From the monthly archives:
March 2008
My Faves for Sunday, March 30, 2008
Flurb, a webmag containing astonishing tales from some of the top sci-fi/fantasy writers out there. Put together by Rudy Rucker.
[tags: science fiction, fantasty, books, thepugetnews]
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My Faves for Wednesday, March 26, 2008
X-Files 2 is coming. This link has an illicitly shot capture of the trailer (via cell phone video).
[tags: movies, film, thepugetnews]
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My Faves for Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This sounds like an interesting book about reading, speculating that the act itself is one of improvisation and that it changes the brain in positive ways.
Quoted: Reading, says Wolf, changed history. More than that, it changes the brain. It creates new pathways in the brain, and, by doing this, makes us think in new ways. When you read, you see letters written on a page, then you recognise them as representations of sounds made by the human voice, then you join the sounds together to make words, then you fit the words together into sentences.
[tags: books, reading, thepugetnews]
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My Faves for Sunday, March 23, 2008
Michael’s Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” has become the first book ever to be nominated for the Nebula, Edgar, and the Hugo awards.
[tags: science fiction, fiction, books, author, thepugetnews]
I love how the only full sized statue of Dickens was made by the Americans as a present to the British, and that that present had to be sent back to to respect Dickens’s wishes.
Quoted: Seeking an appropriate means of marking the 200th anniversary of his birth, several of Dickens’ descendants have come out in support of a commemorative statue at Eastgate House, Rochester, Kent, a building that appears in many of his novels, including The Pickwick Papers.
[tags: books, Charles Dickens, thepugetnews]
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“Danny Boy” by the Muppets
The best thing I’ve seen today. (Tip o’ the hat to Spa on Facebook).
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Polyvore
Jan sent me a link to a cool new shopping service called Polyvore that allows you to place sets of items you find while shopping online onto a page to see how they go with each other. What’s great is that people are using the tool to create other types of photographic mashups which are even more fun.
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Interesting Links for March 13, 2008
The Trailer for “The Strangers” (via Coudal)
Really spooky.
I just signed up on “Friendfeed”
You can now get access to pretty much all my web content via one feed. Awesome.
Amazon.com Launched a Couple New Facebook Apps
Amazon Giver and Amazon Grapevine went live.
Voiceless Speech Becoming a Reality
This is just amazing. There’s a video demo of a device which can intercept brain signals and translate it to speech without so much as moving your lips.
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Interesting Links for March 12, 2008
An Architectural Firm Office and Residence Built into a Former Auto-Repair Shop
Steven Pinker Discussing the Evolution of Profanity (from Bookninja)
Yahoo Disaster Scenario: Blowing Q1 by Henry Blodget
Perhaps it’s just me but I’ve never believed in Microsoft’s intentions to purchase Yahoo. They may very well end up doing it, but it will be on Microsoft terms. If it’s true that Microsoft is mostly interested in the human capital (which is what they’ve said), then they may be OK with destabilizing the Yahoo brand in order to get a discount on the actual heads they want. Anyways, this article is an interesting piece of speculation about what might occur should Yahoo miss its quarterly estimates.
Ridiculous Russian Mobster Tombstones (from Coudal)
A collection of tombstone photos.
The Trailer and Vignette for Pixar’s Wall*E
Adorable robots. I love ‘em.
Tivo Series3 to Support YouTube
As a Series3 owner, this makes me happy and less likely to buy an AppleTV. Both Apple and Amazon have a long ways to go to round out their selection story in digital video.
6-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Performances with links to free music!
I’ve just been clicking through and listening to the 5-star tracks. Good fun.
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