Yes.
Rather than just providing a grumpy old answer to the hip young guy in the picture, perhaps I should provide a little more detail about:
There, now I’ve done it. But DRM certainly doesn’t make it more interesting…
Category: Fun
Andi Watson, Artist
If you haven’t yet followed the link from the image to the comic, the caption tells us that “Maddy is haunted by the ghosts of relationships past.” That was a little weird to me, since my daughter’s name is Maddie Watson.
Even without coincidence of names, the comic is well worth checking out. So is Andi (short for Andrew, but it’s not me) Watson’s other work. I found out about this fellow Andrew Watson via Drawn!
New Camera
We recently got a new digital camera, a Canon PowerShot A540 6MP
The previous camera, a Casio, gave up the ghost about the one-year mark. I liked the camera before that, which was a Canon my wife gave me as a present. So we went back to Canon. I was thinking of holding off on the purchase, since Canon are coming out with some new models soon, but it’s hard to be without a camera when one has young kids at home.
Flixster
Flixster is a movie social network, recently written up on TechCrunch and on Read/Write Web. Each of the writeups focuses on Flixster as a social network centered on movies.
That is of course an accurate way of looking at Flixster, but I’m inclined to come at it from the other direction, and look at it as a movie site including social networking. So my main point of comparison is IMDB, which is mentioned by neither TC nor RWW.
RWW does make the comparison with a couple of other movie sites: “the recent hit movie Dream Girls has been rated by 4,600 Flixter users… 5,000 times on… Fandango and only 300 times on AOL Movies.” IMDB has 6,300 ratings of this movie, and so is not so far ahead of Flixster.
I find IMDB annoying, partly due to its ugly layout, and partly due to its requiring registration to see the message boards. Flixster’s layout is more appealing, and it appears to require registration only for the things that it’s really needed for (e.g., My Friends’ Reviews).
So, a tentative thumbs up for Flixster as a movie site with social networking.
Sins, Deadly, Paired, and Indexed
Many things are indexed by Jessica Hagy. Much linkage ensues, but not, until now, from me. But I love this pairing-off of the seven deadly sins. My favorite is: Greed + Envy = Advertising.
M Ward Music and…
M Ward is one of those critically acclaimed folk-musicky types I tend to like. But I couldn’t get into Transistor Radio, his 2005 album.
I really like his 2006 album, Post-War. Having got into PW, I went back to listen to TR again, and was wondering how it left me cold, while I warmed so quickly to PW. I seems as though I need to listen more to both albums, and to his earlier work.
I also like:
- I Am the Resurrection, the John Fahey tribute album MW worked on.
- Being able to link to Amazon pages for CDs, books, etc. But it doesn’t seem easy to do this here. But more of WordPress.com, and the pleasure and pain thereof, in a future post.
- The ease of embedding YouTube video here. For example, here’s the video for MW’s “Chinese Translation.”