• Here’s a parking garage with distorted signage.  Looks like something out a Fincher movie opening credits sequence, but would distract me horribly when driving. . .

• Remember Joe Schmoe?  Great reality show. The original star of it turned into an alcoholic pot-smoking jerk. He thankfully turned his life around.

• 10 Reasons It Would Rule to Date a Unicorn.  I’m not sure it’s very funny at all, but there’s something earnest in its effort that I can admire. Someone bought a domain name for this gag.  It wasn’t enough to just post it on a message board somewhere. . .

• Firefly comes to Blu Ray.

After last week’s riches, what could live up to it?  The TV world is certainly giving it a shot. Check out today’s list of new releases over at TVShowsonDVD.com.  I’ve never seen a list that long, not even during the Christmas season.  There’s nothing there that’s going to get me to click over to Amazon, but perhaps your tastes will find something satisfying there.

In the world of movies, you have this:

• Starship Troopers 3: Marauders

I almost don’t want to get into the argument again over whether the first move was any good or not.  But, gee whiz, they made a third?  It’s direct-to-DVD, isn’t it?

• Nim’s Island

That’s it — I’m completely out of touch.  What is this thing? It’s a kid’s movie, I’m guessing. . .

Honest journalistic question time:

When you transcribe a suspect’s words from a video for a text piece, do you clean up their grammar?

This is the example I spotted last night:
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“All I know is my wounds are deep,” explained 29 year-old Arno Ortho.

But that’s not what he said.  His exact line was, “All I know is my wounds is deep or whatever.”

The “or whatever” thing grates on me, but I can understanding cutting it out.  But changing the incorrect second “is” to “are” is just changing the quote and bad journalism.

And before anyone asks:

Yes, my full first name is August.
No.  I was born in March

Thoughts of this week’s Cuil.com fiasco sent me into a nostalgic haze. .  .

Remember when –
– USENET was king, and why would you want to splinter off conversations to a million little websites?

– AltaVista was king?

– AltaVista was destroyed in an attempt to create another portal?

– Alltheweb.com challenged the young Google on the basis of speed?

– floppy discs were, at most, 1.4 megabytes?  And that would hold all your Word documents for years?

– When you could cut a notched on the other side of the 5.25″ floppy disc and then write to its backside?  Instant double capacity!

– WordPerfect and Word were both in their 5.x releases?  Good word processing times right there.

– People might have actually linked to Lycos?

– Zip drives were the future, with their huge 100MB cartridges that would backup your whole hard drive for $10 a pop?