Break out the powdered wigs and put on your classical music. Today is Mozart’s 250th birthday. How are you celebrating? Subject tags: [Mozart] [Classics] [Birthday] [Music]

Despite very good reviews, and staying well within budget, Serenity didn’t do so hot in the box office it turns out. All is not lost. Amazon still ranks Serenity as #3 in DVD sales, with Firefly close behind in #5. As Joss put it: DVD sales should, however, put Serenity back in the black and [...]

Honestly I think it would be a good idea for Google to provide this as part of their services. Until they do, we can use PackageMapper.com from Oliver Steele. Just enter your tracking number, and it uses SimpleTracking.com‘s RSS feed for that tracking number to get the history of where the package has been. Then [...]

I really like WordPress, and the new 2.0 release is sweet. I’ve been slowly moving some of my smaller blogs over to WordPress 1.5, and I just this week upgraded one of them to WordPress 2.0. The installs are always so easy (provided the host doesn’t get goofy on me), it is well documented, well [...]

This is a word that describes itself: sesquipedalian: (of words) long; having many syllables. Unlike abreviated. Subject tags: [Words] [Dictionary] [Word] [Language]

The movie Serenity is full of great quotes. Joss Wheaton is just a great writer. Listening to the DVD commentary he said that he had a lot of long sections of dialog that were actually cut out. I guess he is really into conversation. This quote is one of my favorites, and it is in [...]

If you haven’t been out to Pandora I highly suggest you check it out now. It basically lets you build your own radio stations. They created a huge music taxonomy, classifying music by many different criteria. Then you tell it which songs you like and which you don’t and it finds more that you will [...]

I actually wrote this post a long time ago. Back in November of 2004, but somehow it never got posted. My good friend Rich Hundhausen posted about his jury duty which reminded me of this, and then when I looked for it I couldn’t find it. So here it is, and just a little late. [...]

I just watched Waterborne on Google Video. It is an independent film that is exclusively premiering on Google Video. The movie follows the aftermath of a fictional biological terrorist attack on the LA water supply. I must say, I am REALLY impressed. It is a great movie, and the Google streaming video feed worked great. [...]

Stanford’s CS 248 – Intro to Computer Graphics – has a final project to create a 3D video game. Check out the winners and finalists for 2005. I personally thought the 1st and 2nd place winners were far wackier games then the game that won wackiest. Although I imagine that game won wackiest because of [...]