Category: Reviews

  • June 2008 Reviews (In the Name of the King, Balls of Fury, Reno 911!: Miami)

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] This Movie Bits review is dedicated to a few recent comedies. In the Name of the King 2007 Some mythical land, some boring king, some farmer that must be a hero since there is focus on him. So normal and so not a hero that he is only known as Farmer, how…

  • March 2008 Reviews (I Am Legend, Rescue Dawn, Transformers)

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] I Am Legend 2007 Jericho I like post-apocolyptic flicks. The idea of large cesspools we call cities being completely wiped of humanity is great. Let the animals run free, let the buildings fade away. Unfortunately, that movie isn’t appealing to the masses without a lone survivor to fight some…

  • Book Review: Photomosaics

    Many years ago I grabbed books on various alternative art styles. One of the books, new and exciting at the time (think 10 years ago) was on photomosaics. In short, art made by computer that creates a montage of other images. One thousand images of donkeys can be used to make a picture of George…

  • Book Review: City Come A-Walkin’

    Author: John ShirleyISBN: 0-9642505-1-9Dell Publishing / Eyeball Books Depending on who you ask, the history of Cyberpunk literature starts around 1980, but is heavily influenced by different people. According to cyberpunk.ru: William Gibson, one of the five writers associated with the cyberpunk genre, is credited by critics and peers for typifying the cyberpunk writing form in…

  • Movie Review: Lucky Number Slevin

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] This movie is either about horrifying the viewer with the worst wallpapers ever conceived, or one of the ultimate tales of revenge. This movie is also hard to properly review without ruining vital parts of it, so bear with me. Slevin Kelevra (Josh Hartnett) is the wrong guy in…

  • Book Review: High-Tech Crimes Revealed

    High-Tech Crimes RevealedCyberwar Stories from the Digital FrontSteven BraniganISBN: 0-321-21873-6Addison-Wesley, Copyright 2005 I found this book just after Christmas (Dec 2005) and grabbed it hoping for a decent read about computer crimes and sociology, backed by real world experience and first hand tales from the ‘digital front’. Instead, I got the worst collection of naïve…

  • Music Review: Free Dominguez (Freedoming)

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] I’m so slack. In March of 2004, Free Dominguez of Kidney Thieves mailed me thanking me for my review of Trickster. She also informed me that she was branching out on a solo project under her own name and offered to send me a promo copy. Of course I said yes, then…

  • Music Review: Juliette and the Licks (Speaking My Language)

    [This was originally published on attrition.org.] Hey Juliette, You may be too young to remember Y Kan’t Tori Read, but the album flopped. Why? Because Tori Amos didn’t utilize her real vocal talent, rather she tried to make an album that the masses might accept. It didn’t work and the album was a disaster. A decade…

  • Book Review: Computer Security for the Home and Small Office

    [The date of publication is not known.] Computer Security for the Home and Small OfficeThomas C. GreenePaperback – 405 pages (2004)$39.99 – Apress ISBN: 1-59059-316-2[Full Disclosure: I have been quoted by Greene for past articles in a friendly/professional capacity. He has also written articles that were accusatory to me and attrition.org in the past. Translated:…

  • Book Review: Cyber Crime

    [The date of publication is not known.] Cyber CrimeHow to Protect Yourself from Computer CriminalsLaura E. Quarantiello0-936653-74-4, Tiare Publications/Limelight Books Part One: Chapter One – ‘Terrorism On Line: Inside Comptuer Crime’: Chapter one opens with defining computer crime, and does a decent (and fair) job of defining why hackers hack. “In the end, it all…