The Weekly for 10/27

Dayton Art Institute's Rembrandt Exhibition. I am going to go see this tomorrow. I figured I wouldn't have such a good opportunity to view a collection of Rembrandts for a very long time, if ever. It's been a long time since I've been able to art it up at a museum, one of my favorite pastimes, so I'm looking forward to it.

Firefox 2.0. Slightly sleeker interface, better tabbed browsing, and the wonderful automatic spell check. Approval registered.

Ten Worst Portrayals of Technology in Film. Not to be such a nitpicky, uber-geek about this, but they never get this stuff right. I even got irritated the other night at my beloved Law and Order: CI (and even more beloved Detective Goren) for the most inaccurate hacking of a computer logon password ever. There should be a serious market for technical advisers to media writers. Guys, it would save you a ton of complaint email from geeks like me with nothing better to do.

Oldest Computers on University of Iowa Campus. Seriously, after you work at a campus IT department for a couple of years, stories like this aren't nearly so funny. Somebody's got to support those dinosaurs. Although it does improve my memories of certain professors who refused to upgrade from Word Perfect for DOS or relinquish their five hundred floppy disks.

The Killers' Video for "Bones." I was really excited when I heard that Tim Burton was going to be directing this. But the result left me a little disappointed (not unlike the entire Sam's Town album, although I will admit it's growing on me a little bit). It's a cute video. I guess I just wanted it to be more non-music-video-ish. I get tired of the same formula, pacing, and shots. Skeletons are always a nice touch, though.

Jack Black's Anti-Piracy PSA. Save the rocket sauce.

Iggy Pop's Concert Rider. If I were a rock star, I would require that all my roadies be this funny.

Star Wars Desert Set Photo. Browsing on stock xchng, I found this interesting shot of the original Star Wars set, many years after the fact. Mos Eisley, if I'm not mistaken. And if you know me at all, you know there isn't much chance of that.