October 2005
23 posts
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retroCRUSH: The 100 Greatest Horror Performances →
I went TiVo’s listings this weekend and picked up a bunch of these.
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What I Like About You. →
Another list.
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Comments From the Crowd Gathering Around the Body... →
I like lists.
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X Marks the Baseball Team - Why the White Sox... →
Interesting linguistic tidbit.
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Flickr adds photo printing, with pickup in Target... →
I’ve been pretty happy with iPhoto’s ordering integration, but this is cool.
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Orson Scott Card Has Always Been an Asshat →
Companion to “Creating the Innocent Killer.”
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Creating the Innocent Killer →
Ender’s Game essay I mentioned the other night to Kenjisan.
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devoted1.com →
I can’t help but think this would also be useful against vampires while jogging at night.
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Colbert's Rapport
Having Bill O’Reilly as a guest on The Daily Show right before the second episode of The Colbert Report gave a pretty good comparison of what Steven Colbert has to live up to mock. I think he’s doing a pretty good job, and there were a couple of really funny moments in the premiere episodes, but there’s one problem I see: Colbert knows it’s all an act, which I think is a liability in making it...
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Penny Arcade
I think Penny Arcade’s over-rated. They’re funny, but not consistently so, and they seem to take pride in omitting context from half of what they say. Still, they hit it out of the park sometimes, and I commend them for that.
This whole Jack Thompson thing is a good example of that. He’s the lawyer who’s suing the makers of Grand Theft Auto for inciting some nut to murder two police officers. He...
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Some TV Numbers
Just thinking about some numbers here.
Say digital cable runs about $80/month. Times 12 months, that’s $960.
A TV season is usually 22 episodes long. 22 episodes times $1.99/episode equals $44.
960/44 = ~22 shows. If you only watched weekly shows, and every show you watched were available for download on iTunes, you’d save money by not having cable if you could keep your viewing below 22...
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retroCRUSH:THE 100 SCARIEST MOVIE SCENES OF ALL... →
Good list from a year or two ago. I keep meaning to watch a few of these I’ve never seen.
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HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free... →
In case you were wondering, there’s nothing illegal about this if you own the DVD.
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Towards a Lazier Dream
Apple did its thing today. I think the big news today is not what they’ve released, it’s that they’ve decided they’re going to move toward something that could be Big.
Any good science fiction knows that in the future we’ll be connected to a sleeker, speedier version of the internet where all content is available instantly. Three things are stopping that from being a reality right now. One,...
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Marios. 64. →
This has been everywhere, but it’s cute.
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Microsoft Team RSS Blog : The orange icon... →
Not entirely sure why I find this so fascinating.
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DCist Maps →
Overlay of the DC Metro onto Google Maps. Looks handy
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Wallace & Gromit
Katherine and I went to see Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit last night, which was delightful. Roger Ebert says that Wallace and Gromit are arguably the two most delightful characters in the history of animation, and I think he’s got something there. Stop-motion animation has such a charm to it, and Nick Park’s creations match it so beautifully.
Tragically, almost all of them...
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First Nine Minutes of Serenity →
Promo of the first nine minutes of Serenity.
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On Cillit Bang and a new low for marketers...... →
Marketing firm latches onto a story about someone reuniting with their father. Blech.
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WWdN: In Exile: little by little →
Harvey Danger releases its album for free over BitTorrent.
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Collaborative writing software online with... →
Could be very useful.
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Serenity
Even in light of all the hyperbole flying around about this movie, Serenity was as good as I had hoped, which is saying a lot. It’s certainly the best TV-to-movie movie ever (a neat feat considering it’s based on a failed TV series), and I’d say better than most sci-fi you’ll see. It has fun chases, it has a very scary set of villains, a super-cool assassin, it keeps with the original series’...