When I read this I couldn't help wondering how Jon's doing.

Kanishka sent this to me in email: Cliff's Notes for Trapped in the Closet. Why is Tina mentioned, anyway?

Charles managed to Tivo the complete music video this weekend, which includes a concluding chapter that my mp3 copy is missing -- an important addition. Before, I thought that the saga concluded with the discovery of the condom, leading me to wonder whether Kelly was implying a relationship between Sylvester's wife and her brother 'Twan, making the whole song a smoothly escalating instance of perverse-relationship brinksmanship. Turns out that no, it was just the cop. And nobody gets peed on! It's both a relief and kind of a letdown.

And the video has its own rewards: driving back from Cathy's house, believing his own wife to be cheating, Sylvester ponders "what [he's going to] do and who [he's] gonna do it to when [he] get[s] home", and a momentary flash-edit shows him drawing a gun on himself. Meaningful, dude.

I have yet to unpack any additional layers of allusion and narrative sleight of hand, but I'm confident they're there.

In other news, my tonsils continue to have some weird awful thing going on due to inhaling powdered deck, which is apparently a potent throat toxin. This prevents me from drinking the heroic amounts of caffeine necessary to produce interesting blog posts. So, er, take it away, Catherine!

A little more Xbox 2 news: it plays surprisingly nicely with the PSP. Okay, this is just on the developer machine -- but at least we'll know that if the retail version lacks this feature, it's because Microsoft specifically went out of its way to be a jerk.

In other geeky news -- well, not news, since it's a bit old -- but here's a PDF about what the Xbox 360's security architecture might look like, written by bunnie, arguably the biggest name on the Xbox cracking scene. It's all speculation, but interesting nonetheless (well, the parts that aren't incomprehensible). The first Xbox had a number of serious security flaws -- see here for a rundown of how MS managed to cram three serious backdoors into a mere 512 bytes of code. It seems likely that they'll do a better job the second time around. Nevertheless, I'm confident the crackers will ultimately win out. If nothing else, the preceding links prove that some very smart people are willing to waste time on this stuff.

Truthfully, though, it wouldn't be so bad if they didn't manage to beat MS this time. I've got the Xbox 1, and it emulates everything short of an N64 pretty well. It's a lot harder to rationalize the need for a modchip when I already have a perfectly good emulator/media player.