Posts on ‘November 19th, 2008’

First: it is a complete rip-off of the Wii dashboard, all the way down to the concept of “channels” and “avatars” (Miis).

But it’s still really good.
A few tidbits:

Setting up the NetFlix integration was cake. Just download and install the Netflix app ($FREE) and then enter the activation code they provide you on the [...]

If you haven’t seen it yet, now is your chance. I recommend watching them in this order: Volume 1, 3, 2, 4, and then finally 2.5 (Jack Black is in 2 and 2.5).
Volume 1

Volume 3

Volume 2

Volume 4

Volume 2.5

Really good read. For as much crap as Carter gets, this speech from almost 30 years ago was really spot on. His speech about government, energy, and politics is important, but so is his early identification of the infection that has completely contaminated the American culture:

In a nation that was proud of hard [...]

I hate to say it, but I sort of agree with the GOP and Mitt Romney on this one:

Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority [...]

I’ve been looking for a decent blog publishing tool, but every time I think about it I realize that nothing is likely to be as easy to use as the FriendFeed bookmarklet. I’m completely in love with the FriendFeed bookmarklet and it’s super simple way to add media to your comments. I wish posting to [...]

I thought Ecto might be perfect for me, but then I just got let down In my last post, the following quote, when pasted in from the original NYT article, ended up with garbled text after the apostrophe in “Toyota’s”.

It’s likely due to the fact that it’s a special character vs. a basic [...]