Listening to: Blue Monday - New Order

MSNBC: SpaceShipOne’s White
Knight used for X-37 tests

Listening to: Unconditional - The Bravery

Officially on my “to watch” list.

Founded by veterans of Pixar and Weta Digital, Box Rocket is developing technology
to make movies at feature-film levels of quality for a fraction of the cost. Its unique
“comic-book” rendering style will bring vivid stories of action, adventure and horror
to life with all the visual impact of a modern graphic novel.

Could be (after a bit more research) Is very cool. Boxrocket (http://www.boxrocket.net/).

Listening to: Under Icefloes - +/-

The bro’Town website is now online.

Listening to: Floating - Strawpeople

Weeks t-31 (link
to Quicktime) and t-30 have
been posted. t-31 is all about the motion
capture work for Kong and t-30 is all about sound.

Listening to: Driving Around - Strawpeople

From the American Psychiatric Association:

The resolution recognizes “that gay men and lesbians are full human beings who
should be afforded the same human and civil rights,” said Margery Sved, a Raleigh,
N.C., psychiatrist and member of the assembly’s committee on gay and lesbian issues.

It is good to see this sort of commentary starting
to emerge.

I have ranted about
this before.

Listening to: Love My Way - Strawpeople

Salon has a fascinating article on
the Leadership Institute - a rightwing training institute aiming to increase
the presence of conservatism on US campuses. The most interesting comment was: 

Chris Stio, an institute staffer who directed the Bush-Cheney field operations
in northeast Michigan, warns his students not to buy into second-term crowing about
America’s irrevocable slide into conservatism. “Enough people were yelling and screaming
about the president that if they’d actually picked up the phone book and started calling,
they might have won,” he says. “They went to concerts, they bashed the president,
but they didn’t work. If enough people had, maybe we’d have a different president.
The election was not inevitable. And too many think it was.”

And you know what… I think that is the most astute observation of the left I have
seen in a while.

Listening to: Keys on the keyboard

The guys from Aftermail have got to be loving this:

MIAMI (Reuters) - The $1.45 billion judgement against Morgan Stanley
for deceiving billionaire Ronald Perelman over a business deal has a lesson all companies
should learn — keeping e-mails is now a must, experts say.

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Listening to: BBC Radio 1

Anyone who uses software a lot will be aware of the evolution of a programme from
version to version, how the quality generally peaks at version 3 or 4 and
then drops off with subsequent iterations. I have heard people refer to certain parts
of this life cycle in amusing ways… but this is the best description of
the whole life cycle:

Version One:  What the heck is this supposed to be? …
Version Two: Not that functional, but covers the basics of what is required…
Version Three:  Does what is required, and does it well… 
Version Four: Baroque Inclusion Stage Reached…
Version Five:  Architectural Fatigue provokes revolution…

In my experience some of the very best software refines its feature list over time.

Listening to: Computer Groove - Slope

Both from TUAW.

A good use for
an iPod Shuffle:

How
to: Make a Custom RSS Screensaver in Tiger

I saw the Quartz Composer being used at the Apple Dev demo a few months aways… and
I thought it was very impressive. I was struck by both the ability to describe advanced
graphics routines easily and that this was done using a graphical interface.

Listening to: Cutt Off - Kasabian

Well Sony have shown off their goods:

I am really looking forward to seeing how this battle will play out.

On a Sony related note Sidhe are starting to
make noise about their first PSP title.