28th
January
2008
Ponderings For 2008-01-28
- Today was the 22nd anniversary of the Challenger disaster. The previous generation will always remember where they were when Kennedy was shot, or when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. For me, my earliest “world event” memory that stuck is of the Challenger disaster (I was sitting in class in the 5th grade when it came over the intercom, and the couple TV carts were setup to pickup the news coverage).
- A nice tribute to Heath Ledger by Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight.
- The cast of The Day The Earth Stood Still remake just gets more and more interesting. Now John Cleese has joined up.
- SkyFire - Finally, a real Windows Mobile browser.
- What NOT to do with a car on a runway
- It’s official. The average movie going audience is so mentally challenged they can’t tie their shoelaces without drooling all over themselves. Meet The Spartans took first place at the box office this weekend. That’s SO depressing. Now Fox will pay writer/directors Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer, who have less talent than Ed Wood (at least he could make funny funny movies, intentionally or not), more money for yet another Whatever Movie. When will it end?
- You know, as much as I like Google all around, I despise the name iGoogle (their personalized home page service). It’s such a horrible little coat-tails usage of Apple’s already annoying iEverything approach.
- The one show that is consistently fantastic that I never give its due for whatever reason is Medium. It’s a show that pretty much never has a bad episode. It features a fantastic cast, led by the the wonderful Patricia Arquette. They portray one of the only truly believable family units on TV. For that matter, Arquette is an anomoly on American TV - a non-anorexic, realistic looking house wife. And the girls they have playing the daughters are alarmingly good actresses. On top of all that, it’s filled with fantastic writing and solid leadership under the creative eye of Glenn Gordon Caron (of Moonlighting fame).
- Gartner confirms what the rest of us already knew about HD-DVD’s future.
- Oh, and apparently there’s a fancy new film score collection of the Superman films brewing from Film Score Monthly. Interesting.
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