Archive for August, 2007

Good fortune

Monday, August 27th, 2007

I think the following is the best fortune that I have ever gotten in a fortune cookie. The topic is concrete (and modern) instead of the usual platitude and the prediction is very specific instead of vague.

Your TV set will be trouble free for the next 3 years.
I guess I have to qualify that it [...]

Idiocracy

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

I had read good things about Idiocracy, a new cult classic. The idea is good: two people of average intelligence are accidentally sent 500 years in the future where they find themselves smarter than everyone else. However, the execution didn’t live up to the idea in my opinion.
The blasts about overcommercialization are funny but the [...]

WebbAlert

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Video podcast WebbAlert is off to a fine start. Concise and clearly written tech news summaries with attribution. I think it’s going to take away some of the Rocketboom audience. I plan to watch every day (well, the 4 days a week it is currently being produced).


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