This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 16, 2008). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
Sometime between December 15th and December 16th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!
- Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld: Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. (Wow…if this came from anywhere other than Apple's own PR site, I'd think it was a hoax.)
- Drillers Accidentally Create First Live Magma Observatory: Drillers accidentally hit a pocket of molten rock underneath a working geothermal energy field in Hawaii, a lucky break for geologists that could allow them to map the geological plumbing that created everything we know as land. The unprecedented discovery could act as a "magma observatory," allowing scientists to test their theories about how processes transformed the molten rock below Earth's surface into the rocky crust that humans live on today.
- The Crow Reboot: Crow Reboot Will End In Eyelinery Tears: Oh, this is just bad: the guy who directed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen wants to "reboot" The Crow, and, "whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style." (sigh) Why are there so few good remakes of bad movies out there, and so many bad remakes of good movies? Why are there even so many damn remakes? What happened to originality?
- BURGER KING® FLAME™: "Body spray of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat." Oh, my lord. Amusingly, and really frighteningly, this doesn't seem to be a joke. A special scent from Burger King…because nothing says, "Take me now, you big, strapping hunk of man meat!" like the smell of the Whopper. Or maybe they're just b(r)oiling the message down to, "Eat me!"
- The WSDOT Blog: The Washington State Department of Transportation has a weblog. I've been following their Flickr account for a while, but just found the blog and their Twitter account today.