Sony is apparently running out of ideas and is going to reboot Spider-Man. Everyone involved with the current Spider-Man franchise is no longer explicitly attached to the movies. If they’ll keep anyone at all I hope it’s J.K. Simmons and his scene-stealing take on J. Jonah Jameson.
I really hope they simply skip the “Our story begins…” introduction movie and just assume that we are already familiar enough with the character to jump into the “let’s get awesome” second movie. As far as villains, let’s see Rhino and Lizard.
This is perhaps the greatest scene from a science fiction tv show or, indeed, any show.
Having an older brother who lives just down the street with his wife and baby is awesome. Their new Ping-Pong table serves very well to reinforce that conclusion. We played a bit last night, I even managed to reach the marginally upper teens in a couple games.
Own an iPhone/iPod Touch? Like books? Like free books? You need to buy Eucalyptus App. Eucalyptus is an interface to Project Gutenberg: no more, no less. And it’s gorgeously well done. Mini-reviews, book cards, smooth page turning animations, searching, and a slick discovery interface to the 20,000+ books in Project Gutenberg.
Eucalyptus is currently on sale for $6 instead of $10, so check it out soon.
Heh.
http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
http://whyhgisbetterthanx.com/
http://whybzrisbetterthanx.github.com/
My Delicious links for December 27th:
- Crosstown Traffic – Right on red? Trust, but verify | newsobserver.com blogs
- Interesting fact: unlike some other states NC traffic laws say that a red right arrow is treated exactly the same as normal (circular) red light.
- YouTube – Traffic Signals
- Everything you ever wanted to know about traffic signals.
- A list of mathematics-related blogs by academics
- The blogs are grouped into one or more of thirty seven (at the time of this writing) categories such as "algebraic geometry" or "number theory".
It’s the end of the third day of Christmas, here’s what I’ve learned so far:
- If your receiver has the capability, go for the front wide speakers before the front height. Dolby Pro Logic IIz is supposed to be designed with videogames in mind, but even as a committed gamer I find the smoothing of the surround effect transition from front to rear more engaging than the addition of the height ambiance.
- My son has discovered that presents themselves are pretty interesting. Last year it was all about the wrapping paper
- My wife makes awesome meals using her new slow cooker, and very tasty ebelskivers using her new pan
- The Mysterious Cities of Gold DVD set is more awesome than it has any right to be. For what is nominally a children’s cartoon, they really went all out. A nice art booklet, postcards, a map of the journey, an interesting interview with the cast of the English dub, and a fantastic restoration of the picture and sound.
- Demon’s Souls is interesting enough to get its own post
- Wooden train sets are even more awesome than they were when I was a kid. Sarah and I like to play with his new set almost more than he does.
- The special features disc of the Star Trek blu-ray has some really interesting stuff.
Veering off on that tangent. J.J. Abrams is the anti-George Lucas. Doing effects in camera whenever possible, using real world (and outdoor) locations whenever possible, using camera tricks rather than digital effects whenever possible, listening to his crew, soliciting input from everyone involved all the way down to the extras. The extras! Seriously, he met with the extras every day and even ended up giving some of them lines. When you see him talking with anyone it’s clear that his passion is infectious. The people working with Lucas seem both terrified and annoyed at him, the people working with Abrams seem to be having a blast. Also, Abrams at one point during filming was wearing an “Infocom” t-shirt. There is no way that isn’t awesome. If he’s pandering, then the fact that he’s pandering to a crowd that would recognize and appreciate that bit of geekery (i.e. me) is awesome. If he isn’t pandering, then nerd alert (awesome).
My Delicious links for December 24th:
- BackPress
- "BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications. It grew out of the immensely popular WordPress project, and is also the core of the bbPress and GlotPress sister-projects."
My Delicious links for December 23rd:
- Invent with Python
- Learn Python by programming little computer games. Nice! It's like the BASIC programs that used to be in 3-2-1 Contact magazine.
- MySQL Tips
- An interesting, slightly out of date collection of handy MySQL commands and processes. It doesn't include my favorite tip though:
mysql> pager less -niSFX
You're welcome.
- Snow Storm Buries the U.S. East Coast : Natural Hazards
- A satellite view of the snow cover on the east coast of the United States following a heavy storm.
- How aircraft emissions contribute to warming : Nature News
- Not only do that have an effect, but in the arctic a seemingly significant one.
- The Hacker FAQ
- Remarkably, I haven't added the Hacker FAQ to my delicious bookmarks yet. Now rectified.
- Extending Mediawiki for all your sysadmin needs | Standalone Sysadmin
- A sysadmin discovers that mediawiki plugins aren't hard to write. It's interesting that he came around to this after spending all kinds of effort trying to modify the mediawiki database itself. You should always try to find a solution using the prescribed framework or API first.
- Posemaniacs.com » Thirty Second Drawing
- Improve your gesture drawing with this web app. It will display a posed figure for 10, 15, 30, 45, 60, or 90 seconds. In that time you sketch it as best you can.
- A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof
- lsof – lists the open "files". That's files as in actual files, loaded libraries, network connections, ports, sockets, etc.
- Heath Named U.S. Soccer’s Young Female Athlete of the Year
- Tobin!
Heath!
- The winner of Destructoid Game of the Year 2009
- Uncharted 2 takes Destructoid's game of year spot. No surprise here. Uncharted 2 is to action adventure games as Half Life 2 was to first person shooters.
- Destructoid – Why ‘Avatar’ didn’t change anything for gamers
- I haven't seen it yet, but all signs indicate this will be my reaction.
- Destructoid – Cloak and snipe: Mass Effect 2’s Infiltrator unveiled
- Yes, double yes. Mass Effect 2 is going to have a stealth character class.
- Soma FontFriend • Soma Design
- FontFriend is an awesome bookmarklet that, which clicked, pops up window that allows you to quickly try out all kinds of different font options for the current page.
- ipsCA: Getting What You Pay For
- More against ipsCA.
- Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Blu-ray Collection is only $60
- The collection is normally $140, so that's $80 off! Anyone need to do any last minute shopping?
- History of the classic snowflake character
- ❄ : where did it come from?
- Single light wave flashes out from fibre laser
- "A long-elusive goal of physics has been reached – producing a pulse of light so short that it contains just a single oscillation of a light wave."
- Another demonstration of SSL Certification Authority (in)competence
- We ran into this certification expiration at work, no fun.
- Setting up a new remote git repository
- A straightforward step by step for setting up a single non-shared remote git repository.
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