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You see, there are dumb action movies, and then there are films that are so fundamentally insulting to your intelligence and so massively ill-conceived in theme and structure that you find yourself idly wondering just how good the blow was that the studio executives who green lit the film had to have been snorting.
That’s its name. Not that I don’t think it is awesome–I actually kind of do–but I think it’s even funnier that they called it “The Awesome Highlighter“.
And it does just what you think, based on the name: you give it an URL, then you highlight parts of the page, and you get a link to [...]
It’s really a miscellany today. I was half-tempted to title this 88 lines about 44 links, and maybe even do it in some kind of poetic structure, but fortunately a combination of laziness and good sense prevailed.
Nice to see that former local (and HGPA-member) Brian O’Malley’s movie deal is actually happening–at least leads are being [...]
That looks pretty good. I really hope that the inkblots move around dynamically after post-production, though.
A while back I discovered that my wife somehow managed to grow up without seeing any of the Kurt Russell Disney mad-science-at-college movies from the late Sixties and early Seventies.
So, I added the movies to my Zip queue, and while I was in Australia the first one, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, arrived.
So we watched [...]
Why does Hollywood have to taint everything good?
I mean, if they’re going to screw up Radio Free Albemuth, and apparently VALIS as well, (both of which I am fairly sure are unfilmable without dramatically transforming the work, and not for the better), what is safe?
(Maybe I’m being cynical, although Dick’s history in Hollywood supports me. [...]
Most of the time, when watching “hackers” on television, and in movies, I am usually quite harsh in mocking the appearance of their tools, and the Hollywood OS. The fact of the matter is that real programmers, and even more so real hackers, primarily work with the keyboard1 and character mode information2–this, however, doesn’t really [...]
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