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Sunday, April 30, 2000
10% off a mobshop.com purchase. Just link to it through here.
15:34 mega
Went to see Built to Spill at Lupos in Providence with Chris and Steve. Man, what a great live band! It was nice to get out and get drunk again (mmmmm,,,, Capt'n and coke). Been awhile. It was also the first show I've been to in awhile that I haven't felt like 90 years old at. Good mix in the age of the crowd. Or maybe I'm just becoming less sensative to the fact that I'm getting real old....
06:18 mega Friday, April 28, 2000
The fascinating world of capitalism: this seems like a sure fire way to get kids to vandalize your car.
23:40 c-dog
Good stuff to know: The Best Public Toilets In New York City.
23:07 c-dog My freshman year of college, I discovered Yo La Tengo by reading a book catalog (Ziesing's) with a little article by Lucius Shepard in it in which Lucius listed a bunch of bands he was digging at the time. I liked the name, so I bought President/New Wave Hot Dogs and have been devoted to their music ever since. So when Lucius talks, I listen. Here's an old article I stumbled across where Lucius talks up Paul Mann's novels. 21:20 c-dog
WooHoo! North by Northwest is finally going to be available on DVD. And it's only 14.99 preordered at Checkout.com.
21:09 mega
Following up on Mega's Chow Yun Fat link, here's some more info on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the new CYF/Michelle Yeoh movie coming out this summer -- I see Yuen Woo-Ping is the fight choreographer ... cool. Finally saw a teaser for Shanghai Noon on tv. I was pleasantly surprised how promising it looks.
20:40 c-dog
Large list of items re: the recent reporting of the New York Times and Washington Post on the economy, IMF and World Bank and the protests, and the stock market: Economic Reporting Review. Found via Robot Wisdom.
10:58 N
What should Microsoft's punishment be? Breaking them up creates the possibility of two monopolies. I personally think I'm leaning toward open sourcing the code. Too bad there's no talk of that as a possible option.
04:02 mega
Privacy advocates score a victory. I for one am glad that intel backed off this ID business. Either way I think my next PC is gonna be an AMD.
03:31 mega
Any Chow Yun-Fat fans out there should take a look here.
03:26 mega
You've all probably heard of DeCSS. Well maybe not. It's the code that cracks the encryption on DVD titles. Here is an interesting read on the whole situation.
03:06 mega
Sticking with the monkey motif we all know and love I present to you: Pocket Monkey! Now I want a palmtop more than ever....
00:05 mega Thursday, April 27, 2000
More on the rasslin' theme. Bob Backlund is running for Congress in Connecticut's 1st District. I can't even muster the energy to work up a decent dig. When Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka puts together a ticket with S.D. 'Special Delivery' Jones, then I'll be ready to head to the ballot box.
21:49 c-dog
I still can't see how people can watch this stuff. Soap opera for men sort of explains it but not quite......
16:04 mega Wednesday, April 26, 2000
The Free Network Project is trying to set up an a censorship free and more anonymous version of the web. Will it work? Depends on how many people are willing to "host" information on their site. Anyway it's still worth a look if you don't like the way the internet is headed.
17:16 mega
Back to MP3s and Napster! As much as I hate Limp Bizkit I have to respect them for this.
16:37 mega
Update to my spyware post yesterday. These are most of the programs that may load the offending software onto your computer. This sort of subversive "spying" is outragous. There is no option to "opt out" or even any real explanation of the nature of there intrusion. In fact they hide the spyware deep in your system. On a positive note I did hear that once this was made public a few months ago the spyware part of these programs have mysteriously stopped being part of the download for alot of this software. Still it's better to be safe....
16:32 mega
It appears that the final word on the Elian affair might be Wazzup!
15:48 N
Wondering if something is a hoax or not? Well here are is a page with links to alot of different pages so you can debunk whatever your whacked out co-workers/friends try to convince you is true.
04:42 mega
I hadn't realized that Metallica invoked the RICO act in their suit against Napster and users of Napster. Really good way to treat fans of your music. Sue 'em. When sales of music actually go down then I'll be against MP3 trading but the evidence is to the contrary. Since CD burners and MP3s have become basically mainstream sales in the music industry continue to grow. Sort of deflates Metallica's and Dr Dre's contention that they're losing money ($100,000 dollars a song according to the suits).
04:20 mega Tuesday, April 25, 2000
Spyware exists. If you download programs off the internet spyware may be running on your computer without you knowing about it as you read this. How can you detect and get rid of it? The above link will tell you all you want to know.
23:41 mega Well here is a link to the Dani Bunten Berry Memorial page so I can confirm that one case for you at least. The rest I haven't heard about though. Maybe this kind of this is more prevalent in society at large than we know (or want to know). 23:12 mega I think this news is ancient, or maybe it's false or an urban legend, I wish I had a web page to link to about this, maybe I'm hypocritically ripping to shreds the concept of privacy right now... But Dan Bunton, the creator of the games MULE and Global Conquest, is now Danielle Berry. William Mataga, the creator of the game Shamus, is now Cathryn. And Jay Fenton, a creator of Gorf, and Macromedia Director, now goes by the name Jamie Faye. What is it about designing software that makes people want to change their gender? When I find out, so will you. 22:54 N
Andre Young, aka Dr Dre, ups the ante in his suit against napster. He's apparently targeting users of the software now and plans to name several students specifically. Maybe he should target the cassete tape next. I hear you can copy music onto that too.....
20:41 mega
I need a job. I really really need to get a job. But sites like this remind me of what's exactly in store for me back in the working world....sigh.
15:43 mega
Chubby Monkey needs someone to play with.
15:11 mega Monday, April 24, 2000I never knew there was a name for these guys and their haircut of choice. 19:06 c-dog
Better not mess with me according to this study. Honestly what a bunch of drivel. You mean competition brings out agressive tendencies!?! 13:33 mega The creator of PKZip died. Drank himself to death. 13:24 mega
Anything for a story. An LA Times journalist is charged with throwing rocks at Miami police and then photographing the action. Story here. And if anyone doesn't care about this post and wishes to shut me up on account of my mistaken fundamental assumptions that journalism has or should have integrity, then just keep it to yourself.
09:11 N Sunday, April 23, 2000
Every once in a while I buy a new CD and like it so much I feel compelled to get the band's entire catalog. Doesn't happen very often but it did just happen again. The Dismemberment Plan is just a great great band. Go to the records section and download the MP3 of "what do you want me to say?" and see if you agree.
20:05 mega
Ever wonder what's the connection between Easter and rabbits? Find out at the Straight Dope page. Lots of answers to the questions you've always been too embarrassed to ask for fear of looking like an idiot
00:46 c-dog Saturday, April 22, 2000You need help? I just watched Walker, Texas Ranger ... and it wasn't the first time. 23:40 c-dog
I have seen almost every episode of Law and Order at least 5 times (minimum) now except for the newest season of course. If I could I would own the whole series on DVD. It's got some sort of unnatural control over me. I never get tired of it. I think I need help.....
21:52 mega
Like I said I think your basic assumptions are incorrect. You assume that the plan this company is trying for will in fact come to pass. I don't believe it will. Fact is companies have ideas they try to implement all the time and when they take them to market they flat out don't work and I believe most of what this company intends as put forth by the source you gave will just not "float". I'll tell you right now that if any ISP tries to force ads on people they will lose customers: lower costing or not. End of story. So using an example of listening to one minute of commercials before making a phone call carries no weight for me. Also there is enough competition in the ISP market that any "non-tracking" ISP will probably be about what I pay now (if not less in the months it would take to implement this). Furthermore the second they try to force parents with underage kids to give "permission" to track their kids or they'll cut their internet service they will bring the wrath of the government down on themselves because that's a hot button issue now. If there was a monopoly in ISP services then I would worry but as it stands I actually believe the market can handle this. So don't get me wrong. I don't like the idea of being tracked blatantly like that and if I thought it was going to be an issue then I would be upset. I appreciate that people like yourself will inform me as to what ISP buys into this service and I will avoid them. So I can continue to surf the web in the unsecure and easily trackable manner I do right now.
20:57 mega
To me, this is akin to having all of our telephones illegally wiretapped, and being forced to listen to one minute of ads before being able to dial the phone each and every time. And oh, but you can avoid this if you can afford to give the phone company more money, so they can recoup the "loss" they're incurring for not being able to have data on you to sell...
20:01 N
I can't presume to speak for all those not enraged, but I will address a couple of the points raised below... First, are you implying there is somewhere one could go to see pictures of pretty young girls on the internet?! I'm shocked, shocked I say! C-Dog turns up nose and gets down to the business of reasonable disagreement...
17:57 c-dog
You realize they can and do already track you, right? I mean especially now that you have DSL. Remember that free service that you were using to track info for your website? Well the versions they charge for already has all kinds of info on you (your IP anyway). Personally I'm with C-Dog. I have little expectation of privacy while on the web. And if I wanted supreme privacy then there will always be hacks out there and ways around this kind of stuff because hackers live to circumvent this kind of thing. Also with the competitive nature of the ISP industry there will always be services that can use NOT being part of this as a selling point. Honestly any service that opts for a two tier price structure or forcing ads on its customers is shooting themselves in the foot and other ISPs will be glad to take their customers at normal prices. I don't think things will get as dire as you predict mainly because I feel the assumptions you are basing your predictions on are fundamentaly flawed. I'd spend more energy railing against the personal info that is traded everyday in the "real world". Info like criminal records, debt, etc. are bought and sold ever day to a myriad of agencies. None of this is controlled so if any info is wrong it's near impossible to fix it. That's an issue. Whether I surf porn or not isn't so much for me.
17:33 mega
To those not enraged by Predictive Networks:
14:44 N Watched Elian's cousin get interviewed on NBC news this morning after Elian was removed at gunpoint from the house in Miami: she's kinda nuts. "We didn't know Marshalls were gonna come..." Whatever. Everybody else in the world knew what was coming, weren't they watching the news? "They didn't need guns..." Wish they hadn't, but we all saw the protester who, when interviewed on tv, babbled inanely about " ... you remember Waco? This gonna be another Waco, my friend ..." You gotta take some of soft-skulls at their word and prepare for the worst. "It didn't have to come to this..." No, it didn't. The boy could have been given to his father, his legal and rightful custodian, as soon as was possible. "They aren't human, the people who did this ... Janet Reno has no heart ... they are dogs ..." That's the kind of seige-mentatlity/distorted thinking that head cases indulge in before they do something stupid and monstrous to another human being. Those Marshalls are human beings. Human beings who were given the difficult job of enforcing the rule of law in hostile, potentially dangerous situation. To imply otherwise is to say that they are a legitimate target for violent actions -- that's insanity. I hope the great-uncle and cousin don't have that poor kid's head all screwed up from listening to their self-serving justifications for their immoral behavior. 10:45 c-dog
Re: Privacy Issue Raised in last post.
10:28 c-dog
Massive Tracking of Web Users Planned via ISPs. Do not read unless you want to become enraged. Via PrivacyDigest with lots more related links there.
09:44 N Friday, April 21, 2000
Being John Malkovich was one of my favorite films last year, despite coming apart at the seams a bit at the end. More from Stipe's film factory could be a good thing.
21:58 c-dog
Mmmmmm....insect larvae....... 19:15 mega
Still thinking about tofu and healthy eating. Here's an interesting site, www.beyondveg.com, and an interesting article in particular: Which Omnivore Diet? The "Omnivorism = Western Diet" Fallacy. Basically, the site makes the case that hominids have been omnivores all the time, and not vegetarian, and that a completely vegetarian or vegan diet is not healthy for most people. But here's the plot twist: what we now call "omnivorous" in the world is not the healthy hominid omnivorous diet. It's not like, "Vegetarianism isn't the perfect human diet, so it's totally debunked ha ha, so go out and have your factory farmed beef and milk!" The perfect hominid diet may include the lean meat and organs of animals as they are found in the wild- and lots of insects and larvae. Found indirectly via Eatonweb.
16:45 N
Ummmmmmmm........I don't know what to say about this one.
13:41 mega Thursday, April 20, 2000I wonder if the tofu study took into account the percentage of the tofu eating group that was mush-brained, dope-smokin' hippies? Maybe it wasn't so much the tofu is all I'm sayin'. 22:11 c-dog
Christi alerted me to this Mallrats related news item. Good old Madison. People don't believe me when I tell them it's a whole different culture when it comes to drinking out there, but I gotta think if the Easter Bunny's a'brawlin ... it's on account o' the booze.
21:16 c-dog That tofu story is a bummer. You eat tofu all your life for the health benefits, to protect yourself from cancers- you live a long life, but you're dumb as a stone at the end. You just can't win. 20:59 N
Review of Current Comics:
20:49 N 15:15 mega
This has to be just a rumor. I can't see Square being bought out by Microsoft. Sony wouldn't let that happen. I mean if it did then Sony is sort of dead in the water in a sense in Japan as wherever Final Fantasy goes so goes the Japanese public. Sure the PS2 will still be a hit but their ace in the hole has always been that Square was "squarely" (Ugh!) in their corner. If Microsoft buys out Square they will definitely be a player in the console war and a major threat to Sony. Sony already blinked by adding a modem and harddrive. What'll they do after this news?
15:11 mega All you D&D players past and present should take a look here. Wizards of the Coast have released a classic module B3 Palace of the Silver Princess online in .pdf format as it was originally published. It was apparently pulled the day it was shipped out because of objectionable art then reissued. It looks like this is going to be the first of many modules released online. Man, I was (am?) such a geek....yeesh. 04:06 mega
I knew I didn't eat tofu for a reason.
03:39 mega Man, you should have told me Looper was playing. The Flaming Lips I could care less about but Looper is related to Belle and Sebastion a band that I do care about. Damn. 01:06 mega
Just got in from seeing Looper and the Flaming Lips at the Webster in lovely downtown Hartford. The Lips put on a solid show, but seem like they might be getting a little long in the tooth. Looper, though, Looper was quite good. I have a strong feeling I'm going to be late for work tomorrow.
00:39 c-dog Wednesday, April 19, 2000
Elian: The Movie. You knew it was gonna happen. You hoped it wouldn't but you just knew.....
23:43 mega
A 15 year old Canadian boy calling himself Mafiaboy was arrested and blamed for at least some of the recent DoS attacks. Specifically the four hour CNN attack on feb 4th. It's interesting to note that he is described as "not that good" a hacker by those arresting him. Wonder what sort of sentence they'll stick him with.
18:56 mega
When exactly is The Snapper going to show up on DVD? Well at least I can see Superstar on DVD, right?......RIGHT?!?!
16:39 mega
Tired of telemarketers? In the East this doesn't seem to much of an issue. When I lived in Madison though they called for C-Dog at least 5 times a day. Boy I wish I had this script back then. I found this link via usr/bin/girl. I mention that because it's a weblog worth visiting. There's an excerpt from the Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming on there today as well. (Hear that Rob W.?)
15:18 mega
This game is cartridge crack. Not like I don't have enough in the way of games to play.......
02:31 mega Tuesday, April 18, 2000Taxes bad. The Sixth Sense on DVD for only $9.95 (no shipping, NO TAX!) from MobShop... good. 22:12 c-dog I forgot to pay my taxes yesterday. Remembered 10 minutes ago. I thought today was the deadline in CT, something to do with Patriot's Day, but evidently I was wrong. The Post Office was dark and closed. There were a few other absent-minded folk hanging around the mailboxes debating whether to go look for an open Post Office (in Massachussetts?) or just drop the forms in the box and hope for the best. I didn't hang around, just dropped the forms and left. Having to pay in after paying half of every paycheck ... insult on top of injury, with a little more injury like a cherry on top. 22:05 c-dog
Some talk about Jet Li and possible upcoming projects at AICN.
21:08 c-dog
Enough politics and ranting and being good. Men, enjoy the Hooker Dance.
18:12 N I really think that this article debunking the digital divide totally misses the point. It concludes that the digital divide isn't because of race or gender but because of education. Duh. When was this ever denied? Don't we teach and educate and shape the expectations and technological aspirations of minorities and women and the poor differently? Yes. And what's this rhetoric about liberals giving the poor computers at taxpayer expense because now it's a "right"? As more and more of our society goes online and appears only online- then computer ownership becomes a necessity, or you risk falling through the cracks of the society. And simply not everyone at this time can afford or has access to or fully understands a computer and internet access. The telephone is not an adequate analogy, as if the poor just have to wait until the price goes down- because the phone never threatened to incorporate or replace large segments of newspapers, government offices, government forms and paperwork, storefronts, etc. What's wrong with Gore's plan to train people to get into the internet economy? Isn't that a good form of welfare that gets people off welfare? What's this great fantasy about the internet being blind and classless? Isn't all technology that way? A nuclear bomb is blind and classless too. But if the Power Elite have the bomb and you don't... Ugh. Too many problems with this idiotic article. 18:11 N
John McCain to condemn Confederate flag. It's easy to take a stand when you don't need their votes anymore, eh Johnny?
18:08 N
Japan eases export limits on Sony PlayStation2. What a publicity stunt. Sort of like when the new Apple Computer came out a year or so ago (I forget the name. G2?). Personally any military that would use the PS2 for missile guidance isn't a military I'm particularly frightened of.
15:49 mega
Satellite images of Area 51 available.
15:45 mega
The FEC dismissed George W. Bush's complaint against this hilarious site. Yay for freedom of speech! The news is only on the New York Times login site so far today, so I can't link to the actual story at this time. Those wacky Republicans: they want the government out of your life- unless you say something bad about Republicans.
Labels: Conservative Goons 11:38 N Monday, April 17, 2000Many people with similar values as my own were beaten, arrested, tear gassed, pepper sprayed and otherwise harassed in Washington DC this past week by a completely militarized police force while protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, organizations which require sovereign nations to devastate their environments and take on insurmountable debt in order to restructure their economies for domination by multinational corporations. End of rant. 22:11 N
Get your new Jackie fix: Cinema Confidential: "Shanghai Noon" Internet Clip.
21:15 c-dog
PS2: Military tool?
21:06 mega Sunday, April 16, 2000This ever happen to you ... you register at a site, give yourself a username and password, forget about the site for a while until you find out they've got a coupon you can use, go back, and you've forgotten your username? Forgetting your password isn't a problem, every site will remind you once you give your username, but if you can't remember your username you're screwed. (And, unlike the password you can settle on and use at every site, your username first choice is always already taken or invalid.) Genius-boy (that's me) finally figured out a way around that little prob. Make your username the reminder question for your password! It's so simple, yet so brilliant. I can't believe it took me five years to think of it. 20:37 c-dog
This may (or may not) be an interesting way to get new music. It may also be a way to swap your perfectly good cd for one some idiot used as a coaster in his dorm room.
20:26 c-dog
I thought pan & scan always meant losing some of the widescreen image, but this ign.com article shows that doesn't always have to be exactly true. (This is my first posting using Blogger's bookmarklet. Pretty neat.)
20:20 c-dog Seeing The Filth and the Fury has re-energized my love for Never Mind The Bollocks... Truly a great classic album. 18:31 N Do the accusations of abuse make anyone else feel like they're getting smoke blown up their ass? And, cruel as it may be to say, even if there were some truth to it ... does Cuba get to decide which American parents are fit or unfit to raise children? It's not our call. First, the kid goes home with his father. Second, let the Cuban state decide if its citizen is fit to raise the boy. I wonder, all the woman protesting Elian's return to Cuba, if their child were taken by a their spouse to Cuba and the spouse died there, would they expect their child back? I think so. Hypocrites. Cuba vs. the USA should have nothing to do with it. The boy should go home. I don't even care if he wants to go or not, you think he's old enough to decide his custody situation? Bunch of crap, that's all this is. 15:12 c-dog Saturday, April 15, 2000
Anyone who is looking foward to Diablo 2 as much as I am (alot) should go here.
20:10 mega
Sony seems to be running a bit scared here. Throwing on a HD and a modem at the last second. Be interesting to see how much more the PS2 going to cost now. I mean at 300 dollars it was already a bit on the pricy side.
19:41 mega Cool, near simultaneous posting there! 19:06 c-dog
Two interesting DVD related news items here. DVHS doesn't sound like it'll compete with DVD. More capacity is cool but where are the features? And rewind/fast-fowarding just plain sucks. Also the fight against DVD rental pricing continues...
19:06 mega Disney must think Shanghai Noon will do well. There's already talk of a sequel. I'm not crazy about the poster, but the advance buzz is Jackie and Owen Wilson have good on-screen chemistry. Opens the same weekend as MI:2, it'll be interesting to see how much audience it gets. 19:04 c-dog
DVD sales continue to grow.
19:03 mega Friday, April 14, 2000I was very busy at work today, and I have plans tonight for dinner and to see my friend's band. But both my own website and TC are scheduled to get some quality attention from me this weekend. Just a quickie to post the latest on the Napster front: Metallica sues. This makes me want to think more on my position- I was trying to get the artists on my side vs. Big Music Money. No, I think we're still right. (1) Fans will still pay money, (2) the artists need to get better recording deals with the Corporations, and (3) the recordable cassette tape deck didn't end anybody's money train back then, why should this? 18:01 N Thursday, April 13, 2000How can I post with so much to read? You guys have been going nuts! I love it! I'll fire off a real missive once I get this to stop crashing IE when I try to print the forms I thought I was going to get around mailing in this year. 22:07 c-dog
I can't believe they actually used a picture where she's sucking on something (a lollipop?)...heh. What was the art director over there thinking?
20:07 mega
One good thing about this whole Elian affair: his cousin Marisleysis is hot to me. What a name. I'd stay close to her too, kid.
19:47 N
Has anyone seen C-Dog? Please send any and all C-Dog sightings to us. We miss him......
18:10 mega
Stan Lee will reinvent the DC Universe. I don't know how to react to this. 25% of me: Blasphemy! Stan Lee IS Marvel. 25%: The DC Universe sucks so bad that even he can't save it- this project will suck. 25%: If anyone could save it, it's Stan Lee. 25%: Stan Lee's prime creative time pre-dates Watergate- this project will suck. Not even a three-issue exploration for me.
18:03 N
Actually I'm starting to find the whole Elian saga more interesting now. I too was sick of it for a bit but now it's starting to get more and more interesting. Have I gone crazy? Maybe but I don't think so. What could possibly be interesting about this "dead-horse" story? Well the religious angle is fascinating. On MSNBC they were saying that alot of the cuban exiles see Elian as a Moses figure and now sitings of the Virgin Mary are appearing all over Miami. It was even reported that Elian himself believes he sees her from time to time now. Plus it'll be interesting to see how the government handles extricating the kid with the shadow of Waco hanging over them.
18:01 mega Sick of Elian! Sick sick sick and tired. If we had real leadership in this country, someone important would have made a decision before he even left the custody of the Coast Guard or whoever picked him up Thanksgiving weekend. Instead, the leadership vacuum is filled by Cuban exiles, who are more than happy to shape the country's foreign policy. Where's the Power Elite in this situation- unless they want this situation to drag on forever? I have a theory. I think that the Power Elite is stuck over Cuba (as stuck as they can ever be). They've made a shitload of money off of the Communist threat (which they created and sustained and demonized) and so committed to the Isolate Cuba policy. But now, the Cold War is over, and the threat of Cuba doesn't pay the bills anymore- not like taking it over by pouring in American trade and culture would- but they can't do that because of the Isolate Cuba policy. Just a theory. Polls say that Americans are creeping towards wanting an end to the boycott policy, talking heads are starting to spew in favor of it, saying that Castro would never have lasted this long if we had trade, the PR campaign is well under way... In fact, this Elian debacle may even turn the country more pro-trade with Cuba, as the Miami exiles make fools of themselves trying to run things. Now the Elite plan is clear... the Mafia will be running Havana again in no time. 15:35 N Wednesday, April 12, 2000The thing is both record companies and motion picture companies do the same thing when they feel threatened. They circle their wagons and then they raise prices once they win anything. What they never seem to get is if you offer decent content for a good price people will buy it and they will end up making more money. Look at the Titanic DVD. The company that released that added virtually no extras and charged a fairly high sell through price of $29.99. It didn't sell even close to what they expected for the biggest movie of all time. Then the Matrix came out a few weeks later and it went gangbusters. A quality package with lots of extras and a decent price (MSR 24.99). People ate it up. Highest selling DVD ever up till now and the Sixth Sense (another fairly priced DVD with oodles of extras). It's ironic to think that back in the 80s the MP industry actually tried to stop the sale of VCRs because they were afraid it would destroy them and now the same industry relies on the videotape revenue to survive. Will they never learn to embrace new technology? 14:41 mega Record companies are evil. They charge us 16.99 for a CD that costs them 4 cents to make: 2 cents of materials and manufacturing and 2 cents to the artist. They should burn- but I'm not hopeful. I still cling to the small chance that the Information/Internet Age will lead to a glimpse of the kind of freedom, say, that the replicators on Star Trek would. What's more likely is that the I/I Age is ultimately only going to hand the Power Elite a sweet opportunity to revamp the property laws more to their favor. The Motion Picture people want to make it illegal to merely LINK to that DVD-breaking code on one's website. There's a few major court battles in the works that could shape the entire landscape- and we all know what big money usually gets one in court: victory. 09:12 N
Meet Joe Black this won't be.
04:19 mega
New Dr. Strange miniseries written by Harlan Ellison and drawn by Romita Jr. Frank Miller writing a new Batman series. JLA showing up in Batman Beyond. Any of this interest you? Then for more go here.
04:11 mega
Here is a link for Neil. Just in case your starting to think it's real.... 03:49 mega
Apparently there is going to be an LA Confidental TV series. Umm, ok......more here.
02:53 mega Tuesday, April 11, 2000
Are skins the next popup banners? Netscape 6's skin feature could be both boon and bane.
23:11 mega
If you are as sick of the whole Elian saga as I am this might cheer you up.
Labels: Conservative Goons 22:51 mega
OK this site is really really disturbing....
20:51 mega Man I hope Napster wins this. I can see the artist and the industries position but bottomline is those that are using Napster to avoid buying album probably wouldn't buy the album anyways. Any music lover will support their favorite band. The only musicians I can really see suffering are the one hit wonder bands. No more buying an album and finding out the rest of it sucks (sorry Hootie's of the world). And it's hard for me to feel too sorry for the industry when they are increasing the price of CDs even though the cost to manufacture has fallen to the point of almost being negligible. Notice that most major releases over the holidays were a dollar or two more? That was no accident. It's the industry seeing if the albums will sell with the higher price. Makes me sick. 20:40 mega
The next Star Trek television series might be Star Trek: Birth of the Federation.
Labels: sci-fi 16:15 N
Go here for a $10 off a $25 dollar purchase coupon for Checkout.com. The site has the lowest preorder price for Bring Out the Dead I've seen ($17.99). Use the good e-coupons while they last!
14:22 mega 10:50 N So, I'm at work, I look down- and I'm not wearing a belt! Chris, weren't you forgetting to wear a belt to work a while back?! What is up? 10:38 N
Well it was bound to happen. Rental pricing of DVDs has come to pass. A sad day for DVD collectors like me who depended on the preorder pricing online to bolster our collections. Oh well, hopefully DVD-rams start coming down in price. The way I feel is any studio that does rental pricing doesn't deserve my money.
02:39 mega So I spent a good hour or so trying to figure out how the heck to use paintshop pro to make a new logo. Man I wish my free trial of Flash didn't run out. Sigh... guess it's back to the drawing board (literally) tommorrow.... 01:29 mega Finally saw High Fidelity today. Overall I liked it but it wasn't as great as I expected it to be. I think it's mostly a case of all the positive hype notching up my expectations to a point where it would have had to have been the best movie in the last year not be disappointing. Worth seeing- yes. "DVD-worthy"-iffy.. Labels: movies 01:25 mega Monday, April 10, 2000
Saw The Filth and the Fury tonight. Loved it. A must for any Pistols or punk fan.
Labels: movies 22:40 N Sunday, April 09, 2000Ummm... what's happening to our posts that are more than 7 days old? I know they're not supposed to be shown re: our settings, but they're not in the posting area anymore either. Gone forever? 09:32 N
Who hasn't excited the chicken yet?
08:54 N This snow is f*cked! 08:48 N
I was always under the impression that all movies made it at least to video. I mean if films like Labels: movies 04:20 mega Tried to go see High Fidelity tonight- sold out. We didn't plan well. Ended up having bad diner food and then coming home. Sigh. Also must see The Filth and The Fury, the new Sex Pistols documentary. Labels: movies 00:28 N The apartment is now DSL-ized! I'm surfing the net so fast, it feels like I'm watching television! 00:25 N
Just found out that my preordered Three Kings DVD shipped! I wasn't expecting it till about mid-month so it's a pleasant surprise. Now if Fight Club would just stop being pushed back...... Labels: movies 00:19 mega Saturday, April 08, 2000So it's official. El-Amin is leaving for the draft. Sigh..... I guess it was inevitable with the whole having-two-kids-and-all thing going on. Labels: sports 04:06 mega Well I'm getting my second wind now. Back to the basement to try and finish up Front Mission 3. Should get to sleep before 6am today..... 02:59 mega Frears is directing that live TV film Fail Safe if anyone cares. Interesting to see that he also directed The Grifters. I still need to get that on DVD........ Labels: movies 02:55 mega Speaking of movies the new X-men trailor is up. I have to say that going by the trailer this film is going to be great! Of course a good trailor doesn't always make a good film (cough-Godzilla-cough). Still I have faith in Singer. The LOTR trailer is up too. Looking at stills from the trailer this film looks amazing. Getting Peter Jackson to direct was a stroke of genius. The next Star Wars? Labels: movies 02:46 mega
Bought some barbecue and cheddar Lay's chips today. All I can say is Mmmmmmmmm 02:35 mega Man, I'm not even starting my "day" until around midnight..... 02:31 mega I don't know how you guys can handle the early a.m. posts. This is about as late as I can go. Just saw High Fidelity. Damn good movie. Stephen Frears is an excellent director. It's a great role for Cusak, tons of great supporting acting too. I'm going to go see it again tomorrow (later today). Also, I put Electr-O-Pura in the disc player today, and I've been in heaven. I forgot how good that album is. Bop-bop-bodda-bop-bop.... 01:00 c-dog Thursday, April 06, 2000It's 2:30 AM, and I couldn't fall back asleep easily, so I turn on the television. To my delight, the ST:TNG episode "Perfect Mate" is on! Famke's hair is horrible- but her beauty, and her attitude turning on every man on the ship and practically stalking Picard more than makes up for it. Hey, Mega's not the only one who can post in the wee hours of the morning, right? 02:44 N Wednesday, April 05, 2000TA DA! And then there were curves! The blog text is cozy with the left and right edges now with cellpadding to zero. There's some fixes for that I'm sure. 19:59 N Tuesday, April 04, 2000
1. I like the curves on your site Neil. Adding that here would make it look alot better. So put 1 vote for it down.
02:22 mega Sunday, April 02, 2000
Item 1: Publishing after each posting item so the time/name stamp appears is good. But please post first!- so one can check for spelling errors and bad links. We don't want to publish 10,000 times and clog the Blogger list fixing things.
12:38 N I would say that we are close to going "live." As in: posting our UConn comic book computer game content for a week to see how it goes, then going public on Blogger, then submitting to Eatonweb Blog Portal, maybe the webrings. As in: I know there's a lot more we could do with the design, it definitely looks no frills (maybe we should say somewhere that we acknowledge it is no-frills?- or is it that obvious?), but what will we do? We could tinker forever at this point. We should have a subtitle of, "Hoping the content overrides the design." Ha. One issue though is archiving. If it goes as suspected, we'll accumulate a lot of content fast, and we don't want the page too long as Mega said (or was it Chris?). One last point: I really don't mind if it's our big personal chat room just for us. It's just that kind of attitude that will make it work if it has a chance to work. 12:22 N Saturday, April 01, 2000Experimenting... 19:48 c-dog I just tinkered with the post format code and I got it working. I made it how I like, feel free to use another font besides arial or whatever. I think I nailed the space between posts sweetly, though. 17:34 N |
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