Type the answer to life, the universe and everything into Google for an easter egg.
Ninja hair-stylist
A Japanese school-girl was attacked by an assailant who lopped off 20cm of her hair. Apparently the man was thin and dressed entirely in black. Police suspect a resurgence in the ancient art of ninja hairstyling.
Seal Club launch
I’ve been working on a number of web-based projects lately, some that pay, some that don’t. At this moment, I’d like to officially announce one of those projects: Seal Club, a small art and design group. It’s not an agency or anything like that, just a few people that like to make pretty pictures. Really, it’s been operating for a few weeks now but we haven’t been promoting it. There have been some hints around here, namely the Conform Project domain redirecting to Seal Club and the del.icio.us feed in my links.
The site is essentially an old-school ftp-style design site, glued together with a bunch of new tools. We all used to be members of art groups in the pre-y2k web (Swanky, Suffocate) and have some desire to relive those days. Mostly, it’s the motivation of having other people to kick you in the ass when you’re not getting anything done. Everything is done by hand via ftp with some efforts to stay standards compliant. We use del.icio.us to help us maintain our lists or links within the site and the forum is powered by flickr.
Serenity
Alanah and I went to see Serenity yesterday. Overall it’s a great scifi B-movie although Wheadon messed around with some of the elements that made the tv show so great (Wes elaborates), I was satisfied. There’s also a comic miniseries, but I haven’t had a chance to read it.
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For the Lost fans, here’s one plausible theory for the numbers.
Everybody Hates Chris
I watched the pilot of Everybody Hates Chris (imdb) not really knowing what to expect. It doesn’t matter, the show is damned funny, probably one of the funniest on television right now The episode isn’t available on Google video anymore, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find.
Zombie Pumpkins
October is upon us, which means Halloween is just around the corner. If you’re looking to have the meanest pumpkin on the block, check out Curse of the Zombie Pumpkins! Ryan even has stencils up with characters from Corpse Bride.
XSLT Roundup
There’s an XSLT Roundup at Particletree. It’s one of those things I should probably start looking into sooner rather than later.
WordPress.com invite
WordPress.com is one of the latest entries into the field of hosted weblogs. I signed up for an invite awhile ago and received one sometime last week. My site over there probably won’t see too much action, but it’s useful for testing purposes.
Right now, the service lacks somewhat in customizability (mostly on the appearance front) but it does offer a preview of what WordPress 1.6 will have to offer on the administration side of things. It’s also an example of the WordPressMU (multiuser) install, although most people probably don’t care too much about that.
I have an invitation to the service to give away, figured may as well offer it up here. If you’re interested, just drop me a comment and let me know why it should be yours. I’d rather give it to someone who actually wants to start their own weblog or migrate from blogspot instead of someone who’ll use it sporadically like me.
Hibernating until January
It’s Friday and my scifi fix will go unsated, I think it’s time to go into hibernation. On the plus side, Serenity comes out today.
Corpse Bride Stripped Bare
The Corpse Bride Stripped Bare details some of the work and technology that went into Tim Burton’s latest movie. The whole thing was shot with Canon digital SLR cameras and edited with Final Cut Pro.
A new Shining trailer
It’s one of those internet memes you don’t want to post, but you should really check out this trailer for the Shining. It shows you a little something about trailers and advertising.