precisionintelligence.com. Referral spam. Killfile. I also noted that my old pal globoads.com made a visit. Same treatment.
It won’t make them stop, but at least I don’t have to see them in my log files.
Yes, I’m on a crusade.
“Greek mythology says that whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. I’d never been sure whether ‘mad’ meant crazy or angry. Either way, the gods were working on me pretty good right now.”
— Darien Fawkes, The Invisible Man
It appears that Fox gave up the fight concerning their stated ownage of the phrase “fair and balanced.” Good riddance.
Googling for the phrase lists Fox News as number one, but the rest of the hits on the first page appears to be blogs. Good work, grassroots!
Apparently, this robot is too scary for kids to see. But letting them see the Terminator movies is OK?
And now for something completely different.
On Friday the 22nd, I went to Academedia in Kista and personally delivered a bunch of papers where I applied for their media programming education (link in Swedish). Today I got an email telling me that I had passed the first two evaluations, and next Monday I’ll go there for an interview.
They’ll accept a total of 44 persons, and will interview about 100 people. That gives me about 50% chance, but probably slightly more since I’m quite good at talking myself into things like these.
It will be fun if I get accepted. I’m tired of improving my old grades on Komvux level. I want to learn something new instead of just rehashing old stuff for my grades.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines — I’ve seen plenty of people write bad stuff about this movie. I fail to see the bad parts. Were they expecting something other than an all-out action movie? I expected action and nice special effects, and T3 certainly delivered. Ahnuld returns as a Model 101 Terminator, once again to protect John Connor. Action ensues. Bonus points for the ending — I didn’t expect Bollywood to burp out something like that.
The Transporter — Jason Statham shows that he’s pretty good at choreographed martial arts and stunts, though I doubt he’s that good a martial artist in real life.
Statham plays some ex-military guy who’s resaddled as a driver for various illegal items. Rule number three: never open the package. Which he accidentally does during a transportation. Action ensues.
The story is paper-thin, but it has a nice visual style and good car chases. And a fight on an oil-filled floor with a barechested Statham pounding bad guys in style.
If they ever decide to make a movie out of the Hitman games, Statham would look very good as 47, pictured to the right. In the beginning of the movie, he dresses up exactly like the Hitman.
Vidocq — now this movie I liked. I’m a big fan of movies like Dark City and City of Lost Children, so I decided to watch it when read the back of the DVD at the rental place and spotted Pitof’s name. He was visual director for City of Lost Children, which I found immensely beautiful.
The character Vidocq actually existed, but the story is pure fiction. In the opening sequence you see Vidocq, played by Gérard Depardieu, get killed by a figure wearing a billowing dark cloak and a helmet made of mirror glass. The rest of the movie then switches between Vidocq’s investigation that lead to his death and a journalist investigating the death of Vidocq.
The story has a few interesting twists and gave me a very neat idea for an RPG adventure. Highly recommended movie.
Today, August the 6th, it was 58 years since Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. In the words of Plastic: Those who forget the blast are doomed to repeat it.
Let’s hope that the anniversary of the bomb will survive long enough to see its 60th anniversary before another atomic device is detonated. Though my hopes are not high.