If you’d like to start using Windows Update v5 before XP SP2 is ready, now’s your chance. Tell it that yes, you are already a beta user (second option) and you won’t have to register or anything.

The coolest movies seem to be coming out of other countries lately. First Casshern from Japan, and now Immortel from France. Check out the trailers if you haven’t already. The Immortel trailer is actually in English with French subtitles.

Today Disneyland raised admission fees $2.75. A one-day adult ticket now costs $49.75. In addition, they’ve introduced a new lower-cost annual pass exclusively for Southern California residents. At $99 the “Select Annual Passport” is the cheapest of the bunch. It includes a whopping 170 blockout days, but it pays for itself after just two visits….

The other day on All Things Considered, they were discussing how the mass of affordable housing is quickly moving east out of Los Angeles and into the Inland Empire. A map of the Inland Empire reveals that it “officially” starts around Ontario and extends quite a ways east into Banning and Idyllwild. That is far,…

How well do you know your neighbors? How would you feel about them if you learned that they had donated, say, $2000 to John Kerry’s political campaign? Or George Bush’s? Or Al Sharpton’s? Feed your address to Fundrace’s neighbor search and within seconds you’ll get a complete listing of all political donations made from people…

I am more than a little irritated that I didn’t learn about this symphony performance of Final Fantasy music here in LA until today – and now it’s already sold out.

Scanner Recorder is a handy little Windows program. Plug the audio-out on your scanner into your sound card, and Scanner Recorder will record anything it picks up – but it’ll pause the recording when there’s silence. So if you’re not around when something goes down, you don’t miss a beat. AND you don’t have to…

The first Xbox 2 demonstration videos are now available for download (bottom of the page.)

Email forwards. Gotta love ’em. Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization? Answer: Princess Diana’s death. Question: Why? Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you…

Maybe you know someone who: A: Has a DVD player B: Doesn’t have Tivo C: Doesn’t understand why he/she would need Tivo If that’s the case, TiVo’s free DVD offer would probably make a perfect gift!