haiku movie review: Europa Report
¶ by Rob Frieselthe obvious nods to 2001, also The Blair Witch Project
the obvious nods to 2001, also The Blair Witch Project
AngularJS Pain Points A write-up by Jaco Pretorius. I agree with him on the documentation, and I (admittedly, sadly) don't have enough experience with the testing aspect to have an opinion there, but I'd be willing to split hairs on the "overall complexity" complaint. Given my experience so far, I would say that the trivial […]
What is SPDY? Lincoln Loop's Graham King, and his brief introduction to SPDY. (tagged: HTTP SPDY ) Seamless iframes: The future, today! By Ben Vinegat (@bentlegen). Seamless iframes, eh? Hmm… Hmm… (tagged: seamless webdev iframe ) Just Another Princess Movie By Lili Loofbourow, at The New Inquiry. We took H. to see "Brave" and rather […]
Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome At The Atlantic. Everything awesome is happening in Russia. (tagged: Cold War Nostalgia Russia Cosmodrome Baikonur ) How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet At Gizmodo. It's long (and I'll admit to having only skimmed much of it), and it's pessimistic, but a lot of it is also […]
Bryan Curtis on the cult of Jurassic Park Bryan Curtis, writing at Grantland. (Timely, what with my current re-read of the novel.) (tagged: jurassicpark specialeffects essay film culture ) Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating Matt Taibbi (who else?) writing for Rolling Stone (where else?): And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the […]
Every so often, I get into a friendly disagreement (usually with this guy) about whether Alien or Aliens is the superior film. Now to a certain extent, this must be simply a question of taste. But as science fiction usually attracts pedantic nerds with a strong urge to be “right”, I felt compelled to defend […]
Inevitable (compare it to The Matrix) but so much better Seriously: the comparisons are inevitable 1, but Inception is hands-down the stronger film. And every time someone questions whether they were “awake or still dreaming,” I half expected Laurence Fishburne to walk out in those pinch-bridge sunglasses.[↩]
“Creation requires influence.â€
New Rules For Writers: Ignore Publicity, Shun Crowds, Refuse Recognition And More by Anis Shivani at HuffPo (tagged: writing philosophy fiction books publishing todo ) How to Publish Your Book on Amazon Kindle (tagged: publishing Amazon DIY ) Performance Research, Part 4: Maximizing Parallel Downloads in the Carpool Lane at Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog) — […]
desperate times call for violating all laws. so much for heroes. I enjoyed the The Dark Knight, but man what a fucked-up story. I feel like it gets the spirit of Batman pitch-perfect, but that just leaves me worked-up and angry. If you think of it as a film that attempts to capture our national […]