I just found out that Chris Whitley passed away a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been listening to him since Din of Ecstasy, which came out in 95, so it’s been about 10 years. He put some great stuff out there over the years. Dirt Floor is my favorite — just him, a guitar, some banjo, and a bunch of raw, honest music. I really don’t know much about him personally; I don’t think I’ve ever even read an interview with him or anything like that. I know I’ll miss him, though.
Beatallica
Went to see these guys in Philly last night. Very amusing. Check out some of their lyrics.
iDevGames contest
There’s a bunch of free games for the Mac posted here, as part of a game development contest. I haven’t downloaded and played any yet, but some of them look interesting.
Pee & Poo
Pee & Poo: definitely the weirdest thing I’ve seen this week.
Dr Who DVDs
It looks like the current Doctor who series will be available on DVD in February 2006. Kind of pricey though — $100 retail for the set.
Panda-Z
Cool Panda-Z stuff. I picked up a Panda-Z toy at San Diego last year. Giant panda robot! Yay!
Google Base
Google Base is pretty interesting. Check out what they’ve got under comic books, for instance.
bookmark managers
After my last post on bookmark managers, I set up a Spurl account. I uploaded my bookmarks from my Mac and my PC, but they never appeared in the account. Apparently, they were having some problems with the upload process that day. I uploaded the Mac bookmarks again last night, and they did show up today. I spent some time playing around, and I do like the interface. One of the nice things is that you can organize your bookmarks into folders and tag them. (I think most of the other managers just use tags, no folders.)
This guy’s blog has some stuff about bookmark managers, too, including a link to one service I hadn’t seem before, BlinkList.
Infinite Crisis stuff
I’m still way behind in my comic-book reading, but I did read the trade paperback of The OMAC Project a few days ago, and I’ll probably be reading Day of Vengeance soon. I was just going to steer clear of this whole Infinite Crisis thing, but curiosity got the best of me when I saw the trades on the shelf at Midtown Comics. I’ll probably have to pick up the Infinite Crisis trade too, whenever that comes out. I’m still staying away from buying all the actual comics, though.
Superman Returns
Seeing the Superman Returns trailer yesterday brought back fond memories of the original Superman movie soundtrack. They used the original theme in the trailer; I’m not sure if they’ll be using the original John Williams music in the actual movie or not, but it would sure be nice if they did.
There’s a version of the soundtrack on iTunes by the Royal Scottish Orchestra instead of the LSO, by the way. I haven’t listened to enough of it to know if it’s better or worse than the original LSO version.