return of the king for best picture

Another good call by Doug:

You guys still owe us reparations for giving the best picture to Annie Hall instead of Star Wars in 1977.

timex data link

Mr. Gorman was correct I could develop for my new watch. Wonder if I could write foosball lineup picker?

Update: the data link yahoo group has a files section with a number of programs that people have written, like Pong and Master Mind. Doubt Master Mind will be too cool on a monochrome display, but it's probably still a fun little thinker of a game.

first posts

Here are a couple first blog posts via Keith Robinson to go with the new beginnings theme of this time of year, but with the ulterior motive of further harassing Mister Jon Plummer about taking his design chops off the shelf to share his brilliance and innovation with the rest of us.

• Why? (kottke.org)
• Stopdesign | Something New

keira knightley

YUMMMMM!

Seen most of these before, but there are some nice higher-res pics in this multi-page set.

On a similar note, the Christmas Edition of Ass of the Week is also worth a gauk or 12.

region free dvd

Probably a year ago or so we got a Coby DVD player. The reason for choosing this particular model was that it was advertised as region free, so we could play DVDs from different continents, specifically region 2 because British TV and Film is so much better than American. But we hadn't gotten a chance to test it yet until I got Cybil the Cold Feet boxed set for christmas. Let's just say that the Pal/NTSC button failed utterly. But thanks to jfred's link to regionfreedvd.net I found the proper meaningless combination of keys that had to be pressed to make it work. Score yet another successful trouble shoot for Josh! Now if I can just find a copy of Windows 95...