Month: August 2002

Comics

Greek Enough For You?

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date August 18, 2002

We went to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding today (only front-row tickets were left for Minority Report, and it had already started). Nice romantic comedy, with some low ethnic humor – although it’s a bit soft and cosy and low-tension compared to stuff like Late Wedding, for example.

Anyway, all the scenes of Greek family cooking (a lamb on a spit on the front lawn) made me think that people who said that Jennifer Garner’s version of Elektra in the upcoming Daredevil has no Greek characteristics were wrong. For example, here she is, about to prepare a traditional Greek dish:

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Daredevil trailer! There’s a�Daredevil movie

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date August 17, 2002

Daredevil trailer! There’s a�Daredevil movie trailer online! It must be mine!

Software and Programming

Netscape 4 and CSS

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date August 16, 2002

dive into mark:
Yes, I have a day job, and yes, it currently involves creating a web-based application that works in Netscape 4. Life is full of little ironies.…

He points to a nice site which tries to make some sense of how Netscape 4 goes berserk over certain CSS, even though it looks a bit too clean and nice to be true to the real horror of the situation.

This blog looks horrible in Netscape 4, BTW – especially the comments. Blame it on the “pure CSS” design.

Resources

Encyclopedia Astronautica

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date August 16, 2002

A big space travel resource: Encyclopedia Astronautica, from a link in a Pyramid article about Sergei Korolev, the ‘Chief Designer’ behind the USSR’s space program.

For example, they have a
A Brief History of the HARP Project, which gave us Gerald Bull and the�Babylon Gun, the so-called “Iraqi Super Cannon”.

On the evening March 22, 1990, at the age of 62, as Bull approached his apartment
door in Brussels, he was shot six times in the back of the head. The assassin
was reported to be Israeli military, although the case was never solved.
Gerry Bulls last Supergun was cut up and scrapped by the UN at the conclusion
of the Iraq/Kuwait war. It was never assembled or fired.

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An Irish stew of links

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date August 16, 2002

An Irish stew of links – Irish literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama covers Cuchulainn to Samuel Beckett.