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Fall Kicks (at least so far…)
The new Engadget – About freaking time, right? Loomstate Vans — Even though I don’t like Rogan jeans much. The Science of Sleep – Michel Gondry’s latest. It’s even more abstract and surreal than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It’s better, too, and not just because it has Gael Garcia Bernal as the lead…
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Kanye and Me
Had a close encounter with Kanye West at Barney’s this evening. He played it cool and pretended not to recognize me. Still way better than sharing an elevator with Denise Richards and Richie Sambora on my way to a meeting with Sonos at the Trump International last week. That was a little freaky.
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Lansing-Dreiden at the Starbucks Salon
I don’t normally spend much time at Starbucks — despite living a block away from one, I hardly ever go, mainly because I hardly ever drink coffee — but I got sucked into going to one this evening with a free performance by Lansing-Dreiden at the Starbucks Salon on Greene St. here in Manhattan. The…
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Note to self
Note to self: wearing a USB headset on TV might seem like a good idea at the time, but it’s really, really not.
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This is Boston, not L.A.
Looks like Ryan and I are headed to Boston next month for a conference, and you know that means: Engadget Reader Meetup! We’re still on the hunt for a venue, so if you have access to a space, or know of anything suitable (we’re expecting between 300 and 500 people), please drop me a line.
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There is only one Nation of Ulysses
Ian Svenonius brought his irreverent irreverence to the Bluestockings bookstore on Monday evening. I’m not sure I’d actually go see him perform these days – those last couple mAKE uP records were already on the tired side – but it was hard to resist the prospect of a reading from his new book, The Psychic…
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The gang
Gotta say, it was really good having Ryan back in NYC for a few days, even if we did spend 95% of our time at various WIN-related functions and only 5% of our time watching Talladega Nights. Earlier today Jill snapped some pics of us up on the roof of Engadget HQ, apparently Apple wants…
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Number one!
I guess I should probably be posting this on my other blog, but I was very pleased to discover this morning that Engadget had ascended to the very top of the Technorati 100. We’d been hovering in the top ten for a while now, and spent the better part of this year in second place…
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In 3D
It’s not often that I get to go see a major motion picture directed by someone I know (in this case, Gil Kenan, husband of my good friend and former roommate Eliza Chaikin), so this past Friday I coughed up $10.50 to go see Monster House, that new computer animated kids horror movie. It’s definitely…
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Why I love the internet (and Ubuntu)
This is why I love the internet: lately I’ve been geeking out with Ubuntu, which I have installed on my Sony Vaio FS, only to discover that there’s an entire blog dedicated to Ubuntu on the Vaio FS. I’m not sure I’m quite ready to be like the cool kids and make Ubuntu my primary…