Category: the opiate of the masses
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The basics of a “slow demand” video service
Several years ago – call it 2004-ish – I spent a fleeting amount of time thinking about how to design a really good set top box that would facilitate a “slow demand” video service. This was around the time that I had permitted four things to enter my life – Netflix’s DVD by mail service,…
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No, the X-Men continuity is not broken
This Io9 article makes a claim that the X-Men franchise is still continuity bound by the movies that have come before X-Men: Days of Future Past. I disagree.
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How to make a DC universe movie franchise
Marvel has always been my favorite of the two major comic book producers, and I think part of the reason for it’s success at the theaters has been related to why I liked them best – their characters and stories had more gray areas than DC’s “lawful good” pantheon – post Frank Miller Batman not…
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Senators and their sports
In the latest round of “Doesn’t he have something more important to work on?” a Senator is making a professional sport more important than the war in Iraq, the deficit, the Katrina debacle, the un-ending war on terror, the CIA leak, the looming crisis surrounding pension defaults, the continuing growth in the number of middle-class…
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the end times are here
It is 10pm Pacific, Saturday July 2nd, and NBC is showing NASCAR in Primetime.
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Revenge of the Sith
Well, it wasn’t as bad as the first two, but I have to say the best thing about the movie-going experience were the previews of Stealth, Batman Begins, and War of the Worlds. This movie did not ‘kick ass’. Nor did it scare me. Nor did it make me feel anything at all. It was,…
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misc dumb stuf
ok, so dumb stuff that i see and apparently no one else does:
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sport, steroids, and the sovereign
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but I’m still trying to figure out how we got here. What is the compelling interest of Congress in the internal efforts of a professional entertainment industry’s attempts to regulate performance enhancement on the part of it’s entertainers? What is it that makes it a Congressional issue? No one…
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bits and pieces
From this article [ archive.org ] by Peter Hickman at MacDevCenter “The big difference between the world of Unix and that other place is that in the other place they have applications and we have tools.” These are a cool way to burn money: the Cubes & Geekman and his friends from Happy Worker. With…
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masters of mediocre: what next for the Seahawks?
Yep, I’m one of those poor suckers who root for the Seattle Seahawks. They lost their sixth consecutive play-off game yesterday, and their third consecutive game against the St. Louis Rams, to complete another season of essentially mediocre professional football. It’s Mike Holmgren’s sixth year in Seattle, and the luster of his 1996 super bowl…