The new TV season moves into full force tonight. Unfortunately, I just read a small spoiler — it looks like Kristen Bell (of the now canceled Veronica Mars) will be appearing in Heroes this season.
Remainders /
By selectively breeding pale skinned frogs, Japanese researches have developed a transparent-skin frog. (Via Boing Boing)
There’s lots of rumblings (via Battelle) about Google working on a social network. On one hand, MySpace really does suck, but does anyone really want another social network?
Wes Anderson plans to promote his new movie The Darjeeling Limited by releasing a free 13 minute internet prequel entitled Hotel Chevalier. (Via Kottke) Apparently being a Wes Anderson flick wasn’t a big enough hook for the 13 minute short, so he threw in an extended nude scene with Natalie Portman. Honestly, The Darjeeling Limited looks weird, and I’m a huge Wes Anderson fan.
Leslie Patricelli, the author of Binky, has several other books that look interesting including Yummy YUCKY and The Birthday Box. (Via Parent Dish)
Here’s a prototype for an arcade game where you sit on a broom and fly around. Sounds cool, but the picture freaks me out.
Make your own playdough (Via Lifehacker). There’s an episode of Teletubbies that shows kids making playdough. It always looked like fun to me.
Cindy and I flipped past Highlander: The Source (a new made for SciFi movie) the other night. After the last Highlander movie in the theater (the only one I ever saw), we both agreed that this one would have to be very bad, and kept on channel surfing. Well, ScreenRant says it wasn’t so bad. Now, why couldn’t we have watched that instead of Grizzly Rage.
Gmail rumor: New version of gmail on its way (via Download Squad). I find the evidence both shaky and reliable. These translation rumors have given away new features in the past, but a phrase as simple as “Newer Version” doesn’t exactly tell you much. I don’t have a problem with Gmail’s interface, but I would love to see whatever their developers want to do with it. They’ve never let me down so far.
There’s a new web analytics provider out there, Clicky (via Bitbox). It drills into even more detail — The only problem is that I don’t really care to see more detail; I’d rather see bigger pictures like average monthly uniques or average daily uniques or a graph of every month’s unique visitors. It seems the more these analytical software drill down, the more they leave the big picture up to the user to calculate and track. Bleh!
Remainder links are brief posts intended primarily to share a link. I borrowed the idea from Jason Kottke. Essentially, this post is a remainder link.
For me, this is bitter-sweet. Pirates of the Caribbean III trailer.