Entries For: May 2007
05/31/2007
Microsoft Surface: The Fanciest Coffee Table Ever
When I started watching this video demonstrating Microsoft's latest technological innovation, I was a little impressed. Then, at about the halfway mark (right about when someone put a cell phone on the table and the table knew what kind of cell phone it was), I became very impressed.
But after all was said and done, what had I seen? A fancy coffee table that I could use to email photos, access Google Maps, or order more dessert at dinner. The technology is great -- but without being applied to any sort of higher purpose, Surface is just that: an interesting surface, without anything going on underneath.
05/30/2007
Michael Cera in HUCKABEES, PART DEUX? Nah.
Wanna get more butts in the local multiplex? Stir up a little fake controversy. Today, the folks at Funny or Die "leaked" some "stolen footage" of actor Michael Cera and director Judd Apatow going at it on the set of Knocked Up. Things get so bad that Cera gets fired and replaced with Seth Rogen!
Did we mention that Knocked Up is coming out this Friday?
Just like the whole "Sanjaya is actually a RISD student" vid, the clip may not end up fooling anyone, but it's still a funny bit of viral marketing. Check it out.
Google Maps Hits the Streets
It's nice of Google Maps to release a preview of the new Street View before it's operational, as we need the time to prepare our minds for being blown. An anything-but-pedestrian pedestrian view of select cities, the Street View feature not only shows you street-level photos of your destination -- but allows you to shift the perspective for a 360 look around. It might freak out more paranoid folk, but for the rest of us it's a brave new world of metropolitan navigation.
05/29/2007
Lohan's Dad Reaches Out
Oh, the drama. On Saturday, Lindsay Lohan crashed her Mercedes and was cited for DUI after cops found a substance resembling cocaine at the scene. On Sunday, her father Michael filmed this video. In it, Papa Lohan -- an ex-con and recovering alcoholic himself -- expresses concern about path his daughter's on, slamming the "people that are around Lindsay," and the "dissention and insurrection in my family" that they've caused. Grasp of vocabulary, efficacy of communicating with your child via YouTube, and likelihood of being taken seriously as a messenger of God while wearing a muscle shirt aside, Mr. Lohan has a point; going from "Freaky Friday" to possible cocaine bust is a pretty steep decline, and if Lindsay has reached this point by age 20 on mom Dina's watch, yeah, perhaps some changes are in order.
But apparently not this week, because today celebrity gossip site X17online published photos taken early this morning of Lindsay, passed out in a friends car after a Memorial Day celebration, and wearing as a prominent accessory ... her "30 days sober" medallion. Oy.
