January 23 2007
Bad Driving
I have to admit I have a weakness for watching car wrecks. Especially ones I’m not in.
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January 22 2007
“Witness the Firepower of This Fully Armed and Operational Title Generator!”
Another Mac entry. But this doesn’t have anything to do with the iPhone. It’s much much cooler.
A Star Wars title generator!
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Just type in your text and this little utility does all the rest—the 20th Century Fox logo, the Lucasfilm Ltd logo, and of course, the scrolling yellow legend text—everything!
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January 18 2007
Macwhirled
I haven’t said anything about the Macworld announcement as I really don’t have a lot to say. The iPhone looks very cool but even though I’m already a Cinguar customer I’m stuck with my current phone till December. And, in fact, I’m less interested in the iPhone as a phone than I am in it being the world’s tiniest Mac laptop. If they strip out the phone elements but retain all the iPod, iPhoto, and wi-fi features, then this really will be a killer must-have device!
&nbso; As the days go on and the fabled Steve Jobs “reality distortion field” fades, people are taking a more sober look at the iPhone. I’ve read complaints about the expense of Cingular’s contract and data rates, complaints that the iPhone will not allow third party apps, the inability to use iTunes purchases as ringtones or to buy songs directly through the phone, etc. But the only one to bother me was revealed by C|Net. Their Crave page shows the iPhone’s video-playing capabilities leave a lot to be desired. In fact, you can’t really call it widescreen after all. The screen has a 1.5:1 display, which means fullscreen video will have black bars on the sides and 16x9 video will be cropped—defeating the purpose of a wide screen! The images on the C|Net page don’t really match up, so I created a more appropriate comparison.
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I can only hope this will be addressed before my hypothetical widescreen w-fi iPod is released.
Another item which had held great promise was the Apple TV box. But the more I find out about it the less attractive it becomes. I am still very interested in the concept of wirelessly transferring video content from my computer to my big new TV, but Apple TV really doesn’t seem ready for prime time. It only plays what is stored in iTunes, which limits what you can play to what iTunes can play. HD content is limited to 720p 24fps (not even the TV standard of 30fps!) and there isn’t even any HD content in the iTunes Store. I’m not even sure why I need to buy Apple TV if all, since it doesn’t seem to do much more than what I can do with my three-way RCA iPod cords—which cost two hundred fifty dollars less. Right now, it looks like the Slingbox is what I want; unless Apple has bigger plans for Apple TV rev2.
I was really looking forward to Macworld, since I figured iLife ‘07 and iWork ‘07 would be released, and more details on OS X Leopard would be revealed. What was announced shows great promise, but here I am still left waiting.
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January 15 2007
OMFG
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That’s me beating my head on the keyboard. Watch this video and fear for the future of us all.
Update: I totally forgot: Ignorance is strength. A dumbed-down electorate is a passive electorate.
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January 3 2007
Today in Food (2007/01/03)
Happy New Year!
People have been asking me what my resolution is for the new year. My answer? 1080p, baby. 1080p.
As is usual for the start of a new year, I’m planning on losing some weight. One of the drawbacks of running a site about fatness is it’s almost like giving me license to a be a fat ass. I’ve grown to monumental proportions over the last few months and I need to drop some pounds before I do structural damage to my house. Also usual for this time, giving up food means I’m constantly thinking about food, and here a couple food-related links I found today. (Both from Boing Boing.net.)
I was pretty proud of myself, in my youth, that I ate every single meal on the Bangkok Tiger menu. But these guys are planning on eating at every single restaurant in Toronto, in the order in which the establishments are listed in the phone book.
And in case I’m considering making a meal of butter sticks, here’s what 200 calories looks like compared between different foods.
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