Wireless Delivery of Fresh Movies

Just read Feature Films Without Wires on Wired. They've successfully shown a feature film without the film being present...sounds almost as wonderful as television. But wait! This is exciting because it changes the way feature films are distributed to theaters...and maybe leaves room for new films to be distributed directly

Fried Green Denouement

She: "The tape ran out, so we didn't get to see the end of the movie!" Me: "I don't want to ruin anything for you, but the tanks at the end are amazing." She: "No! Nononono! Don't tell me!" Me: "And the part where she takes a bullet for the

Expressions

"So how did yoga class go?" "Fine...until we started poses to work on balance." "Did you fall down?" "No, nothing like that. We were working on this pose called tree..." "Uh, oh." "...yeah, I don't know where they come up with these names. Anyway, the yogi told us to bring

Custom RSS Meta Feeds?

I know it's possible to scrape a feed for a particular site, but what about scraping a feed consisting of many sites? I ask because I find that when I'm in a hurry, I click on category names in Bloglines and read everything under that category. It made me wonder

Putting a Name to RSS

I've been mulling over the mess that my RSS subscriptions were/are/will ever be and I haven't come to any conclusions about categories and how to consistently apply them to feeds. However, I have been busy renaming the feeds that I subscribe to -- my feeds now begin with the person's

Personal Education Archives

Sometime ago, Will Richardson of Webblog-ed News was talking about how it may be possible for grade school/high school students to have a complete records of their educational experience -- papers, essays, assignments, etc.-- in one place via the magic of blogs and/or wikis. Students could build on past work