iDallas!I’ve been finding myself watching pre-recorded episodes of The Daily Show lately. I’m sometimes watching them a week or more after they originally aired. The Daily Show isn’t strictly ‘news’, but it is somewhat based on the day’s goings-ons so it at least sort of counts. Is it weird to be watching ‘old’ news?
NEC has developed a battery that can be charged in 30 seconds. It’s expected to cost about the same amount as current nickel-hydrogen batteries once production is in full swing. They claim it will make some battery powered devices more convenient. No kidding!
… and one of them is tackled unnecessarily by police. Should I be surprised?
A 17-year old boy in Cambodia refuses to wear clothing. Since he was a toddler he has primarily worn nothing. He is uneducated because they won’t let him enter the schools naked. He says he will not wear clothing even if his parents beat him to a pulp. If that wasn’t odd enough, he also doesn’t like to get his hair cut. When his hair is cut, he acts ‘strange’ (everything is relative) and attempts to kill chickens and ducks. I have urges to do that when my hair is cut too, but I don’t actually do it. I think this might be an issue of self-control.
You might be saying ‘how could a rape game be good?’, but apparently for some people it is. Some guy accidentally attacked the wrong woman while attempting to enact a rape sexual fantasy with a willing partner. He faces a year in jail and probation.
Let this be a lesson to all of you sexual deviants out there! If you’re going to enact a rape fantasy, make sure you get the address right. Geez, what’s the world coming to?
Just noticed this on my little daily calendar thingy I have set up:
Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968
It’s been 36 years now. It sure would have been nice to have Martin Luther King Jr. alive for even a few of those.
I went to see A Perfect Circle play at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco last night. The Bill Graham Auditorium has long been known to me as a place where the Grateful Dead played many times. It turns out it’s located right next to the City Hall building. Weird.
Anyway, I was at the show by myself as I was meeting a friend there. We didn’t meet up until after the show, but I met a few new people. Oddly, the first people I met weren’t very familiar with Tool. How could that be? I thought people who liked A Perfect Circle were mostly just Tool fans looking for more of their fix, but I guess not. A Perfect Circle has their own fan base separate from Tool.
The show was fun. Maynard Keenan seemingly has long hair now, but he still doesn’t like to be very close to the crowd… He doesn’t even look at the crowd most of the time. He did talk to us, though… he called us ‘stoned hippies’ because everyone knows that’s the only type of people who live in San Francisco.
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.