Since I got a broadband connection (yes, I gave up 56K for Lent…), I can finally indulge productively in streaming media on the web. Here are two Oscar-nominated shorts I’ve enjoyed: Fifty Percent Grey (“In this gruesome black comedy about suicide, Sgt. Cray awakens alone in a desolate environment, with only a widescreen TV and a gun for entertainment.”) and Copy Shop (“Viennese director Virgil Widrich obsesses on the implications of replication in this … short composed of nearly 18,000 photocopied frames that Widrich animated and shot on 35 mm.”).