September 30, 2005
10:09 pm
I was predisposed to love it, admittedly, but actually seeing Mirrormask at long last was a truly fantastic experience. So. Very. Cool. If you get a chance, don’t miss it! It’s incredible what $4M can make these days, and I’m seriously tempted to write my thesis on what I expect is going to be the […]
September 28, 2005
10:14 pm
So according to this story over at Sci Fi Wire: Variety reported that the field of actors under consideration to replace Pierce Brosnan as James Bond has narrowed to Daniel Craig (Layer Cake), Henry Cavill (a contender for Superman), Sam Worthington and Goran Visnjic (E.R.). Screen tests are being completed this week, the trade paper […]
September 28, 2005
7:17 am
So my troubles with my desktop continue apace. Last night I decided to try the time-honored method of solving a problem by throwing money at it, marched down to the local Apple Store here in Cambridge and sensibly bought a new video card. I brought it home, plugged it in, and the damn thing worked […]
September 24, 2005
2:34 pm
Doing some heavy, heavy thinking this week about the work that Yahoo! is doing in the arena of online video streaming, VOD and the long tail. To get caught up to speed, check out this Wired piece called The Super Network. An excerpt: Such network-generated filters will enable psychographic siblings to find one another and, […]
September 16, 2005
12:41 am
One glorious thing about the MIT experience is that I don’t have classes on Friday. This is a godsend, since that day is therefore used for catching up on the avalanche of assigned readings. Another glorious thing is the existence of ‘student holidays’, which are referred to in-house as “suicide prevention days”. Since I don’t […]
September 15, 2005
9:10 pm
So they’ve unveiled the controllers for the upcoming Nintendo Revolution, and they’re, um, odd. They look more like DVD remotes than traditional controllers (although they can be rotated to resemble the ‘classic’ approach), and operate more like one-handed gyroscopic mice. An additional option is the left-hand analog stick attachment, which could make next-gen shooters like […]
September 15, 2005
8:05 am
So I’m a little behind in my weblog reading, which meant that I missed that my friend Erika from Kenyon (now Erika Plank Hagan) just had her first child. Way to go, Erika! He looks like a wonderful little rascal. 🙂
September 13, 2005
12:23 pm
In his latest column for Flow, I WANT MY GEEK TV!, the head of my department nails the future distribution model for TV shows. Full disclosure: I helped turn him on to what’s been happening with the Global Frequency scenario. 🙂
September 11, 2005
8:56 pm
So due to a miracle of school planning, every weekend this semester is a three-day weekend. They won’t be long enough. This weekend I finished registering for classes, did my laundry, finished unpacking (mostly), ran errands, explored the wonder that is Davis Square, ate pizza and Indian and some pathetic cooking of my own, read […]
September 11, 2005
6:09 am
From The New York Times’ article “Contesting the Not-So-Virtual World of Politics“: “This is a classic case of one generation attacking the media of a younger generation,” [Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association] said. “There are all of these people who may be mortified by the Godfather video game because it’s too violent […]
