The Incredible Hulk (2008) Mini-Review
Reviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.
Bruce Banner, changed by an experiment gone awry, now lives in exile in Brazil. As he is meditating and searching for a cure to his rage-induced transformations, General Ross hunts him tirelessly, hoping the green Hulk is the key to reviving a World War II era bio-force project.
Back when I first heard they were rebooting [...]
Special Feed Items Plugin for Wordpress
I believe it was John Gruber who started the trend: adding small unicode symbols in front of noteworthy feed items. Because this was such a great idea, I’ve started providing little ♥ icons next to noteworthy feed icons.
This, I have turned into a Wordpress plugin, which you can now download from the official Wordpress plugin [...]
From The Archives: Creating Smoke In Photoshop From Scratch
Using Photoshop and a specific technique, it’s rather easy to create something that looks like smoke or fog—from scratch. It’s not as good as actual smoke photographed on a black background, but it’s much easier to come by. Here’s the trick…
My first article to almost hit Digg.com, it’s still getting quite a few hits.
Ratings Short-tags Plugin for Wordpress
If you review books and movies, you’ll want to provide a rating. Usual movie ratings consist of 1-5 or 1-6 stars, zero stars reserved mainly for Uwe Boll movies.
This plugin let’s you do just that. Simply write
and you’ll get this:
There’s an options page which allows you to configure the rating symbol (another popular one is [...]
Unibody Macbook Pro 15 Mini-Review
Peeps who follow me on Twitter may have picked up the fact that my 6 month laptop hunt ended with me purchasing a 15 inch Macbook Pro. Sure, it’s the price of two used Toyotas duct-taped together, but it’s also carved from a single piece of aluminum, and the keyboard is chiseled from unicorn horn.
The [...]
Google Tasks, Now Standalone
It’s been something I’ve been barking after for quite some time, a Google ToDo list. I’ve used Google Notebook until they killed it a few weeks ago at which point I switched to Google Docs, simply putting all my notes in one long document.
As it turns out, Google Docs is so great that now Google [...]
The Ringworld Throne Mini-Review
Reviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.
The inhabitants of the Ringworld are adapting to the effects of Louis Wus world stabilization efforts. As such, various homonid species find themselves with unlikely allies, uniting against the surging common vampire enemy. On the other side of the world, Louis Wu, now an aging and ill man reunites with his old friends as he [...]
Chasm City (2001) Mini-Review
Reviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.
Tanner Mirabel is a security specialist bent on revenge. In the chase of his prey, his travels take him to the plague-ridden Chasm City where things are no longer as they used to be. As his journey winds down, flashes of memories begin to haunt him.
Chasm City is nothing less than steam-punk sci-fi. That is, [...]