Maybe that’s unfair. It has earned $26.4 million in the U.S., according to IMDB. That’s against a budget of $65 million or so. Given foreign sales and DVD it’ll probably make some money, so I guess it’s unfair to say that it tanked. But I never thought that after three weeks it’d be down there [...]
Fascinating article in the LA Times — via Slashdot — about the discontinuation of AT&T’s dial-the-time service. Apparently it dawned on somebody that it’s now completely useless, since clocks are sprinkled into every imaginable gadget now like some kind of inexpensive digital condiment. But the original telephone-time-telling technology was clearly some kind of absolutely fantastic [...]
