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This is totally cool. There’s a new movie coming out called A Scanner Darkly that’s based on the novel by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. He’s the same mind that brought us The Minority Report and the classic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (upon which Blade Runner was based). A Scanner Darkly is written and directed by Richard Linklater and, like his previous Waking Life, is done using the animated technique called rotoscoping.

Anyone who knows me knows I love animation and this movie looks awfully cool. The movie has the same Grand Theft Auto look of the recent Charles Schwab television commercials and  that’s probably because it looks like Linklater got Bob Sabiston, the animator who worked on both Waking Life and the Schwab commercials, to work on A Scanner Darkly. Watch the trailer below or use this link for a longer trailer in QuickTime format–it’s worth the download time.

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The fact that the Vikings put the transition rather than the franchise tag on Brian Williams makes me think that the team doesn’t have much hope that they’ll retain the cornerback.

By making him a transition player, the Vikings have essentially offered him a one year $4.774 million contract, the average of the top 10 highest-paid cornerbacks last season. The team has the right to match any offer sheet Williams may get from another team, or allow him to leave.

Had the Vikings made him their franchise player, they would have had to pay him $5.9 million; then any team that signed him away from the Vikings would owe us two first-round picks as compensation.

Obviously, the team doesn’t want to pay him nearly $6 million and you gotta think he’s going to make more than the transition number as a free agent. With Buffalo franchising Nate Clements, Williams will be one of the top cornerbacks available. Williams has also said he doesn’t want to stay here.

I would’ve liked to see the team use the franchise tag on Williams and give him the starting job. Smoot hasn’t really done anything except get injured, but I absolutely love a defensive backfield consisting of Antoine Winfield, Brian Williams, and Fred Smoot.

I guess we’ll need to add a cornerback to our free agency shopping list.

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