Just got back from a midnight screening of The Animatrix. Good stuff, including some interesting pieces by the Cowboy Bebop and Aeon Flux guys. A very wide range of animation styles (digged the wild rotoscoping in the Kid’s Story). Would definitely recommend catching it in the theater if you can, apparently it will be appearing in very limited release.
I finished Fast Food Nation this morning. Even though I was familiar with many of the topics discussed, taken as a whole, it was quite a read, and if you haven’t yet, I would wholeheartedly recommend it. I also found the afterword and notes sections extremely interesting.
The Photographer’s Right – A Downloadable Flyer – Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography.
Via JesseR: Bill Nye the Science Guy will be at UCLA tomorrow! 3-6PM, free and open to the public, and free food.
Picked up a 35mm f/2.0 and 50mm f/1.8 prime this morning. Hooray, handheld shooting in streetlight has just become that much easier.
Brad with a post on scaling LJ. I spoke w/ Brad one night about some of this stuff at this past SXSW (he has a sweet deal w/ F5), but it’s good to see where they’re going (see memcache info from lj_dev).
A few intersting notes. Brad mentions the uselessness of pconnects for MySQL, (yes) but goes on to blast InnoDB. From my experience, InnoDB is not only technically superior, but faster speedwise as well (some InnoDB vs MyISAM benchmarks). Also, although improvements have been made, MyISAM still has fugly row-level locking. The main real caveat is that there’s no full text search support current in InnoDB (others: slow counts due to multiversioning, auto-incrementing and table status are funky and other misc ‘stuff’).
Starting to EAC some CD’s again. See sidebar for latest additions.
Holy crap this is awesome.
The Harvard of Interactive – a glowing writeup of NYU’s ITP. I’ll have to admit, the classes sound like fun: “The Future of the Infrastructure,” “Creative Microcomputing,” “Information Architecture,” “The Poetics of Virtual Space,” “Contagious Media.”
Ahh, deriving a certain satisfaction about this whole SCO mess. (Cringely summarizes – better than a soap opera!)