links for 2006-10-21

In Links on 21 October 2006

He sings the cinema electric

The director of “Memento” discusses the mind-bending trickery in his latest film, “The Prestige,” what he thinks of being called the new Hitchcock, and how movies restore mystery to our lives.

(tags: cinema film mystery culture christopher-nolan the-prestige)
Rethinking the brain

How the songs of canaries upset a fundamental principle of science.

(tags: brain neuroscience biology mind)
37 Signals profiled on Apple

Quicktime video

(tags: apple 37signals video mac rubyonrails software development design macintosh macosx osx programming simplicity)