Artifex, makers of Ghostscript (it's basically a nice, open source PDF viewer) also makes something called muPDF, a tiny PDF viewer for mobile devices.
Walkman-like devices the size of a movie ticket, tiny viewers that can devices hundreds of digithe picturesized stereofgear are in the works.
Mr. Robertson said the rule was part of an effort by the Academy to ensure that Oscars go to what he called "genuine theatrical" movies, rather than to films that might be made primarily for television but given brief theatrical exposure, or played for a tiny number of viewers simply to qualify.
Even the highest-rated programs attract fewer than 2.5 million viewers, a tiny audience by the standards of network television.
"That's it," she says, emits a tiny chuckle, then reminds viewers that the day before that letter was addressed to her, the United States Olympic team boarded a ship and headed to Berlin, oblivious to the notion that the Germans would conduct an elaborate fraud and disinformation campaign to avoid an American Olympic boycott.
"This volatile mix of intense feeling and contagion via social media spreads the idea of participating in an emotionally charged behaviour to such a large population that even if a tiny percentage of its viewers wish to mimic it, we're bound to see instances of it far and wide".
Ted Victoria makes the mundane strangely disorienting in his animated light boxes, one of which, "Watching TV on LSD," incorporates a projection of the viewer via a tiny, inconspicuous video camera.
Viewers see a tiny image, which changes every 5 to 10 seconds like a slide show.
That is the dominant image of the Green Party today: brought to millions of Mexican television viewers by a tiny camera, hidden in a necktie.
It can't be any more insulting or reductive than MTV's prime-time election coverage, which consisted of an episode of "Paris Hilton's My New BFF" and a tiny corner crawl into which viewers could text inspirational messages about the election in progress: "Obama Rules," "We Need Change Now," and so forth.
