Brilliant analysis of what could have been "really" happening in Avatar. Don't read if you haven't seen the film.: An Awesome Interpretation of Avatar
Category Archives: Asides
Link: A Self-Referential Story
2009-10-17 – 11:00:29
"Sentient sentences": an astonishing piece of work.: A Self-Referential Story
A quote from Amanda Palmer: asking for money for your art is not selling out
2009-10-14 – 12:28:18
ASKING FOR MONEY FOR YOUR ART IS NOT SELLING OUT.
selling out is when you go against your own heart, ideals and authenticity to make money.
selling out is an action, a 180 from a stated position.
i don’t consider pop stars to be sell-outs.
the lady gagas, britneys and madonnas of the world are UNABASHED about why they […]
Link: Do I know where hell is? Hell is in "Hello"
2009-10-07 – 16:00:08
God save us from crazy religious nutters.
The title is taken from 'Wandrin' Star', by the way.: Do I know where hell is? Hell is in "Hello"
Link: A report on FT.com: The man who invented exercise
2009-10-07 – 12:00:31
Amazing story. Hard to believe that the benefits of aerobic exercise were unknown as recently as the 1940s.: A report on FT.com: The man who invented exercise
Without Twitter, how will we know what’s happening?
2009-03-04 – 23:41:14
Twitter seems to be down at the moment – or at least, it’s not accepting tweets, and I can’t log in at the website. But how do we know what’s happening without Twitter to tell us?
Edit: back to normal now. I’m @devilgate, of course.
Watermelon Sculpture
2008-09-01 – 21:41:51
Watermelon Sculpture
Originally uploaded by devilgate.
My son’s first sculpture. Clearly Halloween can’t come soon enough (though watermelon is a lot easier to carve than pumpkin)
What’s that stand for?
2008-07-31 – 09:31:28
I remember several years ago when the right answer to this was given wrong on University Challenge; but you’d think that, after all this time, The Guardian’s Technology section would know what URL stands for.
Tip: it’s uniform, not universal.
FF3 on Linux
2008-07-30 – 23:34:42
Well, that business with installing Firefox 3 on Linux? Finally done on my Eee PC. Took ages, but the instructions worked more-or-less perfectly.
It is _immensely_ annoying that you can …
2008-06-20 – 18:39:50
It is immensely annoying that you can’t just download and install Firefox 3 on Linux (at least the Xandros distro that comes with the Eee PC) without having to install something called Gtk+ 2.10. Not least because you can’t just apt-get install the latter: you have to build it from source, and handle [...]