Die, Flash! Die!

broderic on June 24, 2008

For those wanting Flash on iPhone, why? Not to be all snarky, but I don’t think it makes any sense as far as enriching your mobile web surfing.

Do we really need those pesky flash animated ad banners? Do we want to download a flash file just to see a commercial? I don’t know about you, but I don’t.

How about video? How about it? There’s already a youtube application and quicktime, while it doesn’t embed it on the web page it does launch a standalone viewer.

Games? Maybe. But with the appstore coming, and the free iPhone SDK, I’m sure you’ll find something to like.

So there are alternatives to Flash. You can live without it on iPhone. You already do. Live with that. Kill Flash dead.

Get Smart

broderic on June 23, 2008

Get Smart is dumb summer fun. What can you say about a movie that was meant to be forgotten as soon as you exit the theatre? That’s why I’m writing this review like this: I forgot what happened. Good for the popcorn, bad for the film fanatic. It was a nice two hours in the shade.

Agent 13 is disguised as a tree.

Jaime shows up.

Agent 99 almost had us believing in Barabara Feldon. I wish she was there. I loved her as a kid. I wonder if she did do a cameo?

They had Zigfried.

Would you believe…? Missed it by that much. Cone of silence.

2 of 5 stars.

Quote of the Day [6.23.08]

broderic on June 23, 2008

“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

1st Law of Robotics, Isaac Asimov

Quote of the Day [6.22.08]

broderic on June 22, 2008

Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore –
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore –
Nameless here for evermore.

Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven

Quote of the Day [6.21.08]

broderic on June 21, 2008

“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”

Isaac Asimov