What I love about Netflix is that I can keep my rented DVD for as long as I like AND it will play just about anywhere. I can take it on holiday, over to a friends house, watch it my Powerbook or my office PC (um, yeah so?). DVDs are flexible. iTunes rentals, not so much.

But that’s suppose to be the point, right? A digital file should be more flexible. I should be able to watch it from anywhere, but I can’t. Just from the computer I downloaded it from or a video iPod, which I don’t have.

So that movie rental I downloaded on my office PC will have to be watched there. (Ok, I shouldn’t have rented a movie on my office PC, but those slick Apple ads seemed to allude that I would be able to play it just about anywhere)

This seems to negate to whole purpose of renting online. Why bother if I can just rent from On Demand? It’s faster. It costs the same.

One non technical issue that I feel needs working out is the 24 hours alloted to watch a movie, which may seem like enough time, needs to be doubled, at least. I usually watch movies late at night and sometimes I fall asleep in the middle of them. This of course means that I will then have to finish the movie during my non-movie watching hours, during the daytime. Not often, but it does happen. It is a concern I never had to worry about before.

What I do love is how easy and even fun the process is. The new interface on the Apple TV is very slick. I makes you WANT to rent from iTunes.

I just couldn’t resist posting this one…

Derren Brown is a fantastic British psychological illusionist and entertainer. He uses a technique know as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, that gives him the ability to convince people to do anything he wants them to do.

In this video Derren convinces tellers at a dog track in the UK that he has a winning ticket when really he his dog came dead last. Brilliant stuff!

People in Order is a short film by Lenka Clayton and James Price that chronologically follows 100 people banging a drum. From 1 to 100.

People in Order’s Age is part of a series of short films that assembles the people of Britain in a given order. In just 3 minutes, we meet 100 different people who are arranged according to their age, starting from age 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUHLa1qSy24

Just watched a preview for the re-birth of the television show American Gladiators which was a great show, but what I really miss is G.L.O.W.

Ah, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Coming of age would not have been so sweet.

I have no excuse for not working out more often, beyond my usual 30 minutes three days a week. Cartoonist Randy Glasbergen has a great cartoon that has gotten me motivated again.

Link to cartoon: http://www.glasbergen.com/images/fit00.gif