There’s a lot to like… and there’s a lot of promise here. The service itself is fairly easy to use and the execution is flawless… but unless there’s something in their current offering that catches your eye, we’d suggest you want a few more months to see what other shows, movies, and channels they add to their catalog.
Archive for June, 2005
Engadget: Akimbo review
June 8th, 2005 at 3:17 amMAKE Blog: Sony Librie Hacking
June 8th, 2005 at 3:15 am“The Sony Librie is an e-ink ebook reader. It’s stunning. The display looks so “real” it appears as if it’s a sticker or printed on the screen. The bad news is, the ebook format is some wacky DRM Sony put on it. …[But with] the step by step how-to I’m writing up you can… for now here are some photos of some tests”
Out with the old…
June 8th, 2005 at 2:29 amSay good bye to blogger blogathyant. Today marks the beginning of blogathyant on wordpress. This is the first official post, although I seem to have succesfully imported in all my old posts. The move to wordpress wasn’t particularly motivated by any one thing, but more a desire on my end to have more control over the overall feel and functionality of my blog. Being a php programmer by trade, it just makes more sense for me to use a tool hosted on my own system, written in a language I know like the back of my hand as opposed to using a remote system that just publishes content back to my own machine.
I beleive I’ve made a little mod_rewrite hackery to make almost all my old blogger-style indexed links redirect to their proper WP equivalent. Which was pretty much the one thing that was holding me back from making the switch months ago.
Well off we go.
Sopranos Season 5 DVD Set
June 7th, 2005 at 11:56 amWoah, I had no idea this was even close to being released, but apparently the Sopranos Season 5 went on sale today! I’ve been waiting on this for forever it seems, since I wasn’t able to watch it when it first aired.
Last I’d read this wasn’t going to be released until just before Season 6 started, so they could use it as promotional material for the new season. I guess that was wrong. Here’s a possibly spoilery link to TV Shows On DVD‘s review of the set: Sopranos, The – The Complete 5th Season Review
Amazon.com: The Sopranos – The Complete Fifth Season
No pity…
June 7th, 2005 at 10:50 amPeople who know me well have often had to embark on a dangerous journey to learn how to discern my true meanings from my usual dry, cynically infused, sarcastically seasoned manner of speaking. Sadly, this journey has claimed the lives of a few aquaintances. Perhaps the problem was a lack of learning materials upon which to guide them to understand the words that are coming out of my mouth. Thankfully, this is no longer a problem, as I now have a wonderful resource for new aquaintances to learn all the ins-and-outs of modern-day cynicism: Television Without Pity.
TWP is dedicated to providing summaries and recaps of television shows. What sets TWP apart from your typical tv-show-fanboy-site is that these summaries presented through a wonderfully sarcastic and cynical filter. I give you a few wonderful excerpt from their recent recap of the Lost season finale (A warning: if you haven’t seen the show, you might not see the humour in these… BE WARNED!):
She’s all, “It’s too much!” what with her brother/lover dead and now “the others” are coming. Sayid strokes her face and tells her it won’t be too much if he helps her carry her bags, which oughta shut her cry-hole. [TWP: Lost, Exodus Part Two, p.4]
This next comment deals with one of the commercials aired again and again throughout the Lost finale:
This show Dancing With the Stars intrigues me. Because clearly ABC is trying to broadcast a show that no one will watch. If you love dancing, plus you’re a big fan of the guy who played J. Peterman on Seinfeld, which went off the air SEVEN YEARS AGO, have we got a show for you! [TWP: Lost, Exodus Part Two, p.11]
It’s important to note, however, that although the recaps are often critical of terrible hack-writing or poor decisions made by the show producers, many times the recaps are written by genuine fans of the shows and credit is given when the shows get things right.
Anywho.. thats all.
[ TWP's homepage | Direct link to the Lost finale recap: "Have a nice summer, suckers" ]