Sharkwater
Beautifully-shot, moving, poignant, sad, inducing of anger, absolutely fascinating - Sharkwater is a film worth seeing.
IMDB link.
Update: Keep this in mind while watching Sharkwater:
The demise of the shellfish industry in the US can be directly traced to the way humans have devastated ocean shark populations, a new study suggests.
Humans eat big sharks, sharks eat rays, […]
“A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.”
- Peter Medawar, Memoirs of a Thinking Radish
(Via Paul Graham)
RSS Used Right
John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame is once again having his membership drive to raise support for Daring Fireball. I’m a happy subscriber - even when I disagree with what John writes it’s absolutely worth reading - so I get access to the super-secret subscribers-only RSS feed.
I literally laughed aloud when this showed up in […]
Remember My DVD Player? Dead!
Though I enjoyed Blood Diamond last night it appears my DVD player did not. I woke up this morning to find it dead (”No no, he’s not dead, he’s… he’s restin’!”), no power going anywhere into it past the transformer. So dead I had to take it apart to get the DVD out (”Well, he’s…he’s, […]
nGear 2.5″ USB Hard Drive Enclosure
I like it when a piece of gear comes along that I never knew I needed until I really needed it, and then somehow it becomes indispensable.
My favourite new piece of hardware is the nGear USB Hard Drive Enclosure I picked up the other day at NCIX for $20. This thing is simply […]
Binary Code: A Thought on the Modern Computing
An editorial on why your choice of OS sucks just as much as mine does.
Google Twin
The Houston Chronicle has an amusing article today about the discombobulation caused from finding out one has a Google twin.
Intrigued, I googled for mine: Chris Cummer and was a bit surprised to find I don’t have one.
I was also a bit surprised to find that the #2 hit is for some site I’ve never heard […]
USPO: “Music downloads = National Security Threat”
All I have to say is “huh? Is everything now a national security threat?”
U.S. Patent Office Says Free Music Downloads Could Harm Children, National Security
“A decade ago, the idea that copyright infringement could become a threat to national security would have seemed implausible,” Patent and Trademark Director Jon Dudas said in a report released this […]
Neal Stephenson on “300″
Neal Stephenson (author of Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, and my favourite Wired article of all time Mother Earth, Mother Board) coincidentally also tackles the issue of 300 as propaganda for the New York Times in It’s All Geek to Me, doing so in his own in indomitable style, and from the perspective of the sci-fi geek:
Many […]
In Other News…
The “Overheard In New York folks have started a new site: “Overheard Everywhere”.
Putting teh awesome back into eavesdropping.