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PROMO: Cross Verve Pen Movie Premiere

Posted on July 25th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Communication, Gadgets, Movies.

I just saw that Cross Pen will be promoting the movie: STORMBREAKER. They will be giving away a free movie ticket to the film with each purchase of any of the Verve pens (Ball-Point, Fountain Pen, or Roller Ball)

The Movie is due out on Oct 6th in the US.

More info on STORMBREAKER from imdb:
Seems to be a very good cast (Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Mickey Rourke, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Silverstone, and more….)

The Story is Based on the First of the Best Selling Book Series by Alex Rider Novels by Anthony Horowitz.

The Official Movie Site: STORMBREAKER: You’re Never Too Young to Die - Complete with trailers and additional movie info.

And now the important part:

The Cross Verve Pen: This really is a nice looking pen. It has an invisible mechanism that allows the pen clip to retract until it is fully joined with the body of the pen, contributing to the very beautiful flowing seamless profile. Almost a object of art. The interesting part is the nib of this pen is a 360-degree, with 2 tone 18K gold. (Nib available in Extra-Fine, Fine, Medium and Broad)

This will be the Cross Verve’s First Movie role playing a key gadget in the movie. In a James Bond Fashion, the Verve squirts sodium pentothal. This makes anyone Alex Rider hit do what he wants for up to six hours.

Just for the movie, Cross is offering a new color a golden bronze tone. The suggested retail is $175 for the Fountain Pen, $135 for Rolling Ball and $95 for Ball Point.

Although Cross Pens have been in many movies it was stated they never have been to the extent to which it is used in STORMBREAKERS. The last movie Cross had a nice role was The DiVinci Code in which Tom Hank’s character used a Cross pen to write in his Moleskine and on His Nice Index Card Notetaker.

As seen here on Flickr and Here

And if you are as interested in reading the book as I am before the movie comes out you can purchase it at amazon:

Tags: Cross, Fountain Pen, Pen, Movie, DiVinci Code, Spy, Thriller, STORMBREAKER

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DVD Sniffing Dogs - REALLY! - Piracy has gone to the dogs.

Posted on May 13th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Anything Else, Movies, Weird Stuff.

Yes you heard me right - the MPAA and FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) is helping train dogs to sniff for CDs and DVDs. Lucky and Flow are the two recently recruited black Labrador Retrievers and will be used in the battle to fight piracy. Their noses are trained to sniff for the chemicals found in the making of optical CDs. The only really bad thing is that they can’t tell between the pirated and genuine ones.

Tags: Movies, DVD, CD, Dogs, MPAA, Piracy

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Fedex Airplane Landings During Thunderstorm - Radar Video

Posted on May 10th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Anything Else, Movies, Weird Stuff.

I listen to the Scanner ever once in a while and I enjoy listening to the pilots chatter as the fly overhead on the way to Pittsburgh International Airport. I live under a landing zone air route to the international airport. A friend sent me this link to this video put to music the amazing landings at the Memphis, TN airport of the Fedex Planes. They were flying around the thunderstorm and landing. As the music show this well orchestrated event.

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Double Feature Finder

Posted on January 25th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Movies, Web Service.

Ok everyone - I just saw this fantastic movie schedule search page. Besides showing you movies that are playing back to back (Great when you have a day to veg out at the theater) Or as I use it to get a list of all the movies playing at a local theater in a very nice time line format. I highly recommend this site to everyone to try out this service.

Double Feature Finder
Find local showtimes scheduled back-to-back and spend the entire day at the movies!
And Don’t Sneak Into the Movies!

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All In One Codec Pack - Freeware

Posted on January 25th, 2006 by Merlin.
Categories: Computing, Consulting, DIVX, Freeware, MP3, Movies.

Ok - I recently got a call asking for help playing a DIVX music video they got from a bands website. While searching for a good codec source I ran across this freeware All in One Codec Pack that was just updated. Listed below are a few of the types of videos and music it will allow your computer to play.

A collection of codecs for playing DivX movies. All you need to see
DivX movies: DivX, XviD, AC3…
This codec pack includes:
- DivX 6.1.1
- XviD Codec Koepi’s 1.1
- DivX, XviD - FFDShow 17.02.2005 Alpha
- MPEG2 2.0.0.0
- Subtitles G400 2.83
- Subtitles DVobSub (Win9x, Win2k and WinXP) 2.23, 2.33
- OGG Vorbis 0.9.9.5
- AC3 1.01a RC5
- Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher 0.99

Codec Packs - Free Download

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