various tech news stuff

First, anyone looking for god syndicated LJ feeds needs to check out http://www.adcott.net/lj_syn/, which catalogs them nicely. It's the reason I finally found the Tom Toles RSS feed.

Second, in DVD news, another classic is finally getting the special edition treatment: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea! To quote from DVDfile: a new two-disc collector's edition of the 1954 classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Complete with a newly-remastered, THX-certified 2.35;1 anamorphic widescreen transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround remix, extras are plentiful: New audio commentaries by director Richard Fleischer and classic film historian Rudy Behlmer, "The Making Of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea," "Jules Verne & Walt Disney - Explorers Of The Imagination," "The Humboltsquid: Real Sea Monster!", "Touring The Natuilus," "Monsters Of The Deep," "The Musical Legacy Of Paul Smith" and "Lost Treasure: The Sunset Squid Sequence" featurettes, a glimpse at the post-production with Peter Lorre's ADR tracks and the original Captain Nemo's organ music, a storyboard-to-screen comparison, unused animations, "Nemo's Death" script excerpt, a "Grand Canyonscope" animated short, the theatrical trailer, and the original 1954 theatrical radio spots. Retail is $29.95.

And due on the same day (March 13th) is Atlantis: Milo's Return, which I'm guessing is the never-seen tv series, cobbled together into a movie. But it's widescreen, and the first movie was nifty, so we'll own that one, too.

A slight problem with the audio

It turns out that when the co-worker was offering me "lint balls," he was really offering "Lindt balls." I almost turned down free chocolate!

I have been asking for nothing less for the better part of an hour

The next Steven Brust Pheonix Guards book, The Lord of Castle Black, is now listed at Amazon, and is coming out on August 1! After going seven years between the last two books, it's nice to have a wait of less than a year.

Hulk preview!

You can find the trailer at Apple's site, at http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/the_hulk/superbowl/

And within the trailer, you can find this still, which is probably not appropriate for young children, so it's behind a tag:

( When Hulk get angry, hulk grow bigger! )

Another weblog

Steve Brust has one (no RSS feed that I can find). Damned funny, if infrequent.

I am under orders to update my web log so that I can talk
about my toe fungus. Unfortunately, I lack toe fungus, and thus
have little to say.