For anyone who doesn’t live in Ann Arbor (A2 to the initiated), this town has one, ok two, huge problems. The first one is that residents (which around here means “non-students”) don’t like the University. Oh sure, they love football and being able to say they live in Ann Arbor, Home of The University of […]
I didn’t know this, but they have made a new version of the Merchant of Venice (trailer at apple.com). Stars Al Pacino as Shylock, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, and Lynn Collins. Opens 29 Dec 04. Official site (gratuitous use of Flash) It will be curious to see how the play gets treated in this ultra-sensitive, […]
And it looks really cool. Note that this is not a commnet on the movie itself, just the visuals, but they are awesome. Check it out at Yahoo!. Link
In the vein of yesterday’s post on insulting cultual icons, I present McSweeny’s second look at some of the best films. Link
Here’s a list of way too many board games (yeah, they still make them). This list is heavily skewed towards fantasy/risk-type games, but it’s got a lot of other. Definately won’t find many of these at Meijer’s. LinkSlashdot story
I’m an idiot. I neglected to enable commeters to actually, you know, comment. For the time being, posts that have comments turned on should allow anyone to post. However, if you aren’t registered with TypeKey, your comments are moderated, which means they won’t show up until I approve them. Sorry, but spammers are everywhere. If […]
Proving once again that Barton Watson and his ilk are not representative of the West Michigan work ethic, soon-to-be-former employees at CyberNET spent their Thanksgiving weekend salvaging Roadlink USA’s computer system. For their efforts, Roadlink will give them contracts for employment. Congratulations to the soon-to-be-former CyberNET employees. And thanks to Roadlink USA. A bright spot […]
In the interest of full disclosure, I do not like the Beatles. Commence the hate now. Done? Cool, because the Guardian today unleashed its writer on every huge act from James Brown to Bob Marley to, yep, the Beatles. There’s sure to be something in this article that makes you nod with approval and then […]
Amongst the clamour of people trying to associate themselves with the Van Andel family now that Jay has shuffled off this mortal coil, TV 8 managed to get inside a warehouse with a pile of goodies that Barton Watson kept for himself, apparently on the company dime. The list of vehicles includes a Bentley, a […]
I’ve been using Avast as my primary anti-virus application for a number of years now with great results. However, in the last couple of months, Avast has upgraded the application (a common occurance), but broken something. My system is slower and, when I had the Network scanner turned on, noticably lowered my connection speed. So, […]