It appears that Facebook has gotten the blog import feature working again. Perhaps now I should go back and tag some of these.
Rachel and I watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End on DVD last night. I tried to get a better quality picture by hooking the player up via the component video cables as opposed to the composite video, but it didn’t work right away and I wasn’t about to start messing with it while everybody was waiting for the movie to start. I very much enjoyed the Pirates movies, although I really think At World’s End destroyed my visions of a happy ending for Will and Elizabeth. Everything was set up for Jack Sparrow to stab the heart and become immortal while Will and Elizabeth enjoyed their happily ever after, but Jack hesitated just long enough to taunt Davy and give him a chance to change the whole game by stabbing Will. At that point, Jack took the nobler path by having Will stab the heart and be able to live with his new wife, but come on. Did you really have to do that to us? Once every ten years is really a bum deal. Heaven knows I couldn’t live without seeing Rachel for that long. My only hope for the two of them is that Will will remember the loophole in the rules that Davy used during the parley—standing in a bucket of seawater so he wasn’t technically on the land. It’d be a bit awkward for him to have sex with Elizabeth that way but they’re clever characters. Perhaps he could build special shoes or something.
I have enjoyed the soundtracks to these movies immensely—both Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt did excellent work with the themes. Right now I have the song “Up is Down” embedded below—listen for the counterpoint played on the whistle, my favorite part. I’m embedding the song via and interesting service called Imeem that allows for streaming play of songs from the RIAA labels. Of course everything is pretty locked down but at least they allow for playing the whole song, which is more than some of their artists provide on their Myspace pages. The corresponding Facebook app could be the solution for getting music on a Facebook page a la Myspace; however, for some reason certain songs are only showing up as 30 second previews even though they play in full from the main site. Hopefully this is an issue that will get worked out and not another ridiculous limitation, as the ability to embed whole songs on a web page is the draw of the whole Imeem service.
Cell lab final later today. A post about my trip to Congress this past Friday is forthcoming.