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-- Tuesday, August 12, 2008 --

Sleepwalking: Getting one in the Hopper

Sleepwalking, co-produced by and co-starring Charlize Theron, is the only chick flick in recent memory that features a shovel murder.

The film stars Nick Stahl as Theron's hapless brother who must take care of her daughter, AnnaSophia Robb, while Mom gets her life together elsewhere. Stahl has been "sleepwalking" through his life until the fortuitous dumping of Robb and, oh, patricide bring him back to his senses.

Stark cinematography by Juan-Ruiz Ancha and a very satisfying performance by Dennis Hopper make this white trash redemption fable a worthwhile rental.

Sleepwalking

See also: Anchor Bay Entertainment

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-- Friday, August 1, 2008 --

Misbehaving Youtube videos and how to tame them

As if anyone's website features a column width of 425, YouTube videos, which are themselves that width, often appear awkwardly flushed left. Simply bracket the embed code with center tags to get them spaced properly for your website, like so:



You can also expand the video itself to fit your space, which involves plugging in your desired width (say 500px) and determining the closest 4:3 ratio. In the case of the video below, I took YouTube's 425:344 and made it 500:405, then added center/uncenter tags.


Does this mean we will now go back and center all the Youtube videos on this site? No it does not.

See also: Meet the Youtube filmmakers

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