This is very cool gallery of pictures of bullets in motion and hitting things. I thought the one above was pretty cool. There’s also a cool one of an orange blowing up from being shot. (via boingboing)

From over on Instapundit via The Trademark Blog comes a tale of fish and beauty gone weird.

WHEN CROSS-BRANDING BECOMES SURREAL: Okay, I’ve got nothing against Barbie. And I like SpongeBob. But, somehow, the “SpongeBob Squarepants Barbie” just seems, well, weird.

You can imagine the marketing meeting: “It’s synergy! Barbie’s a classic, and SpongeBob’s a hot new star!”

Okay, I don’t think I can be surprised by anything anymore. Unless someone’s actually gone and written Spongebob and Barbie fic.

Just got the Haibane Renmei 00 DVD in. It contains the three-minute promo and eyecatch, which also happens to be included with the third DVD, as well as a mini-FAQ of the haibane renmei universe and the storyboards (conte) of the three-minute promo video.

The promo contains scenes which do not exist in the anime, some of which are quite beautiful.

When this comes out in the u.s. i’m sure these things will be included.

Yesterday after upgrading my G3 to OS X 10.2.4 I decided that I should run a disk scan on it. I’d had a problem with my iTunes preferences getting completely lost and I like to run DiskWarrior on my drives around once a month (or every other month). What started as a simple task grew when it started taking quite a while to run. An hour went by, two, and then I looked up and it was looking for overlapped files (aka crosslinked files). I cursed to myself and let it run. 15 hours later it finished up and everything seems to be running just fine, if not a little snappier than before.

I wasn’t going to even write about it, but Doc Searls is having hard drive problems too so it was fresh in my mind. He tried Drive 10, which from what I read may or may not have helped some. When I had problems with my firewire drive and needed to fix it I did a bunch of research on disk tools and everything I read said DiskWarrior is the best thing out there. So I don’t even bother with anything else and it has treated me very well. This does bring up one gripe for me though. Apple really needs to have a good fsck that comes with OS X.

BoingBoing reports that you can find Orwell’s works online at Orwell.ru. There are full texts of Orwell novels and essays, galleries of vintage covers, and more. One thing I thought was cool is that they’ve even got versions of his stuff in other languages.

Yesterday morning I was half asleep at around 10am and someone started ringing the buzzer for my apartment. I crawled out of bed and buzzed the person in and looked to see my dad! He handed me a Mr. Coffee coffee maker and said he just wanted to drop it off while he was around. It seems that the other day when they stopped by he left his credit card at the retaurant we went to. So while he was driving up to get that he brought an extra coffee maker they had around the house (I’d been saying I wanted one earlier when they were visiting).

My parents are pretty cool.

Speaking of watching the web server log file. I was just now watching it for a few and noticed someone went to the guestbook and posted something. I had a brief moment of joy. People don’t post to my guestbook that often. I looked to see what they posted and joy turned to sorrow. They posted a link. A link to some site called 1Heluva.com which supposedly will drive more traffic to your web site and get you rebates on your purchases. I just deleted the link. Bastards.

Now more than ever I can use all the luck I can get. So when I woke up at 5am this morning I croaked out “rabbit rabbit”. Though it almost sounded more like Ribbet Ribbet.

Robertson Davies
“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.” [Quotes of the Day]

Took the first step to converting all the content on my site to the new look and feel. It’s going pretty well so far, but then again I’ve only done the guestbook. One thing I’m noticing is that CSS really lets my base page be quite simple. And hopefully without much effort I’ll be able to have my page be xhtml compliant.