A while back, Dick, Barry and I agreed that what really matters is WHAT you like, not what you ARE like. Books, records, films ... these things matter! Call me shallow, it's the fucking truth. - Rob, High Fidelity

In epistemology the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata is data about data (who has produced it, when, what format the data is in and so on). Similarly, meta-memory in psychology means an individual's intuition about whether or not they would remember something if they concentrated on recalling it. Any subject can be said to have a meta-theory, which is the theoretical consideration of its foundations and methods. - wikipedia

what niv reads

last 10 bookmarked

  1. Noise Removal in Lightroom
    a video tutorial about noise removal and detail enhancement in lightroom. i was completely misusing these sliders (or not using them at all in some cases).

  2. How to use rtorrent like a pro

  3. A Simple Zend Framework + AJAX example

  4. 2007 NFL TV Maps

  5. Mike Nelson's commentary on movies/tv shows

  6. College Football TV Schedule - 2007

  7. Zend Framework Tutorial

  8. yahoo fantasy sports sw engineer

  9. Moving your Adobe Lightroom Library to an external hard disk drive

  10. job listing

what niv watches

last 3 shipped

  1. Shipped: The Wire: Season 4: Disc 1

    Shipped on 06/26/08.

    This disc includes the following episodes: "Boys of Summer," "Soft Eyes" and "Home Rooms."

  2. Shipped: Batman Begins

    Shipped on 06/10/08.

    After training with a ninja (Ken Watanabe) in Asia following his parents' brutal murder, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) returns to Gotham City and finds it overrun with crime and corruption. Discovering a cave under Wayne Manor, Bruce assumes a new identity and wages a one-man war against the criminals that plague the city. Katie Holmes, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Tom Wilkinson and Morgan Freeman co-star. Christopher Nolan directs.

  3. Shipped: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Shipped on 06/10/08.

    The first movie since It Happened One Night to win all five major Academy Awards (picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay), Cuckoo's Nest still has the ability to entertain and inspire. Implacable rabble-rouser Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is committed to an asylum and inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse Mildred Ratched (Louise Fletcher).

top 3 in queue

  1. The Maltese Falcon

    The big bird is the stuff dreams are made of … according to gumshoe Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart). When his partner gets snuffed, Spade starts digging around for the murderer. But when the trail leads to Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Mary Astor, a sinister troika intent on nabbing the titular solid-gold bird, Spade must make some tough decisions.

  2. The Grapes of Wrath

    In this towering classic of American cinema, common man Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) leads his family on a harrowing journey from the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a better life in California. Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterfully directed by John Ford, the stirring drama also stars Oscar winner Jane Darwell as Ma Joad and John Carradine as the fallen preacher Casy.

  3. Bonnie and Clyde

    Serial bank robbers, sometime lovers and folkloric heroes, Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) barrel across Depression-ravaged America on a shooting spree that ended in a deathly rain of bullets -- for them. Sexy and stylish, the film, directed by Arthur Penn, shattered the crime film mold, layering comedy onto mayhem and youthful criminality. Gene Wilder makes his first film appearance here.

what niv hears

  1. The Notwist ? Alphabet
  2. The Notwist ? Gloomy Planets
  3. The Notwist ? Where In This World
  4. The Notwist ? Good Lies
  5. Pelican ? Bliss In Concrete
  6. O'Death ? Down to Rest
  7. Old 97's ? Dance With Me
  8. Old 97's ? The Fool
  9. Deerhunter ? Never Stops
  10. Deerhunter ? Agoraphobia