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I saw two barcode frames during Harry Potter, where 2/3 of the height of the frame was taken up with a giant barcode. I guess they do it to track pirate copies? I've not seen it in many movies.

I saw Harry Potter and the Year of Filler Before Interesting Things Happen. Boy was it confusing and weird! I'm glad I read the book ever because it would have been even more incoherent otherwise. Also, the effects kind of sucked: when an actor is picked up by the armpits by CG centaurs, it is sad to see the actor become stiff and shiny and lower- ( Read more... )

Have any of you, and I address my foreign companions here as well, been able to find good garlic lately? All of it I've found lately is unpleasantly rotted, too dry, or just plain bad. It all seems to be coming from China, and that's kind of not so cool either.

If you do have good garlic where you are, where is it coming from?

HUMANS THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM OPTIMUS PRIME ( Read more... )

Hey folks I found a good chunk of one of my favourite Jeremy the Bear episodes. Note the smooooth camera move in the opening shot, and the density of texture and colour. It's worth looking around on youtube for other clips, too ( Read more... )

It seems to me that big-budget action movies are in a cul-de-sac and are about to hit a brick wall. I've seen a few of the big budget summer movies so far and by and large they were tedious. The tedium of constant spectacle ( Read more... )

I think I should register "CAN I HAS STAVED IN HEAD DOT COM" and start a "LOL CRIME SCENE PHOTOS" site.

There are a couple Expertech trucks outside, they've been there almost the whole day.

On her way out just now, Lisa asked them what they're doing...

my neighbourhood is getting last-mile fibre-optics

Which isn't that surprising since Christie which is a block away is one of the big Toronto trunk lines, but it's still really cool.

From O'Reilly's (lousy) Ruby on Rails: Up and Running (Tate and Hibbs)
Scaffolding used the metaprogramming capabilities of ruby in concert with the metadata in Active Record to instantly slap a web face on our database tables.

From George Orwell's "1984 reasons to develop in Rails"
If you want a picture of the future of web development, imagine a ( Read more... )