Archive for June, 2009

25 Random Songs

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

I load up Facebook and what do I see? "Once you've been tagged... (1) Turn on your MP3 player. (2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode. (3) Write down the first 25 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating, please. (4) Choose 25 people to be tagged. It is generally considered ...

Opening Narration Quiz

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

You know what is wrong with television today? Not enough opening narration, that's what! Back in the day, you could count on the producers to slap a few words together to sum up the premise of the show you were about to see, little tone poems worming their way into ...

Safari 4 is Pretty Good

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Safari 4 has been out for a couple of days now, and I must say I am enjoying using it. On the Mac, Safari has always had a great overall browser experience but Firefox always managed to stay my weapon of choice for viewing the Internet. This may change, ...

A game rated arrrr! Monkey Island Returns (updated)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

The Secret of Monkey Island consumed a lot of my time back in the day, it is one of the best (and funniest) games ever produced. I have wondered for a while now why some of the old adventure games haven't been dusted off and republished for the new consoles ...