This just sounds way too cool.

So, before I could really do anything interesting with my iPod I had to record music onto my Powerbook.

Since I was grading papers yesterday I just popped disks into the drive as I worked until I had recorded

about 25 hours of CD music with iTunes. I connected the iPod to my Powerbook via the firewire cable and a

few minutes later I had 25 hours of music on the deck-of-cards size iPod. The iPod’s drive was only about

1/3 full.

From the license agreement for Frontpage

You may not use the Software in

connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their

products or services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties,

violate any state, federal or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography.

Is it just me, or this ridiculous? We have a Bill of Rights that guarantees us free speech in this country, but now we have Microsoft trying to control how we use their products?

Don’t forget, you’re [[Free to Think]].

Listen up Mr. President… I think you dropped the lawsuit way too quickly. It’s this kind of crap that you get when you have de facto monopolies in control of information flow.

The AFI has nominated FOTR for 4 awards, including Best Picture!

B-movies no longer, the fantasy genre hits its high water mark with spectacular ‘Rings’ adaptation

Zealously dedicated director Peter Jackson (“Heavenly Creatures,” “The Frighteners”) has brought the monumental ambience, the distinctive characters and the indelible spirit of “Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring” to life so tangibly that it took my breath away…
For once, here’s a gigantic-budget movie that wears its outsized grandiosity well and lives up to its hype and ambition. More importantly, the characters are perfectly cast (can you think of any actresses more elfin than Blanchett and Tyler?) and properly, reverentially steeped in Tolkien’s elaborate mythology.

Coming in at a whopping $450M, it’s the most expensive movie production in history.

I believe I have just had the most perfect film experience in my life. The one that I struggle so hard to have has happened effortlessly.

Me, I’ve had a very personal reaction. It is the realization of everything that IÍve said I was hoping this would be. It is an uncompromisingly perfect telling of a fantasy tale aimed directly at the intended audience with 0% pandering, told by a team of artists helmed by a director of singular vision inspired by the God’s of old.

This film makes Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone seem like Jackanory on a low budget.

I was going to devote today’s extended column inches to a comparative think-piece about

Lord of the Rings versus Harry Potter. But there is no comparison. Potter was made by a committee

masquerading as a director. Rings is made by a genius masquerading as a normal human being.

Director Peter Jackson has created an oxymoron, an instant classic.

This has been a dismal year for film-making. Only the other day I was lamenting the fate of the Academy when it comes to making their end-of-year choices for the Oscars….
Fortunately, their problems have been solved. All they need to do is give Lord of the Rings every Oscar for which it is eligible and save ourselves a lot of guesswork next March….
This is the most audacious, exciting, spectacular, breathtaking, imaginative and flat-out entertaining film I have seen in quite some time.

Moriarty from AICN reviews Fellowship

So this morning I saw New Line’s highly-anticipated LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, right?

I cannot stress this strongly enough: do not see this movie.

If you do, it will ruin you for everything else.

Films you’ve seen before, films you’re waiting to see, films you have on DVD… it doesn’t matter. All will pale by comparison after you

finally lay eyes on Peter Jackson’s visionary masterpiece.

Several members of the AICN team chime in on Fellowship.