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As part of their development deal with NBC, the creators of the sitcom “Nobody’s Watching” got some cash to make online videos. This is their site, chock-full of amusing videos, as they wait to find out if they’re getting picked up for midseason.

When album cover art attacks… One for the music geeks.

Trailer for Christopher Guest’s upcoming flick.

Reviews of Sony’s e-ink ebook reader. Seem to universally say “It’s kind of nice, but it needs a light and is too expensive.”

My lovely chum Jill Bernard is currently drawing anti-drug animal poems, and they’re making me laugh.

CBS News has got their hands on the TSA’s “No-Fly List”. Sucks to be a Gary Smith or a Robert Johnson.

The new Scorsese film is getting massively positive reviews — Criticker reckons I’d give it 97/100. Gonna have to break my Leonardo DiCaprio embargo and go see it, I think.

When I got the new Beck CD yesterday, one of my first reactions to the blank inlay and sticker-set (after “Awesome!”) was “I wonder if this makes them ineligible for the UK charts.” It would appear so.

Google search for open-source code. Is there a use for this beyond doing mass-searches for vulnerabilities?

Comic book miniseries heavily inspired by Britpop. Sounds really interesting, but getting a copy will involve going to a *shudder* comic book store. (Still, since there’s a new issue of Dork coming out soon too, maybe that was inevitable)

Alex Doonesbury’s attending MIT, and today the Stata Center, my favourite new piece of architecture in the Boston area, made an appearance,

There’s a proper 2D Sonic game for the DS?! Why was I not alerted to this sooner? I love me some spiny blue action.

A little screen-fu — I didn’t realise that one screen session could encompass multiple screens.

New version of WinAmp (Remember them? It’s like an iPod, except you can’t carry it around with you. Ask your parents) includes “remote listening” — Stream music from your home PC to wherevers. Since Apple kept disabling hacks that did this with iTunes, I’m curious how AOL think they’re going to be able to keep this “legit”

Normally, I can’t be arsed with Pitchfork’s reviews — too pseudy by half. But this one is short, witty, incisive, and pretty danged accurate.

Cunning idea — a watch that connects to your watch via Bluetooth, then vibrates and shows caller ID information when you get a call or a text, so you don’t have to go raking through your pockets/bag for your phone. Of course, it’ll be a total battery drain, but a lovely innovation nonetheless.

Could be interesting — DVDJon reverse engineered Apple’s DRM, and is looking to license it to other companies wanting to sell DRMed tracks. Of course, Apple can break it again with a firmware update, so who knows where this is going.

Cataloguing the smaller-than-small print associated with advertising claims.

New open database of user-submitted Phishing URLs. Somewhat reminiscent of Mark Fletcher’s old “Trustic” startup. Not sure how well the submission/validation system will scale, or deal with gaming, but it could be interesting to watch.

Bitstream’s open-sourced Vera fonts, tweaked to include masses of Unicodery. Vera Sans Mono has been my text-editor font of choice for a while.

We’re putting new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now before they go out.

BBC One’s done a revamp of their Idents, and they’re brill — especially the synchronized hippos. There really seems to be an element of humour about them that was missing from the politically-correct dancers.

“The ban was a necessary precaution. We have to be willing to make these kinds of sacrifices if we’re going to prevent scientifically impossible terrorist attacks.”