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Archive for 2005Will Kong be King?Friday, November 4th, 2005The latest Kong trailer looks quite promising. Jackson’s respect for the original film is quite evident, and he’s had the good sense to make it a period picture. The hardest part for me is trying not to think about kielbasa sausage while listening to Jack Black, but I’m working on it. I think I can manage it by December. 10 Years of The PalaceFriday, November 4th, 2005“Dear Mr. Bumgardner,” writes Scarlett, “Congratulations on writing software that goes the distance! We on Palace are celebrating 10 years of operation and it’s a pretty happy time among all the Palaces. I don’t think many software developers get to have their software in operation this long with a product going through multiple [...] Vintage CheesecakeSaturday, October 29th, 2005Five new coverpops today, all wonderful vintage covers from the amazing collection Bum ChexFriday, October 28th, 2005Here’s a Wacky Packages coverpop that I made, for those of you in search of your elusive Bum Chex. The images were provided by Jim's Projects | No Comments » More CoverPopsFriday, October 21st, 2005The VISCO SF Cover Explorer was quite a hit this week, making a number of large blogs, including BoingBoing, UserFriendly and MetaFilter. The GameMonday, October 17th, 2005I must admit that as a married man, I really shouldn’t be reading a book about pickup artists. But there is a certain vicarious thrill to be had from Neil Strauss’s The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists; really far more than just a guide to picking up women. It’s [...] SF Cover ExplorerMonday, October 17th, 2005I had a new idea for exploring large photo archives a few weeks ago: put all of them on an enormous virtual coffee table, Today in L.A.Wednesday, October 12th, 2005I am on Los Angeles TV today, filling the role of “obsessed sudoku fan” for a KNBC-4 news segment on the puzzle craze. Grokking NingTuesday, October 4th, 2005Mark Andreessen’s new project, Ning, went live today, just in time for the Web 2.0 conference, where it is likely to be a hot topic. If you haven’t yet seen any opinions about Ning, it’s because Ning is a little hard to grok at first glance. I made an attempt to grok it today, and here’s what I came up with: Hallucinatory StereoscopyThursday, September 29th, 2005In an amusing review, StereoTimes, compared the the Sonic Impact T-Amp (shown here), a new $30 dollar digital amplifier, just slightly unfavorably to audiophile equipment costing $5000. The T-Amp’s perceived clarity allows sound-staging and stereophony to reach hallucinatory stereoscopy: near-field listening with the Celestion F15’s revealed a stereo illusion that would satisfy even [...] |
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