New Nine Inch Nails CD Year Zero Fades to White When Exposed to Heat Source

As many of you have already discovered, the new NIN CD turns white when you rip in on your computer or play it in your stereo. A lamp or body heat will produce the same effect. I’ve never seen a thermal CD before! Great creativity on NIN’s part.

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Grindhouse “Bombs” at Box Office

Digg: “The hard “R”-rated pic should take in just $13.5 million this weekend — nowhere near even the lowest $20 mil opening predicted (or the $25 mil debut anticipated after midnight sneaks were added in major cities). It was good enough for 4th place among the Top 10 movies this weekend.”

My comment: This is really surprising. Every other Tarantino movie has been really successful. From the looks of the trailers, this movie (or double feature) looks really unique and interesting, but I think most people don’t like 3 hour movies, especially in the theater (unless it’s Lord of the Rings). Plus it looks really weird and not really like a movie from the advertisements. I thought it was weird that they are releasing the two movies on separate discs. That means you have to pay twice as much to watch them. Also I read that Death Proof is a shortened version of the actual thing, so they are releasing it in it’s entirety on DVD, I’m guessing an unrated version. I’m not sure about Planet Terror, though.

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Using Better Words to Improve Blogging

Lots of good tips on blogging and attracting people to read the stuff that you write.

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Why Do Great Movies Get Terrible DVD Cover Art?

Digg: “Why do good films with great movie posters get awful DVD Cover Art? This post discusses the question and compares some recent examples of this disturbing trend.”

My comment: Although I don’t judge what movie I buy solely based on the DVD cover, it does help to attract your attention. I don’t understand why a lot of movies don’t just use the movie poster as the DVD cover. One cover I actually like is The Departed 2-disc version cover art. The regular one is not as good. I see far too many covers displaying pretty much the same content: 2 or 3 of the actors’ heads, their names at the top, and maybe a quote from a critic at the bottom. For the most part, they don’t even try to be creative. The designers just follow the same formula and don’t do anything different. Casino Royale had an especially crappy DVD cover with the gray background and the silhouette of a random woman with a car jutting out of Bond’s side. I like the Last King of Scotland’s cover, it made me laugh with the “Whitaker triplets”.

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The Floating Pyramid City of the Year 2000 (1979)

Digg: “The Sea City 2000 shows some great paleo-future technology such as the dish-shaped antenna that “beams microwave energy, generated by solar cells, to a receiver on the nearby coast.” The bottom right corner shows a Buckminster Fuller design for a floating community. His design includes shops, schools and homes for 5,000 people.”

My comment: As always, people in the past think technology is going to advance much faster than it actually does. People in the 50’s thought that we would have flying cars in the year 2000, and look where we are now. Maybe we will need to build a structure like that if Al Gore is right and the earth will be covered in a fiery flood from global warming. That’s a really interesting idea though.

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Why Your Death is Bad for the Environment – New “Green” Natural Burial Better for Mother Earth

Article: “Over 22,500 cemeteries, 827,000 gallons of chemical-rich embalming fluid each year, thousands of tons of steel and cement, rare trees cut for coffins, etc. Learn about the new “Green Burial” movement, and how it could affect your remains.”

My comment via Digg:
Can’t wait to tell grandma the good news!

Seriously, this sounds pretty cool. It is less expensive. It gives the decomposition of your body some use by fertilizing a tree, and it looks more pleasant than being buried in a mass of similar tombstones. This is probably how they did it back in the old days; just find a nice tree and bury the dead in a hole in the ground. No harmful chemicals or expensive ceremonies, it’s just a natural process.

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