Some good stuff over @ k5.
One day a pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel attached to his crotch. So the bartender says to him, “You know you have a steering wheel attached to your crotch?”
And the pirate says, “Arrgh it’s driving me nuts!”
Ladies and Gentlemen, No. 1 New York Time best-seller author Ann Coulter:
My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.
It must be those pearls of wisdoms that keep people coming back for more.
Now this is good stuff: Soul Train’s rebuttal (check out the originals, are, even, better) to an online petition of people who think Ashanti (who?) sucks… this Soul Train piece invokes both 9/11 and slavery. The fun doesn’t stop there. Hilarity continues on mefi.
<homer>
Play the race card! Play it!
</homer>
Oh my sides.
Andy has put up the gettingit.com redesign – cool. Which reminds me, next week’s dinner is free (if I can get the info on where it is before it happens ). 🙂
Read about this the other day. The next version of Opera might finally not suck. Hopefully it’ll have enough (correct) DOM support that recodes won’t be necessary for DOM compliant code.
I took a break from work this morning and wrote a custom 404 that would parse the requested filepath and try alternates. I’m sure there’s a more efficient way to do that kind of contingency handling to search at alternate locations (isn’t there a module that does that?), but I wasn’t able to find it offhand.
Wow, there’s a new version of Metropolis coming out – now 122 minutes long (the original edit was 153 minutes, but was cut to 80 minutes by the studios shortly after its release), digitally cleaned/repaired, and with a new digital multitrack recording of original score! It looks like it’ll be making it’s way to major metropolitan around the country (although playing at some places for one night only!).
Metropolis will be opening at the Nuart on October 4.
The trailer is online at Apple’s trailer park.
A few more trailers:
- One Hour Photo – hey, Robin Williams, and he’s not playing Robin Williams! pretty neat site site as well (if I had the patience or time to actually go through it)
- Naquoyqatsi – 3rd part of Godfry Reggio’s non-narrative Qatsi series (Naquoyqatsi site)
- Spirited Away – next Miyazaki flick
- 8 Mile – hmm, maybe it won’t suck
Welcome to Amerika, Land of the Free! (Remember kids, Criticism is Treason, remember: Oceania has always been at war with Afghanistan Iraq)
The only thing that the new T-Mobile Sidekick (Danger Hiptop) is missing that would be nice is bluetooth, although with USB, IR, and most promisingly, an “Accessory Port”, hopefully a bluetooth add-on will be coming soon. Hmm… with USB available, it may be not too hard to write drivers for a USB ethernet adapter. That a simple nat or proxy, plus a crossover cable might give you a simple bootstrap for ad-hoc internet access when your laptop is wi-fi-less. Just thinking out loud… (time to d/l the latest version of J2ME)
I’ve already raved about the form-factor and the pricing, but one more thing that really separates the Danger (and hopefully all next-generation devices) is the ability to do true multitasking. Stewart Alsop writes in Fortune that he believes that the Danger’s business model is risky (their taking a percentage off data access only), but I have a feeling that might pay off – bigtime. Once people discover how useful (and addicting) live internet access (specifically IM, but also finding directions and getting movie schedules, etc) are, it’ll be a paradigm shift like the cell-phone or even widespread net access itself: we’ll never imagine how we lived without it. Think about what that shift was like.
Related: EdgeReviw: Handheld & Wireless, Enabling the Wireless Enterprise: Hot Java Devices, Sony Ericsson P800, Headset hassles and Bluetooth aches, widepipe.org on Ericsson Bluetooth headset, Danger and Apple Buyout (that looks like it fell through (if it ever was true) as current iPhone talk is centered around their Sony/Ericsson alliance – hey, iphone.org redirects to Apple.com…), M-Commerce Times article from January: They are exploring and are capable of delivering a CDMA 1X and even integrate wireless LAN version of the hiptop should the market demand it
Catherine Seipp writes about a whole alternate universe in Blogapalooza. Hmm, so Los Angeles is the capital of blogging
? That’s interesting.