This is wonderful…

Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere

Reading mailing list archives is hard enough without having to decipher this…

Sometimes starting from the beginning can help. Here’s Wikis in Plain English from Lee Lefever at Commoncraft

Here’s a concise summary…

From xkcd

So I’ve been playing with Tim Armes’ LR/Mogrify plugin for Lightroom and it’s amazing. Trouble is, I already use Jeffrey Friedl’s Flickr plugin to get stuff out to Flickr. Thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be cool if you could somehow chain plugins?”

Poof!

Piglets

The 2007 Feltron Annual Report

Amazing. Best one yet.

The latest release of Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil is great. I’ve got a Mac Mini wired up to my A/V system, and with the Airfoil Speakers app running on it, I can send audio from my laptop to the good receiver via the Mini - no Airport Express necessary. Also, it will send audio to multiple devices, including the local computer, all in sync.

With an Airport Express in the home office and the Mini in the living room I’ve got the whole house wired for sound. And Airfoil streams any audio, not just iTunes. This means I get Pandora everywhere and it’s awesome.

From The Guardian

Here’s why. If people stop buying papers and buy Kindles (and, of course, future e-book readers) instead, they’ll need to be able to feed them. They’ll do that at home in the morning via their broadband connection, or on the station platform (perhaps to get that very latest update with audio and video) via its Wi-Fi, or from a mobile network. The content sources are as vast as the web; the distribution sources, limited to telecoms companies. Without the latter, your Kindle or its kith and kin is just a pricey place to rest your morning coffee. You pay for your broadband. You pay (probably) for the Wi-Fi. You pay for the 3G connection.

Am I missing something or does he base this entire piece on the fact that he believes you need a Wi-Fi connection in order to download content to the Kindle? (UK availability aside)

One of us is confused.

Shoot ‘em Up is awful. It’s nothing but one over the top gunfight after another, without even a hint of plot. Over the top is not the right phrase. Ridiculously over the top is closer, but still doesn’t quite describe it. Really terrible, if you think about it.

So don’t think about it. Just sit back and let it do what it does. If you do that, you might just find that it’s not just awful - it’s deliciously awful. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I thought it was fun. Paul Giamatti has so much fun being evil, and Clive Owen just walks around killing people with vegetables and muttering one cringeworthy quip after another. Oh, and there’s Monica Bellucci, so it has that going for it.

If you see it, you’ll want about 50 of the 82 minutes of your life back, but don’t blame me if you have a little fun along the way.

Must be my week for Movies. This time it was Juno. Funny, sweet, honest, whip-smart and completely lovable. Ellen Page is fantastic as Juno. She plays a sarcastic, too-smart 16 year old dealing with a surprise pregnancy. Ms. Page has unbelievable comic timing. We follow her throughout a hilarious and sometimes very touching nine months. It’s wonderful to watch. I didn’t want to leave.

At first I’d thought that one particular scene with Mark (Jason Bateman) and Juno was a misstep, but after thinking about it a little more, I think it belonged exactly as it was. I know people who would have behaved exactly as these characters did in the same situation.

Juno’s parents were an absolute blast. Mac (J.K. Simmons) as dad delivers some nice lines, and sort of let’s us know that as independent and scruffy as Juno may be, she’s grounded well. Allison Janney as Juno’ mom Bren was perfect. She gets what might be the funniest two lines in the movie.

I saw Juno in the theater. I almost never go to theaters. It played in the big theater #1 and was sold out. I’d forgotten how nice it is to enjoy the shared experience of a great film with that many people.

Anyway, you get the idea. Go see it.