I bought a second hand Blu-ray player the other day on TradeMe. Now I know why:
Ron Frick’s 1992 masterpiece Baraka. Every home should have one.
UPDATE: Evidently this is a Region 1 release only at the moment and the Blu-ray region coding has yet to be broken. NZ is Region 2.
I can now safely ditch both Engadget and Gizmodo from my feeds. BoingBoing has added a tech blog written by Joel Johnson who, helpfully, can actually write:
In the strange fairy land of high-end retail, products like the Beo 5 remote control are allowed to flourish, despite glaring deformities like an awkward screen perched on a spindly neck, like a lolling Hapsburg prince too rich to be quietly sequestered but too ugly to be seen.
Meanwhile, I am successfully weaning myself off my own gadget desires until the prevailing personal economic situation improves but I will dream of one of these for a while:
