I’ve mentioned my enthusiasm for Last.fm recently. It’s an interesting service whose value isn’t immediately obvious when you first look at it. It plays music? You think. Why would I want to tell them what I’m listening to? You ask. Aren’t I just giving them information for nothing? You wonder. The value becomes apparent when [...]
An internet citizen flying by the name of “john” just posted a reply to a 3-year old blog piece, titled, The Music Pirate Police are Now Mounted! A bit of a scare piece about copyright reforms in Canada which were eventually overturned and later ratcheted up several notches into what has become a terrifying legal [...]
If you’ve seen the movie There Will Be Blood, you probably wish that you had a full set of “There Will Be Blood” action figures, just like me. Imagine re-enacting the baptism scene with Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday. “I’ve abandoned my boy!” Or sitting a fully poseable Daniel Plainview down in front of a [...]
“Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem” (Amir D. Azcel, Amir D. Aczel) I read this on the flight into San Francisco yesterday. It’s been awhile since I’ve read a math story (I last read, “The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity” (Amir D. Aczel)). [...]
I went out last weekend and did a little video-game shopping. While I occasionally punctuate breaks in Halo3 with bouts of Rock Band, I do sometimes crave more singular adventures. So I rifled through the cheap bin at the local EB and picked up Dark Messiah Might and Magic Elements for $29.99. “Dark Messiah of [...]
This is just a shout-out to my heavy rotation page which I just updated. It’s got a list of some of the albums I’ve been listening to a lot lately, though to be honest, anything in my collection right now has to compete against the staggering “In Rainbows” by Radiohead. Since getting the disc box, [...]
The one good thing that’s come out of the writer’s strike is that I’ve been watching a lot of canned video lately that I might not have otherwise watched. These are shows that have been on my list for awhile but due to the constant stream of “fresh television” haven’t had time to get into them.
No, no, it’s still kinda broken… Worse, I tried watching The Bourne Ultimatum on the HD-DVD player and it crapped-out halfway through the movie. There was an available update for the HD-DVD player which I didn’t dare apply because of all the wonkiness. After some cursing and wringing of the remote, I pulled the disc [...]
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