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I'm a big movie
fan. I go to lots of
movies in
Boston's theaters
There are many movie reviews online
from Roger Ebert.
to Mr. Cranky to
those that are
haikus, but see
Rotten
Tomatoes or
movies.com
for an excellent brief summary of reviews of
current films (with links to the whole reviews).
There's a lot of
film info
online. For news and rumors check out
Aint It Cool
News,
Dark Horizons and
Cinescape Online.
Yes, I watch the
Academy Awards every year, and try
to see every film nominated for a major award.
People often ask me what my
favorite film
is but it's hard for me to narrow it to one film.
I'm more likely to name something in the
National Film Registry
than a big
money-maker
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The AFI has good
lists of good films
I particularly like
Hitchcock
(who's 100th birthday was Aug 13, 1999)
and if pressed I'd have to say
Rear Window
is my favorite film.
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I watch a fair amount of TV.
Now that I have a
Sony
TiVo
TV is a whole new experience. It let's you watch what you want when you
want it, without thinking about when or on what channel it's broadcast.
There's a long
TiVo FAQ
and active
TiVo Community Forum.
There's also a
group of people
who hack
their Tivo's but the most common thing is to merely
upgrade
the hard disks using
Hinsdale's
How To
Tivo Hacking Links
Tivohelp.com and
Tivo let's me watch only the shows I like.
See
ZAP2it for
TV Guide info.
You can find SCI-FI news at
ISN News .
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The West Wing
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Coupling
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Alias
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I have a
Palm Tungsten T3.
It's very nice with a gorgeous 480 x 320 screen.
I'm a big fan of the Palm OS
I have a lot of 3rd party applications installed on
my T3 and many of them are capable of
taking advantage of the long screen. But it's a new device so there are some
patches from palm
that are needed. I have the following accessories from
Boxwave:
ClearTouch,
miniSync, and
Wall Charger
and am very happy with all of them, although here's another
interesting accessory.
For reviews of hardware and software visit
The Gadgeteer.
Get etexts at MemoWare.
Find games at
Palm Gaming World
and game reviews at
PDArcade.
Previously I've had a
Sony Clié T615C,
and several older Palm models:
Palm Vx, Palm IIIx, and a Palm Pilot Professional.
Palm news:
PDA 24/7,
Palm Infocenter,
Palm Addicts,
Watchster
PalmOne City,
T3 Forums:
Brighthand,
PalmOneCity,
Palm Infocenter
Pretty Games:
Warfare Inc,
Monopoly,
Master Thief 3D,
Aggression,
Aldon's Crossing
Upcoming Games:
EDGE,
Heroes of War,
6th Gear
Emulators:
NES,
GBA,
Sega Game Gear,
Apple IIe,
C64,
Atari ST,
Arcade games
OpenSource:
Palm Open Source,
SourceForge,
FreshMeat
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You can get financial news
and stock quotes
(delayed 15 minutes) for free.
Other news sources include the
Wall Street Journal
(it may well be the best online newspaper, but you have to pay for it)
and online
financial magazines like:
Money,
Forbes,
Fortune, and
The Economist.
There are subscription-based sites that provide financial commentary and
analysis on the Net like
TheStreet and
Briefing.com.
And if you can't understand the language
Investor Words will help.
The exchanges (
NYSE and
NASDAQ)
are online but don't have a lot of content.
There are online forums like the
Motley Fool.
and some online journals like the
Efficient Frontier
to help you figure out what you want to do.
Mutual funds like
Fidelity Investments and
Vanguard are online and have
lots of info, and
you can do stock research with
Morning Star or
the SEC's
EDGAR database.
Check out your broker with the
NASD Regulation Public Disclosure Program.
You can even trade online with
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Yahoo Finance
MarketPlayer
StockSelector
Wall Street City
MSN Investor
Market Guide
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I've gotten into geneology. I now know the names of 12 of my 16
great-great grand parents. Somewhere I read that geneology is the third most
popular hobby in the US. Not surprisingly the net has been used for
geneology research since long
before the web. While you used to have to go to cemetraries and small
records rooms around the world, you now have access to
huge amounts
of genealogical info from your computer
(and now from your computer you can ask a
volunteer to go to a small
records room for you).
One of the benefits of the connected net is that people are now sharing
their information and generating enormous databases.
The US GenWeb and
World GenWeb projects are doing
this for free with volunteers.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does this with
FamilySearch.
And geneology.com is one of many
commercial ventures.
The US National Archives (NARA)
provides a lot of materials for
Genealogical Research
as does the
Library of Congress.
There are a number of software programs to help you collect and organize
your family information. I use the industry leading
Family Tree Maker
on Windows and GedStar
on my Palm Vx. Time magazine had a
cover story
in April 1999 on Geneology including a good
review
of the software available.
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The web makes it much easier
to be involved in your
government
at both the
federal and
state
levels. Both the
House and
Senate
are online, as well as the
White House.
Communicate with your Congress.
The Supreme Court finally
has it's own web site but there have been other sites that provide a
database of decisions
and Oyez
has audio of some old decisions.
Have you read the
US Constitution recently?
While I don't like to, I have to seriously thank
Newt Gingrich
for
Thomas (but for nothing else).
Visit the
intelligence community,
NASA
or the
Smithsonian
You might find your
State's Court
online. The
government uses computers in a big way.
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I've gotten interested in the Right to Privacy both on the net and off.
Let's say I know what computers can do with a lot of publically available
information, and I'm not that confortable with so much being accessible.
There are many
books on the subject
that I want to read, so far I recommend
The Right to Privacy by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy.
What to do about it? The
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has some
fact sheets to help.
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I principally like
rock
and alternative
music
but I also like
classical
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and
jazz
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and
swing.
I'm in a few
CD Clubs:
BMG,
Columbia House, and the
BBC Music Club. I'm currently addicted to the music of
Rusted Root.
Many places online to by CDs like:
Music Boulevard,
CDNow and
musicmaker which lets you
create your own CDs. Popular sites for music news and info:
Sonic Net and of course
MTV.
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I love wandering through a good bookstore like
Borders or
Barnes & Noble.
The
Internet Book List
is trying to be the IMDB of books but there's always
Amazon
and many
on-line books
(support Project Gutenberg).
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Time
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I have some well-known weaknesses for
Absolut vodka,
and
Godiva chocolate (or
any chocolate).
I have a large
collection of Absolut Vodka magazine Ads
I've gathered since 1987. It may be uncommon, but
I'm not alone in this hobby,
by any means.
there are many who post
absolut ads on the net.
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I'm not a big sports fan,
but I do follow the
New York Giants of the
NFL.
I live around Boston and
FOX
doesn't broadcast many of the games here.
I read about the in Giants in the
Bergen
County Record and at
BBWC.
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