El Guapo’s Top Ten Kick Ass Movies Of 2008!

Now that the year has come to a close, let’s take a look at what I thought were the best movies of 2008. These are the little and big gems that you looked at on the theater marquee and thought, “I wonder if this is awesome?” This list will hopefully answer that question. These are the movies that made me want to walk out of the theater and kiss the first old person I ran into.

via El Guapo’s Top Ten Kick Ass Movies Of 2008! – Movie News – Latest Movie Reviews and trailers.

For the record, I’ve seen:

Quantum of Solace (#7)

Wall•E (#3)

Iron Man (#2)

3 out of 10? Not bad, considering that 3 or more are fairly recent.

What’s Next After Web 2.0

But we’re clearly now at a point where the financial problems of the world will have a big impact on where web technology is headed. Indeed, it looks like we’ve arrived at one of those giant inflexion points – where one web era is usurped by another.

via What’s Next After Web 2.0 – ReadWriteWeb.

What’s next after Web 2.0?

From Digg:

Why, Web 1.0, of course. It is the recession, after all…

Or, perhaps:

They skip any logical sequence (3.0) and go for the bane of the computer world, irrational letters and numbers.

Here we come web 3.402GTxL!

Heh. Digg rules.

Pascal’s Wager – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pascal’s Wager (or Pascal’s Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should “wager” as though God exists, because so living has potentially everything to gain, and in theory nothing to lose.

via Pascal’s Wager – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Yet another Wiki link that makes for interesting reading indeed.

University publishes 15 words we <3 to hate for 2009

Just in time for the new year, Lake Superior State University has delivered on its decades-old tradition of publishing a “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.” The annual, jocular list began in 1976, with words and phrases like “meaningful” (which lost all of its meaningfulness at the time) and “call for resignation” as a publicity stunt to promote the university’s existence. Since then it has grown into a crowdsourced list of the latest clichés to have been birthed from pop culture, and even text speech made this list of words we “<3” to hate for 2009.

via University publishes 15 words we <3 to hate for 2009.

Some examples:

go green
carbon footprint
maverick
game changer
iconic
wall street
main street

As usual, hit up the read link for more. I’m actually surprised that rick roll isn’t on that list…

iPhone 3G unlock – yellowsn0w is out!

As reported in the Dev Team IRC channel, Vodafone works. 3 works. (now just need Telstra + Optus/Virgin to be tested) 🙂

via iPhone 3G unlock – yellowsn0w is out! – MacTalk Forums.

See original source here.

AFAIK – all Australian telcos who support the iPhone work. This includes Telstra, Optus/Virgin, Vodafone, and 3.

I’m still deciding… Do I really need my iPhone AS A PHONE when I go overseas?

It can function perfectly otherwise… Just needs Wi-Fi for data (which is admittedly scarce where I am going), but otherwise, it’s a small iPod.

Ask Engadget: Best current smartphone for under $200?

It’s 2009, folks, so we figured we’d start it off with a bang (and about a gazillion comments in this post). George, a proud member of the USMC, is pondering what to do about a new smartphone, and given that your New Year’s resolution was undoubtedly to ditch your dumbphone in favor of a more sophisticated model, you’ll probably be interested as well.

via Ask Engadget: Best current smartphone for under $200? – Engadget.

Requirements? WiFi, camera (with flash if possible), touchscreen. Must be under $200 with 2-year contract.

No consensus as yet – but the Nokia E71 has been volunteered.

Semper Fi.