You know how ‘friend’ is a verb now?

Last week, as he paced around the stage at the f8 Developers Conference, Mark Zuckerberg declared with wide-eyed optimism that Facebook was “helping to define a brand-new language for how people connect.” “When we started,” Zuckerberg explained, “the vocabulary was really limited. You could only express a small number of things, like who you were friends with. Then last year, when we introduced the Open Graph, we added nouns, so you could like anything that you wanted.”

And then he delivered the breathless payoff: “This year, we’re adding verbs. We’re going to make it so you can connect to anything in any way you want.” It was all part of “building this language for how people connect,” he said.

Whoa! Language? Connect? Slow down there, Poindexter.

READ MORE: The Rise of the Zuckerverb: The New Language of Facebook (The Atlantic)

The latest in a series of director homages from Kees Van Dijkhuizen

Clips from: ‘The Duellists’, ‘Black Rain’, ‘1492: Conquest of Paradise’, ‘Alien’, ‘Kingdom of Heaven’, ‘A Good Year’, ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Matchstick Men’, ‘Body of Lies’, ‘Legend’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘American Gangster’, ‘Robin Hood’, ‘Someone to Watch Over Me’, ‘Black Hawk Down’, ‘Thelma & Louise’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘White Squall’ and ‘G.I. Jane’.

Behind [the films of] Ridley Scott (Kees Van Dijkhuizen)

Is a clashing colour background.

And some powerful friends.

In a rare heated moment during the debate, Dana became annoyed when asked by host Ryan Tubridy about the Catholic Church. “Why do you put it to me. You put it to me as I am continually put on the box as the mouthpiece of the Catholic Church I am not a mouthpiece for anyone except the people of the country…
…..Independent candidate Mary Davis revealed she received a €2,500 donation – the maximum allowable – from businessman Denis O’Brien.

 

Presidential Candidates Dodge The Bullets In First TV Debate (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)

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