APPLESEED!!!!!!!!!!

Anime fans are having a banner couple of years. First the Ghost in the Shell sequel, now the same creator’s Appleseed is coming to theaters. Personal message to Shirow-san: Domo arigato! Hai!!

Player “Hayter”

With The Watchmen, Iron Man, and The Black Widow on his docket, does this guy ever sleep?

Fan-”F-ing”-Tastic

The new Fantastic Four trailer is out, and isn’t it ironic that the worst thing about it is The Thing? Note to the filmmakers who will redo this movie in 11 years: Ben Grimm’s lips should NOT be more prominent than his brow. And give the role back to Michael Bailey Smith. And make Sue Storm a REAL goddamn blonde who was born prior to 1981!!!! Christ!!!!!!!!

At least they cast Willy Lumpkin right…

Apple breaks $500 barrier…

…that is, they’ve finally gone BELOW IT! There must have been a Macintosh conference of expo or something because on top of the iPod shuffle, Apple has introduced the Mac mini, a 2-inch high, 6.5-inch square, slot-loading, Wi-Fi-ready, G4-powered beast of a machine. Damn you Stave Jobs! Why do you taunt me with your sexy toys…!??!?

iPod…”shuffle”?

Want to do the iPod “shuffle”? Has the iPod “shuffled” its way into your life? Want to play some music?: Well, “shuffle-up” and deal! Crap jokes aside, Apple’s ability to microscopically segment a market has just broken another barrier so small no one knew it existed. The iPod shuffle is tinier than the iPod mini, so tiny that it has not display and only two modes: shuffle and loop. Listening to your tracks randomly (or not), of course, still requires a computer to load the iPod shuffle up with music. It comes in 1GB and .5GB sizes, costing $149 and $99 respectively. Now you have no defense for owning a non-Apple MP3 player.

UW gets “OK” to blow up University Square

For all my Madison dawgs and beeyotches: By ‘07 or ‘08 the “mother of our souls” (bad latin joke!) will look quite different — pending State Building Commission approval. The school’s “regents” have approved a $58.85 million East Campus redevelopment project. The plan is to make a pedestrian mall that extends directly south from Memorial Union to just shy of Regent Street. The centerpiece of this redevelopment is the demolition of University Square. (For those that don’t know, it’s the only thing downtown that resembles a mall, and it’s an armpit — but it’s OUR armpit dammit! We’ll miss it.) The new site will house the Registrar, Bursar, new Health Services, and new Student Activities Center, as well as private parking, residential space, and yes, more retail space.

Artfacts.net uses science to look at art

Artfacts.net maintains and interesting web artifact called “Artist Ranking Top 100 Chart“.