June 25, 2007
Note to clients...
Please pay me, you fucking knob jockeys.
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April 16, 2007
Podiobooks goes Boing!
One of my favourite sources for free audio books (well, donation ware...) has been having some bandwidth problems recently.
Nevertheless, I have enjoyed many fine books while tweaking images and even programming (I find that once I know the programming language it is possible to program and listen at the same time - OK, I miss some bits but that's what the rewind button is for...) - jut check out the podbook roll on the menu there on the right (scroll down a bit...)
Unfortunately, Señor Doctorow linked to an encomium'd podiobook and the BoingBoing effect has done the predictable.
Podiobooks, once on the ropes is now down and out for the count.
Hopefully they will be back on-line before too long!
Maybe we should suggest that Cory adds a note that Podiobooks and their authors (who get 75% of everything donated) need some support to buy fatter and longer pipes!
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Chris Miller
We're working like monkeys on crack to get the site back up, believe me. :) It's almost there. Just waiting on the registrar...
-Chris@Podiobooks
Evo
Fat and long pipes are on the way!
Actually, we were in the middle of a less-than-perfect move when Cory linked us. All should be resolved in about 12 hours. And then just to test that theory, I'm going to post a podiobook version of one of Cory's books in a few days. That ought to get another BB link and a full-on stress test for us!
E.
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August 18, 2006
My router has a big packet
who the man
Posted by dottie at 1:32 AM | Comments (0)
May 10, 2006
Life spent registering for ghosts. In a bush.
Joy!
Rapture!
I am turgid! (it was the Dictionary.com word of the day - had to use it somewhere...)
Eno and Byrne have released selected songs from the seminal 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts; as complete multitracks.
Fabjulous!
I'd love to get my hands on these puppies, but I have one problem.
I can't register on the site. That fantabulous, craptabulando, borked, junkfest of a an excuse for a website.*
Can you?
Try it now - its a fun game for all the music lovers in your life - keep them frustrated for hours!
Dont get me started on how crap the WHOLE login process is...
Note*: Its made of flash**
Note**: Dave in 2001 (A space oddessy) famously said 'Its made of stars'. If the monolith had been coded using flash he would likely have been saying - 'err.. I'm not sure where to click next or what I just clicked - its made of flash...'***
Note***: cue blinky lights (flash is for the frontal-lobally challenged) Look! Pretty pictures! Bouncy Balls! Wheeeee!!
Posted by dottie at 11:51 AM | Comments (0)
May 4, 2006
CSS Reboot Redux Recidivist
I guess I took a little too much on.
I'll aim to get the design finalised for this weekend but I have definitely missed the boat for the May 1st Reboot.
Next time!
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May 2, 2006
CSS Reboot Redux
Ok.
So I didnt quite make it. I have two designs that I am futzing around with and one of them will be live tonight.
Honest.
But at this stage I would have to admit defeat - two days just wasnt enough time, especially as I hadnt a notion what to do in setting out!
I think for us slackers they should have a May 2nd (or 3rd) CSS Reboot :)
I have now set a reminder in backpack to give me some notice for November!
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April 25, 2006
DMCA double or quits and Software Patents
Did you see the US are planning to increase the breadth of the DMCA - including more offenses, higher fines and doubling the jail terms for offenders. It is now illegal just to download software that MAY be used to break copyright.
Farewell fair use.
This is all pushed by the same company that has just decided to sue a family for illegal file sharing - a family that does not even own a computer!
I would love to think that the EU and our own glorious government will not follow in their footsteps but unfortunately our MEP's are staunch supporters of big business. I remember seeing some footage of the recent software patent debates in the EU Parliment with Mary Harney obfuscating, bullying and generally ramming through software patents.
Software patents are a BAD bad idea. If someone sits down and thinks up some new way of doing something with software - clicking on a link to pop-up an IM window for instance - they can get a patent for it. The important thing is they never have to develop this functionality or even give some technical basis for how it might work. The idea is patented and patents are given for ideas that have prior art.
What this means that if some hard-working chap builds a company and implements an idea that is demonstratably similar to the patent then they can be sued and forced to pay costs, fines and licence fees. Poor hard working chap goes out of business. Everybody who works for him loses their job. Entropy increases.
Most of the software patents are held by big companies - either filed by them or bought out by them. These companies have the money to pay patent lawyers to search existing applications (ie. from the dawn of the internet), or newly developed applications or whatever with the goal of prosecuting all offenders.
Entropy will increase sometime soon near you.
Posted by dottie at 8:16 AM | Comments (0)
April 5, 2006
How to topple a giant?
I wonder if there are any anti-Microsoft hackers out there?
Of course there are! what am I saying...
I mean, I have a proposal for them - how to kill (or at least severly undermine) the release of IE7.
Save up all your exploits, hacks, and what have you until IE7 is fully mature then release them all at once, or even better one at a time not releasing the next until the previous exploit has been patched.
That way everyone realises what a piece of crap IE really is and follows the advice of all those in the know and migrate from IE to Firefox, Opera, tin cans and string - anything but IE.
You know it makes sense!
Posted by dottie at 4:21 PM | Comments (0)
March 29, 2006
How cool is this?
SOme mad lunatic has ripped the guts out of an old boombox and shoehorned in a PC to use as his protable MP3 player.
Madness!
I want one!
Posted by dottie at 4:22 PM | Comments (0)
February 1, 2006
Best explanation of fair use. EVAR
http://99words.livejournal.com/2165.html
Remember kids, DRM is bad!
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Temptation in China
China is one of the biggest untapped (semi-tapped...) markets in the world. Companies stand to make a lot of money by providing products and services to Chinese people.
Online services will gain much through subscription fees, advertising revenue etc. Yahoo has made the leap, Google has made the leap.
The unfortunate part of all this is that the Chinese government are draconian in their methods of dealing with 'subversives'. Any company that provides services in China must do so according to the rules of the Chinese government.
Last year the Chinese government asked Yahoo to reveal the secret profile details of a subscriber to their services. Yahoo did so which resulted in a chinese journalist being jailed for ten years.
Doesnt sound so bad until you look at what the journalist is meant to have done. He shared a summary of a Chinese Communist Party directive with foreign sources. The directive had warned of possible unrest during the anniversary of the June 4 Movement - commemorating the Tianamen square massacre and associated events.
Yahoo had the choice - dont share the information and face penalties or at worst expulsion from the Chinese market but save a man from spending 10 years in prison or share the information, keep your profits and dont rock the boat. Bad choice Yahoo - You have now earned the ire of Amnesty International
Google has just recently come under fire for kowtowing to Chinas demands regarding censorship. I happen to trust Google a lot more than I do Yahoo. They have made mostly common sense decisions. Some of the non-issues for me were the scanning of Gmail and the insertion of context sensitive adverts. No human intervention, no storing of details - fine.
Google has to be asked the question - what price 10 years of a mans life? Would Google follow their creed of 'dont be evil' and face reprimands form the Chinese government. Would they do the right thing?
Posted by dottie at 2:28 PM | Comments (0)
January 25, 2006
Is Google now Evil?
Google has just announced that it plans to roll out a version of Google for China. This special version is tailor made so that the chinese government can censor all search results so that they dont contain any reference to counter-revolutionary topics such as the Tianamen Square massacre, real history, etc.. Also not included are blogging, email and other such tools.
Apparently the company went through 'an excruciating internal debate' but finally decided, in the words of Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy counsel, "We firmly believe, with our culture of innovation, Google can make meaningful and positive contributions to the already impressive pace of development in China."
To the hard core this sounds like Google is selling out. To me it sounds like hey are trying to change the system from the inside. OK, again for the purists this is doomed to fail as you never achieve the goal you set out to achieve. The final result is a compromise.
What the purists miss though, is that the other side needs to compromise also. Even a small advance would make a big difference for freedom of speech in China. And who knows what abuses of the Google API will be slipped under the Radar by those clever Chinese hackers.
Opportunity.
So are Google now evil? Nah, they may have done a deal with the devil, but the devil doesn't know what's ahead for it. Nobody does - we are talking about technology here, who knows what the next innovation will bring. It could well bring WiFi through gravity waves, or entanglement 'spooky action' based communication devices that make distance no obstacle. By then the Chinese people will notice if their internet gets taken away and they won't take bullshit answers anymore.
Posted by dottie at 10:00 AM | Comments (0)
November 28, 2005
Saving the Internet
Just started to read this incredibly eye and mind opening article by Doc Searls. In it he outlines the problems that the future of the Internet will face - not the usual geekery such as running out of IP numbers or accomodating extended character sets or handling micropayments etc. Worse than that. You know all that copper and optic fibre that the Internet runs through? You know the Telco's who own all that copper and fibre? Well, soon they will (yes, will) essentially start charging tolls to whoever wants to use their wires.
Think about it. Who would they charge first? Your service provider. You think they are going to soak up the costs? You will get charged.
That is only the common man, people who surf the net, send emails to one another and maybe even blog or share some photos. In other words non-commercial use.
Imagine your business was online. oh boy, the Telcos are drooling at this stage.
read the article - I'm only a fraction of the way through and it has already scared the pants off me.
Doc Searls - Saving the Internet
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Doc Searls
I'll be curious to hear how you react to the last section, which is about how we think and talk about the Net. Because I believe the first battles we need to win are in our own minds. What is it, exactly, that we're trying to save?
That's the deepest question. And the hardest to answer.
The telcos and cablecos know their answer already: a system of pipes, which they own. And they have the legislators in their pockets arlready.
Mark
What is it, exactly, that we're trying to save?
Good question. Good question.
One of the main problems with humanitarians and liberals (is that still a drity word?) is that they have no set agenda and as such are constantly reactive where other interested and - for want of a better description - more partisan individuals have a very clear idea of what they want, who is standing in their way, what problems will arise and how far they will go to deal with them.
The same goes for the web. No user has a clear idea of what it is they expect from the web, if you asked them they would probably just reply - "I don't know email/instant messaging and stuff".
For me its definitely a nascent worldwide community of some kind. Hopefully.
This one needs some deep thought.
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November 7, 2005
Kung Fu Fuck You
"Can you not hear the sound of my victory?"
class
Posted by dottie at 11:40 AM | Comments (0)
Yo-yo master at work
This is incredible
I thought I was doing great walking the dog and doing round the worlds!
Posted by dottie at 11:23 AM | Comments (0)
July 26, 2005
Spam king gets clobbered
A Russian spam king was literally clobbered to death.
The guy sent spam to everyone in Russia that had an email address through the auspices of his company 'American Language Center'.
Apparently the celebrations are still going on in Moscow.
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May 25, 2005
Killer caught through blog entry
A young man and his sister were robbed and murdered by the girls ex boyfriend.
The guy was caught because the brother made this blog entry shortly before he died.
Heres the background
The murder itself is brutal and shocking but made more so by the banality of the entry. The realisation that the young man was just persuing an ordinary day.
That banality highlights the brutality of the murderer - you wonder how he managed to do it, realise that he would have had to dehumanise his targets (remember the girl was his ex) greeting them, bantering, dropping hints about what he wanted and finally forcing himself to become enraged and following that line of thought becomes impossible for us.
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December 22, 2004
Comments on again
The fucking spammers have managed to hack my system so that they can switch comments on again on my posts, meaning they can start spamming my blog again.
Fucking bastards.
Posted by dottie at 11:34 PM
December 9, 2004
Comments off...
To stem the tides of spam that were gradually eating through the wonderful defense that is 'MT blacklist' I had to switch off comments for all the blogs.
Bit more involved than clicking a checkbox though - All the entries you see were deleted first and then re-imported. Virgin's every one - have fun!
Posted by dottie at 9:02 PM
July 13, 2004
Shooting gang members...
Amazing photos of members of the LA gang the 'playboys'
I particularly like the one of the guy shooting up on top of his friends headstone. Or the one of the baby asleep on a pile of guns and money, or....
This is so far from everyday experience for most people but is obviously day to day life for gang members. A little peek into a tumultuous world complete with its own internal logic.
Every society needs rules and taboos to survive. What makes these people tick?
Posted by dottie at 12:50 AM
June 20, 2004
Fornicate and run marathons and THEN study to increase your brain power
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1121140.htm
Cool! A new line - "Hey baby, wanna improve your word power?"
Posted by dottie at 6:10 PM
May 7, 2004
Web link bar codes for mobile phones
Semacodes. Very nearly a real world hyperlink!
This is a great idea. You know the way it takes ages to type in anything on your mobile device whether it is a WAP enabled mobile phone or a whatever. This technology allows you to instantly snap a picture of a 2D barcode and using installed software it will redirect to the URL stored in the barcode. rilliant. Simple. No fuss.
Huh? Well instead of printing URL's that have to be typed in it is almost like clicking a link on a web page except in the real world.
Posted by dottie at 3:52 PM
April 22, 2004
Forgiveness
The forgiveness project works with grassroots organisations in Northern Ireland, England, South Africa and all around the world, working in the area of reconcilliation, victim support and conflict resolution.
Read some of the stories. They are powerful tales of people forgiving those who destroyed their lives either through torture or through murdering a loved one.
All the tales speak of the victims releasing themselves from a 'cage of hatred'. Valuable lesson to be learned there.....
http://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories/?id=13
Posted by dottie at 6:55 PM
April 14, 2004
jew!
This link here - jew - is intended to foil the efforts of a racist group.
This group have done a google-bomb to ensure that if you type "jew" into google and hit "I'm feeling lucky" that it will link you to their hate site.
If you have a website or blog please include this link. The racist site may be thwarted now but the more links the better!
Posted by dottie at 12:35 AM
April 6, 2004
Hand wash with care
Hidden messages on clothing tags!
http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000046.html
I wouldnt be surprised if the Feds raided the manufacturers and threw em in prison for treason.
Posted by dottie at 11:36 PM
April 2, 2004
Aggregated assault on the news..
This is an excellent news aggregator
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Posted by dottie at 1:56 PM
March 18, 2004
Rasterbation
This. Is. So. Cool!
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
It takes a photo you upload to it, allows you to resize it, crop it, etc. Decide how many pages are to be used for outputing the final picture then it changes it into a series of what looks like random dots spread over the paper. But put them together in the right order, tape them, step back and - voila! your picture is now 10ft x 5ft - or whatever dimensions you chose!
Posted by dottie at 8:50 AM
March 5, 2004
What a way to go
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/03/sex.defense.ap/index.html
Posted by dottie at 5:41 PM
March 4, 2004
New search site
New web search tool. Check it out. Seems quite good.
Posted by dottie at 11:21 AM
Ernie ball
Ernie Ball, the guitar string making company (plus accessories), were the poster child for Microsofts crackdown on software licensing. Aparently the problem arose for Ernie ball after the company upgraded its machines and shifted the old machines 'down the chain'. The machines were never reformatted so there were copies of Office, some design tools and the like still on the machines. Now the majority of this software was not being used by the inheritors of the PC's.
Microsoft came in to audit their software, based on the licenses that Ernie Ball already had. Microsoft uncovered the unlicensed software (as they knew they would) and threw the book at Ernie Ball. I think they eventually had to pay Micro$oft a million dollars and they had their name dragged through the courts and the press, the whole nine yards. They were made an example.
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-5065859.html
So Ernie ball decides to switch to Linux. Open source software the whole way, design packages, office software, accounting software. Everything open source. He saved a lot of money and raised the profitability and productivity of the company as there were reduced IT costs etc.
Now enter SCO. It is threatening lawsuits (and has started handing them out) on anyone who uses Linux software. Why? Because SCO says that Linux contains elements of its copyright software within it - I think mainly internet communication protocols and the like - pretty low level stuff, and pervasive.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3320401
Wouldnt it be a kick in the teeth if SCO launched a law suit against Ernie Ball for copyright infringement? Where would they go next?
Posted by dottie at 11:17 AM
Fontastic!
This site rocks! If you dont know what a particular font is, it will ask questions regarding the defining characteristics and then suggests the closest match(es)! Yay!
No more trawling through thousands of fonts to see if you can spot the match by eye (if you can still see!)
Posted by dottie at 9:43 AM
March 2, 2004
Cool illustrations
Must find time to check this out properly.... off to work now! Well, I'll actually be still sitting right here, but no longer writing crap about web pages and stuff. Just writing crap webpages. And stuff. (sigh). My life has meaning. My life has meaning. My life has meaning. My life has meaning....
Posted by dottie at 9:24 AM
March of comrade crab
Q. How do you deal with an invasion of huge crabs?
A. Eat them!
These brutes apparently were brought into Russia by Stalin to provide food for Norht Western Russians. There was a population explosion in the early 90's and now the crabs are migrating down the coasts of Norway. Having no natural predators means the crabs thrive.
Their legs are apparently a delicacy though, fetching $15 per pound. A single leg is enough to provide a filling meal for a grown man!
Posted by dottie at 9:02 AM
Colour Schemes
Hmm. Interesting. Some of the schemes suggested by this are hideous and others are harmonious. I presume the same algorithm for selecting colours is used no matter what base colour you choose, so I wonder why some schemes are harmonious and others are not?
I found the schemes that had pastel elements were the nicest. The bold primary colours mostly didnt work for me.
http://pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html
Posted by dottie at 8:52 AM
February 29, 2004
Pain is good
http://www.kare11.com/news/news-article.asp?NEWS_ID=60120
Posted by dottie at 11:50 PM
February 27, 2004
Dunderheads
I had to set up web and email hosting for a friend recently.
I contacted the hosting provider, gave them all the details, contact addresses etc. Now when you set up hosting such as this you have three contacts - administrative, technical and business. The administrative and business contact was my friend, I was the technical contact.
When the hosting is setup, you receive full details of how to connect to the new service, setup your email, your FTP details, admin password etc. Now you would think that those details would be sent to the technial contact. NO. They were sent to the administrtion contact.
The only problem with that was her contact email address was her new email account that she had just opened. Which is fine. Except that the details that allow her to access her email have just been sent to her email. Yes, the keys were securely locked inside the car.
Many faxes and a disturbing phone call or two later (after which I really did consider changing my name by deed poll to Yossarian) all was sorted out.
I think I owe them my first born though....
Posted by dottie at 8:27 AM
February 26, 2004
Easy peasy Japaneesy...anyone?
Looks great but what the hell is it?
Posted by dottie at 1:55 AM
February 19, 2004
Beautiful Soup
Get your barcodes! This is an artist (Scott Blake) obsessed by Barcodes. Check out the barcode Jesus!
This says Irish male, 6'9" 220 pounds - apparently...
and heres me handle...
Click on the pics to visit the sites, if you feel up to it...
Incidentally the 'Beautiful soup' reference is to a science fiction book about a man living in a world where everybody has barcodes printed on their forheads. He has an accident in a supermarket where his barcode is changed to that of a can of low sodium pea soup. Chaos ensues and he ends up destrying the fabric of society.
So it goes.
Posted by dottie at 9:13 AM
Seeing with sound
This is an incredible innovation. I'd love to strap on my laptop, get a webcam, blindfold myslef and see if I can get around Dublin without getting mashed.
Actually, thats a bit of a challenge even to thos with perfect vision, bleedin' (insert name of socio-political / gender group here) drivers!
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/
If anyone would be interested in lending me a webcam I'd give it a go!
Posted by dottie at 8:36 AM
KPMG theme music
I presume when you enter the hallowed halls of KPMG (or whatever they call themseleves now, although I do think a name change due to silly music is a BIT extreme...) that this little ditty will eb playing in the elevator.
http://www.5thpercentile.com/kpmg/kpmg.mp3
I love it. The lilting melody, the soaring pseudo-nationalism of the lyrics, the striving for, for, for something more than we experience in this mundane world. Truly KPMG is a company with vision,a future, they know things I dont.
And thats good enough for me.
I think this utopia needs to be fucked up in some way. We all know that John Morgan is doing his bit as we speak, making sure that incompetents around the country are kept on the payroll of Ireland Inc. (© Sav industries 2004).
Sing it with me now!!.... We are KPMG we have a dream of power and energy we go for the gold, together we hold onto our vision of love of strategy.
I can see some great titles and songs for companies / countries :
ESB - 'Your lights and heat are your privelege, You know we charge by the hour, If you dont want a dark village, pay up or we'll cut off your power'
Vodaphone - 'phone a friend once a month for a ransom, we love to talk about the coverage you dont get, you may be smart, well paid and handsome, but when you get your bill we'll make sure its not met'
Sukis all night bang bang lap dancing emporium and chess club - 'you make some moves with your chubby bishop, with dreams of taking our defenceless queen, but dont forget we all come from south-east Asia, where the chop-chop joints are seldom (if ever) clean'
Ah sure, you get the message - best title and chorus gets a free cocktail in a bar of my choice :)
Posted by dottie at 2:05 AM
February 18, 2004
Webmonkey
Webmonkey is no more! All the staff have been fired (oh sorry, downsized, rationalised, shuffled, reassigned, whatever...) by Lycos. This is a sad day. Webmonkey has rocked its ass off since 1996 - eight years making magic on the net!
err... hang on... its still there!
http://www.webmonkey.com
It inspired me many times, actually saved my ass. Showed me how to really use HTML. It has kinda fallen down recently by not keeping up with Semantic Markup and the latest CSS, but I'm sorry to see the team, and their 'heard in passing' comments, go.
So long and thanks for al lthe fish!
Posted by dottie at 1:23 PM
February 14, 2004
The sweet sound of gunfire
eBooks in your kalishnakov. I'm speechless. I wish I'd thought of it first!
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8626936%5E13762,00.html
Posted by dottie at 2:11 AM
New York in the 70's
Cool archive of photos from New York showing people and places, taken by photographer Allan Tennenbaum. Link to the archive is right down the bottom of the page. Read the blurb though!
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0402/at_intro.html
I remember the queues for petrol we had even here in Ireland in the 70's. I must have been very young at the time but I remember clearly waiting in a queue at Raheny filling station with my Mum and brother in our dads VW beetle. He was away at sea at the time. Showing my age...
Posted by dottie at 1:25 AM
February 13, 2004
Candy Messages
Check it out!
ah such fun!
Posted by dottie at 7:00 PM
How to accessorise in Australia
This guy was attacked by a shark, swam three hundred meters to the shore and then drove to the hospital when they eventually got the shark off his leg.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/11/1076388423797.html
Posted by dottie at 4:47 PM
This is your artist on Acid
A mate of mine, Dave Grogan, sent me this. As he says 'this rocks!'
http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html
from the artict:
'Outlines seem normal, but very vivid - everything is changing colour. My hand must follow the bold sweep of the lines. I feel as if my consciousness is situated in the part of my body that's now active - my hand, my elbow... my tongue'.
I wonder what happened to the artists career after this? It seems from his comments that it was a very draining experience and his perceptions seemed blunted and his enthusiasm robbed after the effects wore off. I have this terrible image of the poor guy never being able to draw or paint again....
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Dave G
knew you'd like it! :)
Posted by dottie at 3:15 PM | Comments (1)
February 10, 2004
I like movies
...and this is why I like this site.
All the recommendations it gave me so far seem to be spot on. I like the ones it suggested:
Y tu mama tambien - which I have actually been meaning to rent for ages now
The secretary - James Spader, gotta love him, I think hes beginning to get type-cast as a sex object though - I once sold a book to him in Hodges Figgis. Never let on that I knew who he was until I was handing back his change saying 'thanks James, loved you in Crash'. The look on his face was priceless.
Deadalive (Braindead) - hmm. Not sure about this one. I'll rent it anyway and see...
Hable Con Ella (Talk to her) - I had heard the name but dont know nothing about it...
and...
American Psycho. I think this is the first incorrect suggestion here, just from reports I've heard of it. I might watch it anyway.
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Dave G
American psycho is actually quite good. Christian Bale (who is playing the next batman in batman:intimidation), is wonderfull as the 80's icon of dismemberment and misplaced rage.
It is an interesting companion piece for the excellent "rules of attraction" which involves christian's younger brother Sean (played excellently by Dawson Creek's James Vanderbeak)
Posted by dottie at 12:34 PM | Comments (1)
You yes You
Lovely illustrations here. Need more like this man. Engineering background, switched to art. Good move. Someone who believes in what they do. Passion.
See if you can spot the reference to the B-Movie classic. I've seen it round Dublin too - wonder who's spreading it and why? I guess its someone trying to start an 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us' thing going....
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dave g
what b-movie?
Mark Lennox
Invasion of the Body snatchers -
'must not sleep....must warn others!'
Its late now, I'm going to bed. I might not be quite myself in the morning!
Posted by dottie at 10:54 AM | Comments (2)
February 4, 2004
Kuroshin
Hey whats wrong with MovableType?
Kuroshin (by the way the 'S' key is in between the A and the D and if you dont have one on your keyboard I'd be happy to send you the $10 it would cost to get a new one - although that would probably be a stoopid keyboard used by most other people so its not cool, or uses too many clock cycles of the on-board microprocessor to deal with each keystroke, or allows strangers to type on your computer {or friends even!} )
Kuro5hin rant about Movable Type
Hey since we are talking stpid analogies if a murderer uses a knife to kill someone it does not mean that I'm a murderer when I butter a piece of bread with a knife. Ha! You see I dont even eat bread! or drink Latte, or use iMacs, and hey amnt I just proving your point? Lazy sonofa - go prove your own point! I have to write about deflossing my teeth!
Go stick your blogboard up your a-blog!
And heres the best picture I could find of me being 'pensive'
I would have to say that Kuroshin has cast the dragons teeth upon the earth to bring forth his Myrmidons, but he will find that they turn on him instead!
p.s. anyone whoi hasnt realised - this is a flame, and a bad one, probably a lame flame? ok - still sick. Also you WILL have to read Kuro5hin's original post to understand what the hell I'm going on about... anyway, like I said later.
Why am I writing like people actually look at this blog?
Posted by dottie at 8:54 PM
February 2, 2004
Gradual Biological changes to buzzwords
This is scary. Georgia (U.S.) is banning use of the word 'evolution' in classrooms, claiming it is a 'buzzword'. The reason they are doing this is because of pressure from parents.
Typical reaction from conservatives when they are threatened. If they allow children to think for themselves they will of course immediately start sniffing cocaine, drinking non-stop and shagging rings around themselves before OD'ing, drying out and blaming it all on their parents. Better to shield the from all this allowing them to grow up as carbon copies of the parents, secure in the knowledge that their view of the world is the only view.
Whats this about calling evolution 'gradual biological changes over time'. That makes it sound like the world has just hit puberty, and you know what that means. Soon the world will be caught french kissing saturn or pushing mercury off orbit just to see how long it takes to plummet into the sun. Oh yes, puberty is a much safer way to describe evolution.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/striking.evolution.ap/index.html
Posted by dottie at 9:52 AM
January 27, 2004
Supersize me!
This looks like the blockbuster for the summer! The director Morgan Spurlock decided to try to survive on nothing but McDonalds for a month and have it filmed for that time. He had a team of doctors checking him over to make sure he wouldnt keel over. The results were disastrous. His whole system was badly affected, high cholestrol, bad skin, general illness and lethargy, loss of sex drive, and vomiting. Brave man. I hope its in the IFI cinema before too long!
http://www.supersizeme.com/home.aspx
Anyone hungry? I'm off to BurgerKing which is as eveyone knows has much better fries.....
Posted by dottie at 8:29 PM