Brad Barrish

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If you haven’t seen the trailer for Grind House, you must.

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Daniel Eran writes a good article on why Microsoft can’t compete with iTunes. I was listening to The Business a couple of days ago and Jeff Leeds talked about how Microsoft not only can compete, but they will. Ultimately, I believe Microsoft will lose this battle, but we’ll see millions of dollars being thrown behind Zune in the coming months. While I hate DRM and don’t purchase much from the iTunes store for just that reason, the fact that the Zune is Windows only is the nail in coffin for me and probably a good chunk of their target audience.

As much as I try to use the NATO phonetic alphabet when I’m spelling my name or street name or whatever, it never works out and I just end up thinking of my own words. Some people over at Grupthink came up with The Big Lebowski Phonetic Alphabet, which I will be using from here on out. My favorite - S Is For Shomer FUCKING Shabbas. Amen.

A bunch of companies came out with some neat stuff today as part of product RED. My favorite item, of course, is the Converse Chuck for Change, which you can design on their site. I needed a new pair, so I designed my own.

There was an article in the New Scientist today that I finally got around to reading. It talks about what would happen to Earth if humans disappeared. It’s one of those those things I think about every once in a while. I make no bones about being an environmentalist, but I also believe that commerce can exist in the environmental movement. I also don’t think you have to be some tree-hugging hippy type to be interesting in environmental issues. Even the evangelicals are coming around to the idea that, assuming you believe in god, it’s your duty to guard the environment. Yes, the Earth would be better off without us, but it’s time for people to realize you can do a few things at home and make a tremendous impact.

I do like Star Wars though. A while back Steven Colbert challenged all the nerds out there to take some footage of him against a green screen waving a light saber. Entries were sent in and he announced the winner on his show last night with George Lucas. The winner was none other than ILM, the company that does the effects for Star Wars. I’d cry foul, but it’s funny. Take a look.

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Joel was, um…kind enough to send me Pitchfork’s review of the new Jet album. I don’t really think it’s that bad, but my god did the review make me laugh pretty hard.

If you are reading this, it means DNS has propagated and you’re looking at the new and improved site. I decided to save a little money and move from TypePad to WordPress. I felt bad leaving the Six Apart family, especially considering I helped Mena and Ben test out the first version of MovableType way back in the day. I’ll still probably keep my Vox site to play around with, but there were so many cool things about WordPress I wanted to check it out. Anyway, the migration isn’t complete quite yet, but it was good enough to make available. Let me know how you like the new site. I’m going to do my best to keep the posts frequent, but I’ve said that more than a few times, haven’t I?

The name whatevernevermind was inspired by Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” There are a lot of bands that have had an impact on me and Nirvana is included in that list. Led Zeppelin, R.E.M., Elvis Costello, The Replacements, Sugar, Black Sabbath, Bob Marley, The Clash, The Who, Jane’s Addiction, My Morning Jacket and Miles Davis are all on that list too. I could go on and on, but that’s what the blog is for, right? You can email me at whatever [at] whatevernevermind [dot] com.