Year: 2001

I just noticed that Sean has thanked me in the credits of Billy Exorcist. I think that’s really cool of him. Thanks Sean!

Last night I went to see Proof of Life with Luke, Meg and Davo. The film sucked, but not like the vacuum of space sucks astronauts out of broken shuttle windows, but instead like a gentleman schlurping gently on his Big Gulp. Not good, as such. But not dismal. Just … well … there.

Megnut.com closes its doors. And lurking in the source code is this brief comment: “I just don’t have anything good to say anymore. So I’m not going to say anything at all.”

In the same week that NASA says that it is no longer in the business of dreaming, I stumble upon the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program site – which includes a wonderful section called: “Warp Drive: When?”. Have faith in the future.

I find myself too irritated by the redundant Flash and heavily image based structure of the The Cyborg Manifesto to actually read the damn thing, which is a pity, because I’m really interested in stuff like this. Note to world: Sites which require a lot of copy must make the delivery of that copy the first priority of the site. Information must be delivered.

I don’t know whether or not to be delighted by the train of coincidences linking me with this person or not. He’s gradually stumbled over most of the sites that I have maintained over my time over the net, and only subsequently mentally attached them to one another. But the length of the coincidence doesn’t end there, I suspect, as his most recent post sounds startlingly like it’s about Sapient.

Congratulations to Noah Wyle, early 20s crush of mine, who has finally won a bloody award: “Best Supporting Actor of the Year in a Drama Series award at the 3rd annual TV Guide Awards”.

More news on Sapient: Sapient Corp. To Miss 1Q Rev, Net Views. This includes the information that they are cutting their workforce by 20% (720 people).

Comparing TheStandard.com: Quick and Easy and TheCounter.com: Global Statistics Jan 2001:

On the issue of color depth, TheStandard.com’s figures describe nearly 10% of users as using 256 colors or less, 50% using 16-bit color depths and just over 30% using 24-bit or above. 10% were unknown. TheCounter.com describes 6% of users as using 256 colors or less, 55% as using 16-bit depths and a further 36% using 24-bit or above.

On the issue of screen resolutions, TheStandard.com’s figures describe 9% of users as using 640×480 resolution, as opposed to TheCounter.com’s 7%. TheStandard.com describes the proportion of people using 800×600 resolutions as 50% with those using known higher resolutions coming in at 27%. TheCounter.com’s figures for these are 55% and 35% respectively.

In both sets of figures, TheCounter.com has a lower figure for ‘Unknown’ than TheStandard, which may explain variance. Alternatively divergence could be described by differences in the times of sampling or by a distorted sampling from one of the parties.

Pow! Wham! Permission Denied! – “Surrounded by his ‘nuclear Bat-family,’ the ‘dark, deviant’ vigilante of the early 1940s was transformed into a genial, problem-solving father figure. In support of his argument, York provides a detailed interpretation of four panels that appeared in various Batman comics in the 1950s.” [via linkmachinego]