Body Formula specializes in men's underwear that's good-looking enough to wear out
By Ian Bartholomew
Low waist, high slits, pure silk, wide belts: chic lingerie has never been so sexy. For men, that is.

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The decline of the US dollar is being picked up by pop culture icons
When people start talking about rappers and supermodels shunning the US dollar, you know there's a problem.

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When Americans sit down today to eat stuffed Thanksgiving turkey, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes, followed by a slice of pumpkin pie, many think they are upholding a 400-year-old tradition.

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Anthony Hopkins pokes fun at Hollywood in his autobiographical film that he says is willfully self-indulgent, and viewers find difficult to understand
By Geoffrey Macnab
Anthony Hopkins, at 69, speaks so softly that you can't help but worry you won't pick his words up. But, of course, his elocution is so good that every word registers clearly. He is explaining the challenges of playing hirsute King Hrothgar in Robert Zemeckis' new motion-capture film of Beowulf, which opened in Taiwan on Friday. The technicians placed little beads on his eyelids. "It was strange," he says. "They record every muscle. You stand in front of all these cameras and you do all these gestures. Once the computer has taken in all the information of your body, facial muscles and structure, you don't have any costume or makeup. You have these silly hats on and it is all recorded by 200 cameras. I don't know how it works."

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After one or two delays, Apple has finally released the OS X 10.5 Leopard update to its operating system, and with it a slew of improvements and extra features. At the same time, archrival Microsoft has now had 10 months or so to polish its Windows Vista, so now is a good time to compare the two products.

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The works on display at this festival required, in some cases, a PhD in engineering or computer science to create
By Noah Buchan
G raffiti artists need fear the law no longer - at least that's the word on the street in New York. Two artists versed in "tagging" have come up with a state-of-the-art computer program that enables graffiti writers to replace spray paint with light using a camera, laptop and projector. Combined, artists can project graffiti onto the side of a building. And in the spirit of the creator's open-source ethos, the code for the program, L.A.S.E.R. Tag, is posted online for enthusiasts and artists to "download, dissect, reuse and hopefully improve," according to Graffiti Research Lab's (GRL) Web site (www.graffitiresearchlab.com).

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Artists from around the world have gathered at the Taipei Artist Village to share their experiences of life in the concrete jungle
Citylogue (城市對話), a joint exhibition by artists from Taiwan, the UK, Australia, Germany and Japan is being held at the Taipei Artist Village (台北國際藝術村百里廳) and will run until the end of this year.

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