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Link Droppings

January 11th, 2006 @ 11:41 pm PST

Just a bunch of random thoughts I’ve been meaning to post …

  • It took me for-freaking-ever to recognize that it’s Matt Dillon doing the voiceover on the Pontiac Torrent commercials. It took me five minutes to find and download Struggle, by Ringside — the music from the commercial. I snagged a couple of their other songs, too. Pretty good stuff. I thought (incorrectly) that it was something by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, a band I found on the Mr. & Mrs. Smith soundtrack. (Note: If you’re looking to grab the song on the soundtrack via iTunes, they trick you! The song is listed as Mondo Boongo and you have to buy the entire soundtrack if you want to get it. But! If you look, you can find the song on iTunes under it’s actual title, Mondo Bongo. Sneaky iTunes people.)
  • Hello, MotoI got a black Motorola RAZR (with Cingular) a few weeks before Christmas. With the sole exception of Motorola‘s moronic address book — which has been retarded ever since they started making cell phones; why the hell does the same person show up multiple times if I add more than one phone number for the entry?! — this is hands-down the best cell phone I’ve ever had. I’ve had Verizon and Sprint since I moved to LA, and I think that Cingular has the best service here. The reception is even better than it was with my previous Cingular phone (a Nokia) and you just cannot beat the form factor. Slick.
  • Quite Frankly, with Stephen A. Smith, on ESPN, is a darn good show. I don’t always agree with him, but I like his delivery. TiVo it. Update: I’ve changed my mind. He bugs.
  • If you’re a web developer and you want to add slick graphs and charts to a site, you really can’t do much better than Fusion, from InfoSoftGlobal. It’s good stuff. Easy to build, Flash-animated, XML-driven, works with ASP or PHP. Check ’em out.
  • I’m going to do my damn level best to run the twenty-first L.A. Marathon this year. I’ve been chugging along with a friend since early December and am knocking out 5, 8, and 10-mi runs pretty regularly now.
  • Rumor Has It is an excellent movie. Is it Oscar-worthy? No. But it’s very fun and very original and well worth your $10.
  • FreakanomicsFreakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Amazon) is one of the top twenty best books I’ve ever read. A good friend of mine sent it to me as a Christmas present from my Amazon wishlist. I tore through it in two nights and was floored. It’s making its way through my office now. I highly recommend it. (And thanks, Bob!)

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Responses to “Link Droppings”

  1. March 6th, 2006 @ 12:43 pm
    Kim

    Thanks for the tip on Mondo Bongo. I was totally ready to buy the whole album and you saved me the trouble.

  2. May 20th, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
    Kris

    Totally THANKS on the Mondo Bongo iTunes tip! You just saved me $9.00! 🙂

  3. November 20th, 2007 @ 4:13 pm
    Gwen

    Ditto on the Mongo Bongo. That figures they would do something tricky like that. I’m glad I did a little research and thanks for posting this! Love the song and the fact that I wasn’t forced to become one of those whiny people on iTunes. =P

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