Dave Kellam

I watched Van Wilder in the wee-hours of the morning. It’s a decent movie, kind of mindless — you can see where the plot is going within minutes of starting. Sometimes you need movies that turn you into a drooling vegetable. Wisely, the trailers don’t show as much of the underlying romaintic comedy… it’s not all that good. Some of the gags are, so it’s somewhat worthwhile watching.

This tool allows you to see what a website will like like to people suffering from a form of blindness. My current site seems to hold up alright, there aren’t any reds in it though.

News, news, news. Guided By Voices announced awhile ago that they’re heading back to Matador and releasing a new album later this year. Here’s an interview with Bob Pollard by The Onion’s A.V. Club from around the time Do The Collapse came out, it’s worth reading. And lastly, if you haven’t listened to GBV before, you can tune into a 24 hour shoutcast stream [courtesy Largehearted Boy].

I finished up reading The Diviners last night. I read it earlier for a high-school English class, I think I liked it better the second time around. It probably helps that I’m more interested in writing this time around and the novel is essentially dealing with the creative process of writing.

For now, I’m off to see some student film screenings. Andrew and Dave are both showing their year-end projects, as well as a bunch of other film kids I know. It should be a good time.

An orthopedic surgeon with a great website. Actually, it’s horrible but the intro is pretty funny. Watch it.

Second Degree Lynching, makes sense to me too. School yard violence is a problem, but lynching?

I got my brother’s Atari 2600 working finally, he has Frogger, Ms. Pac-Man and Space Invaders. Damn, Frogger is a good game. My high score at the moment is 1280 and should only be going up. Thankfully the Atari stays here, while I go back to Kingston tomorrow morning. No Frogger during exams.

It’s an FAQ that tells you almost everything you ever wanted to know about an atari game system. There are collectors who know the subtle differences on different game labels — it’s crazy.

This video has to be one of the more bizarre things I’ve seen lately. David Hasselhoff and Oooga Chaka, hmm.

Here’s a bootleg of the trailer for the next Lord of the Rings movie. It has shitty quality and the screen flickers but it seems like the movie is going to look pretty damn good. That and the Two Towers is probably the most intense book in the trilogy meaning the movie will probably be so as well.

This looks like a nice little website statistics analyzer, it’s shareware but I haven’t looked into the licensing so I don’t really know how long you can use it without paying. A nice free alternative is Analog, it can be run on your server or you can download the logs and run it at home.

Here are some more toys to play with: Moho is a powerful 2D animation tool and Argus is a little webcam program. Dave (housemate) is using Moho for his final film project this year, it’s looking pretty cool. I found Argus yesterday, which is why the webcam is back up — it’s small, simple and skinable, best of all… it’s free.

The frequent waster-of-time says find out what html tag you are. I have been told: You’re the FONT tag- some people ignore you, some people adore you. When you like someone, you like them a lot, but when you don’t like them- watch out.