Refenestration Daily.
I heard about SeatGuru from this thread at MetaFilter: “Seatguru has not only seat maps, but reviews of most seats on the big 6 US airlines.”
Of course, I’ve already booked (and arrived) in Pittsburgh for Christmas, but this could be handy for future travel bookings.
I was excited to hear about the Red Hat 8.1 beta on Slashdot. Back when 8.0 came out, the fonts really impressed me, but some of that was through back-porting cutting-edge code into their current release.
With this latest version, my hope is that the anti-aliased fonts will be through stable software (and not just the latest builds from CVS). In any case, my PC-upgrade plans (which included installing Linux onto the new PC) have been put on hold due to my recent job situation (need a web developer?), so I can easily wait for this beta to mature.
In this Slashdot story covering John Dvorak’s notion that Linux is too much like Windows (yawn) was mention of Slicker, a replacement for KDE’s Kicker.
Coding hasn’t started yet, but there are several screen mockups of a proposed design. So far, I’m very much impressed, and I hope this project succeeds. (There’s also discussion of Slicker development in the Gentoo forums, so perhaps it has a chance after all.)
I had preordered the Back to the Future DVDs, and they arrived today. However, Julie made me aware that there was a framing problem in the original release (a second run, supposedly in February, would correct it). Sure enough, I checked DVDTalk and confirmed it:
Apparently there’s an issue with the widescreen framing for Back to The Future II & II. As with past problems Universal is making good on these discs by exchanging them. Send the 2 discs with your Name, Address, Phone, and the reason you’re returning it to: Back to the Future DVD Returns, PO Box 224468 Dallas, Texas 75260. Fixed Box sets are planned to be on store shelves by late February. ‘Props’ to the DVD Talkers who Identified the problems with the Back to the Future Box Set.
So, I’ll be sending back parts II and III out of my boxed-set for replacements.
Via ObscureStore, “new MTV policy means you'll see the same clips over and over”.
MTV plans to concentrate on a weekly list of 10 video clips, the so-called Big 10, each of which will be played more than 30 times a week — in some cases doubling the exposure that videos in heavy rotation had before. Other videos on the channel's playlist will get at least 10 plays, or “spins,” a week. […]
Not that MTV was exactly a purveyor of fine music before, but now they’re even closer to the sorry state that radio is in.