A good yarn from Craigslist from a guy that’s comparing his life with that of a homeless guy getting a hummer (text NSFW).

This is the first I heard about it, and there’s already a trailer. Richard Linklater (Slacker, Waking Life) has adapted the Philip K. Dick novel, A Scanner Darkly, to the screen in an animated film due out this summer. The bad news… the lead is the non-actor, Keanu Reeves.

Here’s a video called How to Enjoy Sushi that spoofs on Japanese mores. Has funny parts.

I had little hope by it’s title, The Ten Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed. After all, most articles about the subject are by sci-fi literature fans, and they follow a formula. There’s usually a perfunctory nod to a sci-fi classic like Foundation or The Left Hand Of Darkness. There are often some token “hard sci-fi” entries like something from Niven or Haldeman just to show that he’s street (or the alpha-dork equivalent). Then the rest is filled with self-pleasing dweeb wankery. This tends to take the form of worshipping the latest Terry Pratchett excretion or Piers Anthony dingleberry. Yeah, cuz 400 pages of unfunny nerd puns translated to the screen mean critical or commercial success. The article linked above avoids these pitfalls. Just the right amount of geekery. It reads well and actually considers the challenges involved in making effective films. His entry for Snow Crash skirts the fringe of mainstream, but I feel that Snow Crash was written in a gritty cinematic style, so it could be translated to the screen, but I agree with his argument against it making money.

According to the Motley Fool:

Microsoft is offering MSN Search users $1 million worth of prizes, including gift cards to a formidable list of consumer-centric retailers like Starbucks and Home Depot.

Surfers win if they use certain search keywords that have been preordained by Microsoft during the contest period.

Ummm… so the second that they choose “anal teen crumb-catchers” to be the winning search term, someone needs to tell me where to collect my prizes.

An artist, named Coop, has been blogging the progress of his latest painting (NSFW). It succinctly captures my interpretation of “both favorites”.

I spoke with my webhost today and they said that there was a hardware failure on the server that Both Favorites is on. They had to rollback the database to a backup from 2/9. What that means for you is that if you wrote a post, draft, or comment between yesterday and this afternoon, it is lost. There’s no getting it back. You’ll have to write it again. If you didn’t do any of those things in that period of time, you’re safe.