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Children of Men (2006) opens with a long hand-held shot starting in a London cafe in which the news of the death of the youngest person on Earth is being broadcast to a transfixed crowd. As Clive Owen pushes through the tightly packed sea of aghast faces with his coffee the camera follows him out into the exagerrated decrepitude of future London. A few feet down road the camera repositions itself on his blindside documentary style. Still in the one shot the cafe explodes in a cloud of dust and glass, completely free of Michael Bay pyrotechnics, moving cameras and helicopters. It’s such a refreshing intro; as a reviewer you know you’re in for something special.

rabiddeity writes "If you're planning to visit Japan sometime in the near future, you should be aware of the welcome you'll get. Last year, Japan's parliament passed a measure requiring foreigners to submit their fingerprints when entering the country. The measures, which apply to all foreigners over 16 regardless of visa status, take effect tomorrow. The worst part: the fingerprints are stored in a national database for an "unspecified time", and will be made available to both domestic police and foreign governments."

The convergence of GPS, photography, video and the web has changed the way you experience your world. The Nokia N82 is an imaging smartphone based on Symbian OS v9.2 and S60 3rd Edition FP1, featuring a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss® optics Tessar™ lens, Xenon® flash and MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 30 fps. This HSDPA smartphone with Wi-Fi connectivity also allows you to upload photos & videos to the web with one click and the Nokia XpressPrint™ service offers direct printing via USB (PictBridge), Bluetooth or WLAN. The Nokia N82 also integrates an A-GPS and its digital music player supports multiple codecs including MP3/ AAC/ eAAC/ eAAC+/ WMA/ M4A with playlists and DRM. You can also enjoy web browsing, extensive multimedia features and download speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps -- five times faster than other smartphones.

That said, new user sign-ups have been limited for the time being. The idea here is to enable our team to get right to work with Google’s engineers on delivering a new, better service to you as quickly as we can instead of spending our efforts on optimizing the current back-end. Existing users will still be able to invite their friends, and those who are not yet on Jaiku can send us a request for an invitation to join.