A few shots from a weekend luau party. It’s easy to see why pyro-maniacs can get obsessed about this fire thing…
Category: Legacy
Topic: Build your own Treo 600. Just print, cut, and fold. You don’t need to tell anyone you did unless you’re feeling especially geeky. Err, wait…
Didn’t get too many great shots at the B-Boy Summit today (also, woke up late), but it was pretty fun. Caught the popping and locking competitions as well as other miscellaneous stuff. Some of these cats can DANCE.
Here’s a clip I took on my F402 (9.4MB) that does a bit more justice to the talent.
Just got back from seeing The Hulk. I was quite pleasantly surprised. The multi-screen effects (and all the cinematography/editing) worked for me (and worked both as a reflection of comic book aesthetics [some of those wipes went waaaaay beyond that – in a good way] and representing the Jekyll/Hyde nature of the character), and the movie kept me wrapped up from beginning to end; color me impressed. The theatre was pretty sparse though at a 10:15 showing @ The Bridge. I haven’t been paying attention to the box office, but now I sorta hope it does well so that Ang Lee can do a sequel.
Ang Lee on Comic Books and Hulk as Hidden Dragon:
In one of those Chinese movies, “Crouching Tiger,” one of the characters wielded a sword called the Green Destiny. There’s a different kind of green destiny in the Hulk: “Americans are hidden dragons to me,” Mr. Lee says. “They hide in self-effacing, prohibited, guilt-pleasure behavior, and to me that says something about truth . something that I’m interesting in pursuing. The Hulk is a loner, misunderstood . he’s everything you find in a Western hero. But there are also those American tensions that work against him, like anger and guilt . that’s the irony that makes him an anti-hero. I think those Marvel characters, like the Hulk and the Fantastic Four, are the first superheroes that had a weakness.”
MacSurfer has links to all kinds of really interesting Apple news/commentary (WWDC fallout) on the web right now.
In other news, I just remembered I have a 2500 word final paper due for class on Tuesday. Hoo-ray.
- Reboot6 videos – so far I’ve just watched Cory’s, which is great
- FreeCache – a cooperative caching system to distribute files. Pretty cool, but it would be nice if it had more efficient/effective way to measure bandwidth, find better mirrors. ie, even though I got the best bandwidth from the i2 site, I was still served files from a dk mirror. Also, it looks like you can’t choose exactly which files you want to cache. It’d be nice if there was more granularity/smarts built in the system somehow (while still not requiring a client [this might require a ‘cache speed tester’ page and setting preferences via a cookie]
- Business Week: Coming Soon: A Horror Show for TV Ads – on Tivo ad stats
Savant for a Day – a fascinating article on how savant-like mental skills can be induced via a ‘transcranial magnetic stimulator’.
Flipping the Switch – wow, multiple analysts are saying that Linux should surpass Apple market share on the desktop next year. Must be all those units being moved at Walmart.
Wonderful: US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software
The great things about this deal: the Army is going through a reseller, when clearly they have the purchasing power to buy direct; and most of the computers they purchase are normal consumer machines which will be purchased with Windows and Office already installed, so the Army will be paying twice for each machine.
Hmm, interesting…
You guys have to remember that there is a HUGE digital divide out there and getting soldiers with out much education comfortable with computers tends to be quicker and easier with Windows.
Therefore you want to simplify the training by standardizing on a system which not only holds the record for security vulnerabilities, but whose source has been delivered to the electronic warfare departments of most of our potential enemies but NOT to our own academic-community security specialists?
What do you do the next time there’s a conflict and some new crop of blended-threat self-propagating worms (locusts?) suddenly takes out the US Army’s entire office infrastructure?