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Potter Puppet Pals
It’s Friday, and I’ve come across a brilliantly funny pair of Harry Potter flash animations. Not quite G rated, but generally work safe. You’ll need the sound turned on, though. (link, link) Quotes:...
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Mona Lisa at the Salle des Etats
Vacation notes: Here’s a view of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. It was recently moved from its temporary location elsewhere in the museum to its new permanent home in the refurbished Salle des Etats ,...
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Matrix Persona Quiz
You are Morpheus, from “The Matrix.” Youhave strong faith in yourself and those aroundyou. A true leader, you are relentless in yourpursuit. What Matrix Persona Are You?
View ArticlePandora
I’ve spent a few days now playing with the prerelease “friends and family” version of Pandora, the “music discovery service” demoed by Tom Conrad at Barcamp last weekend. Summary Some quirks, but...
View ArticleBarcamp – The Video
Dorrian Porter has assembled a wonderful video (55MB .mov) capturing the feel of the past weekend at Barcamp, hosted by Laughing Squid . A great job of compressing the idea of the weekend into under 4...
View ArticlePandora launch, DRM, and media
Pandora officially launched this morning. It’s been over a week since I signed up for an account and I’m still using it. It’s specifically designed not to provide on-demand streams, but I’m getting the...
View ArticleHogwarts and Security Issues in Harry Potter (mild spoilers)
Bruce Schneier, noted crypto and security guy, has an entertaining thread of comments on various security issues at Hogwarts in the latest installment of Harry Potter, starting with a post from Karl...
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Hemo the Magnificent
I found Hemo the Magnificentin the Netflix catalog a while back. I remember watching these in elementary school, in the days before VHS videos, DVD players, or the internet. The classroom window shades...
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Wallace & Gromit – Curse of the Were-Rabbit
It seems I only see kids movies in movie theaters for the past few years. Most of my personal movie watching happens on trans-pacific flights, which leads to occasional surprises when I get the DVD...
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Star Wreck – In the Pirkinning
The cable guy actually did turn up last week, so we still have cable TV. In the meantime, there are many interesting, non-mass-media video projects online. A few days ago I got around to fixing Azureus...
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Monty Python – And Now for Something Completely Different
Our family has enjoyed Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean in the past, so this weekend I thought I’d see how Monty Python went over with our daughter. I think British humor is partially an acquired taste, but...
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The Return of Vinyl
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a working turntable at home. This evening I suddenly have lots of new old stuff to listen to. There’s a divide in the music I’ve been listening to for the past ten...
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Curious George and Clueless Ted
We went to see Curious George at the movies this weekend. We were probably at the old end of the target demographic, but my 9-year-old and I have spent many hours reading Curious George stories...
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Google’s PageRank and Beyond – summer reading for search hackers
The past few evenings I’ve been working through a review copy of Google’s PageRank and Beyond, by Amy Langville and Carl Meyer. Unlike some recent books on Google, this isn’t exactly an easy and...
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Movie night in Palo Alto
These guys have been shooting scenes for their movie at the house down the street for the past couple of days. I can see the lights from my home office on the second floor, and this evening we walked...
View ArticleThree years in 3 minutes – a self portrait movie
This popped up on YouTube this afternoon – filmmaker Ahree Lee shot an image of her face every day for three years starting in November 2001, then concatenated them into a fascinating short movie...
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The Bridge to Terabithia
My 10-year-old daughter and I went to see The Bridge to Terabithia yesterday. She read the book last year and wanted to see the movie, which has been advertised regularly over the past few months. For...
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Spring soccer is over, so we go to the movies
This is the first weekend in quite a while that Emily and I haven’t had soccer committments. Her spring soccer team played at the Davis World Cup last weekend to wrap up their season. The team got...
View ArticleRevisiting Pandora
I ran into Tom Conrad at Barcamp Block a few weeks ago, which reminded me to go check out Pandora again. I’d been an early adopter when they introduced it to the folks at the very first Barcamp, but...
View ArticleWomen in film
On the occasion of the Academy Awards, an interesting video montage featuring faces of famous actresses. via Instapundit I’ve noticed that over the past several years, I basically don’t see movies in...
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