Archives for: November 2006, 22

They Still Don't Get It

11/22/06 | by Adam | Categories: Games
Electronic Arts and Atari have been pushing their new downloadable games pretty hard recently. more »
 

Locavore cuisine

11/22/06 | by Adam | Categories: Potpourri
Wired is on a bit of a roll with reporting the somewhat bizarre eating fads. First, it was Calorie Reduced Diets (BoingBoing has a good link to that bit of insanity) and now it's "Locavore" wherein one tries to eat only foods created in their entirety… more »
 

The director of "The Hobbit" will not be Peter Jackson

11/22/06 | by Adam | Categories: Potpourri
In one of those bewildering moves, New Line Cinema has opted not to employ Peter Jackson to direct the new live action version of "The Hobbit". Nimblebrain.net: we bring you breaking news as cited by cartoon strips. more »
 

Concrete Blonde, "Recollection"

11/22/06 | by Adam | Categories: Music, Reviews
Concrete Blonde were an alt-rock band who appeared in the early '80s, hit their high point in the early '90s, and for all intents and purposes vanished a little afterwards. It's too bad. When good, they were very good. more »
 

Gender inverted Nimblebrain

11/22/06 | by Adam | Categories: Technology, Silly
Another entry in the wacky Internet tools category. Via QBlog, I found Regender, an amusing little hack that works much like Altavista's Babelfish engine; it "translates" a page by switching genders and names. Title link goes to the inverted version of… more »