National Geographic Goes Blu-ray Exclusive

National Geographic announced today that they will be releasing content exclusively in the Blu-ray format. They now join Warner Brothers, Blockbuster, New Line, Miramax, Jesus, The American Gladiators, Tom Jones and pretty much everyone else who is even remotely relevant on the planet in endorsing the obviously superior format. For those of you who bought an HD-DVD player: nice work dickheads. Enjoy watching movies from Universal and....Universal...unless they're Steven Spielberg movies, he gets to do what he wants with those. pwned.

Book Autopsies

This guy carves sculptures out of actual books, and I like it.

How to amuse yourself in a Hospital, Vol. 1

Step 1). Get 4 mg morphine injection
Step 2). Take 10 mg of Ambien to "sleep"
Step 3). Try to stay awake and surf the web

This ought to produce some gems....or I might just wake up with my face on the keyboard. Developing...

New (to me) Downtempo

If you dig the relaxed-type beats, check out Nitin Sawhney. Of course I don't encourage downloading unpaid-for .mp3s, but if someone was to hypothetically go to www.torrentz.com and look up "Nitin Sawhney" they might find his entire catalogue in one convenient package. Some of it is pretty experimental, lots of Asian, jazz and world music influences and tribal-type percussion. Definitely worth checking out. I'm starting with "Beyond Skin"

Some crazy-type shit

Photorealistic sculpture is the way forward, imo. Aussie artist Rob Mueck does post-modern the cool way: without shitting in a fish tank and selling it. He was actually the guy behind the special effects in Labyrinth - I can only assume that includes David Bowie's massive cod-piece.

Free Subscription to EGM

12 months free, no strings attached. Why the hell not?

New Browser in Town

I've been hearing rumblings from the mac-nerds that Camino is the new hotshit browser on the block. I'm not unsatisfied with Firefox, but since this is by Mozilla as well I'm more than a little curious. The site claims and easy transition if you're already a firefox user. I think I may give it a shot tomorrow, if for no other reason than the appeal of being an early adopter. Then I can tell other people in 3 months that I can't believe they JUST found Camino cuz I was on to it before it was cool.