[via taz T. Baumgärtel Komprimierte Ekstasen ("So bleiben legendäre DJ-Sets für die Nachwelt konserviert.")]:

[DeepHousePage.com]

There you can find among many interesting items The History Of House.

One of Microsoft's possible motives behind the XBox:

"Idei [Sony's CEO] saw the PlayStation 2 as a kind of Trojan horse. It looked like a simple video-game device, but it was actually a device that people would use to access the Internet, download movies, watch DVDs, and play music; eventually, it would do everything but curl hair and make toast. The heyday of the P.C. was over, Idei prophesied, and the first contender in the rush to replace it was the PlayStation 2. Soon the headlines were predicting war: 'WILL FUTURE PLAYSTATIONS TARGET PCS?'

With the Xbox, Gates isn't playing offense; he's playing defense.Most of Microsoft's profits come, one way or another, from its domination of the personal computer. Idei, with his talk of replacing the P.C., was effectively marching into Microsoft's house and announcing that he was really going to enjoy living there in a few years. A few months after Idei's Comdex speech, Microsoft announced that it would be developing the Xbox. (A company called Flextronics would handle the production of the consoles.) If such machines were going to become all-purpose, Internet-ready entertainment modules, Microsoft had to get in the game. That meant designing the machine itself; only if it owned the hardware could it control the ground rules, and therefore the software. This is Microsoft's modus operandi. When it decides a new technology is important, it seeks to set the standards, forcing other companies to build to those standards.

The Xbox, then, is a hedge against irrelevance."

(James Surowiecki: The Paranoia Principle. The New Yorker 21.11.2001. This article isn't online anymore, I think)

Other XBox links: [Salon Inside The XBox]
[Salon Dean Takahasi (Excerpt from his book "Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution.")]
Pro: [Salon XBox Ueber Alles]
Contra: [Salon XBox Squared]
[Wired Magazine XBox technology ("There is real power on the pins, notably in a seven-layered slab of silicon code called nv25. This chip is the latest in the flagship GeForce series of GPUs (graphics processing units) made by Nvidia, the Intel of the graphics chip industry. The highly parallel internal design of the newest GeForce means that the nv25 can execute 1 trillion operations per second.")]
[Wired Magazine Making of XBox]
[Wired News XBox Live]

"Microsoft has never forced technology on the users."

Hirohisa "Pat" Ohura, managing director of Microsoft Japan. [Salon Interview "Land of The Rising XBox]

Heute um 1:00 in der ARD: Jan Harlans Dokumentation "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures".

[All-Movie Guide ("...torrent of admiration [for Kubrick]. A more balanced portrait will surely come, but it won't be able to match the production values and access to key collaborative figures this film offers.")]
[SF Examiner J. Harlan Portrait]
[Epilog.de ("Wer sich seit längerem für Stanley Kubrick interessiert, wird nur wenig Neues erfahren; wer den Regisseur noch nicht kennt, bekommt möglicherweise Lust, seine Filme zu sehen.")]
[Pressekonferenz zu "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures"]
[Moviemartyr ("...adulatory documentary...","... portrayal of the director offered in this film still seemed suspect to me.")]
[DVD Talk J. Harlan Interview]
[Austin Chronicle Harlan Interview]
[AreaDVD ("... sehr gute Zusammenfassung von Kubricks Lebenswerk...", "Insgesamt... allerdings doch oberflächlicher als man es vielleicht erwartet hätte...") Laut dieser Quelle ist die Dokumentation nicht einzeln, sondern nur mit der Warner Kubrick-DVD Collection erhältlich]