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First 8 Minutes of Manderlay

Administrator — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:52:36 +0000

Movie Blog Audio Edition

Administrator — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:29:38 +0000

I used to listen to The Movie Blog’s audio edition for Doug’s comedy, but now I’ll listen to it for John’s childish hissy-fits (this time, over loud teens in the cinema).

Revolution controller

Administrator — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:34:09 +0000

The new Nintendo Revolution controller is rightly getting lots of buzz. I think the controller and the way it will influence gameplay is fantastic, both for hardcore gamers looking to play first-person shooters with the responsiveness of the keyboard/mouse configuration of a PC, and for casual gamers wanting to have a virtual fishing rod in their hands. However, the radical design may be commercial suicide. Porting games from others systems to Revolution will be very difficult for developers, and as we all know, it’s not about the technology of the system, it’s about the games you can play on it. Nintendo shouldn’t be alienating more developers from their consoles at this point. They’ve already lost too many to Sony and Microsoft.

Office 12

Administrator — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:43:55 +0000

Good God. Windows Vista still looks like a train wreck, but this 40-minute demonstration video of MS Office 12 has me as excited as when I first discovered Photoshop, Dreamweaver, or Firefox. Office 12 might be the best Microsoft product ever. And just when Open Ofice was catching up, too… damn. :-)

Terrible Design

Administrator — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:35:32 +0000

I actually worked on a PC case today so poorly designed I would have had to remove the entire motherboard to swap a hard drive from the HD bay. If you’d asked me yesterday if it was possible to design a case this way, I’d have said no. Trust me, it can be done, if you’re really smart and really want to piss off your customers. Fuck you, HP.

1,000 Greatest Films Update

Administrator — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:11:31 +0000

They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? has updated their 1,000 Greatest Films list, this time incorporating several major magazine polls and the like. They’ve also released a great PDF of the raw data used to generate the list.