I saw Apocalyptica tonight. I hung out with miss_chance and palmwiz; Gregorian was there, too, with friends of his. I love that he loves this band; I think he listened to their first album a lot in utero. (Hmmm, I wonder if he also listened to Nirvana's In Utero in utero. I don't recall ( Read more... )

I can't believe how much I love this video.

It's a "literal" video (I love them), really well done, with the Eclipse trailer.

I recommend positioning the video window slightly off the bottom of your screen to block the lyrics, which are mostly distracting. At least on the second or third watching.

Tobuscus: Twilight Eclipse LITERAL Trailer ( Read more... )

While getting hungry sometimes makes me irritable and even miserable, at other times it's just a physical sensation, with no negative mental impact. Now I just need to figure out how to keep it in the second camp more ( Read more... )

In a bizarre postscript to yesterday's question about hair styles (as I contemplate cutting my long hair), and my happening across the nicely written if historically inaccurate Louis CK Poker ("faggot") scene earlier today (and on Fresh Air yesterday), I got rudely called "long haired faggot" for the first time in my life today ( Read more... )

How do you decide what your hair should be like?

(Seeing myself in videos recently has made me seriously dislike my current hairstyle, but I don't know what to do instead.)

It's been a long, long time coming, but finally RIF is a W3C Recommendation.

It's explained pretty well by this MIT News article, including another video of me. (This is my month to be a TV star, now that TV is dead.)

I gave a talk last night, and now it's on the web! Given I was only able to spend a few days preparing, I'm quite proud of it.

http://vimeo.com/12444260

I got a new gas dryer, and after two weeks, trying various settings, it always leaves the contents slightly damp unless I run them a second time. (or I can used a timed setting, instead of an automatic setting, but that's ridiculous ( Read more... )

A nice little video about the Semantic Web. I'm not in it, but I work with many of the folks who are. I also wouldn't frame it like this, but this isn't a bad framing.

http://kateray.net/film/

I was behind on my vlogbrothers until I got pointed at this, this morning.

maybe it's just me, but omfg this is amazing (and I don't even care about the eco angle at all, frankly)....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyJb2nzAZIk