Honda Goldberg

06.05.2003

I'm a little behind, but I came across a Honda ad yesterday that caught my eye. It's a Rub Goldberg type machine made out of Accord parts. The neatest thing of the commercial was that there were no computer special effects added.

The commercial is called "Cog" and is currently only beeing shown in the UK (and the internet).

The commercial is also being called an homage to Peter Fischli and David Weiss film "The Way Things Go", where they film a Rube Goldberg machineformed out of household items that takes 30 minutes to complete.

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The End of File Sharing?

06.04.2003

I saw a blurb yesterday about getting paid to share files over Kazaa. Although it sounds like a good idea (who wouldn't like to get more money?), I'm pretty sure the only reason Kazaa is so popular is because you get to download files, be they mp3, games, graphics, or whatever, and see whether or not you like them.

I've got a boat load of mp3's off Kazaa. Some are songs that I've searched for that went out of print before the cd age began. Some are pop songs that I shouldn't admit to listening to. Others are songs out of my genre that I wanted to give a try. Would I have paid for any of these? Maybe the old, out of production songs, but that's about it. I know it's a way to curtail the copyright infringment. Apple's new site to download songs for 99 cents each, although I've heard it only works on Macs, seems a better step in the right direction.

Who knows, maybe Kazaa is going to charge a buck a download. I wonder if I'd still be complaining then?

I wonder how long it'll take for someone to make a hack to give you more "Kazzabucks" so you never really have to pay?

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Camtoon Tuesday

06.03.2003

I forgot to watch last night's first episode of Monster House, but I somehow get the feeling I didn't miss anything.

But I did manage to get the camtoon up!

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Monster <strike>Garage</strike> House

06.02.2003

I haven't been as huge a fan of Monster Garage as most of the people I know, but I'm tempted to watch tonights premier of the spin off series, Monster House. I'm not sure how it's going to differ from the umpteen other change-your-house-while-you're-gone shows. Maybe the house will transform into something else (ooh, agarage maybe!)? I'll find out tonight.

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Russellmania Candian Style

05.30.2003

In the past I've enjoyed seeing who else enjoys the Russellmania name. I've noted before that the .net extension belongs to the Russell family of (I think) King Salmon, Alaska, while the .org goes to an in process work for a newsletter. A few days ago I discovered the Canadian versions of Russellmania: Russellmania.ca.

I don't know why, but I always feel a special relationship with those I share a partial domain name with. I'm just weird that way.

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