Cate Blanchett is the sole representative of "The Present," a fairly pointless updating of an early Chekhov work.
I noticed this message below, in the fine print, regarding how you can stop your account from being peppered with Microsoft's pointless update e-mails.
As you experience a constant stream of updates from more people, the possibilities for distraction or frustration at a pointless update (did I really need to know that her baby is now teething?) rise apace.
(Nathan Lee) 'RUMOR HAS IT' (PG-13, 96 minutes) Jennifer Aniston, trying her best, traipses through this pointless updating of "The Graduate," in which we learn that Ann Bancroft was really Shirley MacLaine all along, and that Dustin Hoffman grew up to be Kevin Costner.
Since we are all overwhelmed by junk information -- irrelevant e-mail, pointless Facebook updates, moronic Twitter postings and news stories about Kardashians -- anything that lets us get back into the flow if information to enjoy the serendipity of discovery has got to be a good thing.
Honestly though, the big news lies in the Aspen's OS: it's the first WinMo device to run 6.5.3, and while it may sound like yet another pointless incremental update, but it's really anything but.
update — a pointless time-sink.
Also cool: if you use the bookmarklet instead of Blackbird Pie, the embedded tweet will display the exact date and time of tweets instead of "X minutes ago", which is admittedly rather pointless as it doesn't update the timestamp going forward.
Social media, at its unforgiving core, is a never-ending obligation to update streams of pointless information about your life, which no one besides your mother, a few friends or perhaps a demented stalker really cares about.
