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I've thought to myself, from time to time, that J. K. Rowling's world is just a little bit on the bigoted side. The Washington Post has an nice editorial on the subject. Mind you, the tendency isn't reserved for fantasy -- it might have been interesting to cross reference Slan for an example of the same thing with a scientific spin. (Hey, that review was written by Tasha Robinson. She used to be a housemate.) When it gets right down to it, the distaste of technology we find in the Harry Potter books is just another avenue through which we express our desire to be different.

Link ripped from the pages of Tapped, which is worth reading.

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ColorMatch 5K: bookmarked cause it won't work under Mozilla derivatives, as far as I can tell. Conceptually cool, though. Perfect for design gimps like me.

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One of the things I've come to terms with is my gadget habit. It's there, I can control it, it's fun giving into it once in a while. Right now was not the optimal time to do that, but I did anyhow. Thanks to EBay, I got myself a nifty analog video converter. What will I use this for? I have no idea. It just offends me that there's a type of media in my apartment which I can't convert to digital form. I can scan books and pictures, I can rip my CDs to disk, but I can't turn a stupid videotape into Quicktime? Totally unacceptable.

However, now that I'm about to have it, I'm seriously tempted to put together a little video with Aimee Mann's "Save Me" for the soundtrack and clips of tag team wrestlers breaking up pinfalls for the video.