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Review: Jailbreak iPhone
I strongly commend the iPhone hacking community. They did an amazing feat with the hyperlink install, but my basic impression was that all the apps were pretty beta. Who could blame them they were after all homegrown, yet I was disappointed that Blackjack didn’t keep a high score for me without mentioning how often it crashed. And Flashlight … well, you just don’t use it that much.
Review: Bionic Woman
Bionic Woman was my first big disappointment of this fall season. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t have high expectations. I just couldn’t see how the show could get screwed up. It’s a simple premise, a woman with super powers doing awesome stuff. In a world of Heroes, Alias, and the like, it should be TV equivalent of a box cake: easy to bake but delicious none the less.
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I’ve been using MapMyRun to map my running route and log my time and distance.
A journalist asks a simple question that stumps a congressperson. This video is worth watching even though it’s incredibly awkward.
To continue a Wes Anderson theme, here’s an article about the director (via Kottke). These articles are always too eccentric for my taste, but the part about Wes taking the crossword puzzle felt just like one of his movies. Of course, I hate it when they always bash on The Life Aquatic. I loved that movie. The article did have great photography though:
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.
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.
My New Workout
I’ve been on a new workout schedule lately (I might be going on three month.) I’ve been really happy with it, so I thought I would share it:
Daily
- Situps: 2 sets of 25 holding 25lbs
- Push-ups: 2 sets of 25
- Pull-ups: 2 sets of 4
- Stretching: I do just about every stretch I can think of for a count of 20
- Oblique Side Bends: 2 sets of 20 holding 25lbs (I don’t always do this one)
Three Times a Week
- Running: 2 miles (I plan to move to 3 miles in a week)
I like the running the best.
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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.