http://www.greenthinks.com Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:00:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, There Will Be Blood, is as intense as it is powerful. It is a dark and beautiful movie, and if it does not earn the Academy Award for Best Picture, I feel certain it will at least be nominated. Much has been written already about this ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2008/01/02/the-story-of-two-masked-men/ In honor of America's Independence Day, movie fan site Ain't it Cool News hosted a "Top 10 Films about America" get-together for all their writers. Here are my picks (in no particular order): Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Dr. Strangelove Taxi Driver/Badlands Birth of a Nation JFK/Nixon The Candidate/The Contender Million Dollar Baby Midnight Cowboy/The Grapes of ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2007/09/01/belated-july-4-meme/ Ryan Stewart (great blogger and Adobe evangelist) recently blogged about his trouble with Google Reader: I just screwed up. I accidentally marked all of my Google reader items as read when what I intended to do was mark a specific folder as read. If this was a desktop application I could ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2007/09/01/undo-definitely-possible-on-the-web/ Khoi Vinh, of NYTimes.com, writes the absolute best article on the new Apple-made cell phone that everyone and their grandmother seems to think is being announced/released at MacWorld Expo on Tuesday. Vinh talks about how he has been planning on replacing his Palm Treo 650 with whatever Apple decides to release ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2007/01/03/89/ I'm a pretty happy Vonage user. It's cheaper than the Cable or Telco alternatives. Especially now that we have an income (I just found a job) and have upgraded our internet to the Time Warner maximum of 5 Megabit, it works really well. However, I just received a phone call on ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2006/10/27/voip-exploitation/ http://www.greenthinks.com/2006/05/30/our-wedding/ So I'm trying out the new Google Calendar, which does work yet in Safari (Apple, get going on those Web 2.0 improvements!). I'm running it in Firefox and hitting up against a pretty irritating Firefox behavior: When you hold down the mouse button in Firefox for macs (like if you ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2006/04/14/firefox-fruit-fluke/ David Pogue's New York Times review of the new Samgsung iPod nano-challenger, the Z5, is actually pretty spot on (though why for the love of God can he NOT do his own battery tests?!). Towards the end though, there is this bit of inanity: MUSIC STORE INTEGRATION No. At Samsung's suggestion, ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2006/03/10/silliness-and-partisanship/ So I was going to comment on the lack of Applescriptability in iTunes for Windows (not that I would expect it to be included since its underlying structure, the System Events system, is a pretty low level part of the Mac OS). This was in response to some blogger's list ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2006/02/14/the-itunes-gulf/ First things first. I will, for the time being, no longer be linking. At least not often. Why? Because my own issues about blog post quality have been getting in the way of my ever blogging. Case in point, this will be my first post in over a month. I ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2006/01/26/areas-that-needs-improvement-os-x-edition/ I love Firefox. On Windows I use it for 97% of all my browsing, with IE 7 beta occupying the other 3% (if it was a choice between IE6 and anything else, I would choose anything else). One of the most helpful extensions for those of us in the "real ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2005/12/17/open-in-safari/ h2. It's a Razr! I've got a new cell phone, as of Saturday evening at around 8PM. What's the big deal? Well, it's a black RAZR: !/images/razr1.jpg! That would be enough to go crazy about, but it's replacing utter crap in the form of the Sony Ericsson T635. I've now used each model ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2005/12/08/new-arrival/ Dave Winer is now using LemkeSoft's GraphicConverter on his mac instead of Adobe ImageReady, which he had been using on Windows: Anita Wilhelm, illustrating the spirit of TagCamp in Palo Alto on October 29. Notable because it's the first graphic I produced on the Mac. Took about an hour, but I ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2005/12/04/imageready-vs-graphicconverter/ Dave Winer, who is now using a mac for many things, is having some trouble with the latest release of Firefox, version 1.5 (rc2): I'm using the old version of Firefox on my laptop, and it confirms my impression that they took a feature out of the browser in the latest ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2005/11/16/daves-firefox-problem-solved/ !/images/wmpstreamquestion.jpg! Yesterday Microsoft made some pretty big announcements, and while much of the web does not seem to understand their significance, at least some of the stuff they showed off yesterday is getting some real buzz. Only problem, there is no stream of the announcement available from Microsoft's web site. We ... http://www.greenthinks.com/2005/11/02/ok-its-live-but-wheres-the-stream/