Over the past weekend, I enriched my life immeasurably with two technical gadgets. First: I got a Tivo. And second: I started using Bloglines.

I have only had my Tivo for four days, but I already have an unhealthy amount of affection for it. I can watch whatever I want whenever I want, I can schedule it over the internet, and it records me programs it thinks I might like - so far, pretty unsuccessfully. The only thing I am disappointed about is that the Tivo-to-Go feature, by which you can transfer Tivo-recorded programs to your computer to watch and burn, is currently only working with Windows and not Mac - although a quick Google search says that there may be some "extra-curricular" ways of getting around that.

Bloglines is a pretty awesome RSS aggregator, and since I know I am not addressing an entirely tech-savvy audience, I will explain that it lets you subscribe to receive updates from sites that are updated regularly - most notably, news sites and blogs, like our beloved Pop5. I was half-heartedly getting RSS feeds through Yahoo, but I didn't really like the interface or the options. With Bloglines, all of these things are customizable. You can even add a "Subscribe with Bloglines" button to your browser, to click when you are on a site you want to subscribe to. The upside is that I am finding fun, new little corners of the internet. The downside (possibly for you) is that now I feel the urge to share!

Guess who's promoting medical marijuana??

This is not just a good idea - this is an AWESOME idea.

NY Times film critic Manohla Dargis reviews David Lynch's Inland Empire, which, she says "isn't a film to love," but is "one of the few films I’ve seen this year that deserves to be called art." Who's in?