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Archive for June, 2005

Nuclear Power VS Wind, Solar, Etc.

I tend to be of the opinion that Nuclear Power is the lesser of two evils in comparison with the earth-warming fossil fuel based energy sources like coal & oil. However, it’s worth noting that renewable sources (wind, solar, hydro, biomass etc.) are no slouch themselves.

Podcasts

For those who don’t know, podcasts are a way of keeping up with radio shows and downloading them to listen to at your leisure. They make use of Really Simple Syndication (RSS), which is otherwise mostly used for people to keep up with a wide variety of blogs and news sites in a more [...]

Netflix On Demand, Netflix For Books

Netflix is great — for film buffs. Although I’m enjoying getting through a backlog of films I’ve wanted to check out, I don’t see staying with the service after I’ve satisfied myself. Films are just something you want to see when you want to see them, and not necessarily a week later when [...]

Zombies Of The Dead

Alex and I saw the 2004 remake of George A. Romero’s 1978 film Dawn of the Dead last night. We both agreed it was a million times better than the origional. The original tried for some social commentary on consumerism by showing scene after scene of slow-moving zombies in a mall, but after [...]

Deviant Art

Noticed this over at Bruce Sterling’s blog:
I went to the DeviantArt Summit in Los Angeles
Imagine a colossal website where a work of art appears every three seconds, and most of the artists are grumpy, obsessive Goth teens.
It’s a new paradigm for art that’s all about eager neophytes and awesome volume. It’s “deviant” not so much [...]