iDallas!I just watched Karate Kid again. I haven’t seen it since junior high or something. The funny thing is I still ended up wanting to be Ralph Macchio by the end of the movie, goofy 80’s jeans and shirts with the sleeves cut-off and all. That’s a sign of great entertainment if ever there was one. I might have to watch Top Gun next, haha.
Continuing in my ‘naked girl’ theme, I’ve run across some free boobies, and big ones at that. The site describes itself as “Vintage Erotica Dedicated To The Roberta Pedon Era…Of The 1970’s”. Lots of great material for that research project on erotica you’re all working on.
I picked up this link from The Phone Girl’s Journal, which I got from Pussy Ranch, which I got from Belle de Jour, which seems to be extremely well known and the author is now working on a book as a result. All of those sites are worth checking out if you’re at all interested in sexy people or run-on sentences.
The DVD Forum has chosen AAC for the DVD-Rom zone of DVD-Audio discs. The zone will be used by portable players and includes a lossy encoded version of the album content. AAC was chosen over MP3, Microsoft’s WMA, and Sony’s ATRAC. Details here.
Apple uses AAC with its own custom DRM wrapper called Fairplay for the content on the iTunes Music Store. This announcement does add credibility to the AAC format and will maybe make the world at large realize that it is not a ‘closed’ format as the WMA advocates have been claiming. Fairplay is still closed however, and it remains to be seen if that will become a problem for Apple.
UPDATE:
As pointed out by an astute viewer, this isn’t fully true. Check the comments for the details.
I paid by the minute to chat with a pretty woman on a webcam while she took off her clothes. I was mostly curious to see what the experience was like, but I can’t say it was a chore. I don’t think it was worth the money, but it wasn’t a bad time. If you’d like to do some of your own ‘research’, send me an email and I’ll tell you the name of the site.
Interesting Rolling Stone profile on Justin Frankel, the guy who invented WinAmp and Shoutcast, was given $100M by AOL for them, and then created Gnutella and released it while working at AOL. He’s one of those enigmatic geek millionaires and I’m jealous.
Now, after killing the Hubble Telescope the US government (pick your favorite public official to blame) is planning to spend hundreds of billions of dollars of money they don’t have to send people to Mars. More details in this Wired article. It brings up the fact that several times more taxpayer money is spent on NASA than its deep sea equivalent, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). I think it should be the other way around.
So, why would our government be so much more interested in exploring Mars than under the ocean? I think it has more than a little to do with some sort of macho bravado or whatever. It makes us look cool or something because we can go to other planets. Also, it’s not like we could just take over the oceans if we wanted… all the land on Earth has been divided up already. If we want to take over more land, we have to go to other planets.
Those both seem like pretty simple-minded reasons, but I don’t really have that much faith that our administration would have any other kind of reasons for anything they do.
This is probably an old hat topic for all the weblogging types, but I still think it’s funny. I’ve been watching the things people search for when they end up on my website and it has been a pleasant source of amusement for awhile now. In the interest of sharing the amusement, here’s a short list of some recent ones:
things can fuel the desire to masturbate
tasteful adult movies for couples
seahorse halloween costume
spoiled americans i don’t think so
philippines holiday massage couple erotic
see through socks
in the future people will look back i think they will think it’s a real step forward and a turning point for our franchise
Strangely enough, that last one is really all one long search query.
Finally, a gadget to reduce the size of my wallet! Chameleon
Network has produced a device that can mimic any magnetic card such as credit cards and those supermarket
savings cards. It sounds pretty nifty, but I think they might have trouble selling it to the average Joe or
Jane. They are pushing it as being more secure than a traditional credit card because it has a biometric
fingerprint scanner and other security features.
xhref=”http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62545,00.html” mce_href=”http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62545,00.html”>Wired has some more info on it. I may not
be first in line to buy this thing, but I’m all for reducing the number of cards in my wallet.
Since I got my Tivo a year or so ago, I’ve been increasingly interested in the little recorded pieces of whatever show the tv is on right before the Tivo changes channels to record something. It’s usually the very end of some show or some bit of a commercial and it lasts for about one or two seconds as the channel is changed and then changes (it’s an annoyingly slow process). I’m also interested, though slightly less so, with the bit of the last commercial of a commericial break that you see when you switch back from double-fast-forward to play. It’s usually just the punch line and it’s sometimes pretty funny when taken out of context. I have a theory that the people who are in charge of timing the shows and commercials will start to figure out how to make sure us Tivo people always catch most of the last commercial. Anyway, I’ve started calling these little bits of tv Tivbits, which is sort of short for Tivo Tidbit. If you’ve ever thought about this phenomenon yourself, please let me know!