Can someone please explain to me what the deal is with HDR photos (like this or this). Are they supposed to look like crap, or am I just missing my magic goggles? I must be missing out somehow, as I can’t quite figure out why people are molesting their photos so.
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
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Dear Rikke, if at any point you were hoping we would have kids together, that plan just want out the window, as my privates have just, entirely without warning, withered and fallen off. Allow me to clarify:
The beachhead of the venture is “Terminator 4,” which has a script by “T3” writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris.There won’t be a role for Arnold Schwarzenegger. James Cameron will not be the director.
“The Terminator franchise represents by far the most popular and successful franchise not owned by a major studio,” Kubicek said. “We see this global franchise as a cornerstone of Halcyon’s future business plans.” “#”:http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964592.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
I see it as the cornerstone of Satan’s successful take over of Earth and our futures spent in eternal damnation. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to stock up on large caliber rifles.
I haven’t tried it yet, but Nocturne looks to be just what I’ve been looking for.
My Mac mini is in our bedroom, and I often find myself writing late at night when Rikke has already gone to sleep, or other times where I just wish I could remove all the bright elements on my screen. Usually I either end up using Scrivener in fullscreen mode (which is fantastic, but requires me to change the page-color, as I use a black-on-white page normally) or inverting the screen using the built-in accessibility tools, which is alright, but far from perfect.
My eyes can’t wait to try out Nocturne.
So Warren Ellis doesn’t think much of Björks latest outing:
This is just gutless, half-blind grabby-handed cultural tourism from a woman who may not even realise she has nothing left to say. If there’s fascination in VOLTA, it’s in watching a corpse continue to twitch years after it pissed on its chips. #
Oh snizzaps… Personally I think it’s alright; a hell of a lot better than both Vespertine and Medulla (which was absolute anguish to listen to).
Well, it would seem so (man, am I a Star Wars whore!).
While Lucas is readying the new “Clone Wars” animated series, he told Friedman that he will make two more live-action films based in the “Star Wars” universe as well.“But they won’t have members of the Skywalker family as characters,” he said. “They will be other people of that milieu.”
The two extra films will also be made for TV and probably be an hour long each. But, like “Clone Wars,” Lucas doesn’t know where on TV they will land. “#”:http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=20297
And of course, he thinks Spider-Man 3 is silly, which it is :)
Alright, so I promised to get started on Comic Club quite a while back, but I never picked up the reins and got it going proper. Well, it’s never too late I hope.
So Rikke and I went to check out Spider-Man 3 tonight, an contrary to what Brian and Morten had to say, it doesn’t suck. In fact, it’s a fun ride. And that’s it. Just like the last two…
Why is it, that people are a-fuzzin’ and a-cussin’ over the quality of digital music, but no one says a peep about the abhorrent quality of most online audiobooks. I was just looking through my audiobook library, and all are 24 to 32kbps!
Even with fantastic narrators like Joss Ackland — who does a wonderful Heart of Darkness — all soul is sucked from their voices; and for what? To save bandwidth? Bah, humbug! It’s not as if audiobooks aren’t already insanely expensive as it is, so at least give us the quality we deserve.
Now, I could be wrong, but since I only have audiobooks from Audible and iTS (which is Audible), I’m going to go right ahead and blame Audible for not doing their job properly.
Ultimately, I end up getting stuck on most audiobooks, simply because I can’t deal with having to spend hours on end in 24kbps-land.
I’m sure, if you run that through a decoder, it’ll spell out “Fuck DRM”.
Grats Kevin for standing up in the face of major legal issues, and grats to the digg community for leaving behind “Top 10 CSS Tricks”, “Digg Needs a Picture Category!!1” and all the other ‘oh yawn, here we go again’ stories that seem to drag Digg into the mud these days.
May 1st to 2nd, the night Digg got Dugg.
Update: Boing Boing is chronicling the exponential rise in Google hits, all now displaying the code; all of which leads one to think that perhaps this is the mass of consumers whispering in the ears of the entertainment industry: “Try to respect us as human beings, and not as potential criminals”. Or as I like to say: “Shove your fucking DRM up your own ass. Please”.
Being a James Cameron fan as I am, I couldn’t help but want to catch his first outing as a feature-film director; Piranha II: The Spawning. Needless to say, it isn’t — how do I put this — good. In any way. At all. But as a bridge between his work behind the scenes for Roger Corman, Xenogenesis and up to The Terminator, it’s interesting to have seen.
Anyway, in searching for more information about it, and in updating the Wikipedia page on it, I came across a small essay on it, which is worth taking in if you’re going to watch it.