March 17, 2000

Atom Films has Oscar-nominated shorts online, including the full-length version of "Humdrum," a wonderfully cute animation about a couple of shadow puppets, which I highly recommend. (Stick to their low-bandwidth versions, they seem to be more reliable.) Kleingeld is also very good. (Many thanks twernt.)

Article at The Games Cafe on the MIT Mystery Hunt 2000, including sample puzzles and solutions. "By agreement with the authors of the article and the puzzles, they will remain online for one month and will not be archived." (Posted March 1, so read it now.) (Thanks memepool for the link to The Games Cafe.)

Rabid east-coasters are linking to the Kids in the Hall live tour page. I notice they have a couple of short behind-the-scenes tour clips on-line. I also notice I can get that tour shirt I couldn't get when I went. They've added shows on the east coast through April, check it out.

While the Pine Team is realistic about the market trends and the needs of the University, they remind me (in response to my inquiry) that 2/3 of the 70,000 email users here at the University are still using Pine, counter to the expectations that we would flock to POP/IMAP clients when support for them was rolled out. While it is expected that web mail will be popular, if enough of us still use Pine, it will continue to get support, and there are no plans to halt development. It's surprising what you can learn if you ask. :)

Alan W. Pollack's 'Notes On' Series has detailed supplementary information on every Beatles song. Heavy on the music theory. See, for example, Hey Jude.

The Internet Beatles Album (getback.org) is an excellent resource for Beatles information on the Internet.

Beatles study site isn't, but has some good stuff.

I can't get enough of that UPS commercial with the small e-commerce start-up launching their website, then nervously waiting for orders to roll in. They cheer when they get their first order, then 35, then a few hundred and they cheer. Then a thousand, then tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands and they go silent. I laugh every time.