A great issue of Micrograms, featuring a very complex disposal system some traffickers set up in the back of their car using a model rocket and a system of strings and pullies!
Apple recently released Aperture, their new pro-level digital image management and manipulation application. While I don’t have a nice fancy DSLR to take tons of crazy pictures with, some of the features of Aperture are just insane. Mostly so:
• By the way, there’s no Save command in Aperture. As you make changes, those changes are recorded in a SQL database.
Just. Sick.
Read more here.
I don’t think Flock is going to beat up Firefox in any way, and I’m kind of sad their features aren’t just Firefox add-ons… but at least it’s pretty?
[Edit: My rhetorical question was actually answered here: http://www.decrem.com/bart/2005/10/flock-firefox-and-open-source/ ]
I guess we’ll see what happens when the final release comes out…
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I know I’m a little late on this one, but I missed it when it came to town. Thanks to the magic of Netflix I finally got a chance to catch up with the Thai action movie Ong-Bak starring that crazy high-flying Tony Jaa. The big hooplah about Ong-Bak was that all the stunts were real: no wires, no computer graphicmatronics, no stunt doubles. I have to say it was indeed pretty crazy how Tony Jaa, playing Ting, the Thai villager sent to the city to retreive the stolen head of the village deity, jumped all crazy in the air and gave a double knee, or double elbowed attack to someone’s head. It was a little slow at first, but there were some good running chase scenes showing off their mad skills like jumping through a loop of barbed wire or flipping between two panes of glass, and the famous or not-so-famous running through a crowd of people by stepping on their heads and shoulders.
Ong-Bak definitely showed Muay Thai as a powerful art, with Tony Jaa demonstrating muay thai routines that looked like they could take out a brick wall (and they damn near did in a few part of the movie). It was nice to see an alternative to the normal high-flying kung-fu action that’s more popular in movies, and it makes me happy that a Thai director is getting a chance to show the world a proud product of his country. However, I didn’t think the action filled out the movie enough… I mean yeah, these guys have to do some crazy stuff and I probably couldn’t run long enough to be in just one of the many action scenes in the movie, but it still didn’t seem like a well-balanced movie.
I would say Ong-Bak was interesting, but not fascinating, so if you are somewhat interested in seeing some crazy martial arts action and high-flying double-knee attacks to the head, I’d say this movie is for you, but I can’t reccomend that you run out right now and buy it. Of interest on the DVD is a special feature showing a live stage performance of Tony Jaa and some of the other stuntmen from the movie, and it was interesting to see the moves live on stage, but all in all, Ong-Bak did not blow my socks off.
The director, Prachya Pinkaew, has a few other movies in the works which look pretty interesting. The most recent one to be hitting English-speaking shores is “Born to Fight” which features more of the same crazy stunts, but this time it’s villagers vs. the government. See the trailer here: Born To Fight
When I first moved here, I was struck by the sheer amount of people that have iPods. Everyone on the bus and on the streets seem to have the white little earbuds poked into their ears, and I came to accept that. But after living here for a while, some very strong signs that you’re living in San Francisco are:
1) The day after Apple releases something new, you see at least 12 of them on the bus to and from school or work.
2) You’re sitting on the bus and the guy across from you is listening to his iPod nano while answering his black RAZR and the guy to your left is playing with his PSP while the guy t your right is playing a Gameboy Micro.
3) You can get a wifi connection pretty much anywhere you go, with at least 4 open connections to choose from at any given time.
4) You start to wonder if Ribbity got caught because nothing new pops up anymore.
You know, once “bad” used to mean “good”. But language has a habit of always changing, and so today bad has regained it’s status as demarking something as actually bad, but what about for those of us who hang on to new tradition? In the modern lexicon, if I want to say something is “bad”, using the circa 1990 definition, I have to use a qualifier, like “bad-ass” or “bad-ical”. Is this fair?
I have to wonder what other things will change in 10 year’s time. Recently I heard a new term, “scary”, which would mean something evokes fear. But the way it was used in this situation was… well, here:
“My homegirl and I was at this club and this white girl was muggin my homegirl all hella crazy, so she kept muggin and I was like ‘Yo do you know that girl’ and homegirl was like ‘Hell nah I don’t know her’. But next thing I know the girl straight punched my homegirl in the face and they was on the floor until security came, but afterwords my homegirl was all like ‘Why you gotta be scary? Why you actin’ all hella scary? Why din’choo have my back?’ and now she’s mad at me, so we ain’t homegirls no more. I wasn’ bein’ hella scary at all, that bitch is crazy”
Like that.
If you know any gems to add to the lexicon, please let me know. And don’t cheat and just pick something off of Urban Dictionary, either. I want regional flavor.
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