A history of the US state boundaries in a gif. And to think that we’ve all seen poorly designed Flash sites that do less than this….
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design type links
While trying to fine funky web forums for inspiration on how to make one look good, I found the following specimens.
By way of design is kinky , the texelse boys . Unfortunately the site uses frames and tables, but is pretty cool to look at.
I didn’t find any cool forums, although I remember seeing some a little while ago that I liked. Do people just opt out when it comes to designing these things?
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Films
Films that I have watched recently:
Crash
This is a fucking weird movie. Fucking weird. There aren’t too many films that I watch and then don’t have clue what the hell they were about. Dudes with an all consuming fetish I guess.The 6th Day
Arnie delivers more one liners. Like a number of Arnie films, The 6th Day is short on production polish, but it is a thought provoking story on an issue of some sort, this time human cloning. If you know anything about human cloning you will probably think this film is a pile of shite. You may think that it’s a pile of shite anyway, but I liked it.The Wickerman (again)
Superb, I might buy this one as I could watch again and again the deception and entrapment of a police detective by modern day pagans living on a remote Scottish isle.High Plains Drifter (again)
Superb – Tash is studying western film at the moment so we’re getting to watch a few. This is one of my
favourites. Clint Eastwood starred and directed.Unforgiven (again)
Loved this film when I first saw it, although this time some of the shine came off. A brilliant climax though, and Clint stars and directs this archetypal revisionist western.
The Pianist (again)
Moving and amazing. We watch as a the central character, a pianist, has his humanity gradually stripped away until he is reduced to something akin to a giant rodent. At his lowest ebb is he is given hope by a Nazi officer, and allowed to play the piano. A far more sophisticated and subtle depiction of the horrors of the holocaust than Schindler’s List. A testament to the determination and bravery of oppressed peoples.Casablanca (again)
Super duper.The Maltese Falcon
Great – Bogie in fine form. Want to see more Noir-esque films like this.Glengarry Glen Ross
Awesome – great performances all around. To give you an idea of what it’s like, during production it was nicknamed the “Death of a fucking Salesman”.The Running Man (again)
Tash said this was a bollocks film, but I like it. While delivering a slew of cheesy one-liners, Arnie warns us about the power of the media. I can’t believe that the guy’s a republican.
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Commie bastards and links galore
For all you mac-heads out there –
1100 G5s in a cluster – and I guess there’s a little mac-head in all of us….That link came to me by way of DarkLemon which features a way rad css menu. Darklemon was courtesy of antipixel by way of my bro’s most excellent disassociated.
And love this slogan, courtesy of this commie bastard:
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Stewie for governor
Who said that everyone was running for governor of California?
I can’t believe that Fox produced and ran three seasons of “The Family Guy”, as Peter, Stewie, Brian and the gang cut it pretty close to the bone and it sounds like Fox are a bunch of fasci….
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Burton and Gravis
I had been bitching about how slack the Gravis web site was. I got a hell of a surprise the other day when I went to the Burton website to look at snowboards and saw a Gravis logo on the home page. I guess that Burton have taken over Gravis? Or has Gravis always been part of Burton? Anyhoo, Gravis.com now points to its own section of the Burton web site and I reckon the new site is much better. Hopefully this means that it will be easier to get Gravis gear now. In London it is hard to get anything other than the bags….
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Ray Ozzie, Notes, the web, and Eolas
Ray Ozzie is pretty cool . I love this bit:
In 1993 or thereabouts, we saw the emergence of TCP/IP, HTML, HTTP, Mosaic and the Web. From our perspective, all of these were simplistic emulations of a tiny subset of what we’d been doing in Notes for years. TCP/IP instead of Netbeui or IPX/SPX, HTML instead of CD records, HTTP instead of the Notes client/server protocols, httpd instead of a Notes server. And we were many years ahead in other ways: embedded compound objects, security, composition of documents as opposed to just “browsing” them, and a sophisticated development environment. I am quite embarassed to say that we frankly didn’t “get” what was so innovative about this newfangled “Web” thing, given the capabilities of what had already been built.
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The Wicker Man
Now this is a coincidence – I finally get to listen to Active over the net and I’m tuned into ‘Anger Management – Keeping music evil’, and they play a number which feature a sample from ‘The Wicker Man’ which we watched the other night. My flatmate, Rich, who is a bit keen on metal/industrial/etc was telling us how The Wicker Man had influenced some of the bands he knew of.
Cool movie – those crazy pagans…