one more thing to get shot at for if you’re black. i’m sure that the eventual comb-gun will retroactively explain tons of police shootings.
the gamblin colors website is amazingly useful. i’m pleasantly surprised. among other things, they make galkyd. i found the site doing a search for info on flake white.
thus far, over the past few months, my cd-r drive, zip drive, hard drive, and most recently, my keyboard have all died. this has not been my semester. come to think of it, i think this string of bad luck all started with my car dying at the end of the summer.
looks like new evidence out supporting the Out of Africa theory of human origins. this news (ap report) does not concern you if you are a creationist. *snicker*
bushblog funny.
so, i just finished watching the first part of the new dune miniseries, and i’d be lying if i said i wasn’t disappointed. for a while i suppose, i’ve had my expectations unrealistically raised based on the wrtier/director’s comments, parroting about sticking close to frank herbert’s original and all that jazz. well, unfortunately, even with 4 extra hours, the miniseries ends up chopping/changing almost more important stuff than david lynch’s version. many of the characterizations are just plain wrong. i guess the main problem is that it’s such a shallow, surface interpretation of the work. it sure looks nice, but it just misses the point on so many of the characters. you sorta wonder what the time was spent on instead (that’s my otehr big beef, the pacing and direction suck). pretty lights though.
la has been having some really weird fog, and since it looked really cool, i dragged out some friends and took some photos. here are a few i really like:
worked on my mozilla event test some more, binded some hotkeys to dump out object info. unfortunately, it seems that window.getSelection() still isn’t returning anything.
wsp now:
“Netscape 6 still plays like beta software,” said Glenn Davis, a co-founder of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an independent Web publisher. “The results I’ve had using it seem to indicate that it’s just not quite finished. I’d have much rather seen them wait until the Mozilla project had their 1.0 version complete instead of rushing it out the door.
wsp a few months ago:
Why are you taking forever to deliver a usable browser? And why, if you are a company that believes in web standards, do you keep Navigator 4 on the market? …
We wish everyone shared your passion to do the right thing and deliver XML and the DOM inside the browser. But if it takes you another six months to pull this off, the world’s first fully standards-compliant browser could be playing to an empty house. And the message such a failure would send is: “Don’t support standards if you want to stay in business.” If you send the world that message, you will have harmed the cause you meant to help.
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i just finished watching a divx of the uncut batman beyond: return of the joker (courtesy of cutemx). man, paul dini, timm, and garnett reeeeaaaally have their shit together. the movie rocked. it’s unfortunate that the version being released in december has been recut (6 minutes trimmed) in major way. ostensibly to remove unecessary violence, what it really does is rip out the core of what the story is about. imo, the stuff wb cut out hurts the movie tremendously.
also, the interesting thing about using cutemx is that 90% of the time, it seems that the search returns completely nonsensical, nonrelated, and random stuff. very weird. also, if you repeat the search, you end up with a whole new set of random results. very weird.
oh, did i mention that this movie is the best batman movie ever made? beats mask of the phantasm by a mile, and puts tim burton’s batman to shame. too bad most people will probably never see it, and even less people will be able to see the whole thing.