• I guess I should congratulate Alicia Keys and Jack White for coming through with the worst title song for a Bond film in the history of the franchise. At this point in the life of the venerable film series, it takes a good amount of effort to be the single best or worst for any aspect of the franchise.
• Congratulations go out to Doctor Who Magazine for reaching issue #400. DWM is by far the best genre fan magazine ever published, with a long and proud history. It’s one of my favorite magazines to read month after month, and I look forward to 400 more (assuming I live that long).
• I mentioned Pushing Daisies winning a creative arts Emmy for composer Jim Dooley’s excellent score yesterday, but I forgot to mention that Varese Sarabande is going to be releasing a CD of his wonderful score on October 21.
• For years, I suffered through watching Heathers on crappy quality pan & scan VHS. It was the best there was for quite some time. Then came the widescreen laserdisc, and I was very happy. Later there were quite a few DVD releases, all of which were quite nice. They didn’t add much when they kept re-releasing it to DVD, but it was still nice to have some quality releases of the film out there. Now we get another big step in the video release history of this film, as it is being released in high def to Blu-Ray. I know that given the source material that this will hardly be any kind of reference quality demo material. Still, I would have never dreamed of ever getting my grubby little paws on Heathers in such quality back in the days of watching the horrid quality VHS. How very.
• Cool, there’s going to be another 3D Blu-Ray release - Journey To The Center Of The Earth. It’s a surprisingly fun movie, and I hope they can get the excellent 3D production quality well represented in the home video format.
• Looks like Fox is going to get it right with some very nice sounding Blu-Ray releases of the recent X-Files: I Want To Believe as well as the first X-Files: Fight The Future film. I’m very happy to see them including an isolated score (on I Want To Believe, anyway).
• Greatest news clip. Ever.
• MediaDefender - one year after the e-mail leak.
• And if you think MediaDefender was evil, try these dudes.
• GMail has added one of the cooler and more useful little features to their Labs list - forgotten attachment detector.
• As a new U-Verse customer, I’ve been keeping a close eye on news items about them. After Comcast’s bandwidth cap idiocy, people are misinterpreting and reacting wrong to news like this. That minor adjustment in their service statement is nothing like throttling. They’re just giving better definition to the way they divide your connection between data and video.
• Now this is my kind of humor
• I’ll get the many pending movie reviews started tomorrow. Gotta end my posting for today with this. I’m busy doing some rewiring of stuff, to best include the new U-Verse DVR unit.

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