The first I heard of this was from someone who left a comment on my MySpace profile. Then I got a couple of text messages from some very excited friends. Apparently, Blender magazine set out to name the best 500 pop songs released since 1980. By their count, the original pool was almost three quarters of a million tunes. After eliminating 743,102 of them, the final results were in.
On Blender’s Top 500
70′s, 80′s, 90′s and ?
We can’t really call it the “turn of the century” yet. That still seems like 1900 to me. So what is this decade called?
Is the next one “the teens?” Like, ew.
OPM – Noon at Ngayon
I just did a quick advertisement mini-site for Planet Pinoy. Their 6th anniversary is coming up, and they are throwing a big concert at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo. It’s on Sunday, 16 October 2005, at 6 pm. Check it out..
http://www.eplanetpinoy.com/opm/
On the technical side, they wanted to use the poster art on the front page with links under various areas. I requested the original version in Photoshop, so I could pull layers apart. This was most useful for the rest of the site, including the artist feature pages and even the background, which is an endless tile pulled from part of the poster (with a little rubber stamp help).
Surface on NBC
I’m struggling to find something to say. That’s because there weren’t very many glaring moments to annoy me in NBC’s premiere of Surface. Not as many as in Threshold, to be sure.
On a basic level, the story was presented much better. I didn’t feel that “disconnect” I felt while watching Threshold. The only bad acting and dialog were with oceanographer Laura Daughtery’s heavily clichéd assistant and skipper. Laura’s character herself is played by Lake Bell (Boston Legal) and is decently appealing. The only brain dead moment is when she realizes something is rising up out of a giant sea-bed posthole, and she just sits there in her submersible waiting for it to hit her.
Threshold: 1 Down, 2 To Go
The first of, count ‘em, three new science fiction invasion television shows premiered tonight. Threshold on CBS received more early positive press than NBC’s Surface and ABC’s Invasion, which both start next week, so I was looking forward to it.
Garbage.
I know that doesn’t seem fair. But I am so disappointed, I don’t feel the show deserves much more.
Review: Dell 2405FPW LCD Display
The nice thing about a review of this large LCD panel is that I don’t need to say much. I bought it to use as a computer display (see other uses below). I plugged it into the PowerBook via DVI when it first arrived, and it sprung to life at full 1920 x 1200 resolution immediately. I temporarily used it on my 5-year-old G4 with a graphics card which could only manage 1280 x 1024 pixels. The display had options to fully stretch that signal to fill the screen, stretch it proportionally and pillarbox, or simply show it 1:1 with black on all borders. I chose the latter for top quality.
Review: Sonnet Allegro Firewire PCI Card
I purchased this card to pamper a Firewire audio interface, which it does well, leaving my native Firewire ports for other things like hard drives, iPods, etc.
Installation was zero effort. Just open up the computer and pop it into an empty PCI slot. Mac OS X 10.4.1 requires no drivers. The ports simply show up as standard Firewire, not even some stepchild class sub-set, just Firewire. Can’t ask for more.
