The Command Line

We had a blast! There was an EFF track, which I think I mentioned before I left. I have lots of notes from that track to go through, as well as tons of advice to digest to improve the technical production of my show, from the podcasting track.
I did not get any new [...]

I was already thinking that my next console would probably be a Wii! It seems more kid friendly and to be honest, like Nintendo is still innovating, even when doing so would seem risky, instead of throwing more horse power at their platform and locking you even tighter into online play. But After [...]

As with the PSP before it, you know someone would bring porn to the 5G iPod. Bless SG for not only doing so, but leveraging the great podcast support in iTunes and making it freely available. It’s pretty much just “girls washing cars”, but it’s cute goth and geek girls with decent production [...]

This would be more newsworthy if they didn’t have a track record of doing so. I can’t think of any recent examples, but back when the intarweb was still an infant, I still have vivid memories of Fox chasing down every last Simpsons fan site and shutting them down. While this is a [...]

I guess I was not the only person to ding Fox Music for their DRM’ed, Windows only online release of the Firefly TV series soundtrack. I got an email from them this morning announcing the availability of MP3 files for Mac users. Mac, Linux or people who hate DRM, whatever, they did the [...]

In case you didn’t know, I am a bit of a fan of the Firefly TV series. Obsessive might be too strong a word, but only just. I got a yen some weeks back for the music from the series and promptly started searching around the web to see if such a thing [...]

Hamlet and Zork, in one deliciously silly package? Thanks, Boing Boing, this is just too perfect for someone whose misspent youth involved far too many Infocom text adventures to be considered entirely healthy.

I highly recommend you read this. I think this is one of the more coherent essays I’ve read on the whole affair. The only point I might disagree on is the level of effort for the modders that created the mod, given the intelligence that the same content is apparently unlockable in the [...]

From the Download Squad:

Pac Man widget killed by Namco:

Filed under: Macintosh, News, Fun, Games

Perhaps the fact that Chris Marks’ Pac Man widget was the top Dashboard download on Apple’s site is what killed it. Lawyers for Namco, which owns the rights to the old school game, apparently put the squeeze on both Apple and [...]

It’s rare that I get to see one non-kids movie in the theater a month, let alone two. There was probably some rare planetary alignment that influenced me to make those two movies both company book movies. Or, perhaps, a Summer glutted with them and original films that just don’t seem all that [...]