Search highlighted text on Amazon.com with the click of your mouse!

NEW UPDATE — February 25, 2010

Have you ever been reading about a book, movie, or an album and wanted to find it quickly on Amazon.com? Now it’s as easy as clicking your mouse with Snow Leopard!

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Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders make a tribute to 1970’s Blaxploitation cinema that’s….well…SOLID!

Black Dynamite!

As regular readers might remember, I’m a fairly big fan of blaxploitation cinema and I’ve been waiting to see a movie called “Black Dynamite” since January. After playing the film festival circuit for months, it was picked up by Sony for distribution and was (finally) released this past Friday.

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This year, like previous years, offers more great stuff than you could ever see in one weekend.

The NEW YORKER Festival

I was lucky enough to catch a couple of events at this year’s THE NEW YORKER Festival, including a very interesting interview with Rachel Maddow of The Rachel Maddow Show and a presentation by Simon Schama that was ostensibly about Barack Obama and “Words-as-Actions”, but was really a virtuoso demonstration of Schama’s eclecticism and his force of spirit.

Sadly, I wasn’t able to see some of the other events — Ricky Jay, for example, is someone who’s wide-ranging work I’ve enjoyed for years. You know that the organizers of a festival did a good job when you find yourself getting angry at them for giving you more incredible events to see than time to see them.

Hey Guys — Festival WEEK next year? đŸ˜€

An AppleScript that exports a copy of all the selected entries in Yojimbo and saves them into an Evernote notebook!

NewYojimbo

Want to quickly export your Yojimbo entries into Evernote? Read on!
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Thom Yorke Solo, Temple Of The Dog… Reunited?, Brian Wilson Teams Up With George Gershwin, Daddy G from Massive Attack On Their Upcoming Album, The Ultimate in Yacht Rock, and Video of Air in the Studio!

Thom Yorke Solo, Temple Of The Dog… Reunited?, Brian Wilson Teams Up With George Gershwin, Daddy G from Massive Attack On Their Upcoming Album, Yacht Rock Gets Back to Its Roots, and Video of Air in the Studio!
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