offhand remarks

Best Chuck Taylor Ad Evar

(via The Big Picture)

On a related note: The stuff going on in Iran is simultaneously frightening and thrilling, but mostly thrilling since all of the abuse-of-power elements are pretty much a given, in my worldview. I truly hope they get some progress out of this cataclysm. Looking at the people taking to the streets, it seems like they deserve it.

Minors and "Minority Report"

It occurs to me, watching this Microsoft teaser reel for Project Natal, that it will indeed be the 12-year-old kids that get to live in the sci-fi future while the homicide police, pictured using similar technology* in Minority Report, will be stuck with Cold-War-era PCs and old copies of Excel.

* Similar, but more primitive. There were control gloves, as I recall.

This is really funny...

Great bit by Louis CK. Too bad about the resolution and aspect ratio on this YouTube clip. I mean, I'm just broadcasting NETWORK TELEVISION on my BLOG. Why isn't it in HD? Geez...

I'm So Ready for the Next Four Years...

I got new shoes! Hooray!

(And the whole new government administration thing is cool, too.)