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Colbert On Carell
Last week, former Daily Show regular Steve Carell was Jon Stewart’s guest, pitching his new movie, Evan Almighty. Former Daily Show regular and on-screen nemesis of Carell, Stephen Colbert, comments…
Add comment June 27th, 2007
Archive for June, 2007
Fantastic FiOS
The shortest FiOS TV review is “GET IT IF YOU CAN!” The only weakness is the free video on demand selection. Here’s a bit of FiOS TV SD (Standard Definition) video from last night’s Red Sox game (reduced to 400×300, of course, with lossy compression). They lost to the Padres 6-1. Last time I made some screen caps and the Sox lost then, too. Most of my friends are Sox fans, and they’re a superstitious lot, so I promise to stop watching the games and jinxing them.
For myself, not having XM or Sirius, Music Choice adds significantly to the value of FiOS TV. The selection is great (although a Folk station would be welcome) and the Dolby Digital sound quality is faultless. I’ve just hooked up my CCrane FM transmitter, so the audio from FiOS TV is being broadcast throughout the house, and the Music Choice channel of the moment is anywhere I want, including the bedroom clock radio.
Add comment June 24th, 2007
The Many Moods of Mad Murry Wilson
Here is an exquisitely painful audio experience. It’s from the Beach Boys recording session for “Help Me Rhonda.” Also present in the studio was the insufferable one-eyed Wilson father, Murry. Listen to this and you’ll know why one-eared son Brian fired his father as manager of the band.
Thanks to WFMU for making this timeless recording available.
4 comments June 24th, 2007
Eric’s Anime Pick — Kurau
Kurau Phantom Memory is about a girl with extraordinary powers who’s a secret agent; but not for the government, which is out to get her. At least that’s what’s happening in the story as far as we’ve seen it. Kurau has a kid sister named Christmas to protect, who is actually a younger version of herself. Where this is heading, I don’t know!
The video has the “clean” (captionless) versions of the opening and closing to Kurau, along with a clip from episode 6.
Add comment June 23rd, 2007
Pop-up Previews
Wordpress blogging software can be enhanced with numerous plug-in features. The audio player and video player (the site wouldn’t be much without them) are examples of plug-ins.
I’m looking over the various plug-ins currently available, and one of them I might try will pop up a preview image of a link. Here’s an example of what it would look like.
This looks neat, but it could get annoying. I’ll be updating Wordpress soon to the latest and greatest version, and once that’s done I can start playing around with some plug-ins.
Add comment June 22nd, 2007
I Couldn’t Care Less
Here’s an article that I’ve read just enough of to know I don’t want to bother reading more. I don’t care who’s right or who’s wrong in this story. Everybody on both sides has all the money they’ll ever need, so nobody has any reason to complain. Bruised egos don’t count. So they can all shut up and go away, as far as I’m concerned.
1 comment June 22nd, 2007