Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Number 1: Coffee shops that get coffee oils on the milk steamer.

Some of us happen to be quite allergic to coffee oils and don't like having to miss chunks of the film we were trying to watch. This means you, Starbucks Shaftsbury Avenue, and you, Hagen Daazs Wimbledon Odeon.

Number 2: Cinemas that forget to resize the screen for the adverts

I may not want to watch them, but I certainly don't want to see them that distorted. It's just pressing a button in the projection booth, you know!

Grrr.

"with a phantascope and a piano, the victorians used to make their own fun"...

From The Victorian Internet challenge.

(from B3ta via Blog.org)

The four disc DVD set just turned up today, and after re-watching my favourite episode ("Out Of Gas"), I am more and more convinced that Joss Whedon was running Firefly as a set of Traveller adventures. Just look at the crew, it's a typical party of adventurers - and I'm convinced that the only reason that there isn't a scout on board the free trader is that Joss could never get one to survive long enough to muster out when he rolled up the campaign characters...

Roll on the movie...

(Oh, and GIP for my shiny Serenity icon wot I just made)

Stomping kittens doing Laibach in yet another of those rathergood.com Flash videos...

One for autopope methinks.