How many zeros are in a Google?
I’d pay for Google, wouldn’t you? I almost always find what I’m looking for when I use it, and I use it to find just about anything.
I know that they're commercials
BMW is making these short “films” with some really great directors, including my personal favorite Wong Kar-Wai (I know, I’m a whore for auteurism). Right now only John Frankenheimer’s is available, but Ang Lee’s opens on the tenth. The first one is really good, but I recommend a fast connection because they are shot on 35mm and displayed in a widescreen format, so a modem doesn’t really do it justice.
Elizabeth Hurley… auuugh…
So I ordered ‘Bedazzled’ tonight via PPV, partly because my wife put my son to bed and fell asleep (she probably wouldn’t want to watch it), and partly ’cause Elizabeth Hurley is in it. Okay, so those two reasons aren’t so far apart… but anyway. So it wasn’t that bad. It was entertaining and relatively funny, which is just about all you can hope for with PPV. I mean, it wasn’t Memento or anything, but what is, really.
Theories are for intellectuals
I had this theory after the elections ended that two things would happen. The first was there would be a lot of great comedy, so far I have been wrong on that account. The second was that their would be a lot of angry punk rock. Fifty percent isn’t bad.
Two Mothers?
This is a pretty scary but still very interesting report about the first genetically modified kids in existence.
First cut in half, then hit by the train
Not too bad shockwave anime/ation… Pretty gory, so not for the kids, and not as purely entertaining as the stick figure fighting, but decent. Via usr/bin/girl.
Holding hands
The very first commercial mouse came with the Xerox Star 8010, introduced on April 27, 1981, at the National Computer Conference in Chicago. For $16,000, buyers received a system with a point-and-click interface along with a gizmo called a mouse.
God, I can’t even imagine using a computer without a mouse. But I wouldn’t be willing to pay that much.
More MS ranting
Gah. So Kevin’s freelancing right now. He has a few projects going on, you know… juggling meetings and trying to find time to get all the work done. The pay is good, so you won’t hear me complaining (like yesterday.. it’s amazing.. it’s my first day out of fulltime employment, and I’m busier than I’ve been in 6 months.. but anyway). So I have a client whose site I am designing and building. Pretty much brochure-ware, 8 or 9 pages, etc. I’m thinking to myself ‘Gee.. I can get this site completely finished in like 6 hours using PHP.’ I’m happy happy. THEN, when the client asks me how I plan on coding the side, and I respond ‘An open-source scripting language that rocks called PHP.’ What’s their response? ‘Oh… er.. uh. ah.. We happen to have a Microsoft partnership, so.. can you do it in ASP?’ My response of course being…No. I don’t know ASP. Then what THEY said was ‘Well, we can’t use any other language other than HTML or ASP because MS wouldn’t be happy if we used PHP.’ Wonderful. So now I’m looking at coding flat HTML all weekend. Great. I guess it means more money, but less time to focus on a client with a cooler project and a higher hourly rate.
This is EXACTLY the same thing that happened with a client of the company I used to work for. They had us shoot and put together a QTVR of their data center/mission control room. Once it was all working and cool, they came back out of the blue with ‘We can’t use Apple technology… We have a Microsoft partnership…’ Complete bullshit. THAT’s how MS screws their competition into using ONLY their products, and no one else’s, lest they be struck down from above.
Damn Slow Line?
Does anyone have Qwest DSL in Colorado? Have you noticed slow / flaky / fucked-up DNS? I’d call them and ask, you know, but it seems I might get a quicker answer as to what’s wrong here.