links for 2006-10-31
Posted in links on October 31st, 2006 by delicious-
Richard Marcinko’s autobiography… as a video game.
links for 2006-10-30
Posted in links on October 30th, 2006 by delicious-
A list of some of the best freeware Mac apps.
Run, Run, Run, Runaway
Posted in misc, writing on October 28th, 2006 by r3vSome days, I want to run away from home work and pursue my (pipe)dream of making a living as a writer.
I envision writing for TV, mostly. I imagine starting off for some bad morning show where I hate the hosts and I am forced to write jokes about the weather and provide sub-witty banter-fodder. That would be ok, though. It’s an in and it’s writing. Eventually, I’d move up to a writing for some shitty sitcom that stars Damon Wayans or a washed-up standup. Eventually, I’d manage to claw my way into a show like Battlestar Galactica, Studio 60, Heroes or The Unit and I’d be ecstatic.
Of course, the entire time I’d also be working on trying to get a movie script sold, because who doesn’t have a movie idea, right? I’ve got a couple dozen. One or two of them might even be good.
Then, eventually, I’d become a Script Doctor. The guy they call in to fix a screenplay that just isn’t working. You know, punch it up. That’s an almost ideal job, I think.
Yeah, some days that what I dream about doing. This month has been one of those days.<EMO>le sigh</EMO>
How old am I? Is it too late?
links for 2006-10-27
Posted in links on October 27th, 2006 by delicious-
multi platform, open source, soft KVM
links for 2006-10-25
Posted in links on October 25th, 2006 by delicious-
Possibly the coolest software app ever.
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amazingly simple, amazingly fun
Rush Limbaugh
Posted in rants on October 25th, 2006 by r3vThis (Limbaugh: Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s ‘Acting’) news story is everywhere.
So, I just thought I’d say: Fuck Rush Limbaugh. Fuck him in his big fat head.
California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Upheld
Posted in political on October 25th, 2006 by r3vI don’t know if I’ll ever get there, but every day I feel like I’m being edged toward Libertarianism by a combination of my own underlying philosophies and the disgust I feel as both the left and the right seek to infringe on our freedoms.
Via NBC11 a couple of weeks ago:
NBC11.com - News - State’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Upheld: SAN FRANCISCO — A state appeals court ruled Thursday that California’s ban on gay marriage does not violate the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians, dealing a critical defeat to a movement hungry for a win after high courts in New York and Washington upheld similar bans in those states.
You’d think that California and New York, two of the most liberal states in the Union, could manage to not ban gay marriage.
Polls state that over half of Americans are against Gay Marriage. I don’t fucking get you people.
The Departed
Posted in movies on October 24th, 2006 by r3vSaturday, we saw the new Martin Scorcese film The Departed. It’s got a cast that’s so full of big names that I had to wonder if it would really be as good as it sounded with all those egos vying for attention and screen time.
Nicholson, DiCaprio, Damon, Sheen, Wahlberg, Baldwin. And those are just the ones you recognize with one name. Then there’s folk like Ray Winstone, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Corrigan, and the lovely Vera Farmiga.
Not a single bad performance in the lot. In fact, quite the inverse. Jack Nicholson plays an Irish-American mob boss who doesn’t feel like the same Nicholson character we’ve seen a couple dozen times. DiCaprio is, perhaps only now, officially all growed up I think. (The guy is only two years younger than me, but has been playing a kid for the last decade it feels like. Even in the Aviator, he seemed a little young for the role.)
It’s originally a Chinese movie, and although I know there were some changes, I have not seen the original yet. This might explain why it doesn’t feel like the standard Hollywood drivel.
The movie runs two and a half hours, but doesn’t feel like it. The entire movie is a good ride, even the slower parts.
links for 2006-10-24
Posted in links on October 24th, 2006 by delicious-
Dwayne McDuffie has written for Marvel, etc
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absolutewrite.com article
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writing-world.com
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FF extension to hack other, extensions to make them work with newer FF builds
“Fuck lemonade, you wanna buy a Mac-10?”
Posted in news on October 19th, 2006 by r3vGirl 14 Accused Of Supplying Machine Guns: A 14-YEAR-OLD girl from north-west London stands accused of conspiracy to supply a machine gun capable of firing 1,000 rounds a minute.
The article goes on to discuss crime, violence and gangs in London. Gang warfare is on the rise. Then it talks about music videos and I nearly stopped reading, assuming this was the normal blame the media type hype, but for some reason, I continued…
The police chief points to a growing trend which is seeing gangs produce music videos, being broadcast on digital music channels, encouraging violent attacks on rivals.
Wow. That’s a bit worse than the standard glamorization of the gangsta lifestyle we see on MTV here in the States. That’s actual televised propaganda in a gang war. Kinda scary. Almost as scary is the proposed plan…
One solution put forward by Superintendent Logan is the US initiative of “street pastors”.
Under the American scheme volunteers from local churches, wearing overtly religious clothing, patrol crime hotspots.
The report claims that black males aged between 13 and 19 are less likely to commit crime if they know a pastor is around.
<facepalm> Of course it’s an American scheme. Well, all I can say to these church patrols is good luck (honestly) and you might want to consider carrying something heftier than the word of god with you.
Oh… AND I THOUGHT GUNS WERE ILLEGAL IN THE U.K.? :P
