Jerry and I got to talking about classic arcade games yesterday (as we are wont to do along with 1980s music) and the 1972 electro-mechanical game Killer Shark came up as a topic of conversation. Killer Shark represents a brief moment before the imperial rise of the video game, yet the cabinet was [...]
Archive for July, 2007
That’s right, the Wordpress MediaWiki mashup is gaining some momentum. Just check out the Blogfolio del Dr. Mario Nunez, a self-proclaimed “Blogfesor” at the Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez in beautiful Puerto Rico. I love it!!! The other thing I love is that I got most of the credit when Andy Rush did most [...]
I picked up Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood for the first time this weekend. I am only a hundred pages in thus far, but I can only begin to suggest how artfully he frames the narrative in the first fifty pages. I have yet to see the film starring Robert Blake, and I am [...]
It is always fun to see what search terms send people your way. In my case it’s usually keywords like De-Animator (the flash game), Simpsonizer (the Simpson-ized self-portrait maker), or Felix the Cat -now these are all topics I have talked about on a few occasions, but they don’t necessarily reflect the meat and [...]
Commentpress, Interactive Libraries, and WPMu
Published by July 28th, 2007 in WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 6 CommentsImage used courtesy of Jessamyn’s CC Flickr photos.
“And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead.” Captain Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
I saw Will Richardson’s post that Budd the Teacher had set up a working version of the Commentpress theme. I commented [...]
Deep Thought #453: Porting the ELS Blogs WPMu install to a new domain
Published by July 27th, 2007 in WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 2 Comments“Without order nothing can exist – without chaos nothing can evolve.” – Unknown
Picture used courtesy of Ivanomak
I spent most of the last two days (and all of today well into this evening -meaning now) finishing up a transfer of almost 80 blogs from one domain running WordPress Multi-user using subdirectories to a new domain using [...]
I have set up a WordPress Multi-User test of CommentPress, a theme brought to you by the fine folks at The Future of the Book (in particular Bob Stein, Jessie Wilbur, and Eddie Tejada). This theme is absolutely sick (a good thing, mind you) because it allows you to literally publish a book online [...]
Cassavetes’s Husbands: Death, Funerals, and New York
Published by July 25th, 2007 in YouTube, film, films and movies. 7 Comments“[Cassavetes] replaces the exhausted artifices of conventional movies with a new set of pseudo-realistic ones, which are mostly instantaneous clichés. As a writer-director, he’s so dedicated to revealing the pain under the laughter he’s a regular Pagliacci.” – Pauline Kael, Husbands
I have to give a huge thanks to a YouTuber from Canada, AlexeiPachinko, who made [...]
Bowman 2: Just when you thought it was safe to put away your quiver
Published by July 24th, 2007 in video games. 1 CommentThanks to Free Game Dude for the heads up!
Who needs Netflix with the Internet Archive around?
Published by July 23rd, 2007 in film, film noir, films and movies. 5 CommentsOver the last month or so I have been scouring the Internet Archive for pubic domain films. Below are 31 of the 38 movies I bookmarked in del.icio.us that are currently available at Internet Archive del.icio.us seems to be balking the feed after 31 entries for some reason). To see all 38 go here. The list [...]
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