Better go download Queen's Antother one bites the dust so you can play it when music sharing system KaZaA finally does. It should be shut down in two weeks according to a Dutch court.

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What's dumber and more annoying than the hampster dance? Not much, but Polka Time certainly qualifies as a potential winner.

Mirrorproject on the web - who's the fairest in my head? Moi or moi?

Saw Amélie again tonight - it's even better the second time around!

Battling depression? Maybe you need this book. Quite funny.

List magazine was one of the coolest in 2000. Their website has said another issue is coming soon for quite some time now. Anyone know what's up with them?

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is sort of neat. It makes it possible to travel back in time and surf old versions of web pages, or sites that are no longer available. I typed in kozmo.com and almost wept.

The most charming movie award of all time goes to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (in france known as Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain). I was fortunate enough to experience this genius work of art today and I'm still grinning with giddy satisfaction over they joyous feeling it left me with. It was so enchanting - I didn't want to leave the theater. And when I did have to leave, I wanted to immediately get right back in line and see it again as not to lose the magical feeling it left me with - it's the kind of feeling that you wish you could bottle up and carry with you forever. The film is simply sublime. The part of Amélie is played by the equally enchanting Audrey Tautou, who, in the opinion of this humble robot, is by far, the most charming and beautiful actress since the infallible Audrey Hepburn. Run, don't walk to see this film. It will change your life.

Props to my friend Sarah for bringing down the house at Sunday night's Small Press Soiree reading in Oakland. Naturally, I showered her with well deserved compliments after she read her wonderfully entertaining excerpts from To-Do List's upcoming "self-loathing" issue - although I didn't articulate it as well as Beth Lisick's article on sfgate.com. Nice job, Szzera.

Help, irobotnik has been pornolized!

Courtesy of pornolize.com

Some other victims:
whitehouse.gov
marthastewart.com
amazon.com
eHow.com

It's just wrong!

If you're a gamer, you're likely to recognize Bleem as the outfit that made software emulators so that consumers could play video games meant for game consoles on their PCs. Unfortunately, they've recently ceased operations as a result of prolonged legal battles - their website is the most heartbreaking dotcom shutdown design I have ever seen. Game over, guys - it was fun.

Cool.

Pixar short films are now available for download. In QuickTime format, of course.

ohmygod!

"My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue - I could make lots of money with it one day," said Annika.

Honey, that's the understatement of the century.

First let me say I use both Macs and PCs, and each have their strenghts and weaknesses. That being said, I need to start thinking about a new über-computer. The finalists are this or this. Thoughts?

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the EP2 Trailer "Forbidden Love" has been online for a few days. Check it out.

Secret Santa is absolutely brilliant - I love it! Just sign up and on December 10th the Santa-bot will send out email to everyone who wants to join in. It'll include the name of the person you're getting a gift for, the address of their web site and the address of their Amazon wishlist. Of course, your name is in the hat as well, so someone else buys you a present! Everyone gets a present! Everyone's happy!

I can't wait to get mine! Via Jason

Tomorrow's night sky will feature the most brilliant meteor shower of our lifetime with the Leonids meteor shower. Astronomers predict 15 meteors a minute by 1 a.m. Sunday and more than 30 a minute by 2 a.m. Reportedly, the best place in SF to go see the show will be atop Mount Tamalpais - check out the SF Amateur Astronomer sponsored party and drop me an email if you plan on attending.

Saw the splendid Momus and the Stereo Total show last night at S.F’s ‘Bottom of the Hill’. Actually Momus, although just as witty as I had gleaned from interviews, transformed on stage from electrofolk pioneer to headache inducing twaddlemeister. I'd recomend for the sake of his audience he establish a 6 song cap on his live performances - one can only endure so many songs about his penis...However, unlike the enigmatic Momus, the moment the supercool, amazing Berlin duo Francoise Cactus and Brezel Göring appeared on stage the crowd lit up and was immediately won over. Francoise is so incredibly adorable, and her thick Teutonic-French accent made me swoon. Within moments I was transformed from jaded bystander to active and willing groupie. Of course, they played classics in all their trademark languages (German, French, English and Japanese) and got the dancefloor hopping with 80s inspired new wave-punk-disco classics such as “Ringo, I Love You”, “Moviestar”, “I Love You, Ono”, “Extremes Neutrales” and “Mein Beautycase ist mein Werkzeugkasten”. It made me very happy.

From the cool product department; watchmaker Fossil has announced a new twist on the concept of the information timepiece with their "wrist PDA". It's not a handheld computer in itself: instead, the owner uses the infrared transmitters built into your Palm or PocketPC to input read-only information like to-do lists, memos and contacts. Pretty smart. It's a wonder this hasn't been done before.

Unrelated: Would someone please give poor Odd Todd a job!

More on the subject of Star Wars: you've heard about it, here's the official fan site.

Okay, after viewing the trailer for a 2^nd and 3^rd time, I have to say it looks pretty damn cool. What isn't cool is that Apple requires QuickTime 5 Pro to view the large version - which costs a hefty $29.95! Now I've been meaning to buy QT5P anyhow since my video editing projects demand it, but I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority at being okay with this. Does this herald the end of free content from Apple? Are they changing to a tiered subscription model for QT Pro owners? This could get ugly.

Unlike Steve's other hype 'd jour, Monsters Inc. really did live up to it. Although I went in jaded, telling myself that it would probably suck and I was just paying $8.50 to see the new Star Wars, Episode II trailer, I walked out a raving fan of Monsters, Inc., and only mildly impressed with the Star Wars trailer. It looks promising, but then again so did the trailer for Episode I. Still, there were no traces of the unspeakable one, which inspires confidence.

Oh yeah, I think Jason said it best:
"Some sports team beat some other sports team. Or something."

5inch.com has some very nicely designed silkscreened blank CDs and cases.

My latest neologism: gadgerati
n.
One who is owns or covets cutting-edge gadgets; a member of the gadget-toting elite.

Unrelated: This is the 2nd time in less than 2 weeks that a random website has predicted erectile dysfunction in my future. Is the universe trying to tell me something?

You shall henceforth be known as:
Knight of The Meritorious Order of Erectile Dysfunction, BitBoy

From the Flywheel Random Title and Name Generator.