Cumpston, the genius behind the greatest review of Return of the King ever written, has scratched together some vulgar thoughts about Sin City, the upcoming Rodriguez-Miller splatter-fest. Dunno whether I’ll see the film itself, since Miller’s comics have gone downhill since the second Martha Washington series, and the less said about his film work (ahem…Robocop 2…cough) the better…but at least this review is funny as hell.
Apparently recording at home is the new hecklebot. Traditional studios are dying (at least in New York) in favor of tunesmiths concocting their magic in a spare room. I know next to nothing about making music, but I do like it when you can take thousands of dollars of technology and replace it with some software on a laptop.
This is a pretty superficial and shallow list of which stars look great on a high definition tv, and which look like refried hell, but at least it’s amusing. It also gives me one more reason to not bother with high-def.
The New York Times has an article on the lengths some soldiers (including ones who’ve already been in Iraq once already) are going to to get out of Mess O’ Potamia duty. Good on ’em.
Ever wanted to transfer a song between two iPods? Yeah, me neither, but here’s how, if you’re interested.
I’m really starting to dig these interviews with small Mac software shops. Ranchero makes Marsedit, a great little program I use to manage this site.
A whole lot of torrenty Chomsky goodness.
Bush is pushing arch-fiend and neocon Paul Wolfowitz to be the new head of the World Bank, as well as appointing strident mendicant Karen Hughes to represent America to the Arab world. To which I can only say…WTFBBQ?
People are already comparing Wolfowitz to Robert Macnamara, who also presided over a difficult war and then headed up the World Bank. But the difference here is that Macnamara wasn’t a rabid ideologue. He also spent his formative years fighting the Nazis, and his later career working against a counteracting force in the form of the Russians. Wolfowitz is an empire builder built on asserting American supremacy throughout the world.
And Karen Hughes….she’s just vile. A shrill demagogue who’s view of the world doesn’t extend much further than Texas. Ugh.
Apparently Bluetooth is starting to catch on, after years of being the red-headed stepchild of the technology world. Neato, I sez. My next phone will have to have Bluetooth, as I will then be able to sync it up with my Mac. And really, how can you dislike a technology named after a Norse king?