Even if you haven’t yet had the chance to see The Dark Knight in theaters, you can check out the coverage of it on PCitylive.com. I haven’t seen it yet myself, but I have read the novel, my review can be found here. And here is a direct link to the film review.

If you have seen it or read it, where’s your review?

Oh, and did you hear about Christian Bale being arrested for assault?

NIN has done it again, the new release “The Slip” is available for free download here.
They say,

as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.

Awesome, and there are file format choices! Like M4a! w00t

Yes, it’s true, the rumors many have attempted to squash have turned out to be fact. But do we care? The masses already use YouTube, but I guess that’s a different group the the majority of flickr users. YouTubers probably still use photobucket or something. I’m sure many flickr users will put it to good use, I just won’t be one of them.

I don’t record many videos anyway, but occasionally I record one via my point and shoot and upload it on Vimeo, which was created for just that. I like vimeo, I like that it’s not what everyone is using, that’s it’s not overridden with commercials and movie clips. I like that it still feels homegrown in many ways that the people that created it really care about it and use it (not to say that those behind flickr don’t). Oh and I love that it’s not owned by yahoo.

How about you? Do you make videos and put them online?

For more info on Flickr video see their faq.

The buzz on the web today is all about Photoshop Express, Adobe’s new and completely free online version of Photoshop. Don’t get too excited, it’s far from the real deal, but it does let you crop, sharpen, remove red-eye, and add basic effects to your photos, things the average, everyday digicam user wants yet can’t justify paying for Photoshop to have.

I’ve actually been using the site Picnik, for simple editing and touch-ups like this for some time. I do have Photoshop on my desktop computer, but Picnik is great for simple, quick editing when I don’t want to wait for Photoshop to load, and it can be used on any computer with the internet. While there are other sites out there as well, I don’t think any has been on the same level as Picnik as of yet. Photoshop Express might be able to beat it, but not as it is now.

Right now, Photoshop Express lacks several things that Picnik has, like the ability to add text or shapes to photos for example, and I’m very surprised that I’m not finding a “resize” function anywhere, that’s one of the main things that I use Picnik for. Photoshop Express also lacks Flickr integration, it has Picasa, Facebook, and Photobucket, but no Flickr, supposedly it’s coming. Picnik has those plus Flickr, Myspace, and Webshots, it also allows you to get a photo from your webcam directly or from a website. Photoshop Express does however, have some things Picnik does not, like photo storage and galleries. That may make the difference for some users, but not for me, that’s what I use Flickr for. Oh and Picnik not only has Flickr integrated, but is integrated into Flickr itself, check out those buttons above your photos.

I’ll still check it out, and will continue to do so, as I know it will change a lot from it’s current “beta,” but Photoshop Express is going to have to kick it up a notch before they can steal me away from Picnik.

Oh and if I see one more post about Muxtape, I’m going to scream! That’s right, no link, I will not succumb to it’s plea for the attention of the masses, you (and you, and you, and you, and you) have already done that enough for all of us. And it doesn’t even work in my browser, just so you know.

Would you believe that yesterday was National Grammar Day and I’m just now finding out about it. What luck.

I am in need of some new instrumental type music to listen to, any recommendations would be great. I prefer instrumental (or just very little singing) music on the rock/experimental side or what I think is called downtempo, a few examples of what I already listen to: Unwed Sailor, Sigur Rós, Foxhole, Questions in Dialect, Jack or Jive, Dntel, Air, Bell Orchestre, Prhizzm, Caribou, Boards of Canada, Explosions in the Sky. You get the picture. If you have any recommendations please comment. If you want to recommend something completely different that’s good too, I’ll try anything once.

Edit to add something I just found through Google News, Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with cancer and told he has only a few weeks to live.