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  • Living with Apple

    Dave Winer just got a mac and has been commenting about things he likes and doesn’t like about it. For example, he really doesn’t like Safari. Though he is happy with his Airport Express.

    He’s also been getting a bit of advice about software to use:

    This is the kind of advice…
    This is the kind of advice I’ve been getting from Mac users. Good stuff. You know, based on the rah-rah’s from developers who are probably too scared of Apple to say what they really think, I thought everyone else thought Apple was the perfect company and the perfect computer. That’s the downside of people being too scared to speak up, we get shitty information. How can we change this system, so that people aren’t so scared? Or can we get Apple to thicken up their skin a bit, and learn to not punish people who have the nerve to criticize them. Blogs were supposed to fix all this. Frankly I think it hurts Apple to just have rah-rah public discourse and commentary. [via Scripting News]

    Most people I know who have macs are more than willing to criticize them. The thing is, I find that the positives for me greatly outweigh the negatives. I’ve had no real problems with Safari. I think most of their software is designed for the casual computer user. It does the basics and tends not to get too fancy.

    So in my case I tend to praise Apple a lot since in general it’s been much less of a hassle than my experiences with Windows in its various forms. It’s definitely not perfect, but I’ve yet to find an OS that is.

  • Hung Like a Horse

    Here’s a fun little video for The Hollywood Reporter 26th Annual Key Art Awards. It features a number of well known voiceover artists. I know I’ve definitely heard all of them before on various movie trailers.

    via Boing Boing

  • Always Being Chased

    Fun little bit of viral advertising over here at The Irish Job. I still want a Mini for myself.

    Link courtesy of Adrants.

  • TV on your phone

    Full episodes of cult TV sci-fi show Red Dwarf are being made available for fans to buy and watch on their mobile phone handsets.

    The Doctor Who special The Five Doctors, originally screened in 1983, is also part of the licensing deal. [BBC News]

    Okay, maybe I’m just a bit picky or something, but I really can’t see the enjoyment of watching TV on a cell phone screen. I think the smallest I could go is the PSP screen.

  • Snakes on a Plane

    I’ve started reading a few new blogs lately that I’ve found quite enjoyable. The first being Kung Fu Monkey, which is pretty entertaining. Today he points to a new screenwriter blog by Josh Friedman, the credited co-writer of War of the Worlds. Though it’s just a few posts old, it’s quite fun. My favorite post being the one about Snakes on a Plane.

    I ask Agent the name of the project, what it’s about, etc. He says: Snakes on a Plane. Holy shit, I’m thinking. It’s a title. It’s a concept. It’s a poster and a logline and whatever else you need it to be. It’s perfect. Perfect. It’s the Everlasting Gobstopper of movie titles.

    …

    Now out of both loyalty to the sacred bond between studio and screenwriter and also a serious desire to keep getting hired in this town, I will not give away any of the plot details of SNAKES ON A PLANE. But know this. As the great Sam Jackson would say: There are motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane.

    What else do you need to know? How the snakes get on the plane, what the snakes do once they’re on the plane, who puts the snakes on the plane, who is trying to get the snakes off the plane…This is not for you to ponder. There are snakes on the plane. End of fucking story. [I find your lack of faith disturbing]

    Added bonus: comments from Samuel L Jackson on the movie.

  • You Are On The Global Frequency

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    After reading about the pilot for a TV show called Global Frequency over on Heath Row’s Media Diet my curiosity went into overdrive. I read up about it some on the net and then hunted down a copy of it. One of the best pilot episodes I’ve seen ever I think.

    But what is just as interesting is how this leaked pilot has really generated interest in the show. People are asking “how can we help get this show to TV”. The site FrequencySite has coverage of what’s going on with it (though they don’t suggest you go out and download the show, that would be bad :)). But imagine if a network were smart enough to use this as a way to promote a new show. Especially one that might be a bit of a risk (as this one may be). Then see how strong the feedback is, and they might get an idea of how successful it could be.

    Anyways, if you get a chance to see this, definitely check it out. I now kind of hope that it does actually get picked up after all.

    Now Playing: Love at First Sight from the album “Black Sea” by XTC

  • How to Spot a Terrorist

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    LJ user terrajen points to today’s New York City edition of the Metro describing how to recognize terrorists.

    So if you see someone sweating a lot during the summer and avoiding eye contact in Manhattan call the cops!

  • AOL on Crack

    Adrants has links to two videos from AOL promoting their new service AIM mail.

    To promote its new AIM Mail, AOL has a couple of strange online videos, created by ATTIK. One has a receptionist drifting into a daydream which consists of superhero midgets…oops…dwarfs…oops…little people giving her a tickle attack. The other has a pair of sushi falling in love only to have one killed by getting eaten. Both end with @aim addresses and no other form of linkage.

    Once at the AIM Mail site, there are blogs that promote the videos. The videos can be viewed HERE and HERE. [Adrants]

  • Some Fun For The Afternoon

    No real point here, just some links I found interesting today.

    Now I’m off to try updating this blog to MT 3.2.

  • Musical Happiness

    Today I did some music shopping while my sister met a friend at the mall for coffee and discovered they’d re-released the original Sasha & John Digweed Renaissance mixes. A friend of mine had the original release and I’d had burned copies, but I definitely wanted to get my own copies eventually (even if the packaging isn’t quite as slick as they were).

    And it looks like there are more mix CDs coming out again. It seems like there’d been a bit of a lull for a while there. I noticed a new Digweed CD and two new Sasha ones. I’m not sure how new they actually are, but I hadn’t seen them before.

    Now playing: Song For Life (Steppin Razor Mix) from the album “Renaissance The Mix Collection (Disc 1) Re-mastered 10th Anniversary Edition” by Leftfield