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The DVD of "No Maps For These Territories", Mark Neale's documentary film on William Gibson, is to be released in a few short months. According to Mr Neale hisself. This is good news, particularly if you had your mind blown into tiny, glittering crystal shards as a fifteen year old by reading Neuromancer, like yours truly. He is a very, very smart guy, and in this film he sits in the back of a limo and holds forth about the way he sees the world going, and about himself. Apparently he was profoundly influenced by 'drugs culture'. Well, duh. I can hardly wait. If you are equally geeky, zip on over to nomaps.com for a taster. There is a good review over at salon.
I know it is fashionable to hate those pesky mini-scooters that until recently were clogging up our thoroughfares, but I always thought they were, in principle, quite a nice invention. Small, light, efficient. Pity about all the wankers riding them. But I think the Xootr eX3 electric scooter is just very cool, plain and simple. Not as cool as the putative I.T./Ginger, but pretty neato.
My colleague Pete came up to me this morning and said: “You'll like this Rik, apparently there is a video on stileproject.com of someone killing, skinning and eating his cat!”
Wow. Do I really seem like the sort of guy who would enjoy that? I think it is disgusting and obscene. I don’t like grotesque stuff at all, and anyone who pretends to should know better. Anyone who actually does like this stuff is probably beyond help.
Stile defends the posting of the video (which actually originates from Korea, where cats and dogs are occasionally eaten) as (a) exposing our hypocrisy; after all, “nobody cries over a cow being slaughtered” and (b) pretty much claims that stileproject [no I'm not linking to it. don’t like] is some sort of noble and educational site whose noble aim is to ìshow reality as it actually isî. Wow, and I thought it was just a gratuitous shock-site pandering to desensitized sensation-seekers and porndogs. I didnít realise that, just as an example, ìalien cum-shotsîÝwere a part of the real, cruel world in which we live. What a twat.
Furthermore, cats are great, and anyone who says otherwise has probably never owned one. I’m not being tautological here. The standard accusastion is that cats are aloof, emotionally cold and manipulative, and just basically using us poor gullible saps as an easy food source. Allow me to retort: “Bollocks!” Cats are lovely and affectionate, and basically A-OK. Apart from that sticking their anus in your face thing…
It's time for some hot bonobo-on-bonobo action. [don't be a pedant]. We boys in the office are developing a bonobo fixation. Bonobos and . More on that real soon…But to get back to some sort of point, bonobos are cool, and in the way of these things, are in danger of extinction. Sigh. You can help, maybe. Visit bonobo.org.
Omigoddess! Wil "Wesley Crusher" Wheaton has a weblog! And it is horribly compelling!! More famous (and ex-famous) people should keep weblogs. Imagine if Posh and Becks had a weblog. The hilarity! Actually, Wil's is pretty interesting, even though he goes on about his style sheets even more than I do. And he says fuck! And he likes Tool! I must email him and find out if it is true about that amateur video of him at a Renaissance Fayre, smashed out of his gourd, fucking a tree…
Poor old Wil is no longer flavor of the month, it seems, and is quite candid about how he feels, which makes horribly compelling reading. Cheer up Wil, at least you are number one at Blogdex. Whatever that is.
Seems I am hopelessly behind the curve, metafilter are dis(cus)sing him already. He is a pretty funny guy, I reckon. In fact, I'm going to LINK HIM! So ner.
I've got four words for ya: Ballmer is a twat.
I've just checked this page out with iCab and it totally mangles it. Sorry iCab users. Consults log…sorry, both of you. grin.
Just for the heck of it, I have put some flash ads I made for work in the animation section. For your perusal, in case you want to hire me in a freelance capacity to make more of same. I bought the wife a blender (the Kenwood 570, a lovely little motor) and I could do with the moolah, you dig?
Additionally, the links to the archives, which were previously, ow you zay, ne marché pas pour merde (I do plan to learn French, reallyment), should now be working, assuming you are a glutton for punishment. [Note: I just went and had a look at some old stuff and some of it is quite amusing, if I say so meself. Strange how I can feel nostalgia for stuff I wrote less than a year ago. FSTR.........]
You may or may not know or care that this page is entirely created using
CSS, with nary a table in site. One downside of this almost fanatical devotion
to standards-compliant coding and old-browser-user-annoying is that it is
a bit of a bastard to work with in Dreamweaver, my HTML editor of choice.
I like to type in the preview window, as it makes it easier to enter special
characters, for example I can just type ‘alt-e, e’ to produce an
é, rather than the laborious é. But annoyingly
my div layers all overlap in the preview window, and don't go where they should
be at all, obscuring half of my content (such as it is). Lets hope Macromedia
sorts it out in the next version. Rant over.
And so but yeah, it's been sporadic round these parts for a few months, for one reason or another, principally because, and stop me if I am boring you, but because I could not upload from work, what with our draconian new firewall and all. But I downloaded Fetch, and just decided to try it, and lo and behold it works no problem. Rah! In fact, rah2!. Seems the ftp built in to Dreamweaver is “bobbins”.
So no more limping along on a shitty dial-up from home, now I can zap my thoughts straight to the ether via our cock-smokingly fast new dedicated line. Expect an unparalleled torrent of trivia, arcana, whimsical observations, and so on and so forth;in other words, the same as ever, only more so. I pity the poor foo’ come to my blog looking for intelligent analysis of anything at all, kapow kapow! As B.A. Baracus never said.
In geek news, I have been learning more of that lovely DHTML; expect exciting new features on this here site soon. But only if you have a W3C DOM-compliant browser. If you have an old, crappy browser I will probably be breaking it. Apologies in advance, but really, life is too short to be nannying Netscape 4.x users any more. hah.
Given that I work for a website wot sells lots of lovely DVDs (aka 'digital crack for movie geeks') I have initiated a new DVD picks section, over there on the left hand side. I may even put some flash banners there, yes indeedy. If you are not into DVDs yet, you really should be, you know. And if you are, you should shop with us. Go see. Particularly if you want to get region 1 discs. [Advertising and shameless self-promotion now over]. Speaking of movies, saw Together last night. It was very good. And Pier and I went to see Shrek at the weekend. God I love that film…when i am less busy I will elaborate upon my theory that digital animation techniques allow unprecedented ability to encode subliminal information and thus warp the fragile little minds of our glorious youth. And I reckon Shrek was chock full of subliminal stuff. More later…
I've been bad. Very bad. I bought a Sony MZ-R900 MiniDisc walkman. It is ridiculously small and has a stupid number of features. Clever these Japanese. It makes my old MZ-R90 look like a bakelite wireless in comparison. AND I bought a new watch, a Timex, with a heart rate monitor! Fun! I can tell you with some degree of confidence that my resting heart rate is around 50-55bpm, but it gets much higher when I am stoned and laughing like a twat.
In other news, Planet of the Apes is incredibly bad. Ape shit, one might say.
We think that ‘Hørn’ would be an excellent name for a Norwegian death metal band.
Ooh, I've gone all non-linear
What about those Taliban, eh? What a bunch of crazy fuckers
Yes indeed. So no fascinating observations from me today. Sorry.
I'm back again. I took a few days off and it turned into nearly two months somehow. But mememachine is not that easy to kill. Not that anyone visits anymore, I guess. Isn't that whole blogging thing so five minutes ago?
No, I haven't been meditating, or trapped under a heavy piece of furniture, I just needed a little break to recharge the psychic batteries and escape the electromagnetic babble bubble. Not that I've been totally idle, I wrote a CD review, for the lovely neumu.net. It is quite amusing, so I'm told. And me and the wife had a lovely two week holiday in Vancouver, where we plan to move next year. So if any nice Van-based web design agencies are reading and want to offer me a job...
In other news, play247.com, for whom I am a web designer (not to mention graphic designer, copywriter, flash bloke, tea boy, office clown, information architect and so on) was recently voted "third best online store in the world" by no lesser authority than "The Net" magazine. Yoink! And I had a full page ad in Loaded, which was nice. It was very rude.
It is time for dinner, trout with salsa verde, smells delicious. And then we are going to watch four hours of The Sopranos. Yum!
DVD picks (see below)
Foundation
Actionscript
Sham Bangal
DHTML
and CSS
Jason Cranford Teague
The
Art of Innovation
Tom Kelley
Pause
Four Tet
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list apart
feedmag
iconfactory
jimwoodring.com
kaliber10000
mutabor
netbabyworld
once-upon-a-forest
safeplaces
trueistrue
volumeone
v-2 org
