Monthly Archive for May, 2006
Interesting little ‘feature’ on Flickr. You can’t write all capital letters. Aye, tis be true, try it. It’ll convert it to properly capitalized sentences…
Since its enthusiastic adoption a year and a half ago, by Google, Six Apart, Wordpress, and of course the eminent Dave Winer, I think we can all agree that nofollow has done … nothing. Comment spam? Thicker than ever. It’s had absolutely no effect on the volume of spam. That’s probably because comment spammers don’t give a crap, because the marginal cost of spamming is so low. Also, nofollow-tagged links are still links, which means that humans can still click on them – and if humans can click, there’s a chance somebody might visit the linked sites after all.
I of course hate being the obnoxious asshole shouting ‘I fucking told you so!’ (that’s not true), still… I told you so.
I’ll be heading to Jutland this weekend, where I’ll spend a couple of days with no Internet access. And it hit me that I would miss Wikipedia quite a bit, as I’ve been using it for reference quite a bit lately. But then I came to thinking, Wikipedia is available for download, but that would require of me to jump through all kinds of hoops to get it up and running.
What I really want is a Wikipedia Offline dashboard widget or something to that effect. Anyone know of any projects to this effect?
PS: Lifehacker has a local Wikipedia tutorial
Hold on tight as we launch into one-sentence movie reviews for people who are too busy to ponder the details of things:
X-Men 3: The Last Stand
Brett Ratner is certainly no Brian Singer, but The Last Stand does manage not only to stay in the style of the first two movies, but also close up most of the lingering storylines in a fairly satisfactory way, as well as provide you with some ‘dude, awesome!’ moments along the way, many of which are actually lit tremendously well, despite the fact that it seems like either money or time was a factor as there are some minor effects here and there that could have used a bit more love, but hey the goddamn Golden Gate bridge gets lifted by Magneto, so I guess that makes up for the neutering of Wolverine and the offing of several of the major characters.
Thumbs Up and a well-earned opening day.
The Da Vinci Code
Literally ‘by the book’ in the most stiff and uninteresting manner possible, which is a shame, as I’d heard that Dan Brown had received an offer to turn it into a 24-like TV-series, which in my humble opinion would have been a much more interesting move.
Thumbs Down.
Both had Ian McKellen, and he steals all the attention from everyone. Also,
Dear Marketing Guys: Please make up your mind, is it a white futuristic font, or a black serif font? Compare and Contrast:
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