The Happening Mini-Review
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There’s an event happening. People stop dead in their steps and start killing themselves. It starts in the big cities and spreads like a pandemic. All the while, science teacher Elliot and his girlfriend tries to get away from what in the beginning seemed like a bioterrorist attack. This is M. Night Shyamalans sixth film [...]
Sweet Belgian Comic Covers
Behold, the drawing prowess of Edgar Pierre Jacobs, -French- Belgian comic book writer and illustrator in the 1950ies. Besides his own excellent series — Blake & Mortimer — of which (some of) the above covers are examples, Jacobs helped out Hergé with his Tintin series. So successfully in fact, that Hergé immortalized Jacobs on the [...]
Converting SVG To PNG On The Fly: How? [Update]
Remember SVG? Pioneered by Adobe back in the day, Scalable Vector Graphics were to compete with Macromedias Flash. They never could (and so they bought them), but the result — the SVG standard, is interesting for HTML / CSS uses.
Greg Bear's Eon Mini-Review
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Eon is the story of an asteroid that enters earth orbit some time in the future. Inside the asteroid are seven tube-shaped chambers in succession. The chambers have outwards gravity, soil and air. The seventh chamber goes on forever. Our earth explorers encounter wonderful things in the various chambers, especially chamber 7. Sometimes what they [...]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Mini-Review
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There’s a mystical place in South America, one which a crystal skull holds special powers over. Pushed by Russian soldiers, Indiana Jones and his friends travel there to unveil the mystery surrounding it. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is fairly predictable, as evident by conjecture I wrote prior to seeing the movie (which turned out [...]
Fairly Quick Thoughts About Photoshop CS4s New User Interface
Photoshop—the image app that does all the things the free alternatives do, plus those extra few things we just need—is scheduled for a fall update dubbed CS4. Judging by the above screenshot by John Nack, the entire suite is getting a massive UI overhaul. I have comments on that. First up, an observation. Ever since [...]
Tenochtitlan, Capital Of The Aztec Empire
Hopefully the first in a series, the poster below is named after the Aztech capital whose arts and crafts—or specifically whose patterns it is inspired by. As a kid I used to draw labyrinths all the time, pen on paper; as an adult, ballpen on paper—usually while on the phone. It feels good to finally [...]
Obama/Hillary 2008
American politics are fun! Say about Hillary what you will, but she’s helped make it more fun by putting up a fight. Naive idealist as I am, I’d love to see both on the bill for November. It would be like Batman vs. Superman: you know they’d fight in the beginning until they realize who [...]