While cleaning my room last week, I happened upon this interesting little gizmo. No it wasn’t a flux capacitor or a time machine. I had in fact found my first MP3 player dating back to the KaZaA era. By today’s standards, the specifications are laughable (128MB internal capacity expandable to 256MB with additional SmartMedia card), but also a testament to how dramatically Apple’s iPod changed the digital music scene. This is especially true considering I purchased this generic brand (who’s ever heard of IM Sports outside of high school?) player over a Sony Mini-Disc player. I’m glad I followed my avoid-Sony policy as Mini-Disc joined the ranks of Betamax, and ATRAC amongst other defunct formats.
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
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This is an interview with Breaux Greer, 8-time American national champion and American record holder and one of the best javelin throwers in the world. He gives his two cents to Flotrack on not making this year’s Olympic team and doing American Gladiators for “recovery”. This is easily one of the best sports interviews I’ve ever seen. See for yourself:
Classic. Now that the trials are over, I’m looking forward to an awesome Olympic Games.
Update: More on the trials.
I stumbled accross this photo of the (via Teamstrannon) of the 800M finals at the 2008 U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials. The race ended in epic fashion as Christian Smith (in the white) laid out at the line to edge out favorite Khadevis Robinson (in the blue) for the final Olympic team spot. This is after Nick Symmonds’ (Oregon Track Club) devastating kick which took him from the back of the pack into first place; University of Oregon sophomore, Andrew Wheating came out of nowhere to take second for an Oregon 1-2-3 sweep.
Video after the jump.
Via the Guardian:
The cinematic world was today celebrating the rediscovery of missing scenes from German director Fritz Lang’s legendary silent film Metropolis – thought lost for 80 years, until they were found in the archive of a museum in Argentina. Key scenes cut from the science fiction picture – either because they were considered to be too brutal or too long.
I first watched this film for a class. Although half-century-plus mark is pushing it for my film taste, Metropolis was actually an interesting film and really quite impressive considering the era it was made in. Metropolis is widely regarded as a landmark in film history, and it’s easy to see why if you watch it. If you’re into sci-fi and have at least 3 hours to kill, Metropolis is worth a look if you can find it. There are a few editions out, and now it will definitely be interesting to see the film in its original film once they release it.
Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user’s names, and IP addresses to Viacom.
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