Byte Into It - 10 Jun 09

Internet filter: $44.5m and no goal in sight - Technology - theage.com.au

The Rudd Government's internet censorship policy will cost about $90,000 per blocked web address to implement and the Government has admitted it has not developed any criteria to determine whether trials of the scheme are a success.

The Opposition, Greens and online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia are concerned the lack of success criteria is a sign the policy itself has no clear goals and is instead being dictated by what the technology will allow.

Nine ISPs are trialling the web censorship plan, which will mandatorily block all content that has been "refused classification" by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Results of the trials are due to be published in July but, in response to a freedom of information request, the Government has admitted that "there are not success criteria as such".

"This exposes a major shortcoming in the Government's approach," Opposition communications spokesman Nick Minchin said.

Greens senator Scott Ludlam said: "It sounds as though we'll filter as many sites as the technology allows us to ... that's the reason I think people are so concerned about this in that it seems to be really open-ended."

Palm Pre iTunes compatibility confirmed as a hack - Ars Technica

None other than "DVD" Jon Lech Johansen, most well known for defeating the CSS encryption used in commercial DVDs, has verified that Palm's Pre smartphone is indeed emulating an iPod to enable automatic syncing of music, photos, and videos.

As it turns out, Johansen knows quite a bit about how iPods and iTunes work together. In addition to reverse engineering CSS, he also developed software called QTFairUse that could strip the FairPlay DRM from iTunes tracks. And, his current company, doubleTwist, makes software that can sync a variety of content among several devices, including iPods.

Here’s what’s wrong with the Palm Pre

Most of you already assume the phone is “good,” so I’ve gone ahead and collected a few excerpts of the more critical points. You know, the part of the review that goes something like, “Now, the Palm Pre isn’t perfect; we found a few problems with it. And they are…” That part.

• The Pre’s biggest disadvantage is its app store, the App Catalog. At launch, it has only about a dozen apps, compared with over 40,000 for the iPhone, and thousands each for the G1 and the modern BlackBerry models. Even worse, the Pre App Catalog isn’t finished. It’s immature, it’s labeled a beta, and Palm has yet to release the tools for making Pre apps available to more than a small group of developers.


• Battery life between charges is relatively weak. While it’s in line with competitors with a claimed five hours of talk time, and matches the iPhone’s claimed five hours of Web surfing time, it offers only half the iPhone’s 24 hours of continuous music playback and claims just five hours of video playback, versus seven for the iPhone.


• Another downside: the Pre’s autocorrect system, for instantly fixing mistyped words, is puny. Even with a physical keyboard, people make typos, and Palm only fixes about 2,500 common words, like “the.” By contrast, both the BlackBerry and iPhone have tens of thousands of autocorrections built in, including fixes for long, complex words.

Google releases Chrome preview for Mac OS X and Linux - Ars Technica

Google has announced the availability of the first official Chrome developer release for Linux and Mac OS X. The search giant says that the release is a preview intended for testing purposes only and that the software is still unsuitable for regular users.

When Google launched Chrome last year, the browser was available only on Windows. Development on the Linux and Mac OS X ports began shortly after the initial Windows release and has progressed at a steady pace. The Chrome team aims to build ports that feel native and conform well with the underlying platform, but also retain some of the browser's unique characteristics, such as the distinctive angled tab skyline. This approach to cross-platform software development is very challenging, especially on Linux where the inherent diversity and modularity of the platform makes it difficult to translate many elements of the original Chrome vision.

Google: sandboxing for Chrome on Mac OS X a piece of cake - Ars Technica

Google engineers have found that implementing Chrome's signature sandboxed processes is easy under Mac OS X thanks to its built in sandbox facility. Compared to the built-from-scratch approach used in Windows, it was apparently child's play.

Windows 7 arrives on October 22 (Updated) - Ars Technica

Those waiting anxiously for the next version of Windows now have a date to anticipate. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 will be launched on October 22, 2009. This date, which is referred to as General Availability (GA), is in line with Microsoft's previous statement saying that it would have Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ready by the holidays.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Will Bing boom or be a big bust?

In the last few weeks we have had Wolfram Alpha offering a way to search structured data and provide results in a form suitable for further computation. We have had Google Squared promising a simple way of pulling organised data from websites into a spreadsheet style format.

Finally, a new controller-free interface for the Xbox 360 games console from Microsoft that - the company hopes - will open up gaming to the millions who are intimidated by the complexity of current controllers.

And now, after years of effort, billions of dollars worth of investment and several failed attempts, Microsoft has launched Bing, a search engine that it thinks has a chance of unseating Google and which it would like us to think of as a "decision engine".

In the end, Bing could of course succeed not by offering a better search than Google but by making money for more people. Google's targeted advertising programmes, Adwords and Adsense, are the key to the company's success and have fuelled its growth, and if Microsoft can find ways to generate advertising income for others then it may raise Bing's profile enough to take some of Google's mindshare.

As long as Microsoft has income from software sales to subsidise its search technology then it can afford to offer advertisers better deals than Google, which needs the money they provide. The success of Windows 7 and the Azure cloud computing platform could end up mattering as much to Google as it does to Microsoft.

Quick Peak? Bing’s Reign As #2 Search Engine Lasted One Day.

On
June 4, Bing had over 15% of the U.S. search share market, according to
the data. On the same day, Yahoo had just over 10%. The following day,
Yahoo had almost 11% while Bing had fallen below 10%. And yesterday,
Bing had fallen to 6.68% while Yahoo rose again to 11.33%. Meanwhile,
the same data suggests that while Google took a big dip during Bing’s
reign, it too has now started moving back upwards as Bing declines. Not
that Google was in any real danger — on June 4 (the day of Bing’s #2
position), Google had fallen to 72% of searches in the U.S. Now it’s
just about back up to 80%.

Is Twitter Really That Big?

Purewire was able to pull together profile data from 7 million user profiles and this is what it found:

First, many Twitter users "have abandoned their accounts shortly after creating them, and a significant percentage are not showing signs of account activity".

* 40 percent of Twitter users have not tweeted since their first day on Twitter (i.e., the account was most likely created and subsequently forgotten about).

* Approximately 25 percent of Twitter users are not following
anyone, while two-thirds are following less than 10 people (i.e., the
account was created but is not actually being used regularly).

Second, the data shows that "Twitter is used more as a mass medium for receiving information, rather than as a way to interact with others. Proof is shown by evaluating the followers and friends of Twitter users".

* More than 1/3 of Twitter users have not posted a single tweet, and almost 80 percent of the users have less than 10 tweets (i.e., while Twitter is billed as a great collaboration tool, a large number of users are there to consume content, not distribute it).

* Approximately 30 percent of Twitter users do not have any
followers, and 80 percent of Twitter users have less than 10 followers
(i.e., for many users, their posts are not being widely tracked or
read).

* 50 percent of Twitter users are following more people than they
have as followers, and another 30 percent of Twitter users are following
the same number of people that are following them (i.e. users are
aggressively trying to attract followers by hoping they will "follow
back" but have been unsuccessful).

Kindle competition heats up as Google floats e-book plans - Ars Technica

Late last week, Plastic Logic demonstrated a touch-screen reader designed to compete with the Kindle DX. Then, over the weekend, Google pitched its upcoming book content store to publishers at BookExpo America. It's looking like the e-book market is on the verge of getting very crowded.

HTML 5 and Web video: freeing rich media from plugin prison - Ars Technica

DailyMotion and Google are both experimenting with the HTML 5 video element and have strongly endorsed standards-based solutions for deploying video on the Web. Ars takes a close look at the state of open video and explores both the benefits and challenges of liberating rich media from the proprietary plugin prison.

Hands-on: much to like in Hulu Desktop - Ars Technica

Hulu has introduced Hulu Desktop as part of its new Hulu Labs. The client allows Mac and Windows users to browse their favorite TV shows and movies on the desktop using an Apple or Windows Media Center remote.

Adobe launches Flash Catalyst tool for rapid UI design - Ars Technica

Adobe has launched the beta release of Flash Catalyst, a new authoring tool that aims to accelerate the development of rich user interfaces with Flash. According to Adobe, the new authoring tool is a response to growing demand for more polished enterprise applications.

Tomboy note app gains Web sync, showcases power of open Web - Ars Technica

The open source Tomboy notetaking application is coming to the Web. A new project called Snowy aims to build a Web service that will enable Tomboy cloud synchronization and allow users to seamlessly access and edit their notes through a Web browser. Distributed under the AGPL, Snowy is a compelling example of how the open Web can empower users.

Wine 1.1.23 Released

Support for registering MIME types with the Linux desktop. - FBO mode is now the default for Direct3D. - Support for COM proxy delegation. - Improved support for the Mingw cross-compile. - Proper fullscreen mode for the virtual desktop. and "Wine is not an emulator"

The top four Linux netbook trends - Computerworld Blogs

1) Moblin 2.0, Intel's, and now the Linux Foundation's, entry in the netbook Linux operating system race seems to be the early winner. Canonical, with Ubuntu Netbook Remix; Linpus, Novell; Red Flag; and Xandros all announced they will deliver Moblin versions of their distributions for Intel's Atom architecture.
2) Google continues to play coy with Android Linux on the desktop, but the netbooks are already on their way.
3) The ARM processors seem to be lagging behind the Intel Atom family. That said, Asus, Compal, Foxconn, HTC (High Tech Computer), Inventec, Toshiba, and Wistron all showed off Snapdragon-powered devices at the show. What I see as the ARM/Snapdragon problem is that it's largely waiting on Android
4) Proprietary media playback on Linux desktops will stop being a problem for most users. RealNetworks is really serious about being the media-player for Linux desktops. The company, which has long provided a proprietary and open-source media player, Helix, for Linux announced a host of partnerships.

Why Linux is ready for the desktop today | Tech News on ZDNet

Until recently commercial desktop Linux deployments had mostly been limited to single task applications, such as cash registers or transactional workstations. But Linux offerings are now mature enough and ideal for a wide range of workers. In fact, power users all the way down to users who perform such basic tasks as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, email and web browsing are benefiting from a Linux operating system. In addition, due to the current economic environment, enterprises are required to rationalize the cost of their server and desktop software and thus they are reevaluating their use of costly proprietary software. As customers seek fully functional operating systems and applications at a fraction of the price of Windows or Mac, Linux has become a truly attractive alternative:
Open source applications reach maturity
Linux preloads on PCs increase
Netbook and Thin Client growth leads to Linux surge
Security issues plague Windows
Computing heads for the clouds

Driving the Linux drivers - Computerworld Blogs

To make sure that Linux supports hardware, Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer and an engineer at Novell, started a project, the LDP (Linux Driver Project), for open-source developers to create hardware drivers for free for companies. You don't even have to reveal your precious proprietary secrets to the world. The programmers will keep those secret.

It's been a very successful project. Last year, at the Linux Foundation conference, Kroah-Hartman said, "LDP) is alive and well, with over 300 developers wanting to participate, many drivers already written and accepted into the Linux kernel tree, and many more being currently developed. The main problem is a lack of projects. It turns out that there really isn't much hardware that Linux doesn't already support. Almost all new hardware produced is coming with a Linux driver already written by the company, or by the community with help from the company."

To be honest, device drivers, on any platform, are always moving
targets. And, while you can get basic functionality from almost any
device, getting the fancier stuff can be a real challenge.

In particular, all-in-one units that combine multiple functions into
a single box, remain problem children. Getting any single function to
work isn't a problem, co-coordinating all of them, that's not so easy.
In no small part, that's because what people want isn't just a working
fax/printer/scanner, they want the front-end software that lets you
manage all that functionality.

That's a problem, which will only be solved when hardware companies start writing more programs for Linux desktop users. With the rise of Linux netbooks, though, this issue too will be addressed.

EFF to track terms of service changes ... so you don't have to | NetworkWorld.com Community

Most Internet users read Web site terms of service agreements about as often than they peruse car owner's manuals, which is to say only when it smells like something is burning.

Yet ToS changes happen all the time, those changes are often important, and, they can cause a stink, as Facebook and its faithful learned recently when the company proposed alterations to its terms that were perceived as Facebook helping itself to the pictures and writings of members. Much complaining and backpedaling ensued before order was restored.

In an effort that may actually accelerate such flare-ups in the future, the Electronic Frontier Foundation today announced that it has begun tracking ToS changes and making those findings available on a special Web site. At www.TOSBack.org, you can see a real-time feed of changes and updates to more than three dozen polices from the Internet's most popular online services. Clicking on an update brings you to a side-by-side before-and-after comparison, highlighting what has been removed from the policy and what has been added

Bullshit about newspapers' future, dissected - Boing Boing

What will these media executives do when that reality hits them? When these debt-burdened chains, stripped of journalistic talent by a decade of profiteering, their web traffic reduced by 60 percent by their paid-content follies, their pockets emptied by the cost of the proprietary paywall systems offered by Journalism Online LLC and other opportunistic vendors, what will they do?...

They don't get it. They don't want to get it. And in many cases, they're literally paid not to get it.

America's journalism infrastructure - from corporate giants to non-profit foundations like the American Press Institute and the Newspaper Association of America - is funded by dying companies. So when you hear about efforts to save newspapers (and, by extension, journalism), understand that answers that don't return the possibility of double-digit profits and perpetual top-down control aren't even considered answers. They're not even considered.

They'll do anything to survive... so long as it doesn't involve change.

Bad Science versus the piracy scare story - Boing Boing

But what about all these other figures in the media coverage? Lots of it revolved around the figure of 4.73 billion items downloaded each year, worth £120 billion. This means each downloaded item, software, movie, mp3, ebook, is worth about £25. Now before we go anywhere, this already seems rather high. I am not an economist, and I don't know about their methods, but to me, for example, an appropriate comparator for someone who downloads a film to watch it once might be the rental value, not the sale value. And someone downloading a £1,000 professional 3D animation software package to fiddle about with at home may not use it more than three times. I'm just saying.

In any case, that's £175 a week or £8,750 a year potentially not being spent by millions of people. Is this really lost revenue for the economy, as reported in the press? Plenty will have been schoolkids, or students, and even if not, that's still about a third of the average UK wage. Before tax. Oh but the figures were wrong: it was actually 473 million items and £12 billion (so the item value was still £25) but the wrong figures were in the original executive summary, and the press release. They changed them quietly, after the errors were pointed out by a BBC journalist. I can find no public correction.

MPAA Says Making Even “One Copy” of a DVD is Illegal

Last September Real Networks launched RealDVD to allow users to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for private use. The MPAA immediately dubbed it "StealDVD" and filed a lawsuit to ban the sale of RealDVD.

It’s essentially arguing that the price of a DVD is predicated on the "notion of certain use rights associated with certain price points."

"When a consumer can voluntarily expand the rights that come with one of those services — in essence open the door to multiple copies of a work not licensed for that — that eliminates any monetization models except one: selling full use rights to the work at one fixed price," says the Copyright Alliance on the MPAA’s behalf.

In other words, it only charges $9.99 per DVD, for example, because it assumes it lasts for a finite period of time, becoming inoperable due to wear and tear I suppose.

If you want a DVD you can make copies of then the "price point" must be higher to reflect "expanded use rights."

The pirates will always win, says Carphone Warehouse's Dunstone | Business | guardian.co.uk

Trying to stop people sharing copyrighted material over the internet is a game of cat and mouse in which the pirates will always win and calls for internet service providers to halt illegal file sharing are "naive", according to the boss of Carphone Warehouse.

Instead, Charles Dunstone said, the solution is education about the benefits of respecting copyright coupled with services that allow consumers "to get content easily and cheaply".

How Pirates Shook European Politics | TorrentFreak

With 7.1 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party has shocked its critics and secured a seat in the European Parliament. The Pirates received more votes from those under 30 than any other party in the European elections yesterday, and this was celebrated with pints of rum and loads of pirate chants.

pirate partyLate Sunday night, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt congratulated the Pirate Party on their unprecedented win at the European elections.

The Pirate Party is seen a serious competitor in Swedish politics now, a fact underscored by the Prime Minister who said that his own party will formulate a clear policy regarding net integrity and copyright issues in preparation for the Swedish national elections in September 2010.

Stockholm court: Pirate Bay judge wasn't biased! - Ars Technica

Soon after The Pirate Bay trial ended in a guilty verdict, the site admins objected to alleged "bias" in district judge Tomas Norström. Turns out that Norström was a member of two different copyright organizations, one of which received some of its money from global music trade group IFPI. A court of appeals agreed to look into the matter, even assigning the review to a different section of judges that usually does not deal with copyright questions to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.

As part of the appeal, the Stockholm District Court has now weighed in, defending its judge, according to newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (read an English summary).

Norström, it says, wasn't biased at all, but simply a member of organizations in which he learned more about copyright and kept abreast of new developments. It certainly was not Norström's only way of keeping up to date on copyright, and such professional memberships should not be used as evidence of bias.

Norström belongs to the Swedish Copyright Association along with Henrik Pontén, Peter Danowsky, and Monique Wadsted—all lawyers who represented the recording industry in the Pirate Bay trial. Norström also sits on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, an advocacy group that pushes stricter copyright laws.

The appeals court will rule on the issue of judicial bias soon, but either way, the case will continue. If Norström is found to be biased, the case will likely have to be retried; if not, the Pirate Bay defendants have already signaled their desire to appeal the verdict.

Snow Leopard hitting shelves in September for $29 - Ars Technica

Apple announced that Snow Leopard will be shipped in September and will cost $29. The five-license Family Pack will cost $49. Those purchasing new Macs between June 8 and December 26, 2009 will be able to get Snow Leopard for $9.95.

For those looking to upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS X and iLife at the same time, the Mac Box Set with Snow Leopard, iLife '09, and iWork '09 will cost $169, with a Family Pack priced at $229.

Apple is packaging Snow Leopard as an "upgrade" for Leopard users, which explains the $29 price (previous versions of Mac OS X have retailed for $129). Snow Leopard includes a rewritten Finder; performance improvements to Mail, Time Machine, and Safari 4; and a new version of QuickTime called "QuickTime X" with a redesigned player. Snow Leopard will also take better advantage of 64-bit CPUs, with full 64-bit support built in to Mail, iChat, Safari, and the Finder. There's also full support for Microsoft Exchange built in.

Apple's notebook nomenclature gets shake up: see what's new - Ars Technica

You may have heard that the 13" MacBook got some feature improvements as well as a name change today at the WWDC keynote. What was once the 13" unibody MacBook is now the 13" unibody MacBook Pro, leaving the MacBook line void of any kind of aluminum enclosure. The white polycarbonate MacBook that saw a speed bump last week is the lone non-Pro, non-Air MacBook

Gizmodo - iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide - apple iphone 3gs

As expected, the new Apple iPhone 3GS is out. Here you have a comprehensive guide to the iPhone 3GS' new features:

iPhone 3GS: The Key Australian Details | Lifehacker Australia

The 3GS will be released in Australia on June 26, which is a week after the US release. The upgraded 3.0 iPhone software will be available to download on June 17; iPod Touch owners will have to pay $14.95. (For anyone who’s already paid once on their Touch, that sounds like a rip-off, frankly.)

How much will you pay for the device? In typical iPhone fashion, no-one’s saying, though it seems reasonable to assume that Telstra, Optus and Vodafone will all be coming to the party once again, and that “buy outright” deals will be thin on the ground. (Optus has put out a press release confirming it well sell the phone, but offers no details.)

As for the iPhone’s new enhanced features: APC is reporting that tethering will work on all three carriers, but as that’s based on a single slide, you might want to wait for more solid confirmation before actually slapping down money if that feature matters for you. It’s widely presumed that MMS will work.

40 Mac Freewares and Open Source Software for Web Designers | Desizn Tech

. In this article we have complied 40 best freeware and open source software for web designers.

This is first part of the freeware and open source software complication. The second part will have essential free windows software for web designers. Please note that GIMP, Pixelmator, Transmit or Cyberduck and popular software are excluded intentionally because there have been numerous posts about them.

Lifehacker - Synchronize Nearly Any Storage Device with iTunes - iTunes

Palm's Pre smartphone has received fairly positive press coverage for claiming to sync "seamlessly" with iTunes. The Boy Genius Report blog points out that free software can do pretty much the same thing with any removable drive.

Acer to offer Google's Android OS on netbooks

Small new netbook computers from Acer will come with Google's Android operating system if buyers desire, instead of Windows from Microsoft.

The move by Acer, the world's third-largest PC maker, could raise Android's chances of becoming a widely used alternative to Windows on mobile computers.

Because Android, originally designed for mobile phones, is freely distributed by Google, netbooks running the software would cost less, Acer executive Jim Wong said Tuesday at Computex, a huge computer show in Taiwan.

Microsoft Silverlight versus Google Wave: Why Karma Matters by Sridhar Vembu, Zoho

Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft's new search engine Bing. The real interesting contrast to us, as independent software developers, is the way developers responded to Silverlight as opposed to the reaction yesterday to Google Wave. Both Silverlight and Wave are aimed at taking the internet experience to the next level. To be perfectly honest, Silverlight is a great piece of technology. Google Wave, as yet, is not much more than a concept and an announcement...

The Complete Google Analytics Power User Guide

Google Analytics can be a powerful tool. It can also be incredibly intimidating for new users. This guide is a compilation of VKI's Google Analytics: Power User series, presenting an overview of several key features and uses of Google analytics—some basic, some advanced—and how you can use these features to analyze, interpret, and optimize your websites traffic.

Spaz - open source, cross platform Twitter client - Desktop and mobile versions

* No ads

* Cross-platform: available on all AIR-compatible platforms: Windows, OS X, and Linux

* Open source software using a New BSD-style license (source available at Spaz Google Code project site)

* Written in pure Javascript, XHTML and CSS. Utilizes the powerful jQuery Javascript framework

* Built-in global search powered by Summize

* Short URL creation tool with support for multiple services (is.gd, bit.ly, snurl.com, and more)

* In-line short URL decoding

* Markdown syntax support

* Multiple themes and support for user-created themes

* User-defined CSS overrides

* Event sounds using the Tokyo Train Station soundset by Dominik Dimaano

* Directory listings of users you’re following, and your followers.

* Debugging and development tools and debug logging

Daily Motion using Ogg and other cool open video news - Silvia Pfeiffer

"1. YouTube are experimenting with the HTML5 video tag. The demo only works in HTML5 video capable browsers, such as Firefox 3.5, Safari, Opera, and the new Chrome...

2. The Chrome 3 browser now supports the HTML5 video tag. The linked release only supports MPEG encoded video, but that’s a big step forward.

3. More importantly even, recently committed code adds Ogg Theora/Vorbis support to Google Chrome 3’s video tag!

4. And then the biggest news: Dailymotion, one of the largest social video networks, has re-encoded all their videos to Ogg Theora/Vorbis and have launched an openvideo platform..."

Introducing Android scripting environment - Google

The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to:

* Handle intents

* Start activities

* Make phone calls

* Send text messages

* Scan bar codes

* Poll location and sensor data

* Use text-to-speech (TTS)

Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we're planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well.

Melbourne Uni startup websites

Agents of Change - a group which supports Melbourne Uni students who want to turn their ideas into startup businesses, has a blog which pointed out three new websites by students aimed at the Melbourne community.

MelbinNoir

is a free, user-centred directory that provides information about Jazz artists, events and venues around Melbourne.

UpUrAlley

is a site with sections for rental listings, job openings, business directories, upcoming events, restaurant reviews, and more so that you can use UpUrAlley in the way that makes life easier for you. And your neighbour can use it in the way that makes life easier for him or her. And then, if you'd like, you can use it to easily make your neighbour a part of your life.

Chockrocks

will satisfy all of your Melbourne chocolate needs, with everything from chocolate recipes to reviews of local chocolate producers to insight into its rich history. Compiled for fellow Melburnians and visitors to Melbourne, this collection of all things cacao-related is sure to hit the spot.

(sidenote/disclaimer - these websites were built by students in Sarah's class at Melbourne Uni. Yay!)

Fanboys - showing at ACMI until 21 June

A movie about tragic Star Wars geeks - written by fans, for fans. Sarah gives it 5 wookie growls out of 5.