War Games for 99 Cents - This Week Only

Attention Geek Forcers! If you use iTunes at all, even a little bit, then click this link and enjoy the Matthew Broderick masterpiece War Games for only ninety-nine cents! It’s this week’s iTunes 99 Cent Rental of the Week, and I’m sure it’s been years since you’ve watched it, so c’mon and snap to it.

Thanks to Apple TV Junkie for pointing the way.

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Worth Your Consideration 007 - A GF5 Linkdump

• News Askew is reporting that NBC will re-air Saturday Night Live’s inaugural episode this Saturday night, an episode which was hosted by the recently departed George Carlin. The classic episode will apparently be aired in its entirety, which, according to News Askew, doesn’t happen all that often on NBC.
• I’m embedding George Carlin’s take on the Ten Commandments above because it’s criminal that I didn’t embed something of his when I posted my initial thoughts on his passing.
• On a much lighter note, Gary Vaynerchuk has posted the episode of Wine Library TV that was filmed in Boston recently, an episode that I made it into the city to see last week. I think it’s a perfect “entrance” episode for anyone who is mildly interested in wine and in seeing what Gary does. There’s a great blend of humor, education, and flat-out thunder here.
• Apple will apparently be releasing a free remote control application for iPhone and iPod Touch users which will allow them to control iTunes from anywhere in their house. This is something I’ve seen quite a few people clamoring for on the Apple boards across the Web. The real key, for me, and for a lot of others, will be if this works with the Apple TV. I loves me my simple two-button Apple TV remote, but it would be nice to have something a little more robust when I needed it.
• Lastly, for the comic book fans out there, be sure to check out Newsarama’s poll of what titles the pros think we consumers are missing. The Walking Dead, which Brandice recommended to me recently is one book that gets mentioned as a must-read.

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Beautiful iTunes Ad Featuring Coldplay

I happen to be of the opinion that the advertising campaigns Apple has used to promote iPod and iTunes are genius. And lately they’ve been taking the classic silhouette concept and evolving it by leaps and bounds. The latest ad, which features the band Coldplay, also happens to thematically resemble the packaging and advertising campaign used to promote the release of Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X. The Unofficial Apple Weblog calls this theme space-esqe, and I suppose that’s a pretty accurate description, but I’ll just stick to calling it beautiful.

And kudos to Apple and their advertising agency for subtly trying to influence potential switchers even in ads for their platform-agnostic products.

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Listen to NIN Remixes Via a Podcast

remix.nin.com is an active community of Nine Inch Nails fans remixing the work of Mister Michael Trent Reznor and his cohorts (NIN has released remixable multi-track files of their last couple of records for free). But, like so many things on the Internet, it’s the sort of thing that’s so huge now that there’s really no easy way “into” it, if you get my meaning.

Enter the remix.nin.com - Highest Rated Today Podcast (iTunes link). It doesn’t appear to be updated daily, which is disappointing, but it definitely looks like an easy way into the whole remix.nin.com experience.

Thanks to The NIN Hotline for pointing the way.

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More Sneak Peeks from “There’s No Place Like Home”

DarkUFO has three more video sneak peeks from this week’s episode of Lost, plus a text-based sneak peek courtesy of Kristen dos Santos.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting more and more pumped for this episode every minute. I only hope that I finish covering the Apple Store opening fast enough to make the bus that will get me home in time to catch the show. I never thought one of my obsessions would stand in the way of another one, but it looks like that day might have finally arrived.

All I can say is that iTunes better have that episode available first-thing on Friday morning, or there’ll be hell to pay.

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