September 2005 Archives

From Newsaskew

Of particular interest: Kevin reveals early plans for a Dogma 10th Anniversary DVD, where they might shoot a new sequence showing HELL (we imagine during the Lee monologue, the spot where we years ago saw "Event Horizon" footage as a placeholder in the AVID cut).

This is by far my favorite Kevin Smith movie, and I would LOVE to see a longer cut. There are a bunch of scenes from the script that I am dyeing to see realized on film.

This fascinating article talk about a phenomena occurring in some wells were oil seems to "regenerate". Fascinating stuff!

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The Federal Communications Commission thinks you have the right to use software on your computer only if the FBI approves. No, really. In an obscure "policy" document releases around 9 p.m. ET last Friday, the FCC announced this remarkable decision.

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Only 400 of the leeter than thou will be in attendance. It's by invite only and they're going to announce something that will change everything! Just like the Segway did!

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During an interview this weekend promoting Elizabethtown, Kirsten Dunst confirmed rumors to Zap2it that Thomas Haden Church will play Sandman and Topher Grace is Venom in director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3, opening in theaters on May 4, 2007.

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"The deleted scenes include one that fans have been waiting a long time to see, one that shows Yoda arriving on the swamp-planet of Dagobah, where Luke Skywalker meets him in 'The Empire Strikes Back,'" [Jim] Ward said.
SWEEEEEET!

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I was going to comment on this, but...

Act after you plan, be vision directed, decide to schedule it. Feel free to use a number of tips and checklist to manage your projects yourself.

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Here's another neat example of what you can do with Google Maps. You can choose any year and see past hurricanes or you can choose 2005 and Rita and track her as she bears down on Houston and the Texas Gulf coast. Head to high ground Houston and Galveston.

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The @ sign traced from its roots pre-interwebs through cultures that don't necessarily call it 'at'

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Google has published a FAQ page for the "Secure Access" addon for their free WiFi service. This free VPN service is for the soon-to-be users of Google WiFi, which (according to the FAQ) is currently or will soon be in limited rollout in the SF bay area.

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George Lucas has begun searching for scribes to produce scripts for his upcoming television series based on the Star Wars film franchise.

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Scientists at Nexia Biotechnologies in Montreal have discovered what happens when you cross a spider with a goat.
Protein is extracted from the goat milk to produce silk fibers, called BioSteel, for bulletproof vests, medical supplies and space equipment.

Oh, dear lord. Now I have to be afraid of spider goats.

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Analyst Noah Goldblatt answers mounting speculation in the wake of the iPod nano concerning new Intel Macs and critiques AppleMatters for reports of solid state flash memory hard drives in iBooks and Mac Minis. A tablet computer to provide what an iPod video never could. Empirical analysis of Apple product strategy. Amazing.

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There's a lot of speculation about future iPods, and if they'll play video - but you don't need to wait, the latest version of podzilla (Linux for the iPod) plays video, and now video with sound. Here's a quick HOW TO on installing podzilla and a video with sound playing on an iPod photo...

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This is the zelda first ever commercial. Features two kids playing NES reading magazines and some wieird/cool rap. Check it out. Is really funny.

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What's that?

Why it's the sound of me, emerging from one of the hardest work weeks of my entire life (granted, I realize that I have invoked the wrath of the the Overtime God [he's going to need me to work on Saturday, mm k?] to make me work more, but I live dangerous like that).

I am so tired I think I could sleep standing up, and I am half tempted to try, just to prove the point. Last night was the ultimate of the long hours with work ending at 1:30 AM and resuming at 6 AM. I got in at 5:45 AM - for some reason this is the only time recently when I have gotten in on time. It makes no sense to me. 8:45, not-so-much, but 5:45, sign me up. Stupid internal clock.

I can't get into specifics, partially because the hallucination that sleep-depravation has provided wants to check his email, but I plan on recounting it in my future best-seller "Why I think my job is fascinating, and I can drone on for hours, while people nod as if I am speaking in tongues."

And with that fair denizens of the net, I bid you good night.

The cartoon band are set to break new technological ground by appearing on stage in 3D holographic format, although due to financial and creative technicalities, the trek will not take place until 2007.

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The existence of millennia-old trees and 140-year-old fish "suggest that no firm limit (to lifespan) is built into the human genome...

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Now, I want one of these. Hmmm... birthday?

Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at $199, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small design. So small, it will take your music places you never dreamed of.

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From DIGG: (I recieved this in an email from a friend that currently works at Best Buy. He made a copy up at the logistics counter of his store and emailed it to me verbatim. Being a past employee myself, I would have to say that this is right along the lines of Best Buy's 'tactics')

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A handy guide to some not-so-well-known system settings on Tiger, for all of the Mac geeks out there.

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