“This is the new E3.” – an attendee coming out of the exhibition hall “Have you had breakfast? You look hungry!” – the barker at the “Win Your Weight in Ramen” merchant booth “They think they’re going to be playing…
Year: 2007
Go See THE KING OF KONG
Opening this weekend at the Lumiere in SF and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley: A most excellent documentary about two gamers competing for the world record high score on Donkey Kong! I saw a screening of the film today, and it’s…
Izzard and Hitchens: Separated At Birth?
Comedian Eddie Izzard on religion, from his 1999 show Dress to Kill: And Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, at Google last week: All things being equal, I’d rather pay to see Izzard than…
If Business Meetings Were Like Internet Comments
Thanks to Bryan for the link. As he says: “I love the attempts at spam that are stopped by captchas.”
Dyson’s Fear
From my friend Jeff: “The next word, but not the last word, in our little ongoing feud about climate change comes from Freeman Dyson: http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf“ I don’t agree with all his points, but he does set a good example by…
Fight For The Future
Reflect, for a minute, on who America’s grandparents are being taught to hate: Americans who do what Americans are supposed to do, what our founders implored us to do: debate vigorously and in the open, the meaning of the public…
Worst. Game. EVAR
No, I’m not talking about the Ravenchase Great America Treasure Hunt, about which many of the participating teams have already complained. I’m talking about the “secret illegal cross-country road race” depicted in the short-lived TV series Drive. I watched the…
Legends of This Fall
No, actually, it’s not too early to start thinking about the fall TV season. Entertainment Weekly certainly doesn’t think so. (Of course, this is also coming from the guy who has a modded 800GB HD DirecTivo, which is currently at…
And speaking of food…
We saw Ratatouille tonight, and it did not disappoint. D didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I did, because–in her words–“It’s a rat!” Which I found amusing, because she and the protagonist rodent both enjoy heightened olfactory senses. She…