Binary Bonsai

As I promised, today should be the day that finally sees the Kubrick theme set into the open. I’ll of course do whatever I can to make it as standards compliant and cross-browser compatible as I can get away with, but I do expect minor errors to crop up once it gets into your hands.

So I’d appreciate it, if you would let me know of any errors you find and/or additions you make that might be of interest to other people. I can’t guarantee that I roll them into the theme, but the more the merrier.

Update: Actually, I’m going to name it 1.2.0, following the version numbering of WordPress, and incrementing the last digit when making changes.

Also, My apologies for the server being down, it seems that my host decided that today was the day where the IP’s get moved around. This of course results in me not being able to do a damn thing about the Kubrick theme for the last 3-4 hours. Luckily I’m all but done.

Well, the rumors weren’t wrong. Neither were the ‘perhaps they’re doctored’ leaked images from the DVD. Andy digs up the proof. But beware, this’ll probably shatter all hopes that you may have of preserving your childhood memory of Star Wars.

From the Return of the Jedi, by way of Andy’s linkblog, I bring you “The Return of Hayden“.

A week ago, at age 75, Hollywood and movie fans everywhere lost one of the greatest film composers that have lived. Jerry Goldsmith, who died after a long fight against cancer, is one of my personal all time favorite composers, having scored such movies as Alien, Planet of the Apes, Leviathan, Logan’s Run, The Omen, Poltergeist, Gremlins, Warlock and several Star Trek films.

I would like to share with you some of my favorite bits.

• ‘Main Title’ from Alien (1979)*
• ‘Underwater Camp’ from Leviathan (1989)
• ‘Main Title’ from Poltergeist (1982)

* The quality on Alien isn’t too good, since this is from the Expanded Bootleg edition.

Not that I want to turn into a linkblog, what with all of 3 link-only entries in two days. But this is not only satirically hysterical, it’s also so spot on, that it quite frankly scares me a little bit:

“The haters offer their assessment. The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while zealots counter that it is both smaller and lighter than a Buick Regal. The virtual slap-fight goes on and on, until obscure technical nuances like, “Will it play multiplexed Ogg Vorbis streams?” become matters of life and death.”

The Apple Product Cycle

PS: This quote by the way, is the very reason I don’t really frequent forums as much as I did just a few years ago:

“The obligatory “I’m waiting for Rev. B” discussion appears in the Mac forums. People who’ve been burned by first-generation Apple products open up their old wounds and bleed their tales of woe. Unsympathetic technophiles fire back with, “if you can’t handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Pussy.” Everyone has this stupid argument for the twenty-third time.”