Entries from September 2007

September 30, 2007

Blade Runner DVD: The 3 Director’s Cut & Other Versions

BLADE RUNNER is one of the greatest films ever made. It’s not to everyone’s taste but it’s what films should be - idiosyncratic and a personal vision from a director. Of course, it involves a great screenplay, great acting and engaging cinematography but ultimately, it’s the director’s imprint that makes it a classic. While nearly [...]

September 27, 2007

Online Address Lookup Via MelissaDATA

If you are like me and are curious about knowing more about where you live, then you should bookmark this site. For example, if you ship a lot of packages or have a lot shipped to you (hello, ebay!), then it pays to know your zip+4 address (here in the U.S. gentle overseas readers).
Additionally, [...]

September 27, 2007

Halo 3 Sales Huge On First Day Of Sale

Die Wii scum!  Eat Plasma PS3ers!
Microsofties are twirling their mustaches with their first day of sales for Halo 3 exceeding $170 Million.  In one day.  Industry analysts project hardware sales to spike accordingly over the next month for those that see the game as a ‘must have’ since it only can be played on [...]

September 26, 2007

Amazon launches music download killer to challenge iTunes

But will it actually take much of a bite out of the Apple?
More than 2 million songs – including those by Amy Winehouse, U2 and 50 Cent – will be made available for download from Amazon’s US site, with tracks costing either .89 cents or .99 cents, and albums between $5.99 and $9.99.
The songs are [...]

September 25, 2007

Steve Jobs Can Now Erase That Pesky Woz From His Photo Collection

This video blew me away. Can you imagine Mac users getting this resident on their Powerbooks? All I can say is, “Gimme!”  Seamless reality distortion is now a reality!
“Seam Carving For Content Aware Image Resizing”…It may be so cool from a personal usage standpoint but it is downright disturbing to know that some [...]

September 24, 2007

20 Years Ago What 1 GB Looked Like

Whoa.  Amazing what just 20 years will do for technological developments.  That big hunking looking thing is a 1 GB disk drive for an old IBM mainframe computer.  The little chiclet is a 1 GB sandisk card.  Wow.

September 24, 2007

Mattel Pixar Cars: Mia & Tia - All the Possible Variants

One reason we might be seeing the Mia & Tia Movie Moments 2-Fer for a while, Mattel can keep re-painting it and they know we’ll keep buying it.
(okay, the real truth is they could sell a lumpy piece of black plastic if they called it LIGHTNING MCQUEEN FIRST ROAD REPAIR - we’d buy it and [...]

September 22, 2007

Mattel Pixar Cars Checklist: How to Collect (Updated)

“Mary” asked: “I have been collecting since the first wave. I’m confused a little about which Cars to collect. Is everyone getting each car depending on the wave and normal vs. supercharged set? Do I collect all the same cars with each wave? This is getting to be a very expensive collection [...]

September 21, 2007

I Can Has Job Back?

Dan, Dan, Dan.
You screwed the pooch once.  Is it really worth it to do it all over again?
Page Six:  “It will just remind the public of the dark ending to his career,” said venerable publicist Michael Levine. “Time has a way of softening the public’s collective memory. This suit will just bring an aroma of [...]

September 20, 2007

Cool Business Card Designs

It is not always easy to find a cool business card design. Most are fairly pedestrian but on occasion you may obtain one that makes you say, “Cool!”.
Here is a link to a site that has captured many examples of very cool business card designs. Here are a few to whet your appetite:

Scratch [...]