2008-03-30
Words AND images? What manner of magic is this?
This is an exciting time to be alive and online. New breakthroughs are happening every day. The following post on Lifehacker has me especially excited.
How revolutionary!
Now let's try it again without the bullshit.
All kidding aside, Lifehacker's one on my favorite daily sites. But c'mon.
UPDATE: For the curious, this is a blogroll -- a thumbnail of your favorite websites, which is too small and blurry to make out, thus giving the user no idea what the hell he is clicking on other than "that blog is blue" or "that blog has gold lines running down the sides." Brilliant.
"Make an image-rich blogroll in twenty minutes"
Most of us who have blogs most likely have a blogroll, a text list of other blogs that we like. Yahoo!-er Ian Kennedy has come up with a quick way to spruce up that boring old blogroll: images.
Now let's try it again without the bullshit.
Most of us who have websites most likely have links to other websites. Yahoo!-er Ian Kennedy has discovered nothing.
All kidding aside, Lifehacker's one on my favorite daily sites. But c'mon.
UPDATE: For the curious, this is a blogroll -- a thumbnail of your favorite websites, which is too small and blurry to make out, thus giving the user no idea what the hell he is clicking on other than "that blog is blue" or "that blog has gold lines running down the sides." Brilliant.
Labels: misc
2008-03-10
Beowulf wasn't a hero, he was a man. A SPIDER-MAN!
I'm sorry, I just don't see the point of trying to show that Beowulf wasn't a super-strong badass who could rip off a monster's arm with his bare hands (as in the poem), THEN giving him all these ridiculous Spider-Man powers (endless backflips, rope-swings and super-human agility).
I mean, what are they going for? The "real" story, where Beowulf isn't all he's cracked up to be, or yet another ragdoll super-spinny CGI flip-fest fightscene where the hero swings around on ropes, spins like a dreidel and always lands on his feet?
People don't really move like that. It looks fake and silly. Either stick with the original, badass, arm-wrenching, catch-as-catch-can wrestling Beowulf, or have him fight like a normal man and not some backflipping Ninja Turtle.
UPDATE:
Some disagree:
Look, I realize what they were trying to do. I'm just saying that in doing so, they've created yet another heroic layer of bullpucky.
It's like they're saying, "Beowulf wasn't REALLY super strong, kids. But he COULD jump twenty feet in the air, do a 540 spin, and land on his feet."
And in twenty years, there'll be another movie.
"Musclebound Beowulf wasn't REALLY more agile than an acrobat -- he actually had laser eyes."
I mean, what are they going for? The "real" story, where Beowulf isn't all he's cracked up to be, or yet another ragdoll super-spinny CGI flip-fest fightscene where the hero swings around on ropes, spins like a dreidel and always lands on his feet?
People don't really move like that. It looks fake and silly. Either stick with the original, badass, arm-wrenching, catch-as-catch-can wrestling Beowulf, or have him fight like a normal man and not some backflipping Ninja Turtle.
UPDATE:
Some disagree:
I think that fight scene may have been a commentary on how legends, as told, don't always truthfully tell what really happened. Heck, this was demonstrated right in the movie: we clearly see Beowulf using the door to "chop" Grendel's arm off, and the very next day the story is being told about how he ripped his arm off with his bare hands.
Look, I realize what they were trying to do. I'm just saying that in doing so, they've created yet another heroic layer of bullpucky.
It's like they're saying, "Beowulf wasn't REALLY super strong, kids. But he COULD jump twenty feet in the air, do a 540 spin, and land on his feet."
And in twenty years, there'll be another movie.
"Musclebound Beowulf wasn't REALLY more agile than an acrobat -- he actually had laser eyes."
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