Here’s a concise summary… From xkcd

So I’ve been playing with Tim Armes' LR/Mogrify plugin for Lightroom and it’s amazing. Trouble is, I already use Jeffrey Friedl’s Flickr plugin to get stuff out to Flickr. Thought to myself, “Wouldn’t it be cool if you could somehow chain plugins?” Poof! Piglets

The 2007 Feltron Annual Report Amazing. Best one yet.

The latest release of Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil is great. I’ve got a Mac Mini wired up to my A/V system, and with the Airfoil Speakers app running on it, I can send audio from my laptop to the good receiver via the Mini – no Airport Express necessary. Also, it will send audio to multiple devices, including the local computer, all in sync. With an Airport Express in the home office and the Mini in the living room I’ve got the whole house wired for sound.

From The Guardian Here’s why. If people stop buying papers and buy Kindles (and, of course, future e-book readers) instead, they’ll need to be able to feed them. They’ll do that at home in the morning via their broadband connection, or on the station platform (perhaps to get that very latest update with audio and video) via its Wi-Fi, or from a mobile network. The content sources are as vast as the web; the distribution sources, limited to telecoms companies.

Shoot ‘em Up is awful. It’s nothing but one over the top gunfight after another, without even a hint of plot. Over the top is not the right phrase. Ridiculously over the top is closer, but still doesn’t quite describe it. Really terrible, if you think about it. So don’t think about it. Just sit back and let it do what it does. If you do that, you might just find that it’s not just awful – it’s deliciously awful.

Must be my week for Movies. This time it was Juno. Funny, sweet, honest, whip-smart and completely lovable. Ellen Page is fantastic as Juno. She plays a sarcastic, too-smart 16 year old dealing with a surprise pregnancy. Ms. Page has unbelievable comic timing. We follow her throughout a hilarious and sometimes very touching nine months. It’s wonderful to watch. I didn’t want to leave. At first I’d thought that one particular scene with Mark (Jason Bateman) and Juno was a misstep, but after thinking about it a little more, I think it belonged exactly as it was.

There are times when it would be embarrassing for me if the contents of my Firefox search box were made public.

The following is a list of gadgets, services, software and such that had a significant impact on me in 2007. Mostly it’s just stuff I like, in no particular order. Amazon Kindle – Goofy looking and flawed, but has revolutionized how – and how much – I read. Garmin nüvi 660 – GPS and on-the-fly driving directions made simple. Indespensible after the first time I used it. Tinderbox – Rediscovered in 2007.

Mike Lee wants to buy you a (toy) Lemur. Just donate $100 (or more of course) to the Madagascar Fauna Group and he’ll do just that. I (technically, Fusionary) just donated, mostly because Mike asked so damn nicely. And this, from another post, clinched it… Seriously, if I have to read another story about how David Pogue ate a burrito, and it gave him gas, and when he farted it sounded kind of like “subnotebook” from a so-called news organization that didn’t notice that, right now, the Mac community and and its developers are making a huge fucking difference in Madagascar, I’m going to punch someone in the balls.

There’s nothing better than knowing, in the first few minutes of a film, that you’re about to see something wonderful. It just happened to me with Once – a documentary style, sparse, completely fantastic musical. Seriously one of the very best movies you’ll see this year. Or wait a couple of days and it will be one of the best movies you’ll see next year. I fell in love with it.

“What the hell is this, then?” “f I didn’t know better I’d say it was poetry.” Well, that’s exactly what it is, I say. Especially since you don’t know better anyway. It may not look like poetry unless, of course I wrap each line like this. Then who’s to say?