BurningbirdLike it says, just stuff.
I was testing out a humongous mashup of Flickr, RSS, Google, Technorati that I created for Chapter 9 of “Adding Ajax”, when I clicked through on the tags for a Flickr photo of Chihuly glass, which led to a weblog post that features a video of the MBG Chihuly exhibit closing; accompanied by an interview with a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I saw Snakes on a Plane, and cheered when Jackson said the line, but I still think a bomb would have been a whole lot simpler–and why is that Sci-Fi pushes these films at women over 50, but filmmakers insert female nudity? I thought V for Vendetta was a wonderful film, and I particularly liked […]
These are about the most fascinating calendar idea I have seen to date: Skepchick and Skepdude calendars. According to the site, and Bad Astronomy, who appears in the male calendar, the purpose of these calendars is to raise funds to support critical thinkers: This year, we’re taking it all a step further. Not only are we adding […]
Warning: some spoilers I rented Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People and I can comfortably say it is the oddest movie I have ever seen. Directed by the father of all the Godzilla movies, Ishirô Honda, the story is about a group of city people out for a yacht ride who get caught in strange weather […]
Steve points to this post, which provides an exceptionally well documented demonstration of creating a homemade book using fairly traditional book binding techniques. It’s probably the most photographed and meticulously detailed example of this technique I’ve seen. A single page version of the demonstration is available at the author’s journal.