meatloaf nachos: good idea or bad?
X-Men: The Last Stand - Review - Movies - New York Times
"Mostly, as so often with these types of empty entertainments, you are left to wonder why companies that hire so many fine actors to run around under latex and foam and have the best technological wizardry money can buy seem to spend so little attention to the screenplay."
Finally someone has caught on.
"I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds.
Goofing around with the new Google trends (very nifty!)
Makes me want to start mapping events against these trends-- information design, which is much older a practice seems to come out of nowhere, and rather later than I would have guessed... and I wonder what IxD and IAI did for the terms, if anything.
Now before you get all upity, and start puffing out your chest in pride, try adding "usability" to the equation.
You may have come a long way baby, but Jakob's kids have come farther.
What the heck is this, and why do the lawyers think it is common enough to need to be represented iconicly?
This morning I found my Sandman Companion still open to the page I was on when I left 7 weeks ago (that is a true sign of marital respect, folks. As well as of geekiness on my part.) And Neil Gaimen is saying that he learned in World's End that some stories can't be told in 24 pages. And it made me think of his novels, such as Anasi Boys, which at 416 pages could hardly be called a short book-- except it is. I read it in a couple days. Compare with the truely amazing and terrific Middlesex, weighing in at 544 pages. If I hadn't looked up the two, I would have sworn Anasi Boys was 250-300 pages, and Middlesex was 800.
Now don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed both of these books, and I would recommend you go buy both, as well as American Gods and Virgin Suicides (their other marvelous books). But I find it odd that at a mere 100 pages more, Middlesex feels like I read two or three books, and that lives were changed in the process. Anasi Boys could have been a graphic novel. I feel like I've ordered desert with my husband and he's ordered a souffle and I a flourless chocolate torte can I can't figure out why he's finished his and is now starting to work on mine. Middlesex is dense. But not dense like Chauser, it's very easy and pleasureable to read. It's just the Gaimen book feels like someone has beaten air into it for 20 minutes, like you see on a cooking show.
Neither has filler, neither has useless scenes, neither is written in a overly formal or inaccesable style. So why the difference? What makes a "fast read" a fast read?
Oh, and one more time, go buy Middlesex, best book I've read since Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, which was easiely the best book I'd read in years....
And today I realized suddenly there sure are a lot of Peters in my life. Figuratively and actually.
Okay, I'll admit it. This has become the cute baby/bad basecamp website. Now that I'm back from Europe perhaps that'll change. Perhaps.
In anycase:
Hmm what do we see here? Could it be a popup with contents too big for the window, and yet scrollbar set for "no"?
