• Happy 30th Birthday, Atari 2600! (I’m a life-long Atari nerd - yes, I’ve got the t-shirt and everything)
• PIXAR, the greatest thing to happen to Disney Studios since Walt himself - and the greatest movie production company currently in existence, has released the first trailer for WALL*E, their new film for next year. I’m such a PIXAR geek, I’m darn near as exited about WALL*E’s release as I am for the new Indiana Jones movie. This trailer is but an extended version of the earlier teaser trailer, but hey, new material is new material. This is actually a cool trailer. I say that because I’m actually not impressed by trailers to PIXAR’s movies very often. Their one weakness has always been Disney’s advertising department and their trailers, so I’m thrilled to see a marketing campaign for one of their films that I’m liking so far. BTW, how cool will it be having Ben Burtt doing the sound design for the movie? And the cool fact that there will actually be very little dialog in the film…
• RIP: Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny)
• Proving that the “SNL Digital Short” segments are the best part of SNL these days, this amusing bit on a certain Iranian in NYC is pretty funny. Not my particular taste in music, of course, but neither was the classic Natalie Portman one.
• A fun appearance by Paris Hilton on Letterman. Dave’s in top form for this one…
• Speaking of top socialites, watching Britney Spears in the news lately is like watching a plane, both pilots struggling to regain control, headed for the ground.
• Here’s somebody who definitely speaks the truth about the iPhone, and the users it has. Personally, I’m one of those rare middle-ground folks. I think it has some cool aspects and some dumb aspects. It’s not the phone for me, so I really don’t care. But this guy is so right in this article about it all.
• An interesting article on the human body - in the world of relational, dimensional, historical data.
• So, Joost has left their previous invite-only status and gone public. I’ve played with Joost a handful of times over the last few months. It’s an interesting platform, with some good aspects and some bad. The content is a bit limited still, and the quality still leaves a good amount to be desired. But, the interface is very nice and the system has been quite responsive. Perhaps the quality will improve as the system is streamlined and expanded.
• The joke will be on all of us when Tom’s right…
• Betavoltaic, huh? I’ll try one once they get to a release candidate version.
• Check out what Amazon really recommends
• Or how about the freaky world of anomalous motion illusions?
• A $5,000 baby bond? Are you crazy, Hillary? (OK, don’t answer that) Why must those of us who have less than zero interest in ever having a kid pay for every one of them that the brilliant folks who can’t figure out the notion of self control or contraception drag into existence? Give me a break. I’m not even going to respond to Ohio’s Rep Stephanie Jones’ comment, “Every child born in the United States today owes $27,000 on the national debt, why not let them come get $5,000 to grow until their 18?”
• Whoops
• Talk about subtle advertising techniques.
• Oh, and I meant to include this insane story in a previous Ponderings post: Boy survives two hour flight inside a commercial airliner wing.
• Don’t forget the debut of Pushing Daisies on ABC this Wednesday.

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