Would you like a blog with your coffee? I should be doing things, of course.
Dave of Scattered recounts the ease of video editing with a computer; kind of a video companion to Scott Andrew LePera's post on contemporary music production. Of sorts. I remember making a film like that with a friend, years and years ago; he had a kit with a clapboard and some other accoutrements. He did some actual acting at one point, in a (nonschool) play. I forget if we were actually recording the video, or just playing it on the tv.
Aiee, Footbridge Scriptdotted after I finally wrote a tools directory outline for it. A+++ MetaFilter writeup. AV Club interview with Wil Wheaton. Joey deVilla shares answers to interview questions "What is good code?" and "What are basic core practices for a developer?" Fred Langa on spam tools:
The problem with Cloudmark is that people are lazy: Users may flag nonspam items as spam, simply because it easy to do so. ... Eventually, these kinds of perturbations get sorted out, but it's a time-wasting hassle. Unfortunately, because there are a lot of lazy people in the world who would rather hit a "block" button than take the time to unsubscribe from a non-spam E-mail service they once specifically requested, this is a problem that won't go away.
So why not honor a machine-readable X-Unsubscribe header? If the header is present but someone marks the mail as spam, try to unsubscribe instead. Well, because spammers will put their bogus unsubscription data there, just so automated systems will let them know if an address is active. So I guess that wouldn't work, unless having the system automatically respond for such mail sent to bogus accounts would introduce enough noise, and I doubt it would. The person compiling and selling an address list sure doesn't care if there are fake addresses there--that just increases the salability of the list (as long as it's not a large enough share that buyers get annoyed).
Wah, someone turned the other half of the computer lab's lights on. Eh-he.
Solaris: A New Dawn for Sci-Fi? Particularly apt:
"Remaking Solaris is something akin to heresy," said [Sci-Fi Movie Page webmaster and tremendous GEEEEEEK James] O'Ehley. "(Soderbergh) is simply no Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a bit like comparing a truly great composer like Beethoven to a writer of popular waltzes like Johann Strauss."
As if most people know the difference.
