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::"when sky threw their teddy in the corner"

The only effect that had on me was that I'll never knowingly provide Sky with any of my money ever again.  I know - they won't notice - but it'll make me feel a bit better.

Plus, I turned to the internet for my Battlestar Galactica (Season 3) fix, and realised that I don't need anything Sky has to offer, because it's all free to download.

Plus, most of the heroes are wonderfully flawed, to an extent I don't remember from the books - although that could be my fading memory.

True, they're not perfect movies.  For me, in particular, the third movie is horribly flawed in many places.  The green ghost army sweeping aside Sauron's army in about five seconds.  Legoblocks turning into super-elf the wonderboy.  The ward of Gondor running, in flames, the entire length of a football field to jump off, and Gandalf's pay-off line.  The pathetic, wobbly sword thrust that does for the Nazgul King.  

Plus, due to media coverage, the only thing I can think about during the many closing scenes is Jack Nicholson walking out of the cinema, smiling like a lunatic and saying "the movie's over".

Tricky third act.

Especially in the case of LOTR, it's not just about scene direction.  Apart from anything, he had various second-unit directors involved, in order to get it all done in time.

You have to expand his role up from that of scene director, to director of the entire enterprise.  There's a love, a passion and a care that went into LOTR that you couldn't have found from, say, Michael Bay.  Instead of carefully and personally trying to get the right artists (eg John Howe) involved, one can easily imagine a typical Hollywood approach of completely ignoring all that's come before and doing a bit of a Judge Dredd or a LOEG on the whole enterprise.  "What this movie needs is more wizard-fights and dragons!" etc.

And, if you look, there are moments of amazing cinema, and it's Jackson that's behind them, when all's said and done.  Gollum's monologue.  The spookiness of the "keep it secret, keep it safe" sequence.  Bilbo behaving like an agitated mouse. Boromir's death scene. Theoden's bravado and subsequent aghast reaction to the bomb at Helm's Deep.  

Now, King Kong, on the other hand - that's pish.

And headers (eg h1), tables and lists (I think) all do the same thing.  Headers definitely do.

The <p> inside the "sponsored by" div might be giving you cross-browser issues.

As I read it, the rule goes like this:

If it's IE, then a <p> puts a line space (ie a line-height's worth of margin) above and below the <p>, IF there's some other block element there.  Further, the line-height's worth of margin, if two are generated next to each other, get merged.

If it's just about any other browser, then the line space is always generated, whether there's other block element content there or not.

You can see this if you stick a single <p>, on a blank web page. In IE, it'll be at the top, and in (eg) FF, it'll be at the top plus a gap of a line height.

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I guess, try either removing that <p> (as it's not really needed, because the div is a perfectly good container on it's own), or keep it but force it to have a set top and bottom margin.

I made a solution that works in both FF 2 and IE 7.  (I have no access at home to IE6, Safari, Opera: so can't test those.)

http://www.amenable.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/testArtwork.html">testArtwork.html

I just stuck the CSS in the head for easy access.

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Sorry not to just offer a fix to whatever's glitching about your code, but there's a lot of it, and it's late in the day.

Now I can't look at J.J. Abraams either.

Jaws had a good ending.

::"the atomic population of Mega-City One"

This month's Meg confirmed that there were only three orbiting Condos, and that they were all destroyed, killing 540,000 cits.

Important numbers, I'm sure you'll agree, MC-1 population space-maths stats.

Check out the juxtaposition of the saucy Vienna Dredd pic and the conversation about particle physics.

"Mind arrived today".

Uhm...

Mind arrived today.  Look on the bright side - the later you get it, the less time you have to wait till the next prog.

Hoots!

I love the bit about the guy in all his fishing gear  complaining about other people's dress sense.

It's a judge-ninja, you crusty, cantankerous old bastards!  That's cool!  You remember cool, right?  It's something you used to like when you were a teenager.  

Excellent Meg - with more laugh out loud moments than you could shake a stick at.  And shaking sticks at things is easy.  Brilliant turnaround - long may it continue (or "Satanus is dead, long live the Meg").