Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Green Day RSS Television Dreams of Tomorrow American Idiot, Mediaburn Repeat, EFC Quicktime video. 8:17:37 PM

commentary Gimme. The new iPod Shuffle from Apple. Me want. [donewaiting.com :: music commentary] 7:17:24 PM

Seagulls One of the cool things about Florida beaches is that you can drive on them. Today I drove from Crescent Beach to St Augustine Beach. I took a movie from the driver's perspective, while a bunch of seagulls were crusing me. It's not an excellent movie, maybe I'll do another tomorrow. [Scripting News] 6:19:55 PM

Toyota Hybrids, Strong! Toyota to Build Hybrid Vehicles in U.S.. Demand for the Toyota Prius has far exceeded initial expectations, creating a wait of up to six months for the gas-electric car in some areas. Toyota is set to begin selling a hybrid version of the luxury Lexus RX sport utility vehicle in mid-April and a hybrid version of the Toyota Highlander SUV in June. And, in case you are wondering, I still totally dig my Prius. [Ottmar Liebert] 6:13:02 PM

Greyhound Soul No complaints about Greyhound Soul's charged set at Che's. The old desert rock thing is dead, but Greyhound Soul can breathe easy. A few Saturday nights ago I caught their second set at Che's and it rocked - big surprise. Greyhound Soul has been around so long, and has... [AZNightBuzz] 6:04:27 PM

The Digital Music Weblog iPod Shuffle: Apple's Long-Awaited Flash Player. Steve Jobs announced it today at MacWorld. (Minute-by-minute coverage of Jobs’s keynote is here at Engadget.) It’s a flash MP3 player, available immediately (see Apple’s product page) in 512k and 1GB versions. Apple is clearly taking a new pricing tack with these, hitting price points of $99 and $149—market-leading, aggressively undercutting prices! I can hardly believe it. Here’s what you get: No display. You heard me. 12 hours of battery life. USB 2.0 Recharges while connected to the USB port Auto-shuffles of playlists with a toggle switch The unit is fairly small, but Apple is sounding a bit foolish with its emphasis on size (”Do no eat the iPod Shuffle”), as it is larger than competing devices from iRiver, SanDisk, and various thumb drive units that come with memory card expansion slots. To me, the iPod Shuffle looks a little on the large and ungainly side, but I haven’t held one in my hand. The groundbreaking feaure (non-feature?) here is the lack of display. Apple is taking a philosophical position that with a flash-based player, navigating a user interface is irrelevant. Load it up with the day’s music and just listen to it, dammit. It’s a good point, and one I expect to see imitated quickly. However, the Shuffle’s somewhat large size is all the more perplexing when you remove the need for a screen. What is all that space beneath the control wheel used for? Apple is going to make a lot of money today. And my oft-repeated prediction just took another step toward fruition: a large jukebox and a flash player for everyone. The mini product category (4-6 GB) will get squeezed. [The Digital Music Weblog] 6:00:48 PM

Apple Hot News iPod shuffle. Smaller and lighter than a pack of gum, iPod shuffle works seamlessly with iTunes' innovative AutoFill feature, which automatically selects songs from a user's music library to fill up iPod shuffle with just one click. The most affordable iPod ever, iPod shuffle is available in two models: 512MB holding up to 120 songs for just $99 and 1GB holding up to 240 songs for just $149. [Jan 11, 2005] [Apple Hot News] 5:57:17 PM

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The Cinema Minima Directory The Cinema Minima directory. The Cinema Minima Directory contains all the links on Cinema Minima's home pages plus links to other directories. Try this directory of podcasts, which includes the extensive iPodder.org directory. [Cinema Minima] 7:33:25 AM

Ohio Barns Ohio Barns. Amazing. The things people do ... here are hundreds of images of barns in the state of Ohio. Via linkfilter. [The Cartoonist] 7:29:28 AM

Sundance '05 Production Still: How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer Another Arizona Connection at Sundance '05 Georgina Garcia Riedel was born and raised in Arizona; she is first generation Mexican American. She received her BFA in Media Arts from the University of Arizona where she directed several short films that dealt with issues facing young women. After which, Georgina attended the American Film Institute (AFI) where she received her MFA in directing. HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS SPENT THEIR SUMMER is Georgina's first feature length film. According to Riedel, "How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer" is a love letter to the town in which my grandmother resides, a small dusty border town called Somerton, Arizona. In the film, Doña Genoveva, the Garcia family matriarch, purchases a car and sets off a chain of events that leads to a sexual revolution within her entire family from her middle-aged daughter to her teenage granddaughter. Riedel goes on to say, "In the film three generations of women all search for love and sex one long hot summer. There is the teenage daughter who is just discovering what sex is all about and is determined to become a woman, her middle-aged mother who is sexually frustrated and lonely, and the matriarch of the family who, at seventy, has never really experienced true love or sexual fulfillment. What we see is that while these women are divided by generations, they are each experiencing the same emotions and feelings as they discover their sexuality. Which poses the question, 'At what age does a girl stop being a girl and start being a woman?'" The film was shot in Somerton and Yuma (a dusty border town I somtimes refer to as the armpit of America ... my parents, however, love it!) and screens in the Dramatic Competition. [Cyndi Greening's Radio Blog] 7:22:51 AM

Fender Bender 10-ft. guitars: Valley on a Fender bender. The Fender Stratocaster, the guitar that helped make musical giants of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan, will itself be larger than life in a Valley public arts display that debuts Tuesday. [azcentral.com | republicfront] 6:28:53 AM