Omelette Party

Last.FM Does Free Streams from the Majors, I Just Ate Free Chick-Fil-A, The Signal

2008-01-23T14:12:00.000-05:00

Dig it! I'm a big fan of last.fm. They had a flashy, incredibly slow website years before most of the others even knew how to spell asynchronous.

Tangentially related, I've got time to read the last.fm blog because I'm in a food coma. Some vendors at work just stuffed my colleagues and I with free chick-fil-a.

Somehow, chicken is better when it's christian.

Some skinnier white people in Atlanta are getting a lot of buzz for making what looks like a pretty sweet sci-fi horror/dystopia called The Signal. And yeah, that URL is doyouhavethecrazy.com. It's a sort of 4rooms-ish 3-movies-in-one set in Terminus, a "conformist" city in the future that strangely resembles the intersection of freedom parkway and interstates 85/75.

There's also an interview with the 3 directors on io9. It's all over sundance and shit.

Dig Lazarus Dig!

2008-01-09T13:50:00.000-05:00

Happy New Year Talking Points

2008-01-07T10:38:00.000-05:00

Cat Power's released a new covers record called Jukebox. Dylan's "I Believe in You" is my fav.
I'm really into io9, but only because William Gibson is. Actually I'm not even really into Gibson. Somewhat related: my girlfriend just got a job doing research for a biomaterials company that develops new materials for implants and prosthetics. Too bad women are the inferior cyber-sex, everyone knows they suck at Team Fortress II.
Team Fortress II is a fucking waste of time and the bane of my existence right now. Not coincidentially, my girlfriend bought it for me! Sabotage? Maybe they're not so inferior after all, if somewhat too calculating. I'm quitting as soon as possible.
If anyone wants to play Team Fortress II with me, my steam name is Hembrizzay.
Stankonia is the best Outkast album.
The democrats will lose this election if they don't nominate someone with white skin and a southern accent. The evangelicals are crazy but prudent. Average Joe wants a bass player and a tone of voice that makes every sentence sound like an apology. Forget it that Obama is spot on with like, every technology-related political issue there is. And he doesn't hate gay people.
Jesus is so cool!
I spent Christmas in South Florida (where I grew up, as it happens). It's a place where people understand and even enjoy the merits of exercise and nutrition. Georgia, leave Jesus alone, skip the beer and stick to gin & tonic.
In a survey of 310 americans, it was found that omelettes with lots of tabasco are the best hangover food.

Invte-Only

2007-12-12T09:24:00.001-05:00

Among all the providers peeved at Apple, NBC seems to be adapting the best. Their Hulu lets you watch NBC shows for free, streaming, but with commercials. You can't download them, but I never got the "watch a movie/t.v. show on your iPod" thing anyway. Or music videos, for that matter -- maybe the demand was for the chance to catch a glimpse of Lily Allen's third nipple, which would end up being like, a pixel on an iPod nano anyway, and she's really not that cute after all? But I digress. Third nipple or no, Hulu is invite only, so you'll have to wait your turn.

Another new service I've run across is Grand Central. Of course all the members are positively dripping with satisfaction at being a member of another exclusive beta test. Grand Central lets you consolidate your phone numbers under one, so you can ring whichever phone(s) you want depending on the time of day. You also get free visual voicemail and other VOIPy features. Ring ring the bells for the telephone companies... VOIP is finally coming on in a big way. Even Skype is probably scared, because Grand Central just got acquired by Google. Add in Google Chat, maybe an Android phone, and you've got a super cheap telescreenname promailnumber.

Blow Up Your T.V.

2007-12-06T08:23:00.000-05:00

This is what happens when you force millions of housewives to sit in their living room all day and let them pick their TV shows. Basically, a woman on The View doesn't understand the concept of B.C. and insists that Jesus pre-dated the ancient Greeks.

I can't decide if she's actually catering to some subset of women (the illiterate, for instance), or just trying to be endearing. As in, "Oh that crazy Sherri, she's just being true to what's real to her." Meanwhile, I'm pretty much set on dating early 20-somethings for the rest of my life.

Unfortunately, this woman is past that threshold, though still totally adorable. And I guess the dog is cute too.

Friday Afternoon Links

2007-11-30T13:08:00.000-05:00

The populace wants more kibble, less steak. I'll post constantly on this page with hardly any thought or depth whatsoever, and you'll check back every day, won't you?

The wga marches on. What's Average Joe going to do without the latest episode of firefly or whatever? Why can't they be more like me, the Average Blogger (or alternatively, Average Blo)? think of the children!
google's going for "beachfront spectrum" on which they plan to mandate open standards and a myriad immature-ish ideals. what. ever. now if we could only find a more annoying metaphor for spectrum real estate, possibly involving 2 girls one cup.
Social news sites are the new VH1
Here's a link to google
I really enjoyed this interview with Kevin Drew
The xbox is finally probably getting divx; millions of gamers across the globe remain spectacularly tolerant of microsoft's DRM
The lyrics to crank that soljah boy
Arizona iced tea is a really great deal at the gas station, 99c for at least 3-4 bathroom breaks worth of liquid. Who knows what ginseng does, though.

News Ticker

2007-11-28T08:59:00.000-05:00

Avoid being the shmoo, says 60-something record exec with double chin. In response to Verizon's openness of late, Omelette Party embarks on development of AMD Barton-based desktop cell phone; Rohan Bansal remarks, "Just what the world needs." No country for old men is awesome! Scientists at MIT prove that opinions don't exist until they're blogged about, commented about on someone else's blog, or otherwise vomited into an over-dressed text box for all to skim.

Int'l Sports

2007-11-20T07:20:00.000-05:00

New Trackers

2007-11-08T14:35:00.000-05:00

Since everyone knows that civilization's penis grows erect and flaccid at the whim of the media and, more often more recently, digg.com, there's been an onrush of what I like to call Interspace Sky-Falling Terror regarding oink.cd. In honor of the fatalism, here's some other places that link to or provide patterns of electrons that violate current intellectual property laws:

Karagarga - This is a tracker I've joined recently that basically kicks ass. KG specializes in "off-beat" movies and doesn't allow mainstream "Holly/Bollywood." They go on at length about this in their manifesto: "We draw the line with the advent of the big-budget Hollywood blockbuster (with movies like Jaws and Star Wars) which brought on a rapid deterioration in the quality of movies. Modern independent productions are allowed and we might make special exceptions for new Hollywood movies from special directors."

Indietorrents - This one's been around longer than oink, I believe. Karagarga is sort of the movie-equivalent to this one, as IT only allows non-RIAA music on the site. It even comes with a whole toolkit (for instance) of web apps so you can check which albums are tainted by Major Label Syphilis.

Waffles.fm - HILARIOUS. OMG.

btjunkie - You can find pretty much anything at btjunkie if it's remotely popular, so it's good for those rare occasions when you can't find the new Killers album on oink and the Bourne Fourquel isn't on karagarga, and maybe the latest episode of House MD just hasn't made it's way to usenet yet. Btjunkie tends to have more seeders than pirate bay or whatever else.

Usenet - Comcast probably blocks it. There's no cute mascot or web 2.0 interface, so who gives a shit, right?

Soulseek - No RSS feed here either. I'm partial to solarseek but to each their own. This is an IRC-based p2p network. I'm not sure that it's based on DCC, but if it is, the principle far pre-dates bittorrent or napster, or MP3s for that matter. You can definitely find the new Killers album here. Actually, I think it's amazing it's lasted this long.

So hopefully I'm googled enough to summon the wrath of the RIAA/IFP. Hopefully part of this blog post is copyrighted. Then I'll finally have an opportunity to pay outrageous settlement fees like the DRM champion that I am.

Hump Day

2007-10-24T18:46:00.001-04:00

It's too bad about oink. What will the police state do next? When will the establishment understand New Media? IFPI is the new peer. Happy hump day!

Natural Selection

2007-10-19T13:36:00.000-04:00

Has anyone noticed the growing trend in the blogoplane to saturate with embedded media -- images, video, interactive flash games, subliminal messages -- in order to fully enrich the viewer experience? It's to the point where many blogs have, at most, three or four actual sentences on their front page.

These are truly exciting times! As we build a cybertopia where words are moot, thought obsolete, it's only a matter of time before nouns are entirely phased out of the english language. Probably to be replaced entirely by hyphens.

I'm Not There

2007-10-18T17:23:00.000-04:00

English-Enabled Press Articles

2007-10-17T14:34:00.001-04:00

The grim reaper of technology journalism, Wired Magazine, has taken a cheap shot at the cyberne2ic age. You can voice your disapproval here.

Tangentially related, I've discovered a great resource for potential bloggers seeking inspiration for their own aggregated cyberstate.

Pumpkin Ale

2007-10-15T21:45:00.001-04:00

Mmmm...

Baguette

2007-10-15T09:40:00.000-04:00

I spend a lot of time on the phone with engineers at French startup companies. What is it about the French that allows them such disproportionate real estate in the web 2.0 neighborhood? Is it their love of language? Their love of style? Perhaps the French culture trains the French People to be better wordsmiths, and thus better brandsmiths. Zimbra. Voxmobili.

Or perhaps it's the other way around. The descendants of the Gauls have prepared themselves well for the Internet Age. It's as if they've composed, on purpose, a society that's steering the course of the web. Web Trois, perhaps. Until then, I recommend we all at least get used to the accent. I for one welcome our new French overlords.

Brian Cornnell

2007-10-15T08:53:00.000-04:00

Is moving in downstairs!

We're going to make omelettes together.

In related news, I saw ratatouille last night, and isn't it amazing how CG has progressed since the days of dk II?

The New Age of Reason

2007-10-13T10:54:00.000-04:00

Homogenized, and Sold off Piece by Piece, like Romanticism in the 80s

2007-10-10T10:46:00.000-04:00

If you've been following your atom subscriptions, you should know that we're in the midst of another dot com bubble! Dot com 2.0, as it were. Today, another acquisition by Google: Jaiku. Look out twitter, google's got its beady, beady eyes on you! Other recent acquisitions of startup companies with one-word nonsensical names, penchants for innovative means to connect to your friends, family and concubines over the web include plaxo, zimbra, upstartle's writely, and many others. Breaking: DH announces plans to relaunch blog as OmPa.org.

Oh Happy Day!

2007-10-10T09:06:00.000-04:00

Thom Yorke knows its the 21st century. Do you? In the coming weeks, I'm going to introduce a feature on this blog, called 15 Step, to follow the latest advancements in fetal freak-beat falsetto jams, in honor of In Rainbows, which is awesome by the way. It'll feature imeem embedded media, an AJAX chatroom, and profile pages so people can post slutty pictures of themselves in bikinis and giant sunglasses, attached to their 200 dollar digital camera.

RHCE

2007-10-08T07:31:00.001-04:00

I'm in training all this week. Hopefully they'll have wifi so I can stay hooked into the 'Net. My twitter name, by the way, is davidhembree, which is just one other way I keep myself linked to the 'Web.

Coffee Update

2007-10-06T09:11:00.000-04:00

Cleaning my apartment today, or research high-tech erotic toys?

Huevos Rancheros

2007-10-05T13:59:00.001-04:00

What about technology makes the mundane so enrapturing? Does technology bring the universe to our fingertips, or trap us into seeing the world through a 15" window? The preacher, the professor, the politician, the dreamer, all seem to be at a loss. Some colleagues and I plan on discussing the matter at this week's dunch. Maybe with your help, readers, I'll come closer to thinking about attempting to find an answer.

Virtual High Five

2007-10-05T08:13:00.000-04:00

This goes out to all the kids in the blog-bro-sphere. VHF is a technology that transcends any idealogical divide in cyberspace, and I am very excited about it!

Hygiene

2007-10-04T12:08:00.000-04:00

Eating a wendy's chicken club today, I found myself doing something peculiar. I wanted to eat my delicious wendy's sandwich, but I also wanted to click on all the unvisited links on my iGoogle website. The choice was clear: coat my keyboard in juicy Wendy's deliciousness, or wait until I was finished with my sandwich to read about the latest hype, catastrophe or what have you at facebook, probably the hottest social networking site these days.

Indeed, this was the Summer of Facebook, what with the introduction of their applications platform, and a whole new way to check up on your friends with, like, RSS feeds, I guess. Needless to say, my keyboard is filled with sesame seeds, but I also found this hilarious comic. Anyway, I've finally experienced the warm embrace of drudgereport-like excitement over insanely mediocre web technologies.

Also, everyone please remember to subscribe to my RSS feed.

Guided by Voices

2007-10-04T08:45:00.001-04:00

"Eggs make me sick."
-Robert Pollard

I never really got into Guided by Voices.