11th
June
2007
Ponderings For 2007-06-11
- Can you believe this stuff? Frak. When he tosses out his “metaverse” example near the end, it’s impossible to not have your mind blown. That is, if you’re able to wrap your mind around the impact of what this holds. Stuff like Flikr’s social relation and geotagging suddenly becomes primitive. This is a glimpse into the future of the meta world. This is “web 2.0″ on crystal meth. It’s still a bit rough in approach, and needs to be expanded out from the core concept, but what’s there is stunning stuff. And the Seadragon stuff at the beginning, which is the newer of this stuff, thrown into the mix makes things all the more interesting. Say what you want about Microsoft as a whole, but their R&D guys kick out some fascinating stuff - sometimes through taking their own work and seeing an acquisition that would be an ideal mesh with where they are heading. Very cool stuff.
- This is like some bad joke. Fletch Won might actually get made, FINALLY, and they have Joshua Jackson in the lead?!?! OK, so I’ll try to keep an open mind about it. Perhaps it’s a choice that isn’t obvious to most but is actually a surprisingly brilliant choice. Steve Pink may be a good choice for it. Still, it’s hard to imagine this team being a better choice than Kevin Smith writing/directing with Jason Lee starring. That would have been fantastic. Ah well, at least we’ll get another entry, at long last, to one of my favorite comedy franchises.
- For those doubting what the most progressive city on the planet is, it’s clearly Dubai. I’ve seen all this before, but no matter how many times you see this stuff, the jaw continues to hit the floor. These guys are insane.
- This one is WAY too funny: Man arrested at Best Buy for paying with $2 bills.
- Is Steve Jobs smoking something? He thinks he can take over a major browser market share by releasing Safari for Windows? Good grief. I’m a Firefox user. I’m one of them who actually doesn’t hate Internet Explorer. But if I were to switch from Firefox for my primary browser (which is unlikely), it wouldn’t be to Internet Explorer. It would by Opera. It would not, in any form of reality known to myself, be Safari. Good luck, Steve.
- A funny extrapolation of where things are headed… Google Interiors.
- Aw man, there goes my pen…
- Check out the cool trailer for 30 Days of Night. Looks like it could be a promising horror flick.
- What the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse.
- How about pictures of a what a real winter looks like (Russia, of course)
- So, Smallville is adding Supergirl to the mix. I’m only a season and a half behind on the show. Guess I’ll be doing some catching up over the summer.
- And yeah, review for Surf’s Up is still pending. I will say that it was surprisingly good. I liked it better than Happy Feet (it’s actually kinda difficult to compare the two).
- BTW, did I mention how much I liked this weekend’s Doctor Who episode? I did? Well, consider it stated again. Great episode. Actually, watching it a couple more times, it suddenly struck me how much a lot of the episode reminded me of The X-Files at its best.
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