From: "Michael Nelson" <mike.nelson at seahunt.org>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Soylent Green is People!
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:30:25 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Last night, inspired by Netflix's recent switch to unlimited viewing of
their online content and iTunes' new movie rental feature, I connected my
notebook computer to my TV's PC video input to see what kind of picture I
could get with the Netflix service.  It worked out pretty good.  The
full-screen movie took about two minutes to start over my wireless network
and it looked and sounded at least as good as broadcast TV.

The first movie I watched was Soylent Green, which I have never seen before.
Much better than I had expected for a movie set in 2022 and made in 1973.
I've have to track down a copy of Harry Harrison's Make Room, Make Room.

And then for something completely different, I watched Helvetica, a 2007
documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture...
how the Helvetica type face has become the universal default modern font
over the past 50 years.  They interviewed people like Hermann Zapf, the
designer of all those Zapf fonts at the end of your computer's font list.
If you're interested in graphic design and typography, I recommend it.

Michael