blast-o-rama.

I have to say, I’m really happy with the state of my website. It’s lightweight, contains all of my posts (longer and shorter), and cross-posts where I want it to cross-post to.

Owning your own part of the web really is key, gang.

I did not realize that Godspeed You! Black Emperor had been playing new songs on their current tour. There’s a playlist on YouTube with really great bootlegs of all three of them. New album soon, I hope.

The new owners of The Onion are being hilariously aggressive and I love it. (And it’s the entire homepage right now.)

If you’ve got $1200 and a crippling toy robot addiction, the new Self-Transforming Megatron is for you!

While I’m sure most will be drooling at the Artemis Space Launch System set from today’s LEGO announcements, I’m most intrigued and enthused about the Milky Way art set. SO cool.

Great Polygon interview with writer Ram V regarding his current Dark Horse series, Dawnrunner. I read issue one and adored it – a great concept met with incredible art from Evan Cagle - and I cannot wait for the trade!

“Uh, sir, you might get people turning against you for the TikTok ban.” “Time to fuck with the airlines.”

I swear, I’m not trying to be Old Man Who Yells At Cloud, but this whole TikTok thing just underlines that if you are running a business online, you need a direct voice to your customers which you own. Mailing list, your own site, all of it.

I’ve discovered World Chase Tag, and I’m sorry, I think I’m going to make this my personality moving forward.

The announcement graphic for next month’s Apple (presumed) iPad Event is really well done. Kudos to the illustrator.

Anyone else really love the recent “Add-to-Dock” functionality for making websites sandboxed “apps”? They’re great for streaming services.

The “For You” section of Threads is the most baiting, triggering horseshit. So glad I can just follow those I care about over there through Mastodon.

…provided that they’ve turned on federation…

They say kill the part of you which is cringe, and to just be you, right?

Here goes: The first two Coldplay albums are good and might be what Radiohead would’ve been if they were more commercial.

I align with Elizabeth Warren on many things, but she is way too far out of her element when it comes to discussing Apple / iMessage. We really need more of the tech generation in office.

iOS folks – the Delta emulator is FINALLY available on the App Store. I cannot wait to dig into this when I get home.

Edit: More of a write up on it is available now at The Verge.

Read the reviews for Guy Richie’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and there are a lot of comparisons to his The Man from UNCLE remake, which pretty much means: I’m gonna love it.

Not that I disliked my prior car (Toyota CH-R), but I actively get excited about driving my new car. Dang hybrid has some zip in it!

Follow up to my post about how Disney+ should have “channels”…per a paywalled post at The Information, they’re in progress and should launch soon. You’re welcome, Bob.

As I read posts about the increasing costs of game development, and that being used as justification for DLC, predatory pay-to-win models, etc.

What about making cheaper, less bleeding-edge games? I’d be fine with a 1080p game that’s super fun to play versus a 4K title with all the monetization.

Got a new car today. It has Wireless CarPlay. As a long time tech nerd, I can say wholeheartedly: it’s dark magic and I know not the horrors which allow it to work.

Shout out Apple TV+’s Friday Night Baseball for letting you swap to the local radio audio.

Now that Hulu and Disney+ are integrated, there’s even less excuse for them to not have a series of live channels a’la PlutoTV or Peacock.

24/7 Marvel, 24/7 Star Wars, 24/7 Classics, or a channel that is just The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, King of the Hill, etc.

The Fallout TV series has been out for just under 12 hours. It takes roughly 8 hours to watch. The “Fallout Ending Explained!” stories are already published. What are we even doing here?

The first Joker movie was a cynical, joyless movie, devoid of any interest or care in the character, slapping a license upon a barely related film. The trailer for the sequel looks just as head scratching. Good luck with that one, gang.

I’m not sure whether to be mad at – or proud of – the Noodles & Co. marketing exec who came up with this slogan.