Adam Levine happens to share the name of Maroon 5′s lead singer. The former keeps receiving voicemail for the latter. mp3s ensue!
Archive for October, 2004
LikeGrand Theftendo – a fan-made port of GTA 3 for the NES.
Wowie! Google just bought Keyhole!
They’ve also lowered the price from $70/yr to $30/yr. Anything more than $0/yr is still too much to pay, but it’s a step in the right direction!
Press release is here.
I voted today! Thanks to the magic of absentee ballots, I’ve never in my life seen the inside of a voting booth.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has made his own voting suggestions for various California propositions. Amazingly, when I compared my votes to his suggestions, we agreed on all but one!
XM’s new MyFi looks pretty impressive! I’d be a little concerned about having just five hours of battery life, but all in all this is a pretty sweet little device that’ll put satellite radio into the hands of even more people.
Come on Sirius! Your turn!
We had a great time at Stacy and Steve’s wedding this weekend in Laguna Beach. The weather was beautiful, the location was beautiful, and the people were beautiful. I’d never been a groomsman before, and I had one of the best seats in the house! I had the ocean on my right, two of my best friends getting married right in front of me, and three hundred people admiring my devilish good looks to the left of me. And plenty of free martinis to go around. What more could you ask for?
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In other news, Sirius made some minor programming changes today.
Eminem’s Shade 45 is now showing up in the program guide and it officially launches on Thursday. Street Beat, channel 44, is no more! 104, CNN Headline News, will shortly be changing to carry just plain ol’ CNN. That is all!
“He deposited a junk mail check, for $95,000, as a joke. It cashed. The rest is history.”
Keyhole is a beautiful piece of software, but it costs $40 a year to use. I enjoy staring at satellite photos of the earth projected on a rotatable, zoomable globe, but not when it costs me money.
NASA has come to the rescue with WorldWind, a free piece of software that does essentially the same thing. Their servers are swamped right now, so I’d offer up a review if I could get it to download faster. In any case, it’s exciting to see a free alternative out there to Keyhole!
If you’re more interested in zooming around the galaxy than you are in spying on our home planet, Celestia is for you.
Henson’s four-hour miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars was one of the best finales to a television series I have ever seen, sci-fi or otherwise.
I was a little iffy after seeing the trailer weeks ago, but after watching the miniseries I don’t think that televised science fiction has ever been so well done.
They tied up all the lose ends, the CGI effects were some of the best ever, and the Eidolons’ face-opening trick was so great.
It’s easy to see just how crazy people like George Lucas and Rick Berman have become when you put something like ST: Enterprise or The Phantom Menace up against an episode of Farscape. Blows them all away!
- HomePlug AV2 is here
- Nest thermostat installation
- Battlestar Galactica will take over your life
- The champ from Ipanema
- Murmuration
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