August 2004
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Weekend Media Roundup
HALO: Thanks to Steve for playing through the last few levels with me.
Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow: lots of fun so far. Using the headset to voice control your squad is just silly.
Alien vs. Predator: Not nearly as bad as the critics said it would be. The premise could have been better and they didn’t use neither the Predator(s) nor the Alien(s) up to their potential, but it was a very...
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At work I make constant use of the “new tab” button on my Firefox toolbar. At home I use Safari which has no such button. The keyboard shortcuts to open a new tab are almost identical in both applications (CTRL-T for Firefox, COMMAND-T for Safari), yet I never use the keyboard in Firefox because the “T” key is too far away from the “Control” key to hit...
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As a kid I’d say, “I’m bored” when I didn’t have anything to do. Now I have stuff to do but am still bored. Am I growing in my needs for stimulation or just getting better at automating the mundane?
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PVRBlog has a good little rant on how NBC probably won’t do a good job covering the Olympics this year no matter how hard they try. It’s a tough problem: there are many more events than you can cover at any one time. Only some are very popular, but all have at least a small following. Since it’s happening in Greece, many events will occur in the middle of the night in the US, so internet reporting...
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The Village
I saw The Village tonight with Katherine and Gabriel. Here’s my recommendation: watch this trailer. Okay, now spend a few minutes imagining all the things that could happen in this movie. Imagine how scary it could be. How creepy those woods are. How cool the yellow and red colors look. Now stop. Don’t go see the movie. Just let it live in your mind as its potential. It’ll save you 108 minutes,...