I’m considering getting something that will bring more media from our computers to our TV. There are a couple obvious choices (Apple TV
We already have an Xbox 360
The features I’m most interested in are pulling down tvrss.net feeds and possibly streaming videos and music from our iTunes libraries. I’m currently leaning towards picking up an Iomega iConnect
Let me know if you have any insight or suggestions into possible solutions that will meet our needs.
I’ve been particularly quiet these last couple of days because I’ve been working on the new wedding website. Well that and slogging through some data analysis for a journal article. Anyway, head on over there and let me know what other CSS nightmares I’ve caused.
PS: No, I didn’t plan that when we got the knot.org domain.
Or more specifically, the nonsense that some sites are propagating in the name of the iPad. I know they’re just trying to garner page-views by starting controversy, but it’s still sheer nonsense nonetheless. Here’s a quick sampling:
5 Reasons Why We Are Already Depressed About The iPad — Seriously? This article wouldn’t even be worth mentioning except to question the waste of ad dollars on the site for this sort of drivel. I know the iPad is big news, but this sorry excuse for a hack journalist (yeah, Tim Difford, I’m talking to you) shouldn’t be collecting a paycheck with so many other worthy people out of a job.
From the people who brought us “Canabalt“, there’s now Gravity Hook HD. It’s only available online at the moment, but it’s coming soon for the iPhone. I’m already kinda into it. It’s not Canabalt, but it’s still pretty fun. Like Doodle Jump with different mechanics.
Story of a silly, pointless, avoidable death: here.
Seriously, who cares why the 3-year-old messed with a loaded gun left on the table. Prosecute the parents for endangering the child by making a loaded weapon available. Somehow making this the fault of the Wii, which does not come with a “solid black automatic-looking type mechanism” by default, is just plain silly. Especially since the 3-year-old didn’t shoot the TV — which is what you’d do with a Wii gun. Who ever wrote the article is either a twit or just too willing to be conned by parents trying to avoid arrest.
I’m a big fan of the AMC original series Mad Men, but somehow I think the Brooks Brothers suit designed by the costume director was a better product tie-in:
Betty Meets Barbie as Mattel Launches Mad Men Collector Dolls
In the last 4 years, Akismet has handled 102,497 spam comments. That’s better than 25k spam messages a year. Pretty impressive when you consider that Google Analytics says the site had less than 10k pageviews last year. I know that the spambots do not generate trackable pageviews, but it’s pretty sad that more log space and energy goes into serving them than legitimate site visitors.