Wednesday Link Dump
* I just noticed that The Travel Channel is finally showing new episodes of AMERICAN CASINO on Wednesday nights at 8:00 p.m. (repeating at 11 that night). They promised new episodes when they first picked up the series in the spring, but then started with repeats. I forgot about it until just this past week.
* I’ve always wanted to figure out how to read a bar code. Now you can look at the bars and spit the numbers back out to your amazed friends.
* An MP3 thrown up on your website is NOT a podcast. It happens mostly with commercial interests who now do things like post part of their feature interviews in their original MP3 audio form. They call those podcasts. They’re not — they’re just isolated MP3 files you can download and listen to. A podcast needs an RSS feed and a series of releases. Otherwise, it’s just a free download.
* The only shopping I need to do on this upcoming holiday weekend: the second edition of the BABYLON 5 scriptbook series goes on sale Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (West Coast time). The sales pitch for it is hilarious.
* A town in Austria has the misfortune to be covered in darkness in the winter due to a mountain’s shadow. Now, they’re thinking of redirecting sunlight with mirrors to light up the town. It’s like something out of a Carl Barks UNCLE SCROOGE tale, isn’t it? (Via)
November 23rd, 2005 at 2:56 pm
That book list looks more like a sci-fi list than a geek list. Being a geek shouldn’t be limited to a single genre.
I’d like to think geeks come in all categories. I can’t believe no geeks are hooked on mysteries, or sports trivia, or biographies, or playwrights.
That list is baseless and pointless, IMO.
November 23rd, 2005 at 3:42 pm
Don’t geeks just read the mountains of Star Trek and Star Wars paperback that they always seem to be churning out? ;)
November 23rd, 2005 at 7:46 pm
I’d like to meet the guy who has read every ST-related book. Or the guy who has read every SW-related book. I know there exist a few people who have done one or the other. Maybe both.
I’d love to talk to one of them and see what’s going on in there.