Since IE is so retarded and doesn’t auto-resize the pics to fit in the frame, it sends the right hand side to the bottom of the page. Firefox works great though (it’s all I ever use) and everything fits how it should, but I’ve got no idea how Opera handles it, but only 6% of visitors use that so like I care.
My bro, sis and I just bought a DS Lite from Lik-Sang:
http://www.richardswinburne.net/NA/blog/dslite2.jpg, http://www.richardswinburne.net/NA/blog/dslite3.jpg
We can’t read what the hell is going on, but it’s fun (a novelty) even without games to play on the little drawing and chat program. We hope to loose some hours playing MarioDS and Nintendogs, and I’m trying to convince them to play Bleach on it too (when it arrives). How the games will work for us with the stylus, as we’re all lefties, will be interesting to see.
The worst part is I only get to play on it every 2 weeks when I go home! ARGH.
Forgot to point this out; The sister site NBS-Review has released podcast #5 (Episode 4) yesterday, so check it out if you’ve got an hour you need filling and want some more E3 chat.
Just watching last weeks MacBreak now about automator and I’ve got to admit THAT is something I would convert to a mac for. It has so many uses and is something Windows really needs and will no doubt copy in time. I can see myself filling a whole folder full of automator plugins for stuff, and throwing away a lot of programs that essentially are just scripts to do the same job. Sal showed how to do a mass rename and an image strip from URL to folder and that’s basically what I employ two complete programs to do in windows whenever I need it. Having it as a script meanns your start menu doesnt fill up with programs I only use once a month, and keeps a common interface. And you know it’ll work, rather than scouting the internet for free programs that are still likely to be in alpha or beta, which do the job half arsed. It was a great demonstration for what looks like an excellent program.
Yea, the Original noise from Quake. It’s like being back in 1999 again listening to original NIN stuff, you know, the progressive industrial metal sounds, not the less than fantastic stuff from With Teeth.
It’s not like other rock/metal which gets you high, it actually leaves me with a degree of subdueness but with a feeling of readiness, whilst quietly smiling to yourself. It’s more of a feeling and an experience than an enjoyment of the music, compared to other audio.
I got the Quake 3 soundtrack a while back, and each track is distinctively core-metal, without the progression, industrialism, or real rawness. It’s like a different phase within a familure state of being. Im dying to find the Quake 2, or even the Doom 3 OST, fearing it is some nuggest of musical euphoria I’ve yet to expose myself to, like this turned out to be.
I highly recommend NIN fans seek it out and experience it.
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Some good anime OSTs have been released from Nipponsei recently: I highly recommend the xxxHolic intro/movie soundtrack and the Mushishi OP: The Sore Feet Song, by Ally Kerr. Hell it’s not like I can buy it in the west anyway.
And I’ve also found the Silent Hill art and music DVD. Dunno how that’s gonna turn out but I’ll let you know when it arrives. It looks pretty sweet although I can’t read the Japanese on it, but it has a DVD’s worth of stuff from Silent Hill’s 1, 2 and 3.
So, the “sister” site NBS-Review.net has gone live with our new podcast, Episode 3, pop along over there and check it out.
Out of the “premium” shows, anyone else recon they have made them consistently strong across the board. Sure, there are the odd mishap (Smallville: which has less bite than my Grandma), but this series of 24, Lost and across the board of CSI for example are consistently entertaining and seem to be excelling towards the end. Where previous seasons of 24 have been loose to keep Jack in crisis, to say the least, this one seems to be going down right to the wire with some great plot twists and more “probable” scenarios. After all, everyone loves a good conspiracy. It’s the same with lost: I’ve never been so gob smacked after episode 20 of season 2, which is sad because mid season it was quite boring to watch and now it’s going to end and I wont be able to wait until September.
I do fail to see the logic in how Smallville is such a popular series, apart from seeing “Lois” in the nip, but you don’t even get that, and I fell out of love with “Lana” a few series ago when her princess persona wore thin. Every episode is the same crap, with a little subplot of actual story evolution and the last 10 minutes dedicated to “what did we learn today?” Yawn. For the love of good TV just FLY. I’m bored of waiting for it. Smallville seems to be the epitomy of “how long can we string this out for without actually going anywhere”.
As for a Simpsons movie, considering how boring just 20 minutes of Season 17 is, they better throw a lifetime of good material in to make an hour and a half watchable. I still watch every episode though, just like everyone else becuase it is The Simpsons and you just can’t watch it. I still recon it’ll turn out like the Family Guy movie which was boring as hell after the first half hour. This type of stuff should stick to their 20 minutes of intense animation. Boom boom boom, done, everybodys happy.
