Letter Never Sent

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The whole company is getting taken to see Spiderman 2 tomorrow. After that we’re having a company dinner at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel downtown. Apparently, the big boss man from the Korean parent company is going to be in town. I’m looking forward to seeing it. At RottenTomatoes.com the reviews are at 100%. That means it should be really good.

While looking at Breen’s new lovely CSS design for his website, Pausebreak, in Firefox I skipped over to the Duethosting page. and realized that it doesn’t display properly in IE. That means I’ll need to redo it.

Ogrish.com may be beating Rotten.com now as best shock website especially with all the beheadings now. They’ve been reliable about posting the beheading videos and images to their site which can’t be cheap considering the amount of bandwidth involved.
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You need to see this movie. There are scenes that will grip you, not because of anything said, written, or done by Michael Moore, but because of the unadulterated and undeniable reality of what you are seeing. In one scene an older Iraqi woman walks amidst the rubble of her uncle’s home pleading with God to save them from the Americans, and asking where is He in their moment of need? When she cries out in anguish that “God is great” “Allahu Ackbar!” because she is scared and powerless to do anything else to protect her family and herself, you understand in an instant what the Iraqi people are going through. Exhorting God is the only way to keep your head up and your spirit from collapsing. It is powerful stuff and that’s just one small taste of it. Much of the rest of the film is the typical Moore ambush clueless politicians with a camera stuff, or talking to the average joe. Undeniably, Fahrenheit 9-11 will have a considerable impact on the election, especially if just half the people who see this movie vote in Novemeber.
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There is an exploit for Internet Explorer out right now where any website can install anything it wants onto your computer. While visiting websites you may notice your virus scanner going off as a website tries to install a virus-laden dll. Until IE gets its security flaws fixed you might want to check out the mozilla-based browser, Firefox.

Short feature list:

1. Small size: 4.7MB
2. No need to install just run from wherever you have it.
3. Tabbed browsing. Run multiple pages within the same browser instance so you don’t fill up your task bar while visiting websites.
4. Built in pop-up blocker.

My dad left his computer with me this week since he’s been having a lot of trouble with it. His master boot record had two entries, one of which would not load windows and would just crash at the command line. In other words, during load the prompt would ask which of two install of Windows to load. Unfortunately, this was the default entry and with a USB keyboard, since USB keyboards will often not power up and work until Windows is loaded, he could not select the correct boot record. So, in researching this issue I learned a new thing that you too may benefit from: necessary entries from the boot record or boot.ini. One problem down and a few more to go.

After this, I loaded up and ran Ad-Aware 6.0 with its updated reference files to locate and remove any spyware. I found hundreds of bot programs and crap clogging his system. The “Program Files” directory was loaded with virus exe’s. This is a good thing to run every so often if you’re on a Windows machine.

It used to be just an idea popular among couch potatoes, college students, pot smokers, and other motivationally challenged sugar-addicts: a restaurant that serves only cereal. But now, that idea is a reality….a Cereality. Here’s the gist:

1. The employees wear pajamas (the last thing I want to see is a franchise employee wearing pajamas unless they’re cute high school girls like the kind that always work at hot dog on a stick)
2. You get your choice of two name brand cereals even hot cereals.
3. A topping (nuts and milkballs, etc. wtf?)
4. As much milk, soy milk as you want
5. Prepared in a chinese-food-style container

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I’m starting to wonder if some of the folks at BoingBoing.net haven’t made some sort of deal with Nick Denton (the notorious blog advertising minimogul) and Gawker media. All I ever see on BB lately is fleshbot, fleshbot, fleshbot (not safe for work) or gizmodo crossposting. Is Wired News journalist and third member of Roxette, Xeni Jardin, working for them now? Does anyone know?

1. Exhibit A: Best actual adult film title ever
2. Exhibit B: What’s in Your Gadget Bag Xeni?

I actually like Gizmodo and Fleshbot a lot. I think they have a good format going for disciplined blog coverage without a lot of navel-gazing (like you’d find here, faithful readers). I check Gizmodo and BoingBoing several times a day. On a related note: Nick Denton et al are working some deal with Nike, since, you know, Nike likes to be on the cutting edge of cool. It’s called… . Maybe inner city kids aren’t buying enough Air Jordans anymore and they want to start reaching out to bloggeurs. I’d hate to think that all those Indonesian sweatshops are sitting idle.

Detour Seeks Dick Artists Dept.:

Flat Black Films (Waking Life) has sent out word that they’re seeking fine artists and illustrators to work on Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. Says the press releases: “Applicants need to be highly skilled in fine drawing, particularly of the human face … experience with computer animation such as Flash is a plus but not required.” Send portfolios or examples of artwork to: Scanner Darkly, c/o Sara Johnson, Detour FilmProduction, 3109 N. I-35, Austin, TX 78722. Or, e-mail online portfolio info to bob@@flatblackfilms.com.

On a related noted, here are some photos from the set of A Scanner Darkly.

Interesting entry from the ever informative Defensetech.org:

The whole world knows that if you mess with U.S. Air Force pilots, you’re going down. Hard.

Except, someone forgot to send the memo to India, apparently. Because, in recent exercises, Indian flyboys in low-tech Russian and French jets defeated American F-15C pilots more than 90 percent of the time.