What I'm Watching
Saw Windtalkers on TV. Odd John Woo war movie, with Nicholas Cage assigned to protect a Navajo code talker. Not unentertaining, but find it hard to believe in the stylized action sequences: war movies generally try to be more realistic than normal action movies, so it seems a bit out of place.

Also not sure I really buy Nicholas Cage in the grizzled tough-guy Lee Marvin-ish roles he seems to do these days. I think there's a bit of a shortage of actors of that type in that age range: there seems to have been a pretty-boy phase of Cruises, Pitts, Depps and so on.

Also saw abandoned Earth documentary Life After People. Pretty good: interesting to see everything fading away.

Me
Went home to see the parents last weekend. Dad's trying to put a brave face on the prostate cancer, but he says he feels quite angry at having to deal with both that and the Parkinson's. No symptoms yet though. He may be getting radiotherapy after more tests have been done.

Museums
Saw the DuChamp, Man Ray, Picabia exhibition at Tate Modern. Pretty good. Liked some of the Picabia paintings a lot. Also good to see "Nude Descending a Staircase" for the first time.

Also zoomed through the Juan Munoz exhibition. The rooms full of grey dwarf statues are nicely creepy.

Web
Carnage4life stops blogging.

Nice AskMefi troll.

Tech. DailyWTF: Jurassic Programmers. Coding Horror: Slow Vista file copy.

Social Sciences Tilley's Realist Evaluation of policy proposals. (PDF).