Tuesday stuff
Oct. 30th, 2007 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiWas up at UNH yesterday for a project management seminar (which was mostly refresher material, but since it's been years since I've taken a course or looked at PMI materials, it was worth the time). Needless to say, I'm way behind on assorted web browsing stuff. Time to close some tabs and dump some links.
1. Amazon's Deal of the Day is the Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal, the three best of the five movies featuring the character) for $12.49 (58% off). Nice if you somehow don't already own the movies.
2. One of the few posts that captures how Twitter can actually be useful.
3. Tanga has gone into permanent Tangathon mode. Not sure if this is a good thing or not.
4. Neil Gaiman has a new book out as a part of a "sell cheap books to get kids to read" program.
5. O'Reilly's Mac DevCenter on living with default settings. For the most part, I agree. The major tweaks I make are hiding the dock, using a multi-button mouse (essentiallly a hidden default on a Mac), and adding Quicksilver. Beyond that, it's mostly at the application level where things get interesting.
6. Yet another reason to love Ken Jennings. On why the paperback release of Brainiac (today!) won't have any new material: Mostly because it sort of screws the most faithful readers, the ones who actually bought the book in hardcover. I read all of Dave Eggers’ paperback addendum to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in a Barnes & Noble armchair, because I wasn’t going to get suckered into buying a second copy just so I could find out what all his friends are up to lately. I also didn’t buy Army of Darkness the second, third, and fourth times it came out on DVD, each time with different “special features.”
7. Speaking of books getting released today,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yuki_onna's The Orphan's Tales: In the CIties of Coin and Spice is out! Yay! The first book kicked six kinds of ass and won a Tiptree. This one will kick seven kinds of ass and win even more awards (unless the folks on nominating committees suck). It's easily the books I'm most looking forward to this season.
8. Dear fucking god, no. No. No. No. I will seriously stop watching or even rooting for the Mets if they do this. Really. Not fucking kidding.
9. Because you demanded it: A reality show featuring Coolio. On Oxygen.
10. Finally, remember that today is Free Taco Day!
1. Amazon's Deal of the Day is the Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal, the three best of the five movies featuring the character) for $12.49 (58% off). Nice if you somehow don't already own the movies.
2. One of the few posts that captures how Twitter can actually be useful.
3. Tanga has gone into permanent Tangathon mode. Not sure if this is a good thing or not.
4. Neil Gaiman has a new book out as a part of a "sell cheap books to get kids to read" program.
5. O'Reilly's Mac DevCenter on living with default settings. For the most part, I agree. The major tweaks I make are hiding the dock, using a multi-button mouse (essentiallly a hidden default on a Mac), and adding Quicksilver. Beyond that, it's mostly at the application level where things get interesting.
6. Yet another reason to love Ken Jennings. On why the paperback release of Brainiac (today!) won't have any new material: Mostly because it sort of screws the most faithful readers, the ones who actually bought the book in hardcover. I read all of Dave Eggers’ paperback addendum to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in a Barnes & Noble armchair, because I wasn’t going to get suckered into buying a second copy just so I could find out what all his friends are up to lately. I also didn’t buy Army of Darkness the second, third, and fourth times it came out on DVD, each time with different “special features.”
7. Speaking of books getting released today,
yuki_onna's The Orphan's Tales: In the CIties of Coin and Spice is out! Yay! The first book kicked six kinds of ass and won a Tiptree. This one will kick seven kinds of ass and win even more awards (unless the folks on nominating committees suck). It's easily the books I'm most looking forward to this season.8. Dear fucking god, no. No. No. No. I will seriously stop watching or even rooting for the Mets if they do this. Really. Not fucking kidding.
9. Because you demanded it: A reality show featuring Coolio. On Oxygen.
10. Finally, remember that today is Free Taco Day!