Archive for October, 2006



Ms. Dewey has all the answers (or not)

Say you’re writing a paper and need to do some research on the old interweb. Sure, you can revert to inpersonal search engines, but frankly, those are overrated, aren’t they? As you’ve been spending too much time in your room anyways, you can also just ask Ms. Dewey.

300 trailer, the next Frank Miller movie

Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite.

The trailer blew my mind, I truly recommend the high definition version! For those who don’t know, Ken Miller is also responsible for Sin City. 300 was shot in the same way, entirely against bluescreen, to create a dark comic novel atmosphere. [#]

Way behind on feed reading

Do you see that (1052) next to Cooking on the picture above? That’s how many unread posts I have in my cooking-related RSS feeds. Yeah, go figure! I probably have too many of those feeds in my list, as you can see if you click on the image. Still, it just means that my current [...]