I’ve been spending the scorching hot days this week working on a couple different projects (more on this soon hopefully) but here are some things I’ve read about and/or checked out lately that caught my eye.

- Find out what Microsoft adCenter Labs thinks your website gender distribution is like. Darren has 60% men and Duncan has 92% women. Looks like we men have a slight edge here according to adCenter Labs:

- How to edit your boot.ini file in Windows XP.
- 2GB free remote backup service via Mozy.
- todo.txt is a command line to-do list in text
- Share brag about where you’ve been with Flagr
- Warner Bros. is selling movies starting at $9.99 (ok) to $19.99 (not ok) via Guba.com. Movies can be burned to a single DVD and played on up to two computers. This is encouraging and much better than Movielink and Cinemanow. Maybe by the time iTunes starts selling movies we’ll see all prices for digital downloads at or below $9.99. I still can’t see most netizens — and probably less than 1% of the savvy netizens — dropping more than $9.99 for a restricted movie file. Most will continue renting or going out and buying the DVD.
- Glad that I missed out on the unsolicited mail for Marc Canter’s new global social network service. I have about 0.0000001% interest in social networks (Friendster, Orkut, etc). I sat behind Canter during the opening sessions of the inaugral Northern Voice (pictured below with the top of his head).

Kind of glad I didn’t introduce myself or exchange emails with him now. Spam is probalby the fastest way to make enemies on the web.
- share and search for code at codeplex from Microsoft.
- The pitch: “create a movie in the browser with Jumpcut” — anybody actually done this? It’s on my list to check out. I just saw Valleywag remixed another video and added snarky subtitles over an existing video.

• Google enters social network market with Orkut
• Today we find out if movies are Apple’s announcement
• Comment spam DNA icon art
• First time rented and watched movie on Xbox 360 last night
• STARZ and REAL add new monthly movie download service
• March 29 Yahoo pulls a 360