This goes hand-in-hand (or should I say hand-in-paw?) with something that I'll be posting, hopefully by tomorrow. Let's just say that Yours Truly has gone more than a little ape over the past day or two. But in the meantime, Drudge Report is saying today that some Hollywood suits are predicting that Peter Jackson's King Kong might break the all-time records for top-grossing movie set by Titanic when it came out in December of '97. "Grown men around...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Friday, December 02, 2005
Power-mad Xbox 360
CNET.com's Will Greenwald is reporting that the Xbox 360 is a severe hog for electrical power, requiring more than twice the juice that the original needed. There's some neat stats in his post that might interest y...
10 Marines die a meaningless death in Fallujah
10 Marines killed and 11 more injured from a roadside bomb in Fallujah, the Marine Corps just announced.They died for nothing. Ten years from now it's going to be apparent to everybody that more than two thousand - at last count - American servicemen and women perished for no reason at all. Somebody is probably going to blast back at me for saying that, with the usual "They volunteered!" or "They are defending our freedoms!" or the standard canned...
The Nature Boy gets busted
The Smoking Gun has the mugshot photo of pro-wrestling legend "Nature Boy" Ric Flair after he surrendered to the police stemming from his allegedly assaulting a motorist in Charlotte. Chad and I were talking about this the other day and he posits the following observation...Saw that in the Charlotte paper. His quote in the Charlotte Observer was, "As usual, I will be exonerated." Which begs the question, how often does the "Nature Boy" get charged...
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Giving them the monkey business
KongisKing.net this evening is making note of a new Flash site guaranteed to make you chuckle. Head over to Kong Kicks Ass and unleash the king of Skull Island on Tom Cruise, George W. Bush, and even yourself. Be warned though: the content is more or less really PG-13 in tone. But if you don't mind that, this is great for a few laug...
30,000!!!
Break out the dancing chimps: sometime in the past few minutes this blog had its 30,000th visitor since I first installed the counter almost two years ago. Can't believe I've had so many hits in that time. Just a few months ago it was somewhere in the 15,000 range, and now we're all the way to 30,000! To whoever was visitor #30,000, thank you... along with everyone else who's been a faithful visitor or otherwise stumbled onto my humble blog ...
So Bush is saying that the U.S. won't "run" from Iraq...
...which is kinda funny because Bush has done nothing but run from everything else - especially responsibility - his entire life.What he really means is that he won't run away from sending more American lives to die needlessly, while he stays in absolute safety and comfort over here. For him to move away from that would constitute "running" in his mind.See, this is why this blog and those of other independent-minded writers are so important: we're...
Best Buy's dirty tricks latest in Xbox 360 rollout mess
I won't buy top-of-the-line new tech right out the gate for one good reason: the stuff is rarely anywhere near 100% reliable. Better to wait a year or two and let everyone else "beta test" it so the wrinkles get worked out. Well, that reason and because it'll cost a lot less if you wait for it too. Besides, we got an Xbox last year for Christmas, and I haven't yet run out of thrills with that trusty black box. Our Xbox isn't going to be moving...
Davey Jones AKA Cap'n Cthulhu is coming: Trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is online
Avast ye scurvy seadogs! Disney has just put online the trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Looks pretty gnarly. The squid-faced pirate is the legendary Davey Jones, who looks, sounds and moves a LOT better than I envisioned he would after seeing that concept drawing of him awhile back. I loved the original, can't wait to see what's in store for this next installment (and the one after that :...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Wanna see Bill Cosby and Harvey Keitel driving around in an ambulance?!
I was just checking the TV listings for this evening and if you've got the Fox Movie Channel and haven't "gotten" into Lost yet, you got a real treat tonight. At 8 p.m. EST they're running Mother, Jugs & Speed, starring Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel, and Raquel Welch. It's a nice little gem from 1976 about a private ambulance company that's fighting both a competitor for...
C.S. Lewis did not want live-action Narnia movie
The BBC is reporting about a 1959 letter by C.S. Lewis wherein the author stated he did not want a live-action movie of his Narnia books to be produced. An animated version would be another matter but not if it were done by Disney... which Lewis slammed for its "vulgarity"! Lewis further considered that a human-operated Aslan would be "blasphemy".Gotta wonder what Lewis would think of this coming month's movie, since he was writing decades before...
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
I pity da fool who don't read this story!!
The Sun over in Great Britain has a great article about the return of Mr. T to the public eye. For the past ten years or so T hasn't been in the spotlight much, mostly because he fought hard (and won) against lymphatic cancer. But now T is set to have the biggest time of his life since he first exploded onto the scene in the early Eighties...A battle against cancer forced...
Good news: Diebold Voting may be leaving North Carolina
Diebold - one of THE MOST EVIL companies in American history - may be leaving North Carolina and taking its damnable voting machines with it. A judge is refusing to protect the company from having to release the source code behind its voting software.When it comes to voting there MUST be a paper trail, something that can be readily tabulated by hand if need be. The bastitches at Diebold have - maybe even intentionally - been undermining the sanctity...
Superman returns... through Development Hell
The Agony Booth has an extremely detailed synopsis of the bizarre saga of the last 15-some years regarding the attempt to make a new Superman movie. The story begins in 1987 with what went wrong on Superman IV on through the mid-90s, up to 2004. Among the story's more insane moments: Jim Carrey as Brainiac, Warner Brothers' Jon Peters not knowing who "this Kal-El guy" is (?!?), attempts to strip Superman of his ability to fly (?!?!?!?), and more...
Man caught stealing $200,000 worth of LEGOs
A 40-year old man is sitting in jail in Oregon after being caught with more than $200,000 worth of stolen LEGO bricks...To haul away the evidence, agents working for the U.S. Postal Inspector said they had to back a 20-foot truck to William Swanberg's house in Reno, Nev., carting away mountains of the multicolored bricks...Target officials contacted police after noticing the same pattern at their stores in the five western states. A Target security...
Forcery on iPod
If you own one of those snazzy new iPods with video capability and you're looking for some new content to put on it, this one's for you. I spent the past few days working on a new encoding of Forcery that's optimized for play on the iPod. My goal was to have a version that's not only tailor-made for the iPod but also have the same average specs as the new episodes of Lost...
Monday, November 28, 2005
Lisa's review of Walk The Line
There was one line from the movie that really stuck with Lisa, so she made it the title of her own review of Walk The Line. She's really getting into this blogging business now :-) Sometime between now and Christmas we're going to work on some custom graphics for it, make it look sweet. In the meantime, enjoy her thoughts on the new Johnny Cash biop...
