the rugs don’t work

Over the last week or so I’ve finally been able to reunite the majority of the CDs in my collection. Various moves and housing configurations meant some boxes never made it out of storage. Always interesting to see what treasures have been tucked away. Some discs really haven’t aged that well. Not sure if this means a purge [...]

Have been testing the blog stats tracking that the folks at Performancing have recently released. The package is pretty simple but they’ve done a good job of adding features that make it easy to add to your blog. As always the wordpress community has stepped up with cool plugins to make it even easier and extend the [...]

There are just too many things that make me smile, snicker and nod in agreement when I read through the archives of Merlin Mann’s collection of lists of five things. Some make you scratch your head. Who sits around and makes a list of the “most punchable” characters in Pretty in Pink. I like the “Five bad signs [...]

I’m putting this one on the must see list. It’s the story of Bill Carlton and his quest to conquer the twenty year-old high score record for Missile Command. The documentary is called High Score and it was recently shown at the SXSW festival in Austin, TX. [via Waxy.org].

This is a really cool comparison of DVD and HD-DVD video. These folks took screen captures from both the DVD and HD-DVD versions of Lord of the Rings to illustrate the video quality differences. Well worth a peak. The link is: http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/index.html

Malcolm Gladwell would deliver. On his blog and at ESPN, he tackles drafting players for the NBA and why players raise the level of their game in the final year of their contracts. Well worth reading. Part one is here and part two is here. Enjoy.