Wednesday notes:
Aug. 22nd, 2007 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. Eva Mendes will be playing Sand Saref in The Spirit, joining Scarlett Johansson as Silk N. Floss . I'm more partial to P'gell as the perfect femme fatale from the comics, but Saref is a step up from Floss.
2. Because you demanded it: Warner Brothers to produce Todd McFarlane's vision of The Wizard of Oz. Yes, the one with Bondage Dorothy (link is NOT safe for work or fans of good artwork). The good news, of course, is that this cannot suck any more than The Muppets Wizard of Oz did.
3. Michael Bay threatens to not direct a Transformers sequel because of Paramount's rejection of Blu-Ray! I've been agnostic in the Format Wars to date, but this officially pushes me over the edge to HD DVD. If every studio adopts it, we might be rid of Bay for good!
4. NYMag's the Vulture, responding to the ludicrous assertion that music piracy has cost the US economy 12.5 billion dollars, speculates on how the money would have been spent. Warning: Do not view the infographic while drinking coffee.
4.5 Incidentally, here's a flowchart showing just how the RIAA makes these decisions (ganked from Boing Boing).
5. New Google Earth! Now with Google Sky. It's full of stars!
5.5 Of course, there's still Celestia, for those who just want the space side of things.
6. West Virginia University: Still #1! Note that Emory briefly cracked the list sometime in the '90s, which shows that the methodology is royally fucked up.
7. Seth Godin on business cards mistakes.
8. Freakanomics and the NY Times admit that the previous full RSS feed is going bye-bye. This might be a good time to note that partial feeds can be overcome.
9. Roger Simon: Still a complete fucking moron.
10. Finally, Terry Pratchett: Still not a knight. He also appears to have the final "t" on his surname revoked. Or possibly the penultimate one (ganked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
desperance).
2. Because you demanded it: Warner Brothers to produce Todd McFarlane's vision of The Wizard of Oz. Yes, the one with Bondage Dorothy (link is NOT safe for work or fans of good artwork). The good news, of course, is that this cannot suck any more than The Muppets Wizard of Oz did.
3. Michael Bay threatens to not direct a Transformers sequel because of Paramount's rejection of Blu-Ray! I've been agnostic in the Format Wars to date, but this officially pushes me over the edge to HD DVD. If every studio adopts it, we might be rid of Bay for good!
4. NYMag's the Vulture, responding to the ludicrous assertion that music piracy has cost the US economy 12.5 billion dollars, speculates on how the money would have been spent. Warning: Do not view the infographic while drinking coffee.
4.5 Incidentally, here's a flowchart showing just how the RIAA makes these decisions (ganked from Boing Boing).
5. New Google Earth! Now with Google Sky. It's full of stars!
5.5 Of course, there's still Celestia, for those who just want the space side of things.
6. West Virginia University: Still #1! Note that Emory briefly cracked the list sometime in the '90s, which shows that the methodology is royally fucked up.
7. Seth Godin on business cards mistakes.
8. Freakanomics and the NY Times admit that the previous full RSS feed is going bye-bye. This might be a good time to note that partial feeds can be overcome.
9. Roger Simon: Still a complete fucking moron.
10. Finally, Terry Pratchett: Still not a knight. He also appears to have the final "t" on his surname revoked. Or possibly the penultimate one (ganked from
desperance).