More Movies I Haven’t But Now Want To See

films of the year 06

Children of Men
I remember (gore effects master) Tom Savini saying that when he saw the Exorcist, that he believed this film entirely, and had absolutely no thoughts towards “how did they do that”. Children of Men is the sf equivalent.

The Fountain
No one fucking saw this movie. It’s Solyaris for my generation. It is a stunning acheivement for Darren Aronofsky, who is just going to keep on making great, personal, technically brilliant movies until he can’t anymore. [. . .] This is going to be a massive touchstone in ten years, right now it’s a movie that very few people saw and even fewer understood.

He also makes me wish I’d seen Casino Royale. Go read.

LifeDrive Notes: Some Freebies

Some programs from Freeware Palm I want to try on the LifeDrive…

PowerBtn v1.2

With PowerBtn, you can effortlessly remap one of your 4 main hard buttons into a new power button.

Now with a special “Program itself becomes power button” feature!

Kaleida v1.1

A free open-source kaleidoscope program for doodling.

Pneumotox v1.3

There is a continuing increase in the number of drugs that may damage the respiratory system, and the clinical pattern of involvement from drugs is varied.

This program includes generic names for drugs and clinical or radiologic patterns of involvement.

Owner v1.10

Owner is a Palm application that brings up the “Owner” Palm preferences form.

If your Palm Computing® Connected Organizer is lost and then found by an inexperienced Palm user, then this is an easy method (for inexperienced users) for finding the owner preference form.

McColors v1.52

McColors is used to display all colors available on a Palm Connected Organizer.
Great for developers who what to see what the default color palette is.

Stressed! v2.0

The game that allows you to destroy your Palm at the flick of a stylus.

Corporations Want Money From You, Not Hugs

1. Brand loyalty is a mental illness

Yes!!

Fanboy Intervention

Keep this in mind with CES and MacWorld assaulting us:

2. Pre-release hype lowers your IQ

A plea to end the war. No, not that one.

Fanboys: they walk amongst us. They’re in our schools. At the workplace. Even at your neighborhood grocery. In fact, odds are that someone you know might be a fanboy — a friend or family member. They are amongst you! Panic! Suspicion! Neighbors spying upon neighbors! Secret meetings in undisclosed locations! Dogs and cats, living together!

Reminder: See The Girls Perform Live On Video!

Girls Don’t Cry video on ArtsPass

L-R: Liz, Caitlin, Sora, Rachael, Hannah

Ooh, Myst3ry M4th!

Mysterious number 6174

Because This Is The Future

TorrentFreak added to the blogroll.

Eejit me should have done this ages ago…

LifeDrive Notes: Saguaro Video

Saguaro YouTube video

Due to a technical glitch, I had to watch it on the PC without sound.

At first glance, it looks impressive. But what I see in the demo really isn’t useful to me. What do I care for a bunch of silly headline tickers? Why do I want that shit crawling across my screen? I’d rather have a ton of info in a static RSS pool.

The transparency effects remind me of the dreaded Cobalt version of Palm OS that never happened (or at least never happened to the general public!).

I’ll begin to get all excited if someone releases a kick-ass word processor for it, a kick-ass browser for it, a kick-ass RSS client for it, and a kick-ass video player for it. (While I’m in Psychotic Tech Wish Land, I might as well add I’d like a Flash Player and a P2P client!)

Nokia N800: Still Shit!

Stefan Constantinescu Said,
January 6, 2007 @ 10:52 pm

WOW

One question: does youtube work?

John Tokash Said,
January 7, 2007 @ 1:47 am

Youtube runs at about 1 or 2 fps, but the audio is great. So, if you don’t care about seeing the movie….

My Nokia N800 Internet Tablet

Imagine putting out a product that doesn’t work with one of the most popular sites on the entire planet.