Jerry O’Connell spoofs the Tom Cruise Scientology video.
Month: January 2008
Album of the Week
The album of last week was the Magnetic Fields’ Distortion.
Tom Cruise Scientology Indoctrination Video
This Tom Cruise Scientology video is fantastic. He sounds just like his motivational speaker character in Magnolia, only crazier.
XKCD Attempts High-Signal Chatroom
Randall Monroe of webcomic XKCD came up with a great idea for reducing the noise in the XKCD IRC channel: filter out all sentences that have been spoken in the past. A moderator bot scans two years worth of chat logs and blocks any repeated statements, forcing chatters to come up with original thoughts and avoid the repetitive greetings, acronyms, and in-jokes that make up much of the noise in a chatroom.
Intel leaves OLPC project
As a follow-up to the previous story about the many competitors OLPC has faced, Intel has now left the project and is continuing with its Classmate laptops.
David Allen presents Getting Things Done at Google
David Allen visited Google to present Getting Things Done and YouTube has the video. [via Simply GTD]
National Film Registry, 2007
The 2007 selections for the National Film Registry are out. I’d like to see the Olivier version of Wuthering Heights but the DVD is out-of-print and not available on Netflix.