Dr. Matt Lee (mattl)

Web standards, accessibility, free/open source software, old UNIX/TV/Music and occasional wargaming

Beets and An Unwavering Band of Light (2012)

Yesterday, I asked people to send me free software I’d not heard of. The first suggestion was a program called beets, which bills itself as “the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks.” — sounds good to me.Today, I got an email with a download code for the new Jenny Owen Youngs album, An Unwavering Band of Light — one of the good things coming as a result of the Kickstarter from last year.A perfect opportunity to test beets and ensure all my scrobbles to Libre

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)

Saw this on Saturday, and while I certainly need to see it again, I would describe it as this generation’s UHF.The movie opens with what would have been a Cinco commercial on Awesome Show — a special kind of chair for watching movies, complete with awkward footrests, painful injections and more. All of this is presented by Jeff Goldblum and voiced over by Bob Odenkirk.After an small eye synchronization test, reminiscent of the bizarre test at the start of Action Max “games”, the movie star