Friday, March 25, 2005
ANOTHER SUCKER FOR SKYPE: Earlier in the week I discovered the damndest thing: Skype, a software-based Internet phone that isn't a pain in the butt to use and gives you "in the room" quality. On top of that, it comes to us from the same minds that gave us KaZaA (the original, non-evil KaZaA people, so no spyware or malware), using the same Fasttrack-style P2P networking technology that let you screw Metallica back in the day to talk to people for free (or cheap, if you're calling out to people on regular phones). Also, they've got clients that run on Win2k and up, Linux, Mac, and Pocket PC (yeah, Tiny Windows)...all of the major food groups.
A few of the chatroom people scraped together a five-way conference call, more or less, and we'll be damned if actual conversation (as opposed to scrolling text) isn't addictive as hell. Go figure. So check it out...Skype-to-Skype calling will always be free (so they say), and if you don't have one, computer mikes are cheaper than ever.
Usual disclaimer for plugs like this: I'm not a paid shill, just a satisfied user. Also, I'm not putting a "Skype me" link on this page at the moment, since if you know me well enough to need to talk to me, you know how to find me elsewhere to get that info.
A few of the chatroom people scraped together a five-way conference call, more or less, and we'll be damned if actual conversation (as opposed to scrolling text) isn't addictive as hell. Go figure. So check it out...Skype-to-Skype calling will always be free (so they say), and if you don't have one, computer mikes are cheaper than ever.
Usual disclaimer for plugs like this: I'm not a paid shill, just a satisfied user. Also, I'm not putting a "Skype me" link on this page at the moment, since if you know me well enough to need to talk to me, you know how to find me elsewhere to get that info.
|| Eric 1:35 AM#
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN: I was going to bitch out the Oscars from the other week, and how clueless the choad who wrote up the show for AP could be to love this year's mostly bloodless production over the occasionally chaotic sprawls of previous decades. However, in a demonstration of why Movie Poop Shoot is quickly becoming my favorite pop kultcha site, Chris Ryall (who also writes a spirited overview of next week's television) compares the dessicated Oscarcast with the Independent Spirit Awards, and coincidentally covering all the points that pissed me off about Oscar.
As a bonus, he also covers the brutality that is the cast commentary on the new Brady Bunch TV series DVDs, a show which we both would feel blessed if we never saw it again. Really folks, I thought it was cool when I was six, but I thought footie pajamas were, too, and you don't see me...waitaminnit...
(Looks at feet, which are tucked inside of my sweat pants)
Aw, crap.
Oh yes, if you haven't, check the "Comics 101" section...excellent reading if you have even a passing curiousity about funny book history, both on the page and off.
As a bonus, he also covers the brutality that is the cast commentary on the new Brady Bunch TV series DVDs, a show which we both would feel blessed if we never saw it again. Really folks, I thought it was cool when I was six, but I thought footie pajamas were, too, and you don't see me...waitaminnit...
(Looks at feet, which are tucked inside of my sweat pants)
Aw, crap.
Oh yes, if you haven't, check the "Comics 101" section...excellent reading if you have even a passing curiousity about funny book history, both on the page and off.
|| Eric 1:10 AM#
