Sure, it’s a German theme, but it contains doughnuts and The Simpsons Movie logo.

I had thought of creating a Simpsons theme once, but it would have been much more character orientated. Still, it’s kind of fun and looks decent. Not enough Simpsons for me, but the doughnuts look tasty.

Download the theme from the official Mozilla Addon site.

We did really enjoy Spiderman 1 & 2 and were excited for the 3rd. Maybe we over hyped it for ourselves, but it sure fell short of expectations.

If you really want to see it, go. But if you aren’t sure, wait for the video. It’s not worth the high price of admission in my opinion.

It’s a based on a true story where one teacher tries to unite students that are from different gangs and yet all lead the same life. She works with them to let them know that their lives aren’t anything new and help teach them what history has taught us. She fights the school system and against the prejudices that exist. It’s inspiring and I hope it’s more fact than fiction.

The iTV was announced too. Coming in Feburary it wirelessly transmists music, movies, tv shows and more to your TV. I like this product and will consider getting one. At $299 it’s a bit pricy, but lets wait and see all the official details. Jam packed with all that HD stuff though, it’s probably a steal.

The Keynote is still going on and no speak of 10.5 yet. I’m sure it’s coming though.

Check out Apple.com for all the details.

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After I worked out a few issues with my iPod, it now works great and I love it. I’m all for filling the house with my music and the SoundDock is great as it also charges my iPod.

Other cool gifts included a new watch, the Muppet Show season one, Shaun of the Dead and iTunes gift cards to name a few!

My wife also got a cool iPod accessory, but I’m waiting for her to post about that.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas / Holiday!

Netflix has been around for quite a while and I hear mostly good stuff. Most people I know that do the movie rental services though the mail are doing Netflix. However, Blockbuster seems a few dollars cheaper and give you a free in store coupon.

What have you used or do you recommend? Good bad or ugly, we’d like to know.

I think that all the bad reviews got our hopes down and when you go into a movie not expecting much, it turns out to be better than you expected.

It was funny and worth our rent. It wasn’t overly crude either even though there are a lot of fart jokes in it. It also reminded me a lot of my family. That’s a good thing.

Just because rednecks don’t like sushi or drive a nice car, doesn’t mean they aren’t great people. And the inside of the Larry-mobile, well lets just say I’ve been in those kinds of vehicles many times.

I’d say it’s worth the rent if you like any of the comedy by Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy or Bill Engvall. Heck, I may even give it for a Christmas present.

Disney is re-releasing the movie in select theaters across the country on October 20th. I haven’t found out where it’s playing in Minneapolis yet, but, if it is, I’ll be there!

If you haven’t seen the Nightmare Before Christmas it’s a claymation movie where Jack Skellington, the Halloween King, discovers Christmas and tries to take over Santa’s job. However, it’s a disaster.

Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my all time favorite movies and I’m very excited to see the 3D version. To get the party started a little early, I created a few desktop wallpapers from the movie poster.

The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D desktop pictures are 1680×1050 and about 300k each.

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Movies are $12.99 for new releases, preorders and first week. After that up to $14.99, however older movies go for only $9.99. It’ll take about 30 minutes at a 5mb/s broadband connection. Movies come with Dolby surround sound and are near DVD quality. Heck, you gotta risk something for getting them on demand and cheap.

They also introduced new iPods. Nano is now aluminum and in green, silver, black, blue, and pink. Regular sized iPods are now bigger in size too. $249 and $349 will get you 60GB and 80GB capacity.

iTV (working title) is kind of like the MacMini only 1/2 the size and targeted more at the media (movies, music and TV) than a complete computer system. It’ll be wireless and arrives in 2007. I for one, can’t wait!

Checkout Apple for all the latest details!

It’s about a bunch of kids that get rejected by colleges so, in order to make their parents feel better, they make up a college. It works too, until they accidently give accepted letters to all the local rejects. Then, they have a school to run; The South Haven Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T).

The movie was very funny at times and the cast was great. We were pleasantly surprised and had a great time. It’s one of the first movies we’ve seen in the theaters in a long time that hasn’t left us dissipated for spending the money.

We had driven though part of this storm with zero visibility from heavy rain and lots of hail. Not as much as Cologne had gotten though. I think they got the brunt of the storm.

My car didn’t look damaged, but I haven’t looked that closely yet. It was one heck of a storm and there are still more coming.

It’s kind of ironic that my previous post had to do with car insurance.

IMAX movies are presented on a 3 story tall screen with a six-channel digital sound system that can’t be found anywhere else. It uses film which is 10x larger than standard movie theaters to bring incredible sharpness and clarity to the screen. Everything is so big, you can feel like you’re right there!

The IMAX experience was great. I thought the sound was much better than in a regular movie theater and the picture was great too. I had always wanted to see a hollywood movie in the IMAX screen and this was amazing.

Now, about the movie, Poseidon is a good movie. I tried not to be to excited about it going in, but I did really want to see this movie and it didn’t disappoint. There weren’t to many characters to keep track of, less then a dozen actually. For the most part, the movie just got right into it. Not long into the movie, the ship was upside down!

Then, there was no big love story or anything like that. It was all about survival. Sure, each character had their own story, but it didn’t over shadow the escape. From beginning to end, it didn’t slow down.

I’m not sure if it was the IMAX experience or not, but my wife and I really enjoyed Poseidon. I give it a A- and it’s one of the best movies we’ve seen in a long time; at the theater or rental.

Interesting note: Fergie aka Stacy Ferguson from the Black Eyed Peas is the New Years entertainment on Poseidon. I knew I’d seen her somewhere before. You can download her two songs on

We just finished watching Brokeback Mountain and it’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.

I can get over the gay love story but what I can’t get over is it’s a SLOW movie that goes nowhere. Ten minutes into the movie and not one word was spoken. And it never picks up.

We kept hoping it’d go somewhere, or it’d get better, but it never did. Finally about two hours later it ended. YEA! The End!!!

I honestly don’t see what anyone sees in this movie. It’s a major snoozer and a lame a** movie. Definitely not worth the rent.

The iPod Hi-Fi is not a new iPod but rather a home stereo system. Basically it’s a big set of speakers. No radio or CD player (that’s so 2000) just great sound (surround sound) in a simplistic design with a built in iPod dock and remote. However for $350 I think I’ll pass for now. Maybe there is a iPod Hi-Fi mini coming out. Ha ha.

The real cool introduction was the updated Mac Mini. Same form factor and size but with an Intel chip inside (2-3 times faster), a few more ports and great software. The Mac Mini comes with all the software you need to create and play movies, music, pictures and much more. BYOKDM though (bring your own keyboard and mouse) as the Mac Mini cuts costs by not including what you probably have lying around. Or, just hook it up to the TV and use the remote!

Personally I’d take a Mac Mini over an iPod Hi-Fi but they are both pretty cool. Just more Apple toys!!

If you haven’t seen Shaun of the Dead [Trailer in iTunes] I highly recommend it. It’s one of my favorite movies!

It’s a parody of Dawn of the Dead; only this time, they added a love story and some comedy. It’s very funny as two unlikely, and lazy, heroes have to try and survive as their town is over run by zombies. Sure, it’s a little scary at times, but I don’t like horror movies and I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead very much.

Check it out and enjoy!

Good Luck Robert Iger

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I was all excited to see it and so was Christi. We went with two other people and had a good time. The movie had a great beginning. I love the weather so that helps. The only thing I really didn’t like was the ending. Just seemed like it wasn’t done well. I liked the actors and action and everything else, but the ending was a let down for us. The two other people we went with didn’t like it at all, but we enjoyed it. It just didn’t leave us satisfied.

Enjoy!

- Oh and by Today, I meant at midnight. So that’s technically tomorrow I guess. Close enough.