Archive for August, 2005

Blu-Ray is Clearly Winning (and I’m Glad)

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

It looks like Sony’s Blu-Ray technology is a good ways ahead of HD-DVD in replacing standard DVD as the new standard and I couldn’t be happier. I could care less which of these companies gets licensing fees for the next decade or so. If we’re going to go to a new, higher-capacity disk [...]

When a Video iPod Will Be Released

Monday, August 8th, 2005

A video iPod will hit the shelves when there’s video content available to watch. With all this speculation as to when we’ll see a video iPod, let’s remember that it’s the content that drives the device sales, not the other way around. Those of us who are a little more geektastic know how [...]

Swoon in the New York Times

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

There’s a fantastic audio interview with Swoon in the New York Times. It’s the audio slide show in the left hand bar. I love her work and lived with it when I was in the Lower East Side of New York. Discovering one of her pieces in a forgotten doorway or scarred [...]

Online Activism in Three Days Flat

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

I’ve decided to throw my hat into the political ring so-to-speak and have turned my desire for rapid transit in Seattle into a whole new project. Affordable mass transit has an amazing way of changing the life of a city and it’s clear to me that the monorail contract Seattle has on the table [...]