Monthly Archives: December 2001

NYTimes top 10 lists in music, film, and TV. Get them before they slip into the archives.

The Globe has 100 movie rental picks. Golden Globe nominations came out this week, some are out on DVD.

Welcome to the new PlasticBoy. I’m now managing the site with some custom PHP code instead of Blogger. The major change for you: comments! I haven’t tested this with many browser/OS combos so post your bugs here (or mail me … Continue reading →

This map of Springfield is awesome. I want a framed print-out.

Fellowship was even better than I expected, and I was expecting a lot. Sure, I have my gripes, but they seem like nitpicking in retrospect. Here are a few notes: Everybody calls Sauron by name. In the book, few people … Continue reading →

And the Village Voice review desrves its own link just for this quote: “How much fun it would have been to see a real desecration of Tolkien that periodized the trilogy’s cosmic adventures by having them played out inside the … Continue reading →

I have tickets to Fellowship tonight and I think I’m going to enjoy it. I’ve read a variety of reviews, good and bad. It sounds like minor things will annoy me (apparently they show Sauron in the opening scene) but … Continue reading →

Science musings: In search of universe’s point. “The biggest problem in the world today is not that the universe might not have a point, but that too many people think they know what the point is.”

The 2001 selections for the National Film Registry were announced today. Woohoo for The Thin Blue Line. Lots of good ideas for my Netflix queue here.

MyVideoGames have published their last article and will be closing down in February. Too bad, it’s a great site.

NPR had an excellent segment on The Lord of the Rings(mostly the book, not the movie) this morning.

Hey, I think I got my blogging mojo back!

The Economist: “The key fact is this: Saudi Arabia has enormous reserves of oil that can be extracted at very low cost. Regardless of western policies, its oil will flow on to the market and, in effect, set the world … Continue reading →

The Breeders announce a new album due in February. Only nine years in the making.

So, Red Hat is cracking down on cheap CD sites and telling them that they can no longer put the name “Red Hat” on CDs containing Red Hat Linux. I think these sites should get together and come up with … Continue reading →