Saturday stuff

Peganthyrus wrote, which I remembered coming across this Wired News article and the associated images, not that it's what she was talking about:

It wasn't the usual Japanese look, either. Instead, I was amazed: every few pages had work by different artists, in radically different styles. It was all over the map - cartoony, realistic, noir, itchy lines, just wild.

I don't think I mentioned I saw and reviewed X the other day. I also looked at anime DVDs the other day at MediaPlay, and realize that the only way I can watch arbitrary anime without moving or finding a new video rental shop is if I get a NetFlix account. (X wasn't arbitrary because it happened to be on Starz! Action. I was going to set a TiVo wish for all animated films on Starz! Action, but it won't do that. And listing all animated films just listed the 200 instances of Monsters, Inc. on pay-per-view in the next half month.)

The METAR/PIL project I have is actually pretty easy, except I can't figure how to get all the data together. I may have to set it up to use a variable number of data points, and just have pymetar fetch new hourly data, so eventually it'll look as I'd like. Yeah, that sounds good enough to me.

I had forgotten that part of making a directory as a reaction to trying to change to it before it exists was to change to it after making it, so the main page was advertising my blo.gs pinger until I updated and used POT.py again. A Metafilter: Remixed RSS feed would be nice, but I'd rather have Stapler.py do it than Stapler.root. Scott Loftesness's weblog isn't entirely my cup of tea, so only now do I know about Amazon Restaurants--see also the restaurant guide some ODP folks started, chefmoz.

Also, privacy rings (also via Scott) through categories could be a nice Radio tool--though LiveJournal already has them, and not with. Plus of a centralized authentication system, I guess. Maybe encrypt items to particular ring keys, that you give to everyone in a ring? I seem to remember from Applied Cryptography there are better systems, ones that would let you give individual keys to each user and encrypt posts to , but I'd have to look (now that I have a copy!).

(More Saturday stuff added 9:46pm: TiVo changed Ernie the Attorney's life. I know it changed mine, particularly when you have a 20 hour miniseries to watch. Google explains what that audiophonik CD you can get for an extra $9 when purchasing DemoDVD née MindCandy vol 1: PC Demos is. Remove passwords--even hashed ones--from stuff you post.)