Iron Man 2 Trailer Unveiled
Oh good, I have a reason to go back to the movies again. The first Iron Man was awesome, had it not come during the same months as The Dark Knight, it would be the best superhero movie of all time. Even more impressive after I read they pretty much improvised the movie (article here.)
“They had no script, man! They had an outline,” says Bridges. “We would show up for big scenes every day and we wouldn’t know what we were going to say.”
Enjoy and get your rocket booster whatevers ready.
Read more: Jeff Bridges on Iron Man: “They Had No Script, Man” | /Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/01/jeff-bridges-on-iron-man-they-had-no-script-man/#ixzz0a0dqGjoj
Guitar Hero and Christmas Lights
My two favorite things together in one place. This is truly stunning, and I could easily see me asking my dad to rig this up for me and him doing it. Not when I was a kid, I mean next week.
Take a looksie.
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The Best of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
While Miracle on 34th Street is my all-time favorite Christmas movie that captures the spirit of what Christmas really should be, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation gets multiple viewings every year because it captures Christmas how it turns out to be.
Here are a few of my favorite clips from a movie quite unlike any other.
Content Warning – unedited scenes contain language.
Classic Christmas Ads
Like in pretty much all other ways, Christmas is the time when advertising too is at its best. Rightly so…there’s more dollars than anytime in the year burning a hole in people’s pockets. Here’s a few classic Christmas ads and TV commercials to take you back to those precious few times when you didn’t leave during the commercial break. Or nowadays, didn’t fast forward the DVR.
Folgers – Peter Comes Home for Christmas
1983 McDonald’s Ice Skating Commercial
Nabisco’s Oreo Commercial
Coors Christmas Commercial (eh..kinda dumb, but old school)
Mr. Bean and Christmas
Some old school British Christmas comedy. Probably strictly funny to Mr. Bean fans only.
Facebook Hates Your Computer
No reason in particular, but today I wanted to vent on my buddy Facebook. To be true, Facebook is no MySpace, which not only can throw your computer into a crashing halt just to log in, but may also fry other applicances in the process.
But Facebook, used by millions almost everyday, is surprisingly unstable. And when I want to update my status with “I’m standing right next to Michael Douglas at the Airport! FTW” it’s no good 3 hours later. And that’s not even trying to upload my cameraphone picture of it.
Here’s my Top Reasons why Facebook may be its own worst enemy.
1) Back in the late 1990s I used a program called AIM Instant Messenger. When I received a message, my keyboard did not grind to a stop and crash my browser. Not to mention multiple conversations. Receiving a message on Facebook Chat is like trying to open Adobe Photoshop CS4 on a 486 computer. With it unplugged.
2) Speaking of Facebook Chat, I know of no other program that can jump into my other tabs and stop my YouTube videos from playing with every “pop.” Yes, I am watching last week’s episode of Gossip Girl while I’m talking to you.
3) Maybe have the option to select a different sound when receiving messages, or even an actual sound. Turn your volume up loud enough to actually hear that little “pop” and let’s hope you don’t forget to crank it back down before you listen to iTunes. This will be your third noise violation this month.
4) Probably enough about Facebook chat, so another big issue is the addition of a “dislike button.” It will need to be disabled on my account, but I’d like to thumbs down your wall posts please.
5) Cool, let’s look at your photo album. Weird, it looks like you took a lot of pictures of a blue status bar.
6) Clicking “close” on windows appears to not mean what I think it means. No problem, I’ll just browse around that little guy and end up refreshing to a blank page over and over.
7) FarmVille. I see some of my friends have been playing it. 10 minutes of scrolling, I think I saw an actual status message in there. Would scroll back up but it’s loading more posts. Fingers crossed I don’t receive a chat.
8 ) Sorry, an Error Has Occurred. We’re Working to Get it Fixed as Soon as We Can. You and I both know neither one of us has any idea what the hell just happened. I’ll just reboot.
9) Facebook for the iPhone is the best way around many of these problems. Unless you want to watch a Facebook video, view a link in under 5 minutes, or plan on using your battery afterwards.
10) View News Feed? Awesome, a post from 3 weeks ago at the top. I try to remember Live Feed=about 80% of what people post showing up and News Feed = randomly pulled from any time period for no discernible reason.
11) If you unfriend me, I need to be notified. If you poke me, I’d rather not be.
Apple Goes Lala All The Way to the Bizank
Though somewhat of an abrupt and seemingly normal announcement, Apple’s purchase of the genius online streaming service Lala will take us into the next generation of music (well the next generation of legal music) just as iTunes once did. (Note this is somewhat speculation on what Apple will do with Lala, but it’s pretty clear).
The iTunes model and software are quickly showing their age, and as Apple tends to do (iTunes was originally software from a company Apple up and bought the whole thing) they’re gearing up in advance for the next generation. By stealing the idea of some small dude who already thought of it.
For those of us in the age of Pandora..who no longer buy CDs but singles, who only use media to play our music about half the time (as opposed to streaming), this is a big announcement that I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
I first heard of LaLa just days before this announcement, and I was really interested in their model of looking at music in the cloud, and having a price structure that matches your use. What it will mean is much more music, much more options, less cost, and the bands should still be able to make some money. Far superior to filesharing (great for us, bad for bands), hard CDs, and iTunes as it exists now.
The future of music looks bright once again. Now I’m going to go download a 1.29 song that I will only listen to once.
Here’s what Lala’s all about (from Gizmodo)
It’s three things, really: A CD trading site (its original emphasis), a streaming site, where you can “upload” your own music and stream it anywhere (your collection is matched with what Lala’s got, and anything they don’t have is actually uploaded); and a streaming site that’ll let you stream a song once for free, or pay 10 cents to stream it an unlimited number of times. In other words, It’s a music service that’s all about streaming and the cloud, both for the music you already own, and for finding and playing new music.
Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck?
The hits just keep on coming. Jon Stewart, who the left lauds usually as one of the few real places to get news, offers better analysis than the networks for the third time in a week, this time the target is Obama’s ridiculous jobs initiatives.
And another sign that the world will soon come to an end… the AP rips apart Obama’s plans in a Fact Check article today. The AP actually covers what I think is the biggest sign of this being the perfect President for the lamest generation, his continuing to blame Bush for his inability to get the economy going (when he’s not blaming various media outlets for being too mean).
It’s the prime example of why righties make fun of the liberal elite when pundits trip over themselves to proclaim them as so “intellectal”. They know lots of useless progressive theory and win mantles of progressive awards (Nobel Peace Prize) from like-minded progressives. But basic Civics from about 5th grade would tell you that Congress designs and passes the budgets, and recent history would tell you Democrats have ruled that for 3 years. Then again, in the age of Obama, they count on 5th graders to know about contraception, but hopefully not how their government works. Their success depends on it.
The irony is that this administration expects no one to understand all of this, but lets us know that 6 year olds can write polling data as well as Gallup.
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How Could Climategate Happen?
The thing I hate about Microsoft Office is that it always tries to get in your way and figure out what you’re doing. Generally their suggestions are wrong, but apparently sometimes they are very helpful.
