In light of IE7 beta’s recent release, this makes me giggle a bit.

YouTube – Wheee!

Despite my job, I am an ostrich with its head in a hole when it comes to burgeoning technologies. If I don’t see it, I can’t learn it, right? But some things just cannot be ignored. One such thing is Sketchup, Google’s newly released easy-to-use 3D modeling software. My friend, the set designer and custom carpenter, may find this up his proverbial alley.

Much obliged to Von Herwig for the boot in the tuchus.

SketchUp – Home

More tiny linkdom — this one courtesy of Czeltic Girl — on this the day of my daughter’s wedding.

A case for advertising, a portfolio case. [eBay]

More things that belong in a mini-blog. I’ve got to buckle down and get that thing working.

Wired News: Your Thoughts Are Your Password

When people aren’t looking, I’m playing this. Part of my *job* is to have a browser open and to keep my thumb on the pulse of the web. This qualifies, I think.

Dungeonman 3 [homestarrunner flash text adventure]

I just post links.

Salma Hayek vs. Friedrich Hayek Scorecard

Watching this trailer for The Neverything intrigues and saddens me. At first, I think cheap laughs at the expense of a chubby bloke in tighty-whiteys; nothing particularly wrong with that. Then I think semi-viral marketing for Mercury in the vein of Napoleon Dynamite. Then, I get utterly swept up in the story of a novelist whose character knows he’s being written, and wonder where I’ve heard that idea before.

But I didn’t laugh. First, the good parts aren’t laugh-out-loud kind of humour. Second, the obvious laughter ploys just aren’t very funny (“I don’t think this is yoga.”) And finally, I want to see this plot to its fruition, but as an ad, I don’t know whether it will be made or even whether it’s a real idea (much like the “footage” from Gibson’s Pattern Recognition). If it does manage to make it to a screen, the ploys for laughter are too paper-thin and Hollywood to be worth sitting through for the sake of the interesting notion of a self-aware novel character.

This came out very stream-of-consciousness, but I don’t really have time for a properly written analysis. Enjoy it for what it is.

While clearing spam from my moderation queue, which has been thankfully minimal, I found this comment:

“Police have been checking vehicles in a zone around the site of the discovery, where poultry movements are restricted.”

It seemed to have no ulterior motive: no links, no sales-speech, etc. I marked it as spam, since I did not know the name, but if you are the owner of this comment, thank you sincerely for the image and the laugh. I’m sorry to have to moderate you.

Ernest Cline, whose site navigation is imaginative, useable, nostalgic and all kinds of cool, produced a small educational film strip to put us all in our place. It is wonderful.

No excuses. I ain’t busy or nothin’. But I just haven’t had much to say or link. But here’s some interesting reading. And if you haven’t read Alan Moore’s V or Watchmen, I recommend them, yet again.

A for Anarchy