This one took me a couple of seconds

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Good Lord

I just noticed that Avatar is _still_ in the cinemas in the US - leading it to hit #12 on the all-time box-office charts (inflation adjusted). It's just crept passed The Empire Strikes Back, but it's never going to beat 101 Dalmatians. Titanic is, of course, still well ahead of it. The only other film of the last 20 years in the top 20 is The Phantom Menace.

Oh For Fuck's Sake

Families who lost relatives in the 2005 London bomb attacks are appealing to cinemas not to show a British comedy about four aspiring suicide bombers.
...
Graham Foulkes, who also lost his son in the bombings, said he and other relatives were appealing to cinemas not to show the British-funded film.

He acknowledged that humour had a part when it came to examining serious issues but said for his family, and others like them, the tragedy was still too raw.

Nobody is forcing him to go and see it, and he agrees that humour is a valid approach, but his answer is still to try to get cinemas to boycott it.

*headdesk*

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Curious

http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر

So, international DNS has gone live. Does everyone see this properly? And does it work for them?

Interestingly, I found it quite tricky to copy/paste as the text goes right to left, while the http goes left to right...