I put together a simple techno loop as background music for an interview sequence in a video project I’m working on. Just something I slapped together with Acid and some great sounds from analoguesamples.com.
Stupid fun: find out your wu-tang name with WuName.
Worth checking out: bradsucks.net (lots of info relevant to musicians).
Recent list o’ flicks: Storytelling (a good idea but a failed effort), The Time Machine (ends up being an Indiana Jones-ish action picture. Still need to read the H.G. Wells story), The Brothers McMullen (really good Ed Burns movie), 15 Minutes (Ed Burns and DiNero in a Man Bites Dog-ish tough guy action flick with [...]
I spent part of the weekend in Little Rock with my friend Ben. We had a nice visit and ate some good pizza. Ben & his wife Meredith showed me around LR a bit. I feel much more comfortable than I had before about the prospect of living there (though that, if it happens, is [...]
Dov Charney, CEO of americanapparel.net is my new hero. He runs a successful garment factory in L.A. And he goes a long way to proving that you can run a successful business w/o exploiting workers or making their lives miserable. The L.A. garment industry is suprisingly third-world. Exploitation of all kinds and unsafe/unhealthy working conditions [...]
The Minimalist Web Project from Textbased.com was cool enough to link to my site. Imagine a world with no blinking Gifs; it’s easy if you try…
Ogg Vorbis, an open source alternative to Mp3 reaches version 1.0 (via news.com).
At Steve’s request, I darkened up the text quite a bit in the zeldman theme. Improves legibility quite a bit. I have an sjarvis theme in the work, BTW. And I plan to do a dangerousmeta! one too. So far they’re all just color scheme changes, but all the positioning is handled with CSS-P, so [...]
Serious Geek Fun
I recently updated Cygwin on one of my machines. Cygwin is, essentially, a Linux emulator that you can run on top of Windows. The latest version inclues Xfree86, which means you can run X Windows apps (either local ones that are part of the Cygwin distribution, or remote ones on Linux boxes). [...]
One of the things that sux about Windows 98 (don’t get me started) is that you’re stuck with the really clunky command.com shell rather than the much cooler (and more linux-like) cmd.exe shell that’s standard on NT/2000. Well, no longer. Win95cmd.exe is the same cmd.exe shell recompiled so it will run on 95 (and 98).
Another [...]
Two nice, small-budget flicks from last night: Tape & Sidewalks of New York. Also recently watched Easy Rider (I’d never seen it).
Debate (not that it really rises to that level) has been pretty rampant in my home town (as in the country at large) over the whole pledge of allegience church/state issue. I’d like to [...]