Tuesday, July 13, 2004
We live in the world of the future!!
Well, technically I suppose we live in the world of the present, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it... Still, we have zap rays that turn off cars, light bulbs that clean your air, and artificial jellyfish made from skin. (Artificial people skin, but skin nonetheless. (all courtesy Neil Gaiman's blog)
If those aren't cool, I don't know what is.
I don't know how many of you have seen Purple Rain, the movie that Prince was in. I know I haven't. However, if you are a Prince fan and love to sing along to the movie, this might interest you. Movieoke. Just toss it on the pile with Rocky Horror and Chicago, I suppose...
Wanna hear the sound of a paradigm shifting without a clutch? Check this out: Asia Carrera's casemod. Yeah, the (ex) porn star. Also a mom-to-be and a geek, apparantly. Now that's a fair number of cliques that might clash just a li'l wee bit.
I think I have a problem: I just can't get enough of Therion's Lemuria/Sirius B album. I don't know what it is, but the Wagnerian vocals combined with the happy thrum of blindingly fast percussion and thrash metal guitars just hits a happy nerve in my ears, in particular, the track Voyage of Gurdjieff (The Fourth Way). One thing that has me slightly bewildered is just what language the album is in, since it's clearly not English. They are a Swedish band (at least, I think they are Swedes - Scandinavian at any rate) so Swedish is good bet, but every little while they drop some lyrics that sound suspiciously like English, just to throw you off. I've mentioned this disc before, I'm sure, but it has just been such dang awesome-sounding lately.
Braille T-shirts: the anti-groper. I have reservations as to whether they would work, but at worst, they are really cool and bound to attract attention.
I have also spoken about cameraphones before, and my opinion has been up to now that they are stupid. I mean, you can either get a good phone and a good camera, or something that does both really crappily. My opinion might just have changed. That camera, being 3MP is probably as good as the one I have now, and it's also a phone to boot. Like the Gizmodo guy says though, too bad the future is in Korea and not right here.
Very astute posting from Techdirt. This is the kind of thinking that we should be encouraging. Using a mobile phone for social apps; what a novel concept.
Now I'm confused (and apparantly not the only one). Talk about an obtuse quote... From the same site, there's also a longer post regarding the upcoming book The New Prohibition, and it has some good quotes and rebuttals in it.
My keyboard has decided to go on strike now. The keys are gradually rallying to the support of the Not Working cause, so I will have to sign off for now and see about getting a new keyboard. Myup.
¶ 3:00 p.m.
Well, technically I suppose we live in the world of the present, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it... Still, we have zap rays that turn off cars, light bulbs that clean your air, and artificial jellyfish made from skin. (Artificial people skin, but skin nonetheless. (all courtesy Neil Gaiman's blog)
If those aren't cool, I don't know what is.
I don't know how many of you have seen Purple Rain, the movie that Prince was in. I know I haven't. However, if you are a Prince fan and love to sing along to the movie, this might interest you. Movieoke. Just toss it on the pile with Rocky Horror and Chicago, I suppose...
Wanna hear the sound of a paradigm shifting without a clutch? Check this out: Asia Carrera's casemod. Yeah, the (ex) porn star. Also a mom-to-be and a geek, apparantly. Now that's a fair number of cliques that might clash just a li'l wee bit.
I think I have a problem: I just can't get enough of Therion's Lemuria/Sirius B album. I don't know what it is, but the Wagnerian vocals combined with the happy thrum of blindingly fast percussion and thrash metal guitars just hits a happy nerve in my ears, in particular, the track Voyage of Gurdjieff (The Fourth Way). One thing that has me slightly bewildered is just what language the album is in, since it's clearly not English. They are a Swedish band (at least, I think they are Swedes - Scandinavian at any rate) so Swedish is good bet, but every little while they drop some lyrics that sound suspiciously like English, just to throw you off. I've mentioned this disc before, I'm sure, but it has just been such dang awesome-sounding lately.
Braille T-shirts: the anti-groper. I have reservations as to whether they would work, but at worst, they are really cool and bound to attract attention.
I have also spoken about cameraphones before, and my opinion has been up to now that they are stupid. I mean, you can either get a good phone and a good camera, or something that does both really crappily. My opinion might just have changed. That camera, being 3MP is probably as good as the one I have now, and it's also a phone to boot. Like the Gizmodo guy says though, too bad the future is in Korea and not right here.
Very astute posting from Techdirt. This is the kind of thinking that we should be encouraging. Using a mobile phone for social apps; what a novel concept.
Now I'm confused (and apparantly not the only one). Talk about an obtuse quote... From the same site, there's also a longer post regarding the upcoming book The New Prohibition, and it has some good quotes and rebuttals in it.
My keyboard has decided to go on strike now. The keys are gradually rallying to the support of the Not Working cause, so I will have to sign off for now and see about getting a new keyboard. Myup.
¶ 3:00 p.m.
