Monday, September 27, 2004
Two thumbs
Saw Garden State and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Garden State is terrific. Great script, nice story. The local atmospherics are perfect. Sky Captain is an endurance cartoon.
When will those show up at the market?
Just got a spam for "boob farming."
Highly recommended
Had a great dinner last night with Steve Gillmor (here's his latest, which is right-on, as usual). We did the Hong Kong Flower Lounge in Millbrae, which was also a nice reunion. When our family lived up here, HKFL was our favorite local Chinese restaurant.
Outpubbing insiders
...insiders are commoditizing the experience. Technology Journals needs to build value on top of that.
Which is roughly the idea, long term, behind IT Garage. I just posted DIY public infrastructure there, by the way.
Molection coverage
Live Streaming Election Coverage by Mobloggers is the latest from Doug Kaye, proprietor of IT Conversations among many other things. Here's the MoPollWatch wiki page.
IT Conversations, by the way, will be at Gnomedex next weekend.
And Joel Spolsky is Doug's latest interview subject.
Look up, load down
David Strom describes a way to download and store every piece of music XM Satellite Radio carries, as separate MP3 files. Legally.
Unfortunately, the current tools are Windows-only. But it doesn't look to hard (to me at least) for good engineers to deploy the same kind of thing on other platforms.
There's a Mr. Murphy here, and he's got a torch
David Sifry: The colo fire has led to a cascade of failures...