The BarCamp wiki is great for coordinating planning and all, but I’ve got a theory that we can spread the word on BarCamp LA related events (monthly dinners, future BarCamps, etc.) better with a proper weblog. Check it out if you’ve got a second!
P.S. If you’re free the weekend of November 11th & 12th, swing on by the Little Radio Warehouse. The price (free) is right if nothing else… ;)
Yesterday, the (almost) unthinkable happened, as Lady Sovereign’s video for “Love Me or Hate Me” vaulted to number one on MTV’s “Total Request Live” countdown. Yes, more people voted for Lady Sovereign being chased by a ghost hamster than Justin Timberlake and T.I. in “My Love”.
News like this is almost enough to get me watching MTV again. Almost.
Yesterday’s election flavored edition of ZeFrank’s The Show is out-fucking-standing. Go watch it now. Don’t worry, I’ll be here when you get back.
Seriously tho… If you watch only one piece of internet video this week, then you’ve probably never heard of YouTube. But that’s beside the point, isn’t it?
P.S. You still have time to inform yourself before the November 8th election comes around. It might be a good idea to do that. Just saying, that’s all…
This is a great skit from last week’s SNL featuring Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler as Lou Reed and Patti Smith riffing on the demise of CBGB. Since it’s on YouTube, I’m sure NBC will smack it down pretty quickly — so watch it while you can…
So I’ve been using the Firefox 2.0 betas (as well as the release candidates) for the past couple months as my primary browser at work and I have to say that I’ve really come to like it quite a bit. So much so that I’m actually considering getting rid of my beloved pimped out version of Safari.
Since I spend a lot of time in a browser, switching over can be a pretty monumental task — but at this point the built in spell-check and crash recovery as well as all the freaking extensions out there are really starting to make the hassle worth it.
Then again, I loved Flock too — but a built-in weblog editor and Flickr client, while quite novel, still weren’t enough to get me to switch. *shrug* Get back to me in a couple months and we’ll see where I stand, I guess…
If you don’t have anything nice to say, let a YouTube video of a monkey drinking its own urine do it for you. [via]
I don’t care if the French booed it at Cannes — I’m really looking forward to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. The 75% Rotten Tomatoes seems to be pretty positive, although I’m sure that’ll fluctuate a bit as more critics weigh in on it. I’ve never really cared much about what critics have had to say tho. *shrug*
While Songbird is straight up crashtastic on both my Dual G5 at work and my Powerbook at home, it really shows a lot of promise as far as media players go. Do yourself a favor and check out the screencast if you have a few minutes.
I’m looking forward to seeing this mature and not be so crashy. Hopefully that day will come sooner rather than later…
I’ve been wanting to see this one for a while now, but I told Sarah that I’d wait so we could see it together. While the scores on Metacritic seem to be a bit mixed, it still looked like the sort of movie I’d actually enjoy.
And I really don’t care what most reviews say anyhow. Despite being a bit of a critic myself, I know that most people’s tastes are subjective. Anyhow, I finally gave in and managed to score a copy from a couple of peers — if you know what I mean — that the girl and I managed to watch over the weekend.
And you know what? I’m pretty damn happy that I finally got around to seeing it. It really was a pretty good but slightly flawed psychological thriller.
P.S. For those of you who don’t want to deal with the pixelated YouTube video up above, there are higher quality versions of the trailer on Apple’s site.