November 2007

The Forbidden Kingdom

November 19, 2007

China, the Middle Kingdom, gets the Middle Earth treatment. I remember Crouching Tiger, HIdden Dragon was disappointing in that it seemed to lack that epic quality in terms of plot; it was built on imagery alone. This seems to have a lot more substance, and pairing Jet Li with Jackie Chan gives it immediate gravitas. [...]

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fixing Exile

November 15, 2007

I finished Last Exile, and everything that everyone else already said was absolutely spot-on and hence doesn’t need to be resaid. I’m going to take a slightly different tack. It occurs to me I can pinpoint the exact point where Last Exile went astray:

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EEE 2.0

November 14, 2007

Ars has a gigantic review of the EEE. It is as comprehensive as you can imaging, delving into everything from design build to hacking the OS. In other news, Asus has revealed the specs on the next generation EEE: double the flash storage to 8 GB, and a larger 10″ LCD screen. Assuming they bump [...]

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the otaku dream girl

November 14, 2007

There’s a story arc in progress at XKCD (part 1, part 2, part 3) which reminded me of Steven’s post from last week. In a nutshell, the stay at home mom next door is actually a super hacker. Thus she combines the archetypes of otaku dream girl (ODG) and MILF1 into one. Her daughter was [...]

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still the greatest

November 12, 2007

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that’s no moon…

November 12, 2007

that’s a space craft!

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registration captcha

November 11, 2007

I mentioned earlier that I was using Peter’s Anti-spam Math plugin to allow for freer commenting (after inspiration from Shamus). I was also using the WP-Deadbolt plugin to add a blacklist to the blog registration page. However, I left a comment at Peter’s asking if he could add the same captcha functionality to the registration [...]

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the future of Wii

November 11, 2007

the Wii has of course blown everyone else away and rules the roost in terms of units sold, more than the XB and PS combined. But there’s a lot of room for improvement and areas in which the Wii can’t rest on its laurels. A detailed article at TGD makes the case for what needs [...]

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Trek 2.0 casting roundup

November 10, 2007

The holy triumvirate of Kirk, Spock and Bones is fully cast – with Bones being played by Karl Urban (Eomer from LOTR), which IMHO is all kinds of awesome. Bones needs to have that badass vibe. Another inspired bit of casting is Winona Ryder as Spock’s mom; about time she played someone all responsible-like. And [...]

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