2005 January 17

I did not create this animated image of Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, and Boromir. Nonetheless, I'm still reminded that I don't yet own Return of the King on DVD. I'm dying to see the extra fourteen hours of footage! The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy was great, considering that I never read any of the books. Fellowship of the Ring hooked me straight away, The Two Towers gave me an “Empire” feeling, and Return of the King had me at “Hello.” Now when I leave a message on someone's machine, I go into my Gollum voice and ask them to return My Precious. Maybe I should wait until they release the Super Duper Complete Signature Set of the Lord of the Rings on DVD before getting something now. Me hates when the Movie Hobbitses do that. Oh Frodo, why do you taunt me so? You're nothing but a Bilbo wannabe.

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I've gotta give props to one of my favorite HTML newsletters, WinXPNews. They also have a feed, but it sucks. Today, they wrote about extended warranties. Extended warranties are like clocks – everybody's got at least one, and they eventually run down. Here's the editor's take:

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I'm not sure how long the P2P Manifesto will last, but… at least somebody has written one. I wouldn't be surprised if the RIAA or MPAA sued Marco Montemagno for posting it. P2P isn't all bad. I got the 8bitpeoples MP3 Archives Vol. 1 from Legal Torrents yesterday. All torrents were not created equal.

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