October 2007
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New 2007 Shows
I’ve checked out a bunch of new shows this season. Still waiting for the debut of Pushing Daisies, and I didn’t see Dirty Sexy Money, which I hear is good.
Damages
This one’s almost over, but it’s the best new show on now. FX re-runs it periodically. It’s worth catching up on.
Back to You
Do you miss Everybody Loves Raymond? Don’t get newer sitcoms like...
September 2007
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TV Heroics
Last night’s premier of Bionic Woman had a neat, though quite a bit heavy-handed, girl power moment in it. In a typical fantasy movie trope, a little girl spies the Bionic Woman running at super speed. She tries to tell her mom, who gives the pat “of course, dear” line. The little girl then proudly says something like, “it’s just cool that a girl can do that.”...
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I Don't Know
There needs to be a corollary to Godwin’s Law for when someone starts a
conversation about the nature of art. Whenever someone asks if something or
other is art, they should get slimed.
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Alan Moore's Green Lantern Tales
In 1985-1987, Alan Moore wrote three short Green Lantern stories for DC.
All three were about various Green Lanterns who were not the major characters
starring in the books at the time, allowing Moore to come up with whatever
crazy sci-fi stories he wanted. Recently Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons have
latched onto Moore’s stuff, making them very important works to the current
Green Lantern and...
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Death of Superman
An animated version of The Death of Superman story from the 90s is
coming out this week. That story is arguably what killed the comic book
industry for over a decade. Urban legend holds that DC got very lucky (as
Marvel did this year when it killed Captain America) when it revealed that
Superman would be dying on what turned out to be a slow news day, causing a
huge interest in the plot. Its...
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Bestå
One of the things I wanted to get when we moved was a proper bookshelf for
storing DVDs. Most standard bookcases are too deep for DVD storage and don’t
come with enough shelves. There are lots of flimsy wire and plastic things out
there, but it’s hard to find a good wood or even wood-like unit. After quite a
bit of searching, we discovered Ikea’s Bestå, which is only 7 7/8″...
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"iTunes"
In the tiny way that such things can, it bothers me that the button on my
iPhone that lets me listen to music is called “iPod” instead of “iTunes”. An
“iPod” is a thing you hold in your hand, “iTunes” is a program that plays
music. If I want to run the music program on my iPhone, I should be launching
the music program, right?
The new iPod touch...
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Ringtones
Far be it from me to get my legal advice from Engadget, but there’s an
interesting nugget in this piece about the legality of making your own
ringtones:
> [T]he RIAA wanted to be able to distribute ringtones of its artists without
having to pay them big money to do so (surprised?), and it won a decision last
year before the Copyright Office saying that ringtones weren’t...
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david.ely.fm →
I’m mostly posting links now on my actual weblog. I may well end up linkblogging back at del.icio.us, but for now I’m enjoying the added flexibility.
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Sugarshock
The second “issue” of Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon’s Sugarshock! is up now
for your free online viewing. First one’s here. This is all part of Dark
Horse’s new Dark Horse Presents experiment on MySpace, and I’m going to
go ahead and call it unsavory. The works themselves are great, but the Web
just isn’t the place for long form comics. (Comic strips work...
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Facebook Opens Up Limited Profiles
Facebook announced today that very limited versions of profiles will soon
become open to search engines and visible to non-members. This is a good
thing. It means that Facebook can become, as GigaOM says, the quasi-White
Pages of the Web. Naturally, Facebook has put up the proper privacy options so
that you can exclude your profile from public searches. All they show to non-
members is your name...
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What amazes me whenever Apple takes a stand regarding its model for iTunes
(everything costs the same, you own the song/video) is that it always manages
to come out with the appearance that it’s doing this all for you, the
consumer. Of course, it’s not hard to appear to be the one looking out for the
little guy when you’re standing next to record companies and network
executives.