Category: movies / music / tv

  • Book Review: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1), by Phillip Pullman

    The Golden Compass is actually called Northern Lights in every place except North America. I guess the publishers thought that kids would get confused, because they would not know what lights could possibly be doing in the north. Never mind that the book never refers to the titular object as a compass; that’s not confusing…

  • Magic Numbers

    I’ve blabbed a bit about DRM here before, mostly in the context of music. However, it’s also a problem with movies. I don’t know if any non-geeks noticed this, but the controversy over DRM came to a hilarious climax over the last few days. HD-DVDs, one of the new high-definition versions of DVD, are all…

  • Eiffel 65 – Hyperlink

    a hyperlink into you. a sexual browser from here to the enda newsgroup one on one don’t need a modem to connect to your mindno search engine to find you i want a click, a click to your hearta hyperlink to go inside you. deep down, deep down,dari dara dada du dara.deep down, deep down,dari…