Webb Wilder & The Nashvegaans – One Taste Of The Bait
The Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
Gogol Bordello – Sally
Trace Adkins – Honky Tonk Badonkadonk
Flogging Molly – What’s Left of the Flag
Ian Tyson – This is My Sky
Tenacious D – The Metal
Dean Gray – Boulevard of Broken Songs
Montgomery Gentry – Gone
Flogging Molly – Sentimental Johnny
Dean Gray – Dr. Who on Holiday
John Michael Montgomery – Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)
Movies I saw that were released in 2008 (not necessarily the best, just some of the more memorable; in no order):
WALL-E
The Dark Knight
Kung-Fu Panda
Iron Man
Cloverfield
Quantum of Solace
Mamma Mia
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Horton Hears A Who
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Incredible Hulk
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Forbidden Kingdom
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Semi-Pro
The Ruins
Be Kind, Rewind
Futurama – The Beast With A Billion Backs
Tropic Thunder
(If I tried to remember ALL the movies I watched last year, it would take me until the end of ’09! The most watched movie of the year was a tie between WALL-E and Shoot ‘Em Up, 3 times each.)
Some of the best stuff I read in 2008:
The Happiest Days of Our Lives, by Wil Wheaton
World War Z, by Max Brooks
Crooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis
The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novel)
G33k Mafia, by Rick Dakan
Godel, Escher, and Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter
Y, The Last Man, series
Transmetropolitan, series
The Boys, series
Planet Hulk/World War Hulk, series
Punisher MAX, series (Garth Ennis’ run)
Wanted, series
Wizard’s First Rule, by Terry Goodkind
Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition, core books and supplements
I think I’ve posted about this before, but it’s cool enough to get my attention again. I love this idea, and it sounds like a perfect way to chew through some of those classic stories I’ve always meant to read.
I used to always have 2-4 books on the go at any one time; typically one good engrossing fiction to read before bed, one way-over-my-head intellectual/science/philosophy book to read during the day when I needed to stretch my brain, and sometimes a light biography/memoir that was like an easy conversation. Don’t always have time for all that these days, but I’m signing up for one of these books right now (I’ve wanted to read Flatland since I first heard of it as well).
via WWdN: In Exile by wil@wilwheaton.net (Wil Wheaton) on Aug 02, 2007
I’m having a bad day. There, I said it. Details will not be forthcoming, but if you were wondering why I may seem like Captain Crankypants, now you know why.
However, I still came across something that’s so totally awesome, I thought I’d share with my usual enthusiasm:
DailyLit sends you bite-sized chunks of public domain books (including many classics) daily, on weekdays, or three times a week via email or RSS — for free. Each serving takes less than five minutes to read, and if you want, they’ll send you the next installment right away if you click a link. The whole idea is to read short segments for a few minutes in your spare time.
When you find a book at DailyLit, (via Title, Author, or Category) it tells you how many parts you’ll be subscribing to, so you can get a sense of how long it will take to finish the book, and what kind of commitment you’re making. I’ve subscribed to Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, which I’ve meant to read for an embarrassingly long time. It’s 37 parts, and I’ll get it three times a week at noon, just in time for my lunch break.
Being the resident unofficial techie of my friends, family, and now office, I’m going to allow myself an extra 3d6 minutes of blogging, screwing around with Ubuntu, and randomly flipping through Userfriendly archives.
Geek-break begins… well… I guess about 5 minutes ago when I started writing this.
It’s the first story I’ve read in ages that I read completely without stopping, and the first full-length story that I think I’ve ever read in its entirety online. Cory is one of the very few authors who inspire me as well as entertain me, because he tells great stories like this one.
I am currently devouring a fantastic novel by Mr. Cory Doctorow, “… a blogger, journalist, and science-fiction author who serves as the co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.” The story itself is wonderfully unique, gloriously dissectable, and positively glowing with the love Cory has for his home town (and my former stomping grounds) Toronto.
A large part of the narrative involves wireless networking technology, a topic for which I have a passing interest, though no actual skill or knowledge to speak of.
But it gives me a nice segue (I wish I had a nice Segway) into this article from Lifehacker on a few fun things I can do next time I get around to tweaking my network…
Looking at the history of computing, anyone can see that it wasn’t until some brilliant folks connected a couple of computers together that the real fun began. Countless tools let you do all sorts of network trickery, many with their roots at the Unix command line. But forget arcane command line tools. Today we’ve picked out 10 of our favorite, free, point and click software applications and webapps that help you make the most of the giant web of connected computers that is your network.
There’s something cool about reading a book and being able to identify the setting… of knowing exactly what the place they’re talking about looks like because you’ve been there. It puts you in the story on another level. And one of my favourite cities on the planet (one that I’ve spent a bit of time in) happens to feature in quite a few fun stories…
Cory Doctorow: Fantastic Toronto is Karen Bennet’s massive, wide-ranging bibliography of science fiction, fantasy and horror works with some or all of the action set in Toronto. I LOVE reading stuff written in my hometown — and I’ve even written a bunch of it. Link
Top Artists (according to Last.fm):
10. Angry IP Scanner (port scanner)
9. MacFUSE (network drive mounter)
8. DynDNS (dynamic DNS)
7. NetMeter (bandwidth monitor)
6. iStumbler (wireless network manager)
5. Net Profiles (network-specific settings)
4. Synergy (virtual KVM)
3. WiPeer (P2P wireless)
2. DD-WRT (router firmware)
1. Hamachi (VPN)
