CommentMy friends and colleagues in Space Time Foam have just launched their latest offering, Chase Ace Deluxe. It’s a fast paced retro space shooter featuring awesome ’splosions. You really need to watch a video (or another video) to see what it’s all about, and why their 15$ price tag is a bargain.
CommentI find lifehacker mildly amusing. Once in a while a little news item of worth ticks in. This time, Superior Alternatives To Crappy Windows Software catched my fancy. Bonus points for dissing both Quicktime, iTunes and in part Safari for their door-to-door salesmen approaches. Because as we all know, iTunes is the new Real Player.
7 CommentsAvid readers of these snacksized portions of pointless stuff might have spotted a change in writing style around here. Bitter and arrogant as I have become, I dare say my writing has improved. Compared to one year ago, you’ll now find more text (not substance), profanity and mework details. You’ll find more odd synonyms than before and once in a while you’ll encounter words like poppycock and ooze.
6 CommentsWebKit, the browser engine that powers Safari, now supports CSS gradients. For the unenlightened, Safari also supports drop shadows and rounded corners. If you’ve ever built a website using CSS, you’ll know how many headaches this would save you. Woo hoo, right?
1 CommentThe latest from the Coen brothers, No Country For Old Men, tells the story of a drug deal gone bad. When bystander Llewelyn Moss comes upon $2M in drug money, what follows is a game of cat and mouse when Moss is hunted by hired psycho-assassin Anton Chigurh.
I wouldn’t normally go watch a movie like No Country. Sad, you might note, as this is a rather good movie, but usually the plethora of pseudo-intellectual would-be Oscar films simply saturate the market. The bulk of them bore me out of my skull. There exists a very finite limit to the number of ways in which one can poetically spell out — punch label even — the dire straits of our society.
No Country, however, oozes cool from every crevasse. From the beginning, and for most of the movie, it’s even engaging and entertaining in ways that are theoretically impossible. It’s quite an impressive feat and it bears the mark of genuine skill behind the camera.
Alas, it’s only most of the movie that’s this good and in the end, No Country does suffer from some of the same problems all the other ones do.
7 CommentsHave you been to the movies recently? Have you noticed how everyone gets killed off by the end of the movie? No, I’m not talking about any movie in particular, I’m talking about most of them. To be fair, I won’t mention by names exactly which movies spurned this; rest assured their bitter, cheap, pseudo-artful endings will remain intact by the end of this mouth off.
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