1.) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2.) Death Becomes Her 3.) Death to Smoochy 4.) Frequency 5.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 6.) Beetlejuice 7.) Mystery Men 8.) Dude, Where’s My Car? 9.) Empire of the Sun 10.) Cabin Boy
Posted on June 29th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Movies, Netflix | 4 Comments »
Last week, Blockbuster made a pretty big splash after they announced that they were going to support Blu-Ray exclusively at their retail stores. The move prompted a lot of people to ask if this was a sign that HD-DVD was dead in the water. After all, Blockbuster has a significant retail presence and their support [...]
Posted on June 27th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: DRM, DVDs, HDTV DVDs, Kiosks, Media, Movies, TV, Technology, VOD | 5 Comments »
I’ve listened to the Pixies a little bit in the past, but Thomas Hawk got me hooked onto this song today. The Pixies are a great band to begin with, but this song really is one of their best.
Posted on June 27th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: VOD | 1 Comment »
If you click through the photo, you can use portals to see the jump in action. Last week, I was walking through the city, when I heard this strange drumbeat coming from one of the nearby blocks. It was a loud series of clacking noises followed by cheering and pandemonium. I wasn’t sure what it [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by Davis
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(Warning Song is NSFW) The winner of this week’s site of week award was the innovative music site, iJigg. What makes iJigg so unique is that unlike sites like Pandora or Last FM, they let you find music in a more social environment. Artists are encouraged to upload their tracks to the service, where users [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Media, Music, Site Of The Week, Technology, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Greatest blogger tool ever or does the world really need more footage of Davis playing Pac-Man on YouTube? As a blogger, I am always looking for tools that can make my readers’ experience, more multidimensional. Luckily, there are a lot of hard working people out there, who have built great applications that make this easier. [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: DivX, Technology, VOD, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
As a video enthusiast, I love checking out new companies that are trying to get a piece of the digital landscape. It’s easy to pay attention to the big guns in the industry, but for every AppleTV, there are 100 smaller companies playing just as an important role in redefining the future of television. At [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2007 by Davis
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This weekend I had an opportunity to check out the RoboGames in San Francisco. I had a great time looking at all the different types of robots and watching the games. They had robots that played soccer, a lego robot that doubled as a pooper scooper, even an R2D2 unit that just seemed to beep [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Robots, Technology | 6 Comments »
This week’s winner of the site of the week (cough: weeks) was Tube Battle. I’m not sure why I like competitions so much, but Tube Battle is a lot like another favorite site of mine, PickTheHottie.com TubeBattle puts two videos up against each other and the audience votes for their favorite ones. They have categories [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Site Of The Week, Technology, VOD, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »