Ben James at blogtastic.com made this BlogBadge.

Cool.

Another button for my button museum.

Starship Exeter.

"In one of the best science-fiction "fan film" projects of all time, a pair of "Star Trek" fanatics have created a new episode in exacting 1960s style using their own actors, sets and props." - Julio Ojeda-Zapata - Pioneer Press

While watching my new DVD of the Boondock Saints, one of the characters says that the Rule of Thumb refers to the width of a stick used to legally beat your wife, of course I googled it immediately to see if it was true.

It's not.

The "Rule of Thumb for Wife-Beating" Hoax.

Also, I found out that there are plans for Boondocks II.

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Happy Birthday Johnathan!

Joshua wanted me to check into Priceline.com for Macworld, but I was already comfortable at the Marriott.

Now I have time to look into it more.

Have you used Priceline?

Kill Bill - Teaser Trailer - Large - Requires Quicktime.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
A book by my good friend Cory Doctorow.

Go download it for free.

You've Gotta Eat.
San Francisco is a great place for restaurants. While here for Macworld I visited a few that were first rate.


Joshua introduced me to Sears for breakfast. He kept telling me that were were going to go to Sears and that I'd really like it. I thought it was funny since the Sears in the Boston area don't serve food, but I went along and had a great breakfast. This Sears is a classic old time restaurant.

Mels drive-in was a great stop for breakfast. Mels Club Breakfast #1 with (2) eggs, special grilled potatoes, with sourdough toast was exceptional for $4.50. Mels has four locations in SF, we went to the one at 801 Mission Street.

At the Final Cut Pro User Group Meeting on Wednesday night, JC, Managing Director for the Woods Hole Film Festival, was kind enough to go out and get me a hamburger and fries from Mels, also good. Very good.

Puccini and Pinetti was a great find for dinner. Super Italian food served by a waitstaff that remembers yor name. It's at 129 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA.

Putting My FCP Movies on the Web Is Easy Now, I just press 'SQUEEZE IT'.
The Sorenson Squeeze 3 Compression Suite from Sorenson Media relieved me of a big headache. It gave me one button to push to get my Final Cut Pro movies ready for Web delivery.

Now, after making a movie in Final Cut Pro, all I have to do it press the [SQUEEZE IT] button and Sorenson Squeeze 3 takes care of all the tricky settings that I don't have either the time or inclination to learn.

The Sorenson Squeeze 3 Compression Suite includes Squeeze 3, Spark Pro for Flash, and MPEG-4 Pro (Windows Media Players and Real Players need a plug in to see these files). I'm going to take a look at Squeeze 3.

You know those really sharp movie trailers on the Apple.com web site? Well they were done with Sorenson Media professional codecs. When you get Final Cut Pro, there are Sorenson codecs built in to compress your video for web distribution, but they are not the same professional ones as those used by Apple to put up those cool movie trailers.

With Squeeze 3, now you can use the same professional codecs.

Going From Final Cut Pro to Squeeze 3
The Squeeze User Guide doesn’t explain how to get your Final Cut Pro movie ready to open with Squeeze 3. The user guide is a pdf file so I couldn’t search for help on this. The online help tells you all the input formats that are supported and this includes Quicktime movie files.

When I saw this I was confused since I usually have to select all kinds of settings when I export a Quicktime movie. I wondered why I would have to export a Quicktime movie, which I thought would degrade the image.

Then I realized that I needed to export a Self-Contained or Final Cut Pro Reference Movie. This way the file wouldn’t loose any quality before going in to Squeeze 3.

Here’s how you get a Final Cut Pro movie ready for the Sorenson Squeeze 3:

Create your movie in Final Cut Pro and EXPORT it.

You can choose a Self-Contained or Final Cut Pro Reference Movie. Here are the Self-Contained settings:

[File] [Export] [Final Cut Pro Movie]
Setting: DV NTSC
Quality: Hi Res (1)
Include: Audio and Video
[X] Make Movie Self Contained

To save space you can Export a REFERENCE MOVIE, just uncheck the self-contained box, and Squeeze 3 will find all the files and create its output from your original source movie files. This way saves space on your disk.

Next you open the file in Squeeze.

Open Squeeze 3, open up the self-contained or reference Final Cut Pro movie you just exported from Final Cut Pro. You can also drag your exported movie to the Squeeze Icon if you have it in your Dock or on your desktop.

You are then presented with Output Types and Preset Settings for your movie. These are presented as Icons on the top of the page. These Icons aren’t too easy to figure out since they don’t have any text underneath them. If you point your cursor on top of them they tell you what they do. I’d like to see this part of the screen laid out more clearly. I read the User Guide, but I don’t really want to have to refer back to the manual every time I need to choose an output setting.

After you’ve selected the type of file you want, you just press the [Squeeze It] button and Squeeze compresses the file for you.

First I chose Progressive and my two minute movie compressed down to 6.6MB. A progressive compression will download the movie to end users computer. When you watch this type of movie you see a progress bar and the movie will play up to the end of the bar as it downloads. If you have a slower connection, this way is a pain to watch a movie because you are always waiting for more movie to download before you can watch it.

If you are interested, the settings Sorensen uses as a preset are:
Video: SV3 Pro, 320x240, 1:2 fps, 360 kbps, Audio: MP3, Mono, 64 kbps

I also decided to produce a streaming file so I opened my Final Cut movie and clicked the button to select Streaming 300K. Streaming will start playing the movie when a user clicks on it with no waiting, it can't be saved to disk though.

This time Squeeze 3 compressed my movie down to 4.9MB and the settings it used were:
Video: SV3 Pro, 320x240, 15.00 fps, 256 kbps, Audio: QDesign Basic, 48 kbps

This compares to 8.2 MB when I used the Sorenson Compression included with FCP.

You can compress in Final Cut Pro using the Sorenson Codec, but it's a constant bit rate encoder. High motion segments need more bits to display them clearly but in constant rate you see distortion in the high motion areas.

Squeeze 3 is a variable bit rate two-pass encoder. The first pass takes notes on which areas are high motion and which are low motion. Then the second pass encodes the movie. This produces a cleaner movie.

There are more things you can do with Squeeze 3 if you have the time or inclination. You can crop your movie, add fade in or fade out, normalize the audio, and adjust image with adjustments like contrast.

All these options become available to you if you [Control] [Click] on the output file name. I’d like to see a more intuitive way to get at the options. There isn’t any indication on the screen that you need to [Control] [Click] to see and edit the options. You also use the same key sequence to remove an output file from your list of files to be compressed.

Squeeze 3 will de-interlace your video and provide video noise reduction if you have imported analog video that isn't the greatest quality. Sorenson suggests that you use Digital Video for the best quality.

One of the coolest features of Squeeze 3 is that it allows you to constrain file size to a certain # of KBytes. No more Compress, Wait, Check File Size, Compress, Wait, Check File Size nightmares.

As I compared the end results the file that I got from Squeeze 3 was a lot cleaner and smaller.

The file I created with FCP export had a lot of artifacts. Web video looks a lot better with Squeeze! A lot better.

I love this program. Just what Macintosh Video editors need if they haven't yet mastered the complexities of file compression for streaming web video. With Squeeze 3 I might never even care about the details! All I care about is great video distributed over the web at the touch of a button.

With Squeeze 3, that button is [SQUEEZE IT].

www.sorenson.com
(888) 767-367
Sorensonn Media
4393 South Riverboat Road
Suite 300
Salt Lake City, UT 84123
801-287-9400

Live, on tape, Macworld reports.
ezedia - Easily make websites with Quicktime.

Macworld Expo - Day Two
VIDEO TO FILM
At 8:00 Joshua and I went to the Loews Theatre to see a presentation on how go from Video to Film. We are emerging film makers and this information should come in handy to us.


Breakfast was promised, but we only got cookies, juice and frappachino. The juice was Martinelli's Apple Juice, a fine juice from California. The Starbucks frappuchino was low fat according to the label.

I only understood 10% of what was said in this meeting since they were talking a different language than I'm used to. All kinds of film acronyms were thrown around: CRT output, 2383, 3:2 mode, Symphony, speed adjusted, etc...

I'm told that http://www.adamwilt.com/24p/ has all the info and will get me from 10% understanding up to a higher percentage.

Based on the presentation I learned that when you film on video and plan to go to film you should:

- Not put any diffusion on your lense
- Use close ups
- Use static shots
- Follow the action, which will keep your object sharp
- Do not shoot out of focus


SHARON RUTTER - RULES OF ATTRATION
At the Final Cut Pro User Group Theatre, Sharon Rutter told us how she used Final Cut Pro to edit Roger Avery's Rules of Attraction.


She also confirmed that Carrot Top will be one of the people joining her in doing a commentary for the DVD which will be out on February 14th.

Sharon suggested two books by Walter Murch: The Conversations and In the Blink of an Eye.

FINAL CUT PRO - REAL TIME EFFECTS
Turns out that my 667Mhz Powerbook doesn't support Real Time Effects anymore, if it ever did. All the experts at hte user group booth tried to determine why. I went over to the Apple booth and Michael Wong from the Final Cut Pro team at Apple told me that my computer won't support all real time effects.

STEVE JOBS WALKS BY
I saw Steve Jobs walk by and thought it was cool for him to be walking by. I went over to him and introduced my self. He was polite.

Cool.

Macworld - The NORTH Building Rocks!
After spending some time in the Final Cut Pro User Group Theater I started looking around the show floor.

The vendors here are so nice. They tell me that all the big companies are over in the South Building.

Less is More.
So I started off in a booth where a guy made a man disappear. It's this software called mokey. It actually takes a series of still images that you took on your video camera and modifies them to remove any object that you don't want in there. The guy at the booth is a riot and worth talking to.

Next I saw there nice handouts on a garbage barrel. They were high color printed on heavy stock. So I found the booth, #3840, and it turns out that they placed those handouts there for me to pick up. Nice marketing! These guys are AmericasPrinter.com and they'll print out business cards, and posters and all kinds of stuff for you. Go over there and touch all the paper. It's fun!

I gotta go back to check out the South building and get my hands on those new Powerbooks, so I'll leave you with a quick list of other booths that are good:

SLIMP3 - A very cool looking network mp3 player.
XtremeMac - A quiet encloseure
Primera Technology - A CD Duplicator and CD Burner all in one!
Dr. Bott - extendAir - Extends the new Apple Airport 250 and 500 feet
VRSHowcase - 360 degree panoramic photos from a single exposure using a mirrored doo-hickey.
CustomFlix - They manufacture and distribute your DVDs for you.
RadTech - ScreensavRz - Keep your Powerbook screen scratch free when you close your laptop. It's a screen cleaner too.
TackyShirt - Is producing a very funny series of DVD training videos.
EJ - A cool 33 1/3 disk that goes on your turntable to give you control of your Macintosh media. Party tonite at VideoSalon 8-12 150 FOLSOM ST. VideoSAlon is an open community of SF video artists and these EJ guys will be there too.

Steve Jobs likes looplabs.

Final Cut Express.
Apple just announced an entry level Final Cut Pro called Final Cut Express for $299.

Cool!

A great way to get people into professional video editing on a Mac.

FCP UG Network.
My video, God Damn Mistake, has been accepted for showing at the The Final Cut Pro User Group Theater at Macworld San Francisco January 6th - 10th.

I'm very excited about this, and will be in The Final Cut Pro User Group Theater Booth # 3740 on Tuesday 10:30-12:00, Wednesday 12:00-2:00 and Thursday 2:00-4:00.

Stop by and say hi.

\\ SONY :: METREON //.
Right near my hotel is the mega Sony store - Metreon.

It's a gadget lovers paradise. Josh and I went into the computer part of the store and overheard a Sony sales person say, "The Sony Vaio is the Mac of the PC world."

Blogging From Macworld San Francisco.
Well, I'm not actually at Macworld yet, I'm still in my hotel room. I'm going to watch Steve Jobs Keynote from the Apple.com web site.

You can only get into the keynote if you pay big bucks for the Conference sessions. I didn't get those. I just have an exhibit pass.

Celtic Crossing beats Irish Mist.
Up at the New Hampshire State Liquor Store, they've got Irish Mist for sale including a pair of glasses for around $23.

Celtic Crossing was on sale for about $12.99 so I bought it.

Celtic = Irish.

Crossing sorta = Mist.

Results of the taste test = Celtic Crossing is a little sweeter.

Celtic Wins! I don't need two more stupid glasses anyway.

Futurama Transcripts.

Penn Jillette At The Airport.

"Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it."

FARRAGO.
Thanks for the link. Cute kittens!

I went to see the Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers today.

It was SOLD OUT at the 3:45 PM showing in Boston. By the time we picked up our tickets and got into the theater, there weren't any more seats available and if there were I couldn't see them since it was so dark in the theater.

So we went way back to the top of the stadium seating and sat on the floor.

This is the view we had of the movie.

It's ok though, we stood some of the time.

It's amazing how fast 3 hours goes by when you are watching a great movie!

Terry Love's Consumer toilet reports, a report on low flow toilets.
That Simpsons episode makes more sense to me, now that I had a new toilet installed.

I was concerned when the plumber asked me where I bought my toilet, and I told him Home Deport.

"Oh", he said and paused.

Turns out that Toto is the brand to get, but Home Depot doesn't sell them.

Too bad the first plumber, who never showed up, told me to just go down to Home Depot and pick up a toilet.

This American Standard toilet seems ok. Not much of a splash down target area though, if you know what I mean.

365 days of free mp3's. One new incredibly strange obscure mp3 file per day.

I'm going to download The Dondero High School Symphony Band & A Capella Choir's versions of Fox On The Run and Sunshine Of Your Love right now.

It's a car you can drive with only a motorcycle license.

AtomFilms - Waiting For Woody.
Grant Heslov is the next Woody Allen!

Loon Mountain Resort.
Skiing.

Ticketstubs and stories.

BlogStreet: Off On A Tangent: Hot Girls, Cold Beer, Fresh Links.
Take a look at my neighbors.

Big Brother's In Your Trash Can.

The Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence website was created by David Yoo.
via [ linkfilter ]

TV Barn: Barnhart's top 10 of 2002 ...

My Top 10 for 2002:
10. BBC America: Monarch of the Glen and So Graham Norton.
9. Enterprise - better than the movie.
8. Andy Richter Controls the Universe - always funny.
7. Futurama - always funny in a smart way.
6. The Simpsons - always funny in a funny smart way.
5. The Sopranos - a few excellent episodes this season.
4. 24 - love the camera work and 2 out of 3 of the storylines.
3. Temptation Island - Nice scenery.
2. The Bachelor - Brooke!
1. American Idol - I was hooked.

First Night Boston.
Happy New Year!

If you're in New York City, go see my friend Paul Wagner's THE COMICS ROUNDTABLE.

Rael messages from aliens.

All about UFOs.

Mass Office of Consumer Affairs - Do Not Call List Registry.
Sign up today.

No more telemarketing calls for you!

Sticker Shock.
This is what happened today.

I went to the car dealer and got a new set of wiper blades and a new headlight.

Then I went to a gas station for an inspection sticker.

The technician came out and said that I needed a new set of wiper blades and my headlights adjusted.

I told him that I just purchased new wiper blades from my dealer 1 hour ago.

He said they were 'streaky'.

I asked him to show me and he said, "no, you can't go in there," meaning the garage.

I told my story to the station manger who went in to take a look.

He came out and said I needed new wiper blades and my headlights adjusted.

$77 dolars later I left with my new inspection sticker.

BAD BOYS II.
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

The Toro 1800 Electric Snow Blower Rules.

I just finished cleaning up from the 'Christmas Storm'. It's the first time I used my new Toro 1800 Snow Blower.

It's great.

No gas. And the snow blower doesn't need any gas either!

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

Everybody who has ever worked Christmas in a newsroom knows the drill: there are certain standard news stories that run every year.

Happy Holidays!

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993).
The Music He Created Was Strange. His Life Was Even Stranger.

Gilligan's Island: Mary Anne and Ginger Christmas Picture.

How to: Make a Movie with Digital Stills

"Don't get the idea that I do any fancy z-axis 3-D virtual camera math or programming! I just combine elements from a couple of pictures, separate things into layers in Photoshop, replace backgrounds and then wiggle 'em around in After Effects. All the parallax scrolling and zooming are figured out as I go shot by shot. I think of myself as primarily a live action guy so I just adjust the scale, position, and blur keyframes until they look right to my eye."

So that's how he did it.

Insane bike messenger and his nike watch navigate the mean streets of NYC.

$20 to NYC.

Sant'a New Beetle.

Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There? by Nicholas Monahan.

Compare and Contrast over at Metafilter.

Calendars Net: Interactive Calendar Hosting.
Create your own online calendar.

The Hard Rock Cafe Vault is now open in Orlando, where you can pay money to see old rock and roll junk.

How + Why.

... grab a pole, and some friends, use your imagination

Guys rearange advertising signs for fun.
via [ geek life ]

What Hi-Fi?
They'll tell you that and more.

LIVE PHISH DOWNLOADS

Live Phish Downloads offers high quality, unedited soundboard recordings of select shows in the form of MP3 and Shorten digital music files via a state-of-the-art delivery system.

Wow!

I'd buy that from lots of artists.

I hope more bands jump on this bandwagon. :-)

mau mau sex sex.

... interviews with octogenarians David Friedman and Dan Sonney, who made exquisitely bad films such as Blood Feast and She Freak between 1930 and 1970. Together, the two pioneered the "exploitation" genre –- cheap films packed with sex and violence whose sole raison d'etre is making money off social taboos.

Why Isn't Bernard Law in Jail?

Cooking with Google.

Jewish Boy Meets Chinese Girl and SOY VAY! A Sauce is Born.
This is good stuff!

This Liz Phair Music Video is sooo cool. It looks like it's all made of still photos.

How come they look like they have three dimensions?

Looks like I could spend the rest of the day here.

via [ Rich ]

iStopMotion, ustopMotion, we_allStopMotion.
This software lets you use your video camera to make one of those stop motion movies. Not tape involved. Goes right to disk. Bring the stop motion movies you create into iMovie of Final Cut Pro for further editing.

I give it 5 stars (5 out of 5).

Mac OS X only [ Full Stop ]

TELEMARKETERS: Do Not Call Me in 2003.

MASSACHUSETTS Consumers can sign up any time between January 1, 2003 and March 1, 2003 to be included in the first release of the "Do Not Call" list, which will be submitted to telemarketers in April 2003.

I mean it!

Paul Mecurio: Jokes pay off for former finance lawyer.

NYC TRIP REPORT
FLY/TRAIN/FLY/TRAIN.

That’s the age-old dilemma. You’ve got to leave early to get to the airport and then you have to get there an hour early and then once you land in NYC, if your flight hasn’t been delayed, you need to catch a cab to the airport. With the train, it’s off to the train station and it’s a straight shot down to NYC.

So I took the Acela high-speed train to New York City today. It’s great. Funny thing is that they let you board the train only 10 minutes prior to departure. So you don’t even have to worry about getting there 1 hour prior.

You really don’t even have to talk to anyone either if you bought a ticket over the internet with a credit card. You just stick your credit card into a machine and it prints out your train tickets. Nice.

On the train I was reading the New York Times Circuits section. It’s a great technology section of the paper.

This week they’ve recycled about six of my stories that you’ve already seen here on Off On A Tangent! Oh yes, if you want to read the news before it happens, Off On A Tangent is the place.

Here are the stories that I had before they did:

1. Jason Eric Smith Got his Mac Back from an eBay scammer. One interesting thing the Times uncovered was the fact that eBay wasn’t actually involved in the transaction because the buyer asked the seller to end the auction early and sell the Mac directly bypassing eBay. That isn’t right

2. Firewire Dinosaur – This is old news. I’m sure I already talked about this over a month ago.

3. Advent calendar – Had it already. Remember the snowman thing I posted a link to?

4. Picture yourself – Did that too, remember when I ate the Kugel and took a scary picture of myself. Josh says I looked scary, I just thought I looked hungry.

5. That guy who tracked a package sent to Santa – This just proves that electronic new dissemination is much more speedy that the old once a week techie newspaper column.

6. Virtual Tour of Boston’s Big Dig – OK, that’s the last straw. The writers of this whole section must have been reading me daily. I mean how can they find this tour plus all the other stuff? When I saw this story I said, “Harumph.” The other people on the Acela were looking at me with crazed looks on their faces. Well, not really, there were only 5 other people in my car that’s meant to seat about 70. Hey Acela, how about some discount tickets?

So I got off the train in Penn Station and needed to find the Krispy Kreme Donuts. That was the meeting place Josh and I agreed upon. Well as I got off the train and entered the big lobby of Penn Station I saw about 6 people eating Krispy Kreme Donuts! I went over to the fat guy was just finishing off a six pack, of donuts. He pointed me in the right direction.

Once we got outside in the street we saw a McDonuts! Hey, we don’t have that in Boston. I guess hte pressure from Krispy Kreme is geting to them. they were even making donuts in the window.

We went on an excursion to the Mecca of videographers. That’s what we are. We went to B&H Photo.

It just so happened that right outside of Penn Station a guy was handing out B&H pamplets. He directed us to the store.

I didn’t know that B&H Photo was run by orthodox Jews. Most of the sales people in the store had a Yarmulke.

After our fun experience at B&H we needed to find a place for lunch. We went back to the B&H guy, since he was so good at directions the first time, and he sent us over to the STAGE DOOR DELICATESSEN and RESTAURANT. It’s at 5 PENN PLAZA. It was a great place for lunch.

Josh said I made a good call in deciding that we should split the sandwich instead of each getting our own. So we each got a half of a pastrami sandwich that wouldn’t fit into our mouths.

Our business meeting went well and I caught and earlier train back to Boston in time to have a Beer at the Hard Rock Café in Boston. It’s at the BAck Bay Station which is one stop before south Station and a lot more convenient if you live in town.

Oh, one more thing, there’s this Christmas CD out with music made by a couple of guys using rubber bands. It’s called a Rubber Band Christmas. Download free mp3’s of Rudolph the rubber Nosed Reindeer and Deck the Halls with Rubber at http://www.bostonphoenix.com/Bost_mp3/previous/RUBBER_BAND.html

Nice was to pass the time on a train trip, writing the longest weblog post ever.

Watch some 0tv from Milwaukee, WI.

Don't miss Matt Cook's Yesterday's News.

Play guess his name.

I got it, 1st try!

No big deal though, almost everybody does.

The pressure is on.

Mr Beaver .net

Sexiest 100. Vote today.
Elisha Cuthbert is #16 right now.

This page has a funny Inter Face.
Tell Barbara Streisand.
via [ The Presurfer ]

Festivus: December 23rd.
via [ Mac Slash ] by way of [ shjendraszak ]

imashimaro, click play.

japanese nipple babies.
via [ everlasting blort ]

Crossword.
A new Electrotank game.

No shooting, you've gotta type in words and stuff.

Who's We Studios.

Business or Pleasure?
via [ inloosgeweldig ]

You have 4 hours, 48 hours, 30 days to make a film.

Pick One.

Audri Dalio ‘Disney's Beauty and the Beast’ Understudy is a Rising Star.
Audri was good but I think the doormat stole the show.

Taken.
Best episodes ever.

I still have two more episodes of Taken left to go. It was a big commitment, to invest 20 hours in this mini-series, but with TiVo I could schedule my viewing at a time that was convenient to me. TiVo rocks!

The characters were well developed, and I'm not just talking about the ladies. ;-)

When my favorite charaters were killed off, I was sad to see them go. Yet, at the same time, I was impressed that a TV show could make me feel that way after so short a time.

When I've viewed the last episode and deleted it, I'll be crying as I hit TiVo's [ Select ] key.

The Orphanage.
Former ILM guys make DV look like FILM.

They do other stuff too.

A Guy Thing: Official Movie Site.
The trailer for this movie looks funny.

I hope they still have some other funny stuff in the movie.

How I Caught a Counterfeiter with a Little Help from my Friends [ a true story by Jason Eric Smith ]

I called the Secret Service and the Chicago PD, pleading, all they had to do was be there when Fedex dropped off the package. It was a guaranteed hit, he'd have another counterfeit cashier's check, all you'd have to do is arrest him. Like shooting fish in a barrel. "Sorry, Detective McDonaugh will be out until next Wednesday, can I take a message?" Fine, if the cops won't do it, I decided I'd just Priceline a ticket and be waiting next door when it got dropped off.

Soon to be a major motion picture.

Maybe.

Star Trek Nemesis.
Worst episode ever.

Harry didn't like it either.

Wait for it to go on cable.

Then don't watch it.

Big Dig Virtual Tunnel Tours.
Not much traffic now.

Just three other nondescript cars on the road ahead of me.

Kinda quiet too.

Meet Market "Hottie of the Month".
Girl 6 is the winner.

Did you hear how Moby was beat up in front of the Paradise Rock Club in Boston?

Now he's puffy.

Princess Madeleine of Sweden.

Redate: The Creative Anniversary Calculator.
I've blinked about 236 million times in my life time.

I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

Pajama Clad Teen Hogties Intruder.

A petite 17-year-old, irate after seeing three men running from her home in the wee morning hours Tuesday, sprinted outdoors barefoot, clad in pajamas, outran one of the trespassers, tackled and straddled him, then hog-tied him with a rope until police arrived minutes later.

Irritating Rainbow - The Car Album.

Google Viewer.
New from Google Labs, Google Viewer shows you the results of your search in a slide show. You can vary the speed, stop the slides, and manually click through the sites.

It's nice.

The family was getting sick of my old slide shows anyway.

Spiffle! is a Coffee Geek.

Advent calendar, 2002.
Day 8 was good.

Widelux Panoramas.

Track A Flight In Real Time.
Trip.com doesn't seem to have FlightTracker anymore.

I found another version at: RLM Software -- Home of FlightView.

MovieJuice!:  A Janeane Garofalo Christmas Carol.

La Jetee.
It's a movie made up of still photos.

Geezer - All the Blues You Can Use.
Nothin' in Your Stocking.mp3!

Download it today!

STEVE'S SHOW.
If you have access to ATT BROADBAND Cable in Boston, you have the opportunity to watch a 30 minute show I put together for the Public Access channel, BNN 23.

It's scheduled for broadcast on these dates:
Monday Dec 9 @ 10:30 pm
Wednesday Dec 11 @ 6 pm
Monday Dec 23 @ 10:30 pm

this is your alternative...this is radioio.

radioio and Limelight Networks team with Apple QuickTime to deliver the industry's first mpeg- 4 radio webcast, delivering the world's first end-to-end mpeg-4 based internet broadcast system!

It's gotta be better than the selection of commercial stations we have in Boston.

I hope it has no commercials!

FilmJerk.com: Moore on the upcoming "Battlestar Galactica" miniseries.

Our ships will be treated like real ships that someone had to go out and film with a real camera. That means no 3-D "hero" shots panning and zooming wildly with the touch of a mousepad. The questions we will ask before every VFX shot are things like: "How did we get this shot? Where is the camera? Who's holding it? Is the cameraman in another spacecraft? Is the camera mounted on the wing?"

It's a webcam!

The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide.
Rock on!

TiVo - "Just get it and then you'll understand," Joshua.
TiVo Community Forum.
The TiVo Web Project.
The unofficial TiVo Hackers Site.
TiVo: Case-study in embedded Linux.

What is Red Hat Linux?

The Photography Collection - Western History / Genealogy Department - at The Denver Public Library.
Old photos are cool.

Let's get Small Sites.