I’m a happy boy. My copy of Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) arrived from CDJapan today. These guys rock. I’m so psyched the check this out later this week.

Ernie athe Attorney writes about some articles in Newsweek:

Newweek articles on Apple, and TIVO –   Steven Levy’s Newsweek article discusses Apple’s new Rendezvous “software that instantly links people in wireless networks. For instance, when several people who have laptops equipped with iTunes music software gather together, a superlibrary instantly forms, combining all the songs on everybodyâs computer.”  Cool.  Suddenly the idea of switching from PC to Macintosh is making even more sense to me (at least at home).

Newsweek also has a great article about TIVO, PVR’s and the battle for our TV’s.  [Ernie the Attorney]

I’d say that currently Apple and TiVo are two of my favorite companies. I certainly use their products as much as if not more then most others I own.

I have never felt the need to try one of these, now I’m glad I haven’t:

A Very Scary Company.  One thing I wish the EFF should do.  Why don’t they blow the trumpet on comScore?  This company has tricked millions of people into “download accelerators” and other trojan horse software that tracks their traffic, credit card usage (it actually captures numbers), and more — all in the name of so-called research.  Most of the download accelerator software providers they use are front companies. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

I’d always wondered what these so-called “accelerators” did, and how they actually did it.

Ever since I saw the Fishing with John with Dennis Hopper I chuckle every time I hear talk of giant squids. Well, it seems that one washed up on an australian beach!

A giant squid with tentacles measuring at least 15 metres (yards) has washed up on a southern Australian beach, exciting scientists who believe they may have stumbled across a new species.

The monster cephalopod washed up on Seven Mile Beach in the southern island state of Tasmania some time over the weekend. The squid, which weighs about 250 kg (550 pounds), was hauled by trailer to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on Monday.

FIFTEEN METERS! Yow!

I finally started to dig into the second disc of Danny Teneglia’s Back to Basics. While I thought the first disc was good, this disc is amazing so far. The first four songs blended together wonderfully and resonated with me amazingly! Now I want to go and listen to all of it while driving around in the sun.

So, I’m trying to figure out who this person who is putting my content into their page is. If it’s just a personal page, or what. It’s weird because I just started noticing the images loading on their page. It looks like they’ve been grabbing my rss feed, which is fine with me, but I am just curious as to who you are. If you’re out there and reading this, what’s up?

RightStuf has done it once again, they are taking preorders for the Cowboy Bebop CD set. It sounds amazing and the Bebop music CDs I have so far are really good. I’m just not ready to dump $130 on it. Bah.

I was just reminded that I had wanted to post this quote from Joss Whedon from his commentary on the Buffy season 2 DVDs:

“I think the two most important things in television are emotional resonance and rocket launchers. I mean, Party of Five has lots of emotional resonance, it makes me cry like a girl, but it’s really lacking in… rocket launchers.” -Joss Whedon

I ended up waking up obscenely early this morning. On the weekends it seems to be habit to wake up really early, then go to sleep late morning and sleep till mid-afternoon. Especially on these warmer mornings.

This morning I toddled over to Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square for a croissant and coffee while reading Expiration Date by Tim Powers. I’m almost 100 pages in and the book is great in that typical Powers way. I’ll most likely be curling up to read more of it when I take my late morning/early afternoon nap.

The whole lung thing’s been weighing on my brain since the other night. I’m trying not to stress about it, but I’m starting to get impatient!

So I’ve seen anime about people playing cards (Yu-Gi-Oh!), and playing Go (Hikaru-no-go). I was flipping around channels this morning and abc family is showing something called Beyblade. It’s people playing with tops. Yeah, those spinning things. In this case they’ve got tops with blades on the side of them that they spin against each other. Um, okay.