Wednesday Link Dump
August 1st, 2007 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
Working on a couple of larger posts. In the meantime, let me buy some time with some things that grabbed my attention:
- Video of the year: At last! YouTube video to show how similar AIRPLANE! (the funniest movie of all time) is to ZERO HOUR. It’s a dead-on copy, played so straight that it’s hilarious. Someone needs to do a picture-in-picture DVD of both movies together.
- Here’s my Google Reader Feed, if you want to see the things I find most interesting on a daily basis. Many of the stories you’ll see here start there. It’s a free-flowing feed, too. LOTS of stuff passes through there. You can view it as a web page, too.
- A four port HDMI switch? Kewl.
- Linux Torvalds thinks kernel maintenance procedures does not inhibit desktop development, thankyouverymuch.
- The famed CBR Photo Parade from San Diego has begun.
- 10 rules for writing numbers.
- If AT&T ran the roads. . . Don’tcha just hate telecomm companies? Very funny stuff.
- An XBox 360 price drop? Don’t worry — Microsoft will still cover it for a number of years while it breaks constantly. . . It only cost them a billion dollars to do so.
Mario Strikers Charged looks like a really really cool game. The original game for the GameCube was spectacular, as well, even if I couldn’t beat the danged thing.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:48 am
When AppleTV was announced, but remained unshipped, I was on the hunt for an HDMI switcher, and found XtremeMac’s offering to be the perfect choice. Also unreleased, at the time, it seemed worth the stretch, so I pre-ordered it as well. Couldn’t be happier. It’s a 4-port switch that mimics the form factor of the ATV, as the remote mimics an Apple remote. It doesn’t do automatic source selection, requiring instead that you use the remote to switch between them, but I didn’t see the value in that feature anyway, since my sources, such as digital cable and the ATV usually remain active. Plus, it’s $99!
Check it out:
http://www.xtrememac.com/audio/av_cables/switcher/index.php
Thom
Third Rail Design Lab