Coming next year to a cinema somewhere near you, “The Passion of the Clerks.” After swearing the New Jersey Chronicles were over, Kevin Smith goes back to his roots with a new “Clerks” film, set 10 years after the original…
Sean “Puffy” Combes sports a diamond encrusted iPod at the MTV VMA’s. Will it ever go on sale to the general public? Does anyone care?
Just typical, in the back of my mind I had a cool way to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Scam City yesterday, but when the day came I clean forgot about it…
Hard to believe I’ve been running this place for 5 years (and one day) now, how time flies. The Genetically Modified Scam City was originally created so I could post a whole bunch of pictures relating to my NYC trip in September 1999, and it wasn’t until October 2000 that I started this blogging lark. But I didn’t use any fancy schmancy blog contant management system, no siree, each page was deliciously hand crafted (first on notepad, then on FrontPage 2000, and finally on Dreamweaver MX), and it stayed that way for almost 3 years, though I did flirt with Blogger for a little while in 2002… It’s been hosted at a variety of places in the 5 years as well, firstly on Geocities, then on my NTL homepage, then some shitty hosting company who’s name eludes me at this point (they made a great impression, huh?) and finally on RUWebby thanks to a more than generous offer from Erika, this place comes loaded with stuff (PHP, ASP, .NET, ColdFusion to name a few) and I don’t pay a a dime for it, plus I can exceed my 100mb limit and 1GB bandwidth no problem, though the bandwidth can be an issue from time to time…
Incase your interested, this site currently uses up 98.31mb of 100mb space and 884.51mb of the 1GB bandwidth.
In other news, my perfect record at Turner Field continued Friday night as Robyn and I went to see Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants play game one of a four game series this weekend. The Braves went on to win 5-3, but not before Barry hit home run number 694, much to most of the crowds displeasure, he’s closing in on Hank Aaron’s all time record of 755 home runs so only 61 to go which he’ll probably break by the end of next season.
It was an enjoyable game, after Barry’s home run put the Giants up 3-0, Atlanta hit back with a Chipper Jones home run to put the Braves 4-3 up and then they added another run in the 8th inning to seal the win. A good crowd was there to, especially around us, which always makes for a good time (even when the mexican wave can only make it round the stadium 3 times).
Maybe we can sneak in another game before the end of the season, but am I willing to put my perfect record (3-0, 1.000) on the line?
Paperformers, robots in disguise. Make your very own tiny transformers using PDF cutouts… [via]
In January of this year, HP and Apple announced that HP would “deliver an HP-branded digital music player based on Apple’s iPod,” they even made a mock up of what it could look like, that horrible grey/blue coloured 3G iPod. Well, they went on sale today and guess what…
No HP branding, no shitty grey/blue colour, just regular iPods, same prices, what’s the point now?
Well that didnt take long, 2 months to fill up my Gmail account…
The secret of my success? MP3 sharing lists…
Oh, I have 5 spare invites, if you want one, just drop a comment below, same rules as before, first come first served.
Steam users can pre-load Half-Life 2 from today, but they need to purchase it in order to play it, and that option isn’t available right now. Not long to go now… Seems like this game has been delayed forever.
Michael Hanscom finds a great article from inc. magazine about Ani DiFranco and her rise and rise from indie folk singer to the all-encompassing empire that is Righteous Babe Records.
I’ve been a big fan of Ani’s music since I first heard “Not a Pretty Girl” back in 1998, ever since then I’ve managed to buy all her CD’s, well, I don’t have “Educated Guess” yet… I even managed to catch her live in Glasgow in January 2001.
While I’m glad that Ani is reaching out to a wider audience, it’s kind of sad too, as for a great long while it was like Ani was my secret… You know? I’d mention her music to people only to be met with blank expressions, now most people have heard of her for one reason on another. Which reminds me, she’s playing at The Tabernacle on the 19th of September as part of her “Vote Dammit” tour to get more people to vote in this coming election, might look into it…
Quentin Tarantino has a blog, didn’t'cha know? Well, I didn’t, and it’s a pretty interesting read… Big, mad, phat shout outs to Simon who found this gem… [via]
Some of the things Google knows about you. Big brother is always watching…
Will Ferrell, as George W. Bush, delivers a message, eventually, from White House West. The funniest commercial you’ll see this election
Mark Cuban muses about DVD’s and their capacity, HDTV and the future of things. “This time next year we should be talking about 1TB (that’s 1,000GBS) drives at 25c per GB or less. The increased capacity means not only that I can stick more HDNet movies or TV shows on a drive and sell them to consumers, but it also means that I can increase the quality of the picture substantially.”
Paula Radcliffe pulls up with 3 miles to go in the Oympic Marathon because she wasn’t going to win a medal was “injured.”
Oh well…
Armed robbers stole a version of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” regarded by many as his most important work and an icon of existentialist angst, from the Munch Museum in Oslo. Not the first time this has happened, and there are a few versions still in the Museum, but you gotta wonder who would steal it in broad daylight… [via]
The new G5 iMac from Apple is launched today. It looks a bit “iffy,” I much prefer the old design that sits across the room from me…