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As a friend pointed out, I'm probably talking moon-doodie by reading ill intent into PKD's nameless attribution in that trailer. So I will say something nice instead: I like how the VO says "the author who brought us" these movies; not you, but us. He speaks not as the Control Voice behind the screen, but as a fellow audience member, who enjoyed those other movies as much as you did, and hopes that you look forward to "Paycheck" as much as he does.

MOON-DOODIE FOR DAYS! I choose to hear it that way, at least, and smile, for I am a sucker like that. I also almost cry when I watch the "Return of the King" trailer, and all its Terrible Promise, even after like 10 viewings, so I should stop it now before I get sick of Gollum's voice.

Finally, I get a thrill every time Samuel Pepys shows up as a character in "Quicksilver", because I'm like: Dur-hee, I read his weblog!

I hope it's a good movie. I drum my fingers at shots of Ben Affleck riding an on-fire motorcyle through windows while yelling and aggressively kissing Uma Thurman as cars crash, pssssss! slow-motion. We'll see. Expectations dwindling already.

Also, freeze-framing through the newspaper headline images in the trailer makes me angry at George W Bush. I am amused that things that have nothing to do with the president now make me angry at him. And I'm angry about getting angry like that. Stupid grr.

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I wonder if anyone finds Exposé useful. When I hit F9, I end up with lots and lots of little white rectangles arranged in no particular pattern, and have to spend many seconds visually scanning, and then confirming with the rollover-labels, before finding the window I want. I always do better by the approproate icon's Dock menu.

One argument for it: you can select a particular window with the keyboard alone. But you still need to hunt around quite a bit. And anyway, if you have full keyboard access turned on (which seems to be the Panther-install default), you can do the same thing by focusing on the Dock (Control-D (actually I use Shift-command-D... yay for customizable bindings)), arrow-keying to the right icon, up-arrowing to the right window name, and voilá.

OK, I thought of something: if you are a graphic artist Exposé can be more useful than deciding from the Dock menu which "Untitled N" window is the one you want. But I work primarily with text, and hence all my windows, when shrunk down to shrinky-dink size, become the same sort of white rectangles with gray smudges. That's fine, then.