Oh, yes, the media player made by Real. Those guys really and truly care about your privacy. Ask anyone who’s see the code to their player, or worked with their products, they’ll tell you just how well Real respects your privacy. I just love this email though… Is that that my privacy is now only [...]
Read more →Okay, maybe it’s just me, but parts of this “Director’s Cut” DVD need something. Perhaps a narration would assist with some of the otherwise empty scenes that don’t cause the story to develop…. Wouldn’t it be great if you could, oh, I don’t know… download an alternate audio track from somewhere on the Internet? I’d [...]
Read more →MythTV. What can I say other than “Wow.” I finally got this damned thing working, and it’s pretty well setup. Basically it’s a fancy system meant for making browsing of your movies much easier. With the help of plugins it’ll do a whole lot of things on top of the main function which would appear [...]
Read more →I have no connection to this call for proposals… [] low-fi commissions ’04 This is an open call for proposals for 5 net art commissions. We are wanting to support some new work by artists already working with network technology. low-fi is an artist collective focusing on net art. More info below and on our [...]
Read more →I was reading a story on how the concert season is apparently sucking so badly, and how Lollapalooza was cancelled. I really don’t care about it being cancelled, mind you, as the lineup as a whole was mediocre at best, with only a couple good reasons to attend in some cities…. Like when the Pixies [...]
Read more →Best lines so far today overheard from the sales and marketing duo over the cubical wall behind me; S: “Hey, how to you spell ‘monitorable’” M: “You don’t. It’s not a word.” S: “Sure it is, I use it all the time!” It went on from there, with the marketing guy telling sales guy that [...]
Read more →I broke down and spent $50 on a little 5250 BTU in-window air-conditioning unit. It’s used, as you’d likely guess by the price, but pretty recent. No digital controls on the front, just a couple of rather idiot-proof knobs. Cold and breezy or just breezy; take your pick. It’s going to affect the electric bill, [...]
Read more →Appears that I may have an interview spot with Janis Ian during the Vancouver Folk Fest. I’m aware of Janis primarily from seeing Saturday Night Live reruns, and from hearing the song ‘At Seventeen’ in a handful of movies, commercials, and TV shows. I’ve become more aware of her commentary on how the music industry [...]
Read more →I’ve never really bothered to pay attention to this line that all of the big retailers toss around, until this past weekend when I noticed an eight dollar difference on the price of a DVD package. I’d been looking for pricing on the SCTV Volume 1 5 DVD set, and looked at a couple advertising [...]
Read more →http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332658/ Colin Farrell appears in a film that’s not another Hollywood-dreck movie… It’s an Irish film, so he doesn’t have to affect a generic American accent for this one for a change. Intermission is an urban love story about people adrift and their convoluted journeys in the search for some kind of love. When the [...]
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