In Your Face, Windows Users

I upgraded to the two-day-old newest version of my operating system last night. Guess what it took? Not a couple hundred dollars. I didn't have to massively upgrade my hardware just to experience all of my OS's features. I just typed a few commands in a command prompt. Ah, life is good.

Typing in the Wrong Window Can Be Hilarious

I Feel For You, Bunny Dude

This is a lower quality version. For the really good one go here.

Software You Should Know About: Songbird

"Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players." —Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey

Songbird is a Mozilla-based, open source, cross-platform media player. Just watch that video and see how cool it looks. The dude making the video is kind of a dork, which makes the vid even better. The only feature I don't see on the website is ID3 tagging, but it plays all the great formats, including Ogg Vorbis and WMA. My current Linux-only media player doesn't do those. This thing even plays videos, but I'm pretty sure it's not intended to replace your video player. I shudder to think anyone still uses Windows Media Player for music, but if you are, this would be the perfect thing to switch to. (If you are still using WMP, do you realize an entire nation sued Microsoft over that program?)

Um....

Apparently Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose was leaked. Pretty good so far. You can tell he's older, and it's weird to hear him do a cover song. Even though it's a cover, his version of "It's All Coming Back To Me" with the so so sexy Marion Raven (whose voice reminds me of Eponine's from the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Les Miserables) is so powerfull and beautiful that it gives me goosebumps over and over. That's Meat Loaf for you, though. I totally recommend this album, especially for the few Meat fans I know. Downloaded or not, I'm buying this album on it's release on October 31.

Dammit, Johnson!

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Birthday Forcast

I love this: ForecastFox's blurb tomorrow reads, "Sunny and delightful". Hope that pans out

Bookmonkeying

I caught up with myself. I'm in slight shock. I've read every book on my Palm Pilot. On top of that, I also finished the paper book I've been carrying around, so I had nothing to read for the last 20 minutes of my bus ride. Tonight, while my tater tots cook, I'm going to have to format and upload another small library. I guess I'll have to read on paper if I don't get anything up fast enough. With the completion of The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, I've also managed to finish all the paper books I've got that aren't in boxes save one: Xenocide. At least it's one I'm looking forward to reading.

Very Exciting News For All Of Us

Guess what happens on October 31, 2006.

If you're cool, you already knew that that's the release date of Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose. Yeah, that's right, the Meat's still at it even though he turns 59 on wednesday. I am so damn excited

BAT OUT OF HELL III TO BE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 31, 2006!

Bat Out of Hell III is Meat Loaf’s long-awaited next installement to the most successful rock music series of all time, with the two previous albums selling a total of 45 million around the world! Bat Out of Hell, released in 1977 and produced by Todd Rundgren, is the third best-selling album of all time, with 30 million copies sold worldwide, featuring such Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman standards as “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth” and the show-stopping “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.”

The Steinman-produced Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which came out in 1993, sold more than 15 million, with the classic “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” earning Meat Loaf a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance.

Bat Out of Hell III continues the epic saga in grand fashion, with contributions once again from Steinman and Rundgren, and produced by hitmaker Desmond Child. Bat Out of Hell III promises to mark the triumphant return of the Bat Out of Hell franchise, completing this legendary trilogy!"

Julie Bell is the artist that created the cover and imagry to Bat III and helped make Meat's vision a reality! Click out her website at www.imaginistix.com

To pre-order the album, click here

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Shirt Gallery

I think my closet is starting to resemble an art gallery. Threadless keeps having these $10 shirt sales, and I've fed my addiction with several of these beauties now.