Month: May 2005

This past weekend, DeeAnn and I watched 5 episodes of Deadwood (ending with the season 2 finale), and even more time playing video games– Halo (the original, in campaign mode) for me, Sims 2 for her. In those latter endeavors,…

“[T]he act underlying the conviction — ‘persuasion’ — is by itself innocuous. Indeed, ‘persuading’ a person ‘to withhold’ testimony from a government proceeding, or government official is not inherently malign. Consider, for instance, a mother who suggests to her son…

From dropthatsock.com: Adding an amusing caption is left as an exercise for the reader.

Well, your parents always told you it would make you go blind: “Federal health officials are examining rare reports of blindness among some men using the impotence drugs Viagra and Cialis… This type of blindness is called NAION, or non-arteritic…

Though I could have told you this two years ago, when I worked at PalmSource, it should by now be clear to pretty much everyone that the PDA market is dying a slow but certain death. This is just one…

This article (linked in title above) by Clay Shirky, first published in September of 2003, does a pretty convincing job of taking apart the web’s great white hope of micropayments: The people pushing micropayments believe that the dollar cost of…

Reported by Maureen Ryan in the Chicago Tribune: May 18, 2005 6:15 PM CDT: The ‘Girls’ are back ‘GILMORE GIRLS’ UPDATE: The WB’s executive vice president for network communications, Brad Turell, said Wednesday that the network will broadcast the entire…

A sampling of criticisms, now that “the saga is complete”… Rolling Stone‘s Peter Travers is right: Lucas is a “skilled producer, clumsy director and tin-eared writer.” And Travers is dead on with his assessment of the prequels as an “investment…

Well, my friend Brian was right: It Sucked. I’m not sure where to start. Random thoughts below, including spoilers. Not that it really matters. Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last twenty years already knows all…

Here it is, in the nutshell that is the logline for yesterday’s 90-minute season finale: “A nightmare leads Clark to begin to understand why he was sent to Earth and he seeks counsel from Jor-El, who warns him that he…