Today I received word that all my active writers over at SIFFBlog will be granted press passes for the festival. I’m kind of in shock.
I do not have time to use a pass, so I did not apply – I suppose now it’s incumbent upon me to figure out what events I am to attend. I need to get in touch with a couple of folks who haven’t been writing for the blog but should be, too.
Seattle Gas Prices. It don’t look like no web 2.o winding wingding, but that’s a user-driven site if’n I e’er did see.
Dang Linksys is inflicting misery upon me. Countervailing, Mr. Sinclair’s kind contribution of a phone has arrived and is charging.
R. W. Apple holds forth, with some bloviation, on Northwestern oysters in The Oyster Is His World [NYT]. I’ll slurp to that!
Eric uncovered the about-time rim.avantgo.com, to which I say huzzah!
Today’s the day! Google Calendar.
Broadcast Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Eventual URL: www.pbs.org/pov/tintinandi/
Woo-hoo! Gimme dat Hergé!
Q, an open source emulator that supports Windows and Linux on Macs. Looking forward to doing some speed comparisons.
Now when the hell will I see those 200gb travelstars on eBay?
(Via this informative roundup of virtualization options in the age of the intelMac. Are you lissnen mobstahs?)
cityofsound: Why Lost is genuinely new media [via thingsmagazine.net]
Far out. The author notes that there is a book for sale on Amazon seen on the show as a manuscript being read by Hurley, and cites the author bio from the online bookseller’s listing:
“About the Author: Bad Twin is the highly-anticipated new novel by acclaimed mystery writer Gary Troup. Bad Twin was delivered to Hyperion just days before Troup boarded Oceanic Flight 815, which was lost in flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles in September 2004. He remains missing and is presumed dead.”
Lostpedia, a wikipedia for the show.
FREE*PASS: All the copyright rubbish you can take for $99 a year, or $1.99 per flick. Despite my distinct perception that this is cinematic shovelware, I have not taken the time to see if all the UK Hitchcock they have is actually from archive.org or if it’s sublicensed from commercial distribution. I will note that they have a ton of black-and-white horror (lotsa Karloff) and some really crazy stuff. such as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. But really, $1.99? That seems like it beats BitTorrent considered simply in terms of time for a lot of this stuff.
Another thought – the stuff they have available is distinctly reminiscent of the late-night local-horror-host material that was once prevalent in this great nation, and has succumbed to the wash of money that erodes local flavor with such vigor. I wonder, are there distribution restrictions on the content? Could I create a video podcast around, say, Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth, peppering the film with shots of me in an ill-fitting bald-head wig, cape, and round-lensed black glasses, telling stupid jokes and pretending to drink from beakers of dry ice?
I got rolling with Vimeo yesterday and today, and apparently was able to email a movie to my Vimeo account; but for some reason the clip isn’t rendering there successfully. Googling for a direct Vimeo-to-MT pipe such as Flickr makes available has been fruitless, to date.
That reminds me, i keep meaning to make sure Jim sees the cover of the Newsweek dated April 3.