I’m Reading…Before I get into this, let me just warn that this post contains spoilers. Don’t read any further if you haven’t seen the new Star Trek movie. Or at least, don’t read any further and then complain to me.
First off, I know that the movie is doing really well. I also know that almost everyone [...]
Filed under: Entertainment, Science Fiction | Tagged: New Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek 2009, Star Trek Movie, Star Trek Reboot, Star Trek XI | 27 Comments »
Read this news today with great interest:
Apple, EMI unveil iTunes Pass
Apple has just launched a new service called Pass for its popular iTunes music store. It’s like a season pass for a favorite artist, in this case the electro band Depeche Mode… Before thinking this is Apple’s entree into the music subscription business, which is [...]
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I have to say, I am completely uninterested in the inauguration “event” that is going on right now. Then again, I’m not really into the Academy Awards either. My guess it has something to do with the amazing amount of real work to be done, and the amazing amount of time, effort and money being [...]
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I know I posted on this topic last week, but I thought I’d add an update after the big Battlestar Galactica debut this past Friday. Interesting to see how frak parties everywhere translated into traffic.
So far, despite the debut on Friday, it looks like my traffic may have peaked yesterday, on Saturday. 5380 hits to [...]
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I haven’t posted here to date on the Bernie Madoff scandal. No sense writing a huge amount on the topic at this point – it’s been well covered elsewhere. Let’s just summarize my feelings as:
We will never see an end to Ponzi schemes, because they work.
This exposes some of the flaws in the fund of [...]
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Can you tell that Battlestar Galactica starts its final season in just ten days? You can if you look at my blog stats…
Over 200 hits to the post “The Fifth & Last Cylon” yesterday alone.
I’m even getting referral links from O’Reilly! Love it.
No matter how I try to diversify this blog, ever since my first [...]
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This is a fun post going into 2009. Freakonomics pointed to a great piece at the British Medical Journal (part 1 & part 2) which goes through a fairly large number of medical myths that are widely believed, but that we now know to be false.
No sense going into 2009 repeating these falsehoods. Although, despite [...]
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It’s late on Christmas Eve, but what better present to unwrap than 13 glorious minutes of Battlestar Galactica that summarizes the entire series in one fail swoop?
Sci Fi: Catch the Frak Up!
This type of snarky, quick-fix summary became big a few years ago as studios struggled with ways to get audiences to pick up serial [...]
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Is it just me, or does the 2009 Star Trek restart look like the creators of Smallville had a hand in it?
Judge for yourself.
How very Gen Y.
I’m excited to see the hip, young remake of Star Wars announced any day now.
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Look, don’t read this if you are worried about spoilers. Seriously. Why are you even reading a post about the Fifth Cylon if you aren’t curious, right?
The number of people who read my blog always surprises me. What surprises me even more is that almost everyone who tells me this asks when I’m going to [...]
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Handbrake 0.9.3, the best application for converting DVD video to MPEG 4 just got updated.
The new version has over 600 feature changes and improvements. Some of my favorites:
A new “Apple Universal” preset to ensure universal rendering of files to play on everything from an iPod Nano to the AppleTV.
Ability to encode ANY source file, not [...]
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I’ve had the priviledge today to upgrade my iTunes hard drive to 1.5TB, courtesy of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (currently $149.99 at NewEgg). So far, no surprise issues. And yes, the space is truly luxurious.
I’ve been busy this year converting my entire DVD library to MPEG-4, so that I can easily access the movies in [...]
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Yes, it was too cute not to say. 24 days until a new season of 24. Interesting, because it feels like roughly 24 years since the last season of 24.
They have a teaser trailer up. More details at BuddyTV.
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Yes, I’m tired of talking about the election and the economy.
Let’s go back to one of my favorite topics: Battlestar Galactica.
We are now exactly three months from the launch of the final ten episodes. They will start at 10pm, Friday, January 16th, and go through until the finale on March 20th.
Additional fun to look forward [...]
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I have a special attachment to Saturday Night Live, since it debuted the same year I was born. This skit is genius, and summarizes the best financial advice you are going to get this year.
It’s called:
Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford
Scene: a typical American kitchen. A husband (Steve Martin) and wife (Amy Poehler) are puzzling [...]
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