Spectre Collie

Month: January 2007

  • Schadenfreudr© (beta)

    When I was in the shower this morning afternoon today, I thought of a sure-fire idea for a new Web 2.0 service that is guaranteed to make billions. I’m giving it out for free on the internets so some enterprising young web developer can take it and make his fortune on paper until the next…

  • A Series of Really, Really Unfortunate Events

    You’ve got to be in the right frame of mind to watch Pan’s Labyrinth and enjoy it. I’m not sure what that frame of mind would be, exactly, but I wasn’t in it. I want to make it clear up front that it’s a very good movie. The story is very well told, imaginative but…

  • Can’t stop complainin’

    This year I plan to bitch about the iPhone one day every day until its release. This article on Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop journal links to confirmation that the iPhone will be closed to independent developers, because Steve Jobs wants it that way. That article makes plenty of good points, but the best was raised…

  • Nicholas Cage is in bad movies. Pass it on.

    I think it’s every blogger’s duty to make sure as many people see this as possible. The best scenes from Wicker Man. I haven’t seen the movie, but by the looks of it he was just asking for the bees. What a dick.

  • Fun Fact

    The guitar hook to the awful James Blunt song “You’re Beautiful” is the tune played at the end of “The Incredible Hulk” TV series. At least Bob Marley made something cool when he ripped off The Banana Splits.

  • Macworld

    Maybe it’s just because I’ve been reading too many Apple-related blogs, but I think they really over-sold the whole Macworld expo this year. No doubt it’s a bigger deal if you aren’t stuck with just the exhibits-only pass, and you can see some of the conferences. But I was pretty underwhelmed. After watching two sessions…

  • Apple Whore, Nothing More

    It’d be cool if I could claim that I was completely unmoved by the Apple iPhone announcement. But I think we all know that’d be a lie, so I’m not even going to bother. From the looks of it, they got everything right. It’s everything I was hoping to hear when they first started leaking…

  • Hold the cynicism

    I finally got around to watching Super Size Me, good timing for someone, like I am, who’s taking renewed steps to become less of a fat-ass. For the record, I am aware that the movie came out more than two years ago. And that it got a ton of press and plenty of favorable reviews,…

  • Interactivity

    Tonight I finally finished Half-Life 2 Episode One. (On a completely unrelated note: thanks again, Steve!) This is the game that, according to GameSpot’s whiny review, was “incredibly short,” containing “only four to six hours of gameplay.” I figure it’s taken me 7 months to finish it. I’ve already admitted that I’m not good at…

  • Holy ovaries!

    I’m not sure why I’ve been going around for years with the impression that The Handmaid’s Tale was a movie I needed to see. Maybe I was confusing it with the book (which I can guarantee I won’t be reading), or because I had a crush on Natasha Richardson. Whatever the reason, the damage is…

  • Into the West

    Other people may go in for the carols and egg nog and New Year’s Eve kiss and all that. My favorite part of the holidays is right now: when I get to complain about my flight home. To start with, a question: what could an infant less than a year old possibly gain from a…

  • Get ready for some fun, it’s question number 1

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    I heard about this a while ago, but just got around to checking it out tonight: The Jellyvision guys have started putting daily questions from You Don’t Know Jack on their website. The series always was the best-written of any videogame, and it’s cool to hear topical material again. They’ve tried the online thing before,…