I also use NetNewsWire Lite. Full-text feeds are much more pleasurable to read than partial-text ones.
I'm not quite certain what the inessential.com link is supposed to be telling me--are you dropping the full feed because you don't want people to be able to view differences when you change a post?
...and in the interval between my beginning that last comment and posting it, the front page has begun working again.
For what it is worth: The front page now displays as three separate sections for me (sidebar, sidebar, main content), each one taking up 100% of the window width and arranged vertically. (Browser: Safari.)
The degraded mode alternate page not only displays correctly, but is more usable than the original front page.
Paul - I'm not at all distressed by the 124th's use of Wagner, just the Washington Post reporter's apparent belief that "Ride of the Valkyries" began and ended its life as a movie soundtrack.
I find it saddening that Wagner appears to be remembered only as a soundtrack for a popular film.
I don't know that I see much significance to the music soldiers choose to listen to. The actions they engage in are far more important, and I think the author of the Washington Post story would have done better to focus on those, rather than trivialities.
Scott Lynch: You state my feelings almost exactly. I have no opinion on whether the movie is "deep" or not (nor on what the word "deep" means); _The Matrix Reloaded_ is, however, a movie which rewards speculation. Perhaps the themes are not original (Gnosticism is, after all, a couple thousand years old), but events flow together in a logical and carefully-constructed fashion. It's possible to talk about Agent Smith's motivations and have some reasonable expectation of accurately predicting events in the next movie.
For this reason, I find _The Matrix Reloaded_ to be a more interesting movie than _The Matrix_, although the latter is a better movie overall. _The Matrix_ was too perfectly crafted, too self-contained--there weren't enough dangling ends to grab hold of and talk about.
Speaking of Moore, just this morning a friend pointed me at this page arguing that Bowling for Columbine was largely deceptive.
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