Fri 21 Mar
17:30
Glass [...]
Legendary scifi author, inventor and futurist Arthur C. Clarke died today at his home in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
May it be filled with stars.
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Fabio is providing a venue for all kinds of gaming events, so if [...]
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Hey, at least it isn’t Speed Racer.
I recently watched the movie Jumper. The movie was terrible, but it turned out that the books are great.
Jumper and Reflex are books by Steven Gould. They tell the story of how Davy discovers his ability to teleport, and how that affects him, his loved ones and his society.
Unfortunately the movie was only loosely [...]
Many people think of chess as the ultimate strategy game. I have to disagree.
I believe that Go is the ultimate strategy game. It has simpler rules, more elegant strategy, and is more than a thousand years older than chess. It is also played by more people worldwide than Western chess.
The rules are simple. Go [...]
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An inauspicious week. Not only is the petrol price rising above R8, but yesterday Standard Bank was selling US Dollars for more than R8. Add to that the fact that power cuts are starting again.
Gnarly.
What a blast. An unknown (possibly unknowable) number of assorted bloggers, journos, techies and new media types showed up. No higher networking purpose, just Vincent Maher and Matt Buckland looking for an excuse to throw a party. And what a party it was.
Chairs were in short supply, possibly a deliberate strategy to facilitate mingling. Their [...]
It’s once again time for the Japanese Film Festival, hosted by Cinema Nouveau.
This year they are screening Tokyo Story, Fancy Dance, Glass Rabbit, Hotel Hibiscus, Taro the Dragon Boy and Twilight Samurai.
The films will be showing at the Brooklyn Mall in Pretoria from 14 March to16 March and at Johannesburg’s Rosebank Mall from 21 March [...]
Gustav Bertram is a computer scientist wannabe. He theorizes about autodidacticism, free culture, information economics, intelligence amplification, computer science and technology. Constant Flux is his future hacking blog.
He also writes Otakumono, which is his local geek culture blog.
He lives in Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa, and is currently employed as a software developer. For more information, see his Homepage.
