Asus Eee Box + XBMC = pretty nice media center
by Pete on June 19, 2010
I got an Asus Eee Box off woot.com a week or two ago, and have spent the last few days getting XBMC up and running on it. It is now plugged into my TV via HDMI, and working pretty well. (…)
Nice house, but it’s a shame about the… events…
by Pete on June 14, 2010
Back when we were shopping for houses, I noticed that our realtor’s listing service had an RSS feed, so I added it to Google Reader. Two years (and a home purchase) later, I still haven’t removed it—partly out of laziness, (…)
First trailer for HBO’s Game of Thrones
by Pete on June 14, 2010
There’s not much to it, but HBO has posted the first trailer for next year’s Game of Thrones series: I usually don’t go in much for stuff with swords and/or dragons, but I’ll admit, the novels totally sucked me in, (…)
Proposed Ubuntu 10.10 installer simpler, still not easy
by Pete on June 13, 2010
For the most part, I think the changes proposed for the installer in Ubuntu 10.10 look really good. Generally, I find the amount of attention that many Linux review tend to devote to the installer to be excessive. Still, it (…)
[REC] 2 is pretty damn good
by Pete on June 12, 2010
[REC] 2 is now available via various video-on-demand services ahead of its US theatrical release in July. I watched it on Amazon VOD last night. It is a rather different movie than the first installment in a number of ways, (…)
Ubuntu Update Notifier’s behavior makes me crazy
by Pete on June 11, 2010
Okay, so it’s not exactly new, but “The behavior of Ubuntu Update Notifier’s since the 9.04 release that I have not bothered figuring out how to fix for the last year drives me crazy” seemed like too long a title (…)
Yes, but… CYNTHIA MCKINNEY!!!
by Pete on June 9, 2010
John Cole, on the news that Orly Taitz is running for the Republican nomination for California Secretary of state: The Republicans have spent the last couple of years doing everything they could to feed this kind of nutbaggery in the (…)
What’s he building in there?
by Pete on June 8, 2010
Roughly ten years from now, a mishap at the Large Hadron Collider causes the particle beam to lose cohesion, resulting in localized tears in the fabric of space-time around the globe. In St. Paul, MN, an aging Garrison Keillor is (…)
Clearly, the New Scientist has fallen under the control of the lizard people
by Pete on June 8, 2010
The New Scientist has a pretty interesting article about the growing prevalence of denialism: This depressing tale is the latest incarnation of denialism, the systematic rejection of a body of science in favour of make-believe. There’s a lot of it (…)
Got new movies, but feel a bit icky about it
by Pete on June 7, 2010
The bad news is that the last video store in town is going out of business. The good news is that they are having a going-out-of-business sale. For the low-low sum of about fifty bucks, I picked up: Tremors Hard-Boiled (…)